The small publishers of England and Scotland have rendered in
the past immense services to literature. Many of the classics of today were once the experiments of some young publishing adven- turer. If we are to avoid, in so far at least as literature is concerned. the horrors of a Woolworth age, then these ardent individualists should be encouraged rather than squeezed out of business. I cannot believe that either the large publishers or the newspapers would resent a sliding scale under which the wind was tempered to these shorn lambs. To introduce a sliding scale similar to that established in the United States would make but an infinitesimal extra demand upon our paper resources. These little firms may constitute a small and politically unimportant minority ; but if Mr. Lyttelton is really on the side of the angels, I beg him to consider the lesser angels as well.
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