The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-04

read them ali, 30 numerous are they ana
yet they are SO cheap that person with
the reading habit feels ashamed not To
buy an armtul aud rush Oft 10 his den 10
devour them at once.
we have several customers who read
two and three books day. the pr0pra
tor said to an iuquisitiye reporter cone
man in particular used 10 come in regu
larly every other or third day and carr,
off each time from six 70 eight volume,
He didn't appear particular about what
he read but took them just a. they came
He kept it up week after week too ITO
had a place in the interior department
bnt was discharged 40. long ago
The proprietor didn Z Ultimate that there
was any connection between the mans
reading habits and the loss OF his position
but it struck he reporter that there
might be.
BOOK DAY
There are plenty OF people who aver
age book day, month ia and month
out. the proprietor continued These
people are mostly novel readers, Ot course.
Ii gets Ia be Il passion with them. like
anything else. and they give all their
spare time TO IT, II they cant get hold
vi Il new story as soon rs they have lin
ished the old one they don't know what
to do with themselves and are miserable
like a tppler whose ralions have been
cut off or morphine eater who can get
the drug.
DO You notice mulch difference IN the
class of stories preferred 10y men and wo-
mem the reporter asked.
No. cant say that do The women
don't seem to be especially fond OF love
stories In fact. some women who come
here won't read love stories or novels
written by women. They prefer the de.
teetive stories and mysteries OF Du Bots
gobev aud Garborau aud ZOlas highly
Favored stuff. g. W NJ Reynolds sen
sational romances used 10 have IL big sale.
but they aren't in Us much demand AZ
they were.
Haven't the cheap libraries hurt the
sensational story papers great dealI' the
reporter inquired.
well, not a. much as thought they
were going to at first. the gentleman
said. II expected the story papers would
be entirely driven out Of the field by the
cheap libraries. but / hardly think THEN
sales have fallen rs much as % per cent.
The papers have 10 keep booming them.
selves all tho time, though. VI they lose
ground badly. They aren't the bonanzas
they USED to be The newsdealers wouldn't
be very sorry ii the story papers were
driven out OF the held altogether. Tho
margin of profit Oh them Is very small
aud the worsbor IL ~ the people who buy
them are vi the chargc-it anG 5I-pay
YOU next time class Now, II they TALL
10 pay once it knocks the profit off good
many papers,
The people who read the story papers.
then, are OF d different class from those
who buy the cheap library noyelst
FALSE AND FOOLISH IDEAS.
Yes, a. d rule, they are. The people
who read these novels and serial stories
get false and foolish ideas OF life This
Is especially true VI tho confirmed story
paper readers They are the worst Of ali
can tell ole VI them almost as quicki'
as set eyes Oh her-for the story paper
readers are generally women. They have
would be grand and romantic air about
them, use big words and theatrical eX
pressions, and try 10 initiate generally In
their manner the highly wrought charac
tiers they read about ia the serials Urls
brought up from the time they are fifteen
or sixteen on this sort Of reading aren't
satisfied with man unless Ao Is like tho
heroes Of their stories, and they are apt
to wait good while before they una ono
who seems TO promise 10 come 10 What
they call their ideal. Ana then' II thoy
do ret married. in ninety.nine cases out
of a hundred, they soon discover that the
promises were all false; that they haven't
married their hero at all, bat only an
ordinary, eommOh place man, With not
enough OF tbs story papcs ideal 20 him
to supply paragraph IL onc os the sloppy
serials
These people with the story paper
habit the speaker continued, seem
hardly able to control their impotence
from week to week TOR the succeeding in
stallments VI the fOm4nces. Many or
them make practice of coming here about
the time they know tho papers arrive ana
waiting until they can get them, and II
they should happen to be late, and all the
papers arc sold out when they get here.
then there - row
4" How many OF the cheap libraries are
there now IN exlstenee!' the reporter
asked
oh, probably if;y all told. the dealer
answered, and new ones are starring up
every week The TRADE has got 10 b.
something immense. Many OF the libra.
ries are published irregularly, sending ont
volume once Or twice u month. There
IRE about dozen which come out regu
larly from one To three times week.
couple OF the leading ones for while
published number every day, but they
seemed to have exhausted the supply OF
uncopyrighted and foreign novels and
other available books. and now send out
three numbers week.
I'VE have an arrangement which makes
the cheap Libraries cheaper still. the
speaker continued. We buy back books
which are not damaged In reading at half
price. SO that even people who read eight
or ten books week are In no danger Of
bankrupting themss elves by INDUCING in