Show authors faith in his book brought results aspiring to be an aut author Ifor jonathan leonard wrote a story of cape cod life and submitted it to a publisher who promptly returned return edit it anil and thereupon he sent it to several other publishers one after the other with the same result and finally becoming discouraged cou raged at the age of fifty he be set about to print the book through his own endeavors and by his own hands he purchased a small printing pr press ess and set the type himself printing two pages at a time until the work was completed then he went out and learned something about bookbinding and bound volumes mainly for the purpose of observing the formalities of the copyright laws the accumulation of volumes was distributed among his friends and finally a copy fell into the hands of one of the publishers who had passed upon it before and besaw be he saw the ilie merits of the wa work rk and immediately arranged for another edition in the meantime mr air leonard had written another book and the same publisher has contracted to handle it also exchange |