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There are occasions when the outpat of books appears so revolting that one Feels apologetic. for ever having tried to Assist the process, states Miss Evelyn Sharp in an English contemporary To stand in a certain kind of modern book- shop is to feel like Walpole's learned blockbend," whose only morit was that he had read more foolish books than other folks";
or to emulate Lamb's friend who left off reading altogether, the great improvement of his originality. Yet it is not really very long since shops devoted to the selling of books, still retained an air of dignity. and still conveyed the impression of con- taining books, real books that one want. ed to buy and to keep. Second only to a toyshop, a bookshop in those days seem- ed a kind of antechamber to Fairyland. No one could conceivably feel like that about the average bookshop of to-day. It is crowded with books, of course-far more crowded than any bookshop ever used to be. But the impression it enn- veys is not of books but of merchandise, CYCH of confectionery, dons up like sweetmeats in pretty coloured paper. It is an emporium, a store, a bazaar, ary thing you like to call it, But it is no longer the bookshop of our fancy: and the leeaner who still thinks to step from its threshold on to enchanted ground is qualifying for a rude awakening.
The gaudy irrelevance of the paper wrapper is, I suppose, the great cheapen- er of latter-day bookselling. There was a pleasant moment in the art of book-
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when, the dull cloth binding that hadi been good enough for Victorian master- pieros yielded to the dangerous innova- tion of the worer design, and many a e dele works, not, all of them unfor tunately. masterpieces, are still sought after by collectors because a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley happens to decorate the binding
Whether you liked your bonks decked out in this fashion or not, they were at least tot valgarised by the endenvair to express, or ganventioralise. their lividuality. But the paper jacket) of to-day. scörring on the one hand con- ventionality of design and on the other haid arg connection with the contents of the book whlesh negligible binding it roserals reduces all ferien to a dend level of sensationalism, and canses every novel of ideas to masquerade as Jatec- tive story. A serious work of fiction by one of our most serious novelists may found on sale at this moment erclosed in a glaring white paper cover aëress which trails a row of little coloured 6gures in fancy dress, suggesting nothing yo much as the churns out of a comic opera. You would wager from this wrapper that the book is a tale of an opium den, or of the adventures of Secret Ser.. vice agent: it is the contrary, the story of the psychological experiences of a intellectual aristocrai. In former days, when we sccffedont' a certain kind of society portrait, we used to say it was like the picture on a chocolate box. To-day it would be more like the picture by a book wrapper. rotate creams in better taste."
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the owner and indieing him to part with it is enough to discourage most people.
PREDOMINANTLY FISTION. Presumably the bookseller finds that a rious book sells more easily when it is aistaken for a detective story, though ore might suppose that a day of reckon ing would follow when the purchaser It will never be clear to the layman discovered the deception. If the book why the book-buyer buys books," Ken- seller is right, then the deterioration in Beth Grahame once said in his hookselling must be traced to a deterio Papers," adding, however, almost in the Pagan ration in the book-buyer. The greater sare breath, that neither does any real uass of this intellectual confectionery is book-lover ever sell one: "It is a crime fiction; and since there are not enough hardly known to exist, the face of the good stories in the world to fill tablic being set against it as a flint and shelves of one of these modern hook the trade giving such wretched prices." stores, most of it must be ephemeral Ec- Le Gallienne's Narcissus, who tried to tion, of the kind that is forgotten as soon commit the crime when he was hungry, as read, though within its limitations it
is probably good enough, and serves its proclaimed the attempt to be "WOTSC purpose as well as any other narcotic than selling dress clothes." Yet, unless in a post-war world. If we have really people do bath buy and sell books, how got the bookshop we deserve, the ranedy Perhaps his spiritual integrity keeps dees the second-hand bookseller live 7 is hard to seek for you cannot blame him alive, or as much alive as he cares the purveyor of drugs for making his
to be. money where ac can. I have only known one bookseller who refused obstinately to stock the books he did not like, and he retired embittered from business at an early age.
The genuine book-buyer bas, however, a real complaint against the moderá bookseller, not because the bookseller: Portsries to give the public what it wants,
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but because he does not always seem to know what it does want. Though they may be few, there are certain readers whom he ignores, who still want books instead of drugs; and these find almost invariably that, unless the book they want happens to be old enough, or new enough, to be in immediate demand by the majority of buyers, they cannot get it any bookshop without ordering it beforehand. A reader of this kind may standin a wilderness of books, all screaming their net prices at him from the backs of the bintart jeckets; but the one he wants is not quaong them. It is generally possible to buy a classic, pro- vided it is a sourt new issue of a'classic, illustrated, and probably abridged; and it
is always possibly, to buy the latest novel of a living writer, the one that is still being talked about; or past fay ourite that has just bees, re-sued in a cheap edition But if you want some- body's last book but one, which was prob ably a better book, you may go from shop
to shop in a vain search for a copy. This
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a dipressing experience for any writer
who hopes to produce books and not merchandise, and whe may take years to write just one book.
The middle ages disillusionment of the minority book-huyer is, however, checked. by the thought of the arcond-hand book- seller, who in every city still pursues bis own indifferent way, unaffected by fash- ions in reading or in binding, ne udeban- ged as the books he never seems to sell or the customers who ever seem to buy. Anybody can read his books for nothing; and if you break through this time- honoured custom so far as to try to buy one, the labour involved in digging ont (Continued on next Column.)
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