Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

The article talks about standardization. Whether or not this might grow into a grievous fault the author is not prepared to say, because in the incident specifically mentioned the process was the more familiar one of a printed review preceding a place upon the jacket. People neglected to inform them that author's laudatory words were quoted from an article which appeared in the Book-of-it lie-Month Club Bulletin. But may be they doesn't like book clubs or "The Cradle of the Deep." As an employee of a book club, the author says, his opinion in the matter may not be wholly neutral, but it seems to me that certain reasons advanced against this system of selection are not well founded. Quite often the author has read fierce attacks based on the charge of standardization.