Article October 5, 1907 Issue

"The book is to-day the king of the world." So says...

New York Herald

"The book is to-day the king of the world." So says the catalogue of the Exposition du Livre, des Industries du Papier, des Journaux, et de la Publicite, now being held at the Grand Palais.

If the book is king. there must be a few princes, to say nothing of the proletariats, who have figured in the accession, for the exposition embraces newspapers and printing in nearly every phase, together with type-making and type-setting, and, in fact, all the details that belong to publications and impressions in the typographical world. The title of the show is almost misleading, as there is less display of books than of printing machinery and presses. The mechanical process is demonstrated minutely, so that the exhibit as a whole is highly instructive to public and "trade" alike. As in the majority of expositions, there are many exhibits that only with a stretch of the imagination can be associated with the book or printing industry. These are the side shows, which are perhaps necessary to all self-respecting circuses.

One of the American exhibits is that of The Christian Science Publishing Society, of Boston. The display comprises copies of all the books written by Mrs. Eddy, among which are the first edition (1875) of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," The Christian Science Journal, founded by Mrs. Eddy in 1883; the Christian Science Sentinel, founded in 1898; also photographs of the leading churches of the faith, located in America and England. All this represents the phenomenal growth of the Christian Science Church, with its millions of adherents, dating from 1879, when The First Church of Christ, Scientist, known as The Mother Church, and now having 43,876 members, was established in Boston. There are now 645 Christian Science churches in America and Europe.

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