PUBLISHING AND LABOUR S1R,—Your correspondent Mr. J. F. Fairweather seems
to think that any increase in the paper supply would not help to increase the supply of books so long as the present labour shortage remains. With all respect, I would repeat the words of the immortal Euclid and say that this is absurd. Paper shortage forces publishets (school-book publishers any-
how) to print hand-to-mouth editions. This involves much extra watt for printers in arranging plates on their machines each time he diminutive editions have to be reprinted. Sufficient paper to allow printing of one large impression would prevent this unfortunate dupl4 tion of labour. If, say, we had paper to enable us to print ten thousiai copies at a time, instead of barely as much as will give us a dribble4 edition of two thousand at a time, what a saving of labour there woUj
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