NEW READING PUBLICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 9

NEW READING PUBLICS.

“If I were- an English or American publisher I should keep a continual eye oh the new reading publics which new subjects bring to light,” writes Mr James Milne in the “New York Times.” “I don’t mean merely new subjects in sociology, science, literature, and ' the other serious studies of life. I mean, rather, new activities on the lighter side of life, such, for instance as the icesports, which now take many English holiday-makers to Switzerland and other lands of snow. This means a distinct public of leisured, well-to-do. folk, who would naturally turn to any book treating of their 'latest holiday hobby, especially if that book were a novel.

“We have here, ,at the moment, a story which is winning enough success to illustrate my-point. It is by a new author, Miss Brandon, and it is entitled “The Davosers,” meaning those who go to' Davos in the winter season far the skating, the sld-ing, and the bracing air. Miss Brandon herself, I believe, went there in search of health, and* out of a' wntemplative mind she wrote, this’ noyel. It has a real touch of personality .behind! it, and and it gathers in’ very well the atmosphere of those wild find Davos either a place of healing or of healthy recreation.”