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Editor Leamy decided to keep his editorial matter???essays, fiction, humor? consistent with the oldtime Mentor, but to deck out the material with capable, sometimes racy, illustration. Although the magazine's circulation reached 85,000, it became apparent that it would never pull in harness with its whopping big Crowell team-mates?Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, The Country Home (onetime Farm & Fireside), The American Magazine ? whose combined circulation is over...
This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine?consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter???really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead of two, and the lens is a more powerful magnifier. But the important part of this invention is not the mechanism but the use. For it will, asserted the Admiral, "render printing presses and typesetting machinery obsolete," "revolutionize the publishing industry," "make glasses unnecessary." By its help books will...