Show j.- j. f CLEVER RUSE OF AUTHOR Advertised His Book as Dangerous to Public Morals A story of an author who was compelled compelled com com- to resort to subterfuge in order to get his book into public public- notice Is being told in in- in p Paris r s. s Jean Lombard had fought for many years against poverty and ill health ill but nevertheless less had produced pro several novels which were considered by those who had read them to be works of genius though they h had d been total failures failures- as salable commodities On his last work he concentrated all his h hopes pes ol or recognition but on publication the book showed showed every sign of going unnoticed un un- noticed policed The author however hit upon upon up up- on a unique way of advertising It He wrote from Marseilles a letter ietter signed An Indignant Republican to the authorities authorities au au- in Paris vio violently censuring the book as dangerous to public morality morality mor more allty and demanding the imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprison- ment of its author When inquiries were made the writer and the author were found to be one and the same person but the writers writer's object was accomplished |