The Publishers' Congress The International Congress of Publishers which is
meeting in London for the first time in thirty-five years, is discussing the. difficulties and problems of the trade on the only proper basis for discussing anything to do with , the expression of ideas—an international one. And fortunately both those who have addressed the Congress and its members have shown themselves well aware of the responsibility which attaches to the publica- tion of the written word. The cinema and the wireless may have lessened the importance of books, yet they remain the one permanent form of intellectual com- munication. But today they would be impossible lYithout the publisher, and everyone who realises their inportance in the culture of the modern world must feel satisfaction that the Congress has the patronage of the .King and the official recognition of. the Govern- ment--less because the Congress. is honoured than because it evidences a right sense of values in high places.
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