Rare Books and Their Prices.

The article gives information on the book "Book Prices Current." To judge from the size and contents of the volume of "Book Prices Current" for 1921, just issued by Dutton and Co., there would seem to be as little likelihood of an end to the collecting of books as there is to the making of them. Indeed, book-collecting has taken on a new lease of life in these days of ampler means for indulging in the more agreeable exercitations of the human spirit. Bibliomania is on the increase, however, not because of a more widespread compulsion of the passion, but because of a method imparted to the madness by commercialism. Its symptoms, so far from indicating a pathological condition in the victim, are accepted as the signs of sanity in a fresh enterprise.