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Spare the Book and Spoil the Child
Goldsmith, Sophie L. | October 16, 1929 issue

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Many of us have at least a bowing acquaintance with that wanderer in a bookshop who, strolling irresolutely among tables piled high with the combined efforts publishers and authors, encounters a salesman. The spirit of the wanderer and the patient has possibly inspired the many efforts both to create a taste for reading on the part of the general public and to raise the standards of such taste once it is created. The battle has been waged long and ardently on behalf of people over sixteen years of age, but only recently have the cudgels been taken up in behalf of those younger.

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BOOKSTORES; BOOKSELLERS & bookselling; BUSINESS enterprises; PUBLISHERS & publishing; WAGE differentials; AUTHORS & publishers
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