20 FEBRUARY 1942, page 10

This Shortage Of Supply Has Coincided With An Enormous In-

crease in demand. It is not merely that elderly people find in reading some occupation for the long dark evenings of war-time and some distraction from the painful......

Nobody Who Has Examined The Question Of Book Production In

war-time could contend that there has been any real absence of good intention, either on the part of the publishers, or on the part of the authorities concerned. From the first......

I Am Aware That The Shortage Of Paper Is Not

the only, not even perhaps the most serious, disability with which publishers have to contend. Even if they obtained double their present ration of paper they would still be......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON I PROPOSE this week to write about books, and to discuss some of the difficulties to which literature in general, and publishers in particular, are today......

It Is Often Said That Publishers Have No Legitimate...

since they already receive a more generous paper ration than that accorded to newspapers and periodicals. Yet it is a far easier thing to reduce the size and shape of a......