{"id":4072,"date":"1952-10-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"1952-10-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/october-1952-vol-33-no-10-pamphlet-literature\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:45:08","slug":"october-1952-vol-33-no-10-pamphlet-literature","status":"publish","type":"rbc_letter","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/october-1952-vol-33-no-10-pamphlet-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"October 1952 &#8211; Vol. 33, No. 10 &#8211; Pamphlet Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"layout-column-main\">\n<p class=\"boldtext\">Oliver Twist wondered in Mr. Brownlow&#8217;s                     study where the people could be found to read such a great                     number of books as seemed to be written to make the world                     wiser. It is still a marvel to more experienced people than                     Oliver Twist.<\/p>\n<p> When pamphlets and booklets are considered in addition to                     books, even a brain-endowed electronic calculator might                     be puzzled to equate readers and printed matter. But while                     some persons feel snowed under, others clamour for more.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question about pamphlets, a Halifax housewife                     said baldly: &#8220;I do not like pamphlets,&#8221; but a woman active                     in Home and School Association work said she looks upon pamphlets                     as a major aid in planning programmes and helping study groups.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the right pamphlets into the right hands is a major                     problem. In fact, the Joint Planning Commission of the Canadian                     Association for Adult Education is currently conducting a                     study of ways to improve the distribution of programme material,                     which includes pamphlet literature.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Harriet Parsons, conducting the survey, has found that                     the value of pamphlets is not sufficiently appreciated among                     programme planners. In her report, <em>Where and When &#8211; a Study                     of the Distribution of Programme Materials<\/em>, she mentions                     the importance of pamphlets in these rapidly changing times                     as a means of keeping up to date on vital current issues;                     their low cost, their convenient size, and their adaptability                     to varying needs.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be a pity that people do not know what is available                     for the asking. A few newspapers review pamphlet literature;                     there are advertisements of pamphlets in education journals;                     business concerns try to make up mailing lists of persons                     they believe will be interested in the booklets they produce:                     but there is no place to go for a list of, for example, all                     the pamphlet literature bearing on office filing, or on family                     budgets, or on Canada&#8217;s world relations.<\/p>\n<p>People are interested in the facts of life, and in their                     interpretation. Matters which were formerly thought to be                     of purely economic, biological, technological, religious or                     in-some-way-professional interest, are now                     seen to have important implications for everyone socially                     and politically. Pamphlets are published regularly, or from                     time to time, in all these fields of knowledge. It is the                     objective of this Monthly Letter to discuss briefly what are                     pamphlets, when are they useful to the reader and to the producer,                     why are they frequently more useful than other means of communication,                     what are the cardinal rules for composing them, and what use                     can be made of them.<\/p>\n<h3>What is a Pamphlet?<\/h3>\n<p>A great variety of printed matter that differs widely in                     character, size and purpose may be included under the name                     &#8220;pamphlet.&#8221; At one extreme is a little leaflet, and at the                     other is the carefully prepared and illustrated treatise that                     finds a place on the library shelf.<\/p>\n<p>An authority, the Harmsworth Encyclopedia, says the name                     is derived from a Latin poem called <em>Pamphilus seu de Amore<\/em>,                     which was a great success in the 12th century. The New Oxford                     dictionary defines pamphlet as &#8220;A small treatise occupying                     fewer pages than would make a book&#8230;issued as a separate                     work&#8230;with or without paper covers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The subjects treated in pamphlets cannot be listed, because                     there are so many as to defy description. John Foxe&#8217;s <em>Book                     of Martyrs <\/em>and many of Carlyle&#8217;s works were pamphlets                     in spirit, says Chambers Encyclopedia. Every year sees a flood                     of theses and inaugural dissertations from universities, most                     of which rank as pamphlets. It can be set down as a fairly                     stable part of the definition that a pamphlet presents only                     one subject or one line of argument.<\/p>\n<p>Technicalities of name belong to professional people like                     printers and librarians. In the New York public library a                     booklet may be simultaneously a book, a volume and a pamphlet.                     In the British Museum no attempt is made to count volumes                     and pamphlets separately. For everyday purposes no better                     definition is needed than that of an executive, quoted in                     <em>A Pamphlet about Pamphlets <\/em>by Lester Condit. The executive                     was asked to distinguish between a book and a pamphlet. &#8220;Do                     you see this booklet?&#8221; he asked, taking a small unbound publication                     from a shelf. &#8220;In this office, if I call this a book, it&#8217;s                     a book; if I call it a pamphlet, it&#8217;s a pamphlet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Uses of Pamphlets<\/h3>\n<p>A pamphlet, being of small bulk and of no great price, is                     adaptable to many uses. It can be written for a small or a                     large audience, and directed in its thought and language toward                     the special people who will be interested in the topic it                     discusses. It may be distributed free at meetings, on street                     corners or through the mail, or it may be sold on book stalls                     or by mail.<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlet can be up-to-the-minute. Very                     often the earliest written information available on a subject                     is in a pamphlet. Even periodicals can be beaten in point                     of time by a pamphlet dealing with, for example, a new product                     or a new manufacturing process.<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlet is convenient and handy. The price does not                     include extraneous matter, but only that dealing with the                     pamphlet&#8217;s subject. The reader is not diverted by advertisements,                     but may concentrate on reading straight through. He seldom                     finds room for complaint about excessive verbiage; in fact                     he may feel at times that pamphlet literature of certain sorts                     is so closely condensed that he requires to read it more thoughtfully                     and more slowly than he would a periodical article.<\/p>\n<h3>The Old Pamphlet Age<\/h3>\n<p>The peculiarities and special features of pamphlets belong                     to them by legitimate heritage. It has been said that in pamphlets                     lies the soul of the past, the articulate voice of the past                     speaking at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the invention of printing, many of the short                     English tracts written by Wycliffe had all the characteristics                     of pamphlet literature. It is uncertain just when printed                     notices made their appearance, but one printed by Caxton before                     1480 has been found.<\/p>\n<p>When pamphleteering reached its height, rigid censorship                     became, a handicap. Not a pamphlet was supposed to be printed                     during the first half of the seventeenth century unless licensed                     by high court authority. But bootleg editions appeared occasionally,                     usually dealing with subjects of current interest.<\/p>\n<p>The great era of propagandist pamphlets began in 1640, and                     the flood of tracts swept away the machinery of censorship.                     Its volume, says Chambers Encyclopedia, may be judged from                     the invaluable collection of nearly 15,000 pamphlets printed                     during 1640-61, which was made by the bookseller George                     Thomason, a friend of Milton.<\/p>\n<p>It might be thought that the American Revolution would have                     called forth a stirring array of broadsides in Canada, but                     Miss Marie Tremaine records in her pamphlet <em>A Half-Century                     of Canadian Life and Print <\/em>that only about two-score                     publications in the years 1775-1783 concerned the revolution.                     Two have been found calling for redress of grievances, the                     only ones we know of expressing popular protest from the northernmost                     colonies against colonial maladministration.<\/p>\n<p>There have been pamphlets issued which have become part                     of English literature. In 1558, when both Scotland and England                     were ruled by women, John Knox wrote his <em>First Blast of                     the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women<\/em>. Pamphlets                     were used by Voltaire to arouse the French people against                     Louis XV, by Tom Paine to carry on propaganda for the Federal                     Constitution, and Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, went to                     the pillory and to prison for his pamphlet <em>The Shortest                     Way with the Dissenters<\/em>. Paine&#8217;s first sentence in his                     pamphlet <em>The American Crisis <\/em>became a battle-cry:                     &#8220;These are the times that try men&#8217;s souls.&#8221; And John Milton&#8217;s                     noblest prose work, Areopagitica, remains today at the centre                     of people&#8217;s thinking about freedom, with its exhortation &#8220;to                     redress willingly and speedily what hath been erred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first use of a pamphlet to build goodwill for a corporation                     that we know of was in 1601. The great mercantile company                     of England, the Merchants Adventurers, was in disfavour with                     the public. It issued a pamphlet written by its secretary,                     John Wheeler, which seems to have been successful in restoring                     the company to the good graces of the Queen and the people.<\/p>\n<p>Collections of the early pamphlets were made. Dr. Johnson                     contributed an introductory <em>Essay on the Origin and Importance                     of Small Tracts and Fugitive Pieces <\/em>to the first collection,                     which had eight volumes and ran into several editions.<\/p>\n<p>On this side of the Atlantic Ocean there are few pamphlet                     collections for which catalogues have been printed, but the                     Canadian Archives has made a good start.<\/p>\n<h3>The New Pamphlet Age<\/h3>\n<p>This seems to be a new age of pamphlets. Despite the competition                     of many other sorts of printed matter, the radio, the television                     and the moving pictures, there seem to be occasions when nothing                     but a pamphlet will serve.<\/p>\n<p>In these swiftly-moving times the public lives in a                     turmoil of news and ready-made opinions, offered for                     mass consumption. Many thousands of men and women in the democracies                     feel sharply the need for more than summary information. They                     want facts and guides upon which to base their contemplation                     and thinking.<\/p>\n<p>To such people the pamphlet serves as a thought-stirrer.                     It has some of the immediacy of the newspaper, but it penetrates                     to the deeper layers of problems and of philosophy. It speaks                     from person to person, and it enjoys the freedom of style                     and emphasis of an independent work of art.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the several continuing series of pamphlets,                     such as those of the Public Affairs Committee in the United                     States, the <em>Behind the Headline <\/em>series, and the Monthly                     Letter of The Royal Bank of Canada, there are many occasional                     pamphlets issued by corporations, by government departments,                     by educational institutions, and by societies. Those dealing                     with family and personality problems have seemed to attract                     greatest attention during the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a mistake to suppose that the latest word written                     is always the more correct, but pamphlets give a new look                     to what appears in books and a deeper penetration than is                     found in popular periodicals. They give us an opportunity                     to extend our thoughts, to compare and to do constructive                     thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The chief librarian of the New York public library is credited                     with saying &#8220;Give me a library of pamphlets and I can answer                     any reference question.&#8221; Perhaps this may be a mild exaggeration,                     but it is quite true to say that if there is any reference                     question that cannot be answered by a pamphlet already in                     print, another pamphlet may be made readily.<\/p>\n<p>In personal libraries of professional and scientific and                     business men, pamphlets are kept alongside books on the same                     subject. As the frontiers of knowledge are daily pushed forward,                     there are few chapters to be found in textbooks or encyclopedias                     that cannot be added to profitably and brought up to date                     by pamphlet literature. Every once in a while we come upon                     a pamphlet which makes no pretense at originality, but contents                     itself with gathering together in readable form a synthesis                     of the knowledge about a subject.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s pamphlets are not for frivolous reading, but because                     they are written in more or less homespun style they touch                     the imagination. They fill an intellectual need.<\/p>\n<h3>Advertising Pamphlets<\/h3>\n<p>The pamphlet recommends itself to those who have things                     to sell because it provides an opportunity to tell possible                     purchasers interestingly and in some detail about the goods                     offered. More than any other form of advertising, says George                     B. Hotchkiss in <em>An Outline of Advertising<\/em>, it is capable                     of doing a complete selling job and of paving the way for                     a personal salesman.<\/p>\n<p>However, the composition and use of pamphlets has been sadly                     neglected by the authors of textbooks. Perhaps this explains                     in some part the number of mediocre or worse pamphlets in                     our mail.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them contain statements which it is difficult to                     resist the temptation to correct. Their authors seem to be                     trying to make up by a superabundance of adjectives for lack                     of basic data.<\/p>\n<p>Others are filled to the extreme margins with small print,                     given over wholly to technical descriptions, or at the other                     extreme they give a glamorous picture and no information.<\/p>\n<p>Pamphlets of whatever sort which fail to attract attention                     and provoke interest do so because of one or more basic faults.                     They may spurn the real purpose of the pamphlet, which is                     to inform interestingly, to show the reader either how to                     enjoy life or how to endure it. They may be all right as to                     the matter they contain, but all wrong in the manner of its                     presentation. People of today want clear type, easy to read                     and attractive to the eye. Pamphlets may be both interesting                     and well printed, but fail because they are sent to the wrong                     people. To have a mailing list of persons likely to be good                     readers is a benefit beyond price.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to over-rate an advertising medium. Pamphlet                     literature can well stand on its own feet as a medium for                     building the goodwill of a business venture, if the matter                     and presentation are right. But it must be remembered that                     an unknown but still great proportion of mailed literature                     is &#8220;filed&#8221; in wastebaskets, often at mail desks, and never                     reaches the person to whom it is addressed.<\/p>\n<p>There are some special places where pamphlet advertising                     fits particularly well. When a customer has been won, the                     forwarding to him of occasional pamphlets may hold him permanently.                     When an inquiry is received as the result of another form                     of advertising an attractive pamphlet, giving enough information                     to convince the prospect that further investigation is warranted,                     will be an effective medium.<\/p>\n<p>And, more important every passing year, there are pamphlets                     which are not designed to sell merchandise but to make friends.                     Little essays having nothing whatever to do with over-the-counter                     sales have been found to be builders of good public relations,                     and that is a state in which it is easy to gain customers.<\/p>\n<h3>Pamphlets in Education<\/h3>\n<p>There is an increasing use being made of pamphlets by educational                     institutions, and business people are contributing more and                     more to fill this need. Some pamphlet literature provided                     by business is especially useful for the education of growing                     children whose span of attention is limited; some is exceedingly                     useful as supplementary matter for high school classes such                     as those in home economics, social studies, and technical                     subjects; while others come in fittingly for adult study groups.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in vocational guidance, in teaching or                     learning such skills as the writing of essays, the making                     of speeches, the planning of community programmes, and the                     running of junior or adult groups, will find in pamphlets                     a wealth of assistance, a background of knowledge, and much                     inspiration. All that is required is a seeing eye and an understanding                     mind &#8211; plus the energy to write asking for what is wanted.<\/p>\n<p>There are many thousands of pamphlets of general or particular                     interest, and it is impossible to list them. Just as being                     typical, however, it may be said that the American Hospital                     Association is reported by Mr. Condit to have pamphlets covering                     more than 600 subjects related to hospital service ready to                     be despatched to any post office in the world. Our government                     departments, both at Ottawa and in the provinces, provide                     free or at a small charge pamphlets on practically all phases                     of life and its activities. The United Nations Association                     in Canada, the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the                     Health League of Canada, and many others like them, are eager                     to distribute educational pamphlet literature to interested                     people.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparing a Pamphlet<\/h3>\n<p>There is nothing very mysterious about the way in which                     skilled writers secure their data and write pamphlets.<\/p>\n<p>The art is to bring out in words worthy of the subject and                     sufficient for the readers, the thoughts which impress the                     writer as being important, and about which he has done some                     research.<\/p>\n<p>A chapter one might write for a book, an essay on a topic                     of current interest, or a descriptive piece about a holiday,                     might make an acceptable pamphlet. Indeed, many books are                     but compilations of pamphlet literature.<\/p>\n<p>In referring to the need for better pamphlets, Miss Parsons                     declares good appearance and readability to be important.                     Readability arises from interest. It does not include, in                     reference to pamphlet literature, flippancy or extravagance.                     It requires movement, and not static lecturing&#8211;movement                     of characters or of thought, according to the nature of the                     essay.<\/p>\n<p>There is no substitute for a base of fact: however dressed                     up it may be by the art of the writer, it must remain fact                     still.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is under any obligation to read another man&#8217;s book                     or pamphlet, and this places the writer under the necessity                     of making his production so attractive as to win readers.                     If he writes with sincerity about a subject in which his prospective                     readers have an interest and about which he has done sufficient                     study and research, and then adds a dash of human interest,                     he will have gone a long way toward acceptance as an author.                     And this is so whether he writes about business, about education,                     about science or in a philosophical vein.<\/p>\n<h3>Distributing Pamphlets<\/h3>\n<p>There are many &#8220;publics&#8221; to be reached. The greatest problem                     is to put the pamphlet into the hands of people who will enjoy                     and profit by it.<\/p>\n<p>It may be taken for granted that private industries which                     go to the expense of preparing a pamphlet will do their utmost                     to get it into the right hands. But how about government departments                     and voluntary organizations? We must confess that the former                     do not make it particularly easy to obtain pamphlets: one                     may write to three or more departments before obtaining the                     right piece of printed matter. A consolidated list of publications                     by governments, listed by subjects and liberally cross-indexed,                     would be a boon.<\/p>\n<p>The survey being made in behalf of the Joint Planning Commission                     is seeking to find ways whereby information about available                     pamphlet literature may be conveyed regularly to officers                     of national and community organizations, to leaders of public                     opinion such as clergymen, teachers, librarians, writers and                     public speakers, to programme planning groups, such as those                     in churches, school associations, labour unions and service                     clubs, and to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>A start has been made already through publication by the                     Joint Planning Commission for the past three years of a <em>Survey                     of Program Materials<\/em>, and, this year, the production of                     a 32-page booklet called <em>Program Aids<\/em>. The latter,                     compiled by The Canadian Association for Adult Education in                     co-operation with The Canadian Manufacturers&#8217; Association                     and The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, lists 480 publications                     by 89 Canadian business firms.<\/p>\n<p>In his introduction to the catalogue, written as President                     of the C.A.A.E., the President of this Bank said: &#8220;I consider                     pamphlets of great importance in education &#8211; particularly                     in adult education. Pamphlets carrying news and ideas hot                     from the minds of qualified men and women directly to those                     who can use the thoughts in vital community work are valuable                     adjuncts to our and their printed material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pamphlets in Libraries<\/h3>\n<p>Increasing use is being made of pamphlets in public libraries,                     where their worth as supplements to books is well known.<\/p>\n<p>There was a spirit abroad a few years ago which condemned                     the pamphlet to banishment from among the intellectual stores                     of the library merely because it had no stiff cover. More                     practical is the objection by librarians that pamphlets are                     difficult to shelve, they crumple and fall and blow away.                     But their worth is enough to overcome many difficulties. &#8220;We                     couldn&#8217;t exist without pamphlets for reference,&#8221; said a Windsor                     librarian who found the capsule pamphlet sort of information                     ideal for busy people who haven&#8217;t time to wade through heavy                     tomes.<\/p>\n<p>Most libraries carry pamphlets both for reference and for                     loan. As to what sort of pamphlets, Canadian libraries responded                     in this way to a questionnaire: government documents, offered                     by 33 libraries; technical pamphlets, by 19; pamphlets for                     general and popular use, by 35. When it comes to telling their                     public what pamphlets are available, 26 libraries use displays,                     15 use a catalogue, 9 use lists, and 8 use posters. At Kingston,                     the library uses a column in the newspaper twice a month to                     tell about pamphlets.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone may have his own library of pamphlets for the asking.                     Coupons clipped from newspaper and magazine advertisements                     can bring in pamphlets of a wide range of interest, or a note                     written to an organization which publishes pamphlets will                     bring issues on particular subjects of special interest.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that the author who expresses ideas clearly and                     succinctly in a little pamphlet is less esteemed than the                     author of a pretentious book, and yet pamphlets are the liveliest                     pictures of our time. They give expression to the hopes and                     outlook of humanity, and show the inward thoughts and philosophy                     of our society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"rbc_letter_theme":[],"rbc_letter_year":[32],"class_list":["post-4072","rbc_letter","type-rbc_letter","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","rbc_letter_year-32"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October 1952 - Vol. 33, No. 10 - Pamphlet Literature - RBC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/about-us\/history\/letter\/october-1952-vol-33-no-10-pamphlet-literature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"October 1952 - Vol. 33, No. 10 - Pamphlet Literature - RBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oliver Twist wondered in Mr. Brownlow&#8217;s study where the people could be found to read such a great number of books as seemed to be written to make the world wiser. 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