Press: For Gentle Book-Buyers

Persons who are literary-minded read magazines like The Bookman, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Colophon, But the booklover and the average reader may be completely different persons. To serve the varied interests of those who patronize bookstores a new monthly magazine appeared last week called Gentle Reader, "a single periodical that would keep [the average reader] completely in touch with the world of books and also present to him within the same covers all the reasonable diversions of modern life."

Actually Gentle Reader is published as much for the bookseller as for...

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