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A few months ago, there was widespread discussion concerning the probable effects of the then impending war with Spain upon the production of books in the United States. Arguments were adduced in plenty upon both sides of the question, and it was stoutly maintained, on the one hand, that bookmaking would receive a new stimulus from the clash of arms, and, on the other, that the energies of the public would be diverted from the reading of books, that the activities of authors and publishers would be to a considerable extent paralyzed by the moral and economic shock of the conflict. The question thus warmly debated is now by way of getting answered, and the list of forthcoming books, compiled from the announcements of American publishing houses, and printed in the present issue of THE DIAL, settles the debate most emphatically in favor of the contention that book production would be increased rather than lessened by reason of the newly awakened selfconsciousness of the American people. Had the outcome of the war been less favorable to our arms, or had the strife been unduly prolonged, a different answer might have been given to the question, but the answer which we actually have to record is in the highest degree satisfactory, and it is evident that a season of almost unprecedented activity in book-publishing awaits us, and is, indeed, close at hand. The list that we published in our announcement number of a year ago was the most extensive that we had ever brought together, comprising, as it did, well over a thousand titles; but even that list is this year exceeded to the extent of two or three hundred additional titles. We are justified in congratulating all concerned-authors, publishers, and readers-upon this showing, and in predicting that culture as far as it is affected by the statistics of book-production is about to "hum" as it never did before in what Whitman called "these States." - With so rapidly growing a list to choose from, it becomes every year increasingly difficult, in such a prospectus as this, to single out the few works of greater importance to mention of which we are necessarily restricted. The invidiousness of such a selection becomes more and more |