Railway station's bookstall

Some things have not changed since Chesterton's times: railway stations are still places of waiting and the bookstalls there still sell books with relatively sensational titles. Chesterton describes browsing through some books:

my eye caught a sudden and scarlet title that for the moment staggered me. On the outside of a book I saw written in large letters, "Get On or Get Out." The title of the book recalled to me with a sudden revolt and reaction all that does seem unquestionably new and nasty; it reminded me that there was in the world of to-day that utterly idiotic thing, a worship of success; a thing that only means surpassing anybody in anything