What Madrid Reads.

The article focuses on the book "What Madrid Reads." Second-hand books are sold in stalls and from push-carts in the streets. As the war literature has not had time to simmer down to the second-hand stage, the civil war is ignored here as completely as if the bookstalls were in Fourth Avenue or Fifty-ninth Street. Newsstand dealers have found it necessary to move so often because of the shelling that they no longer have permanent stalls. At the rear the effect of the war on the printed word is apparent everywhere.