Show Heres Here's One Test Of Authors Author's Success When the books of an American novelist do not sell off oft as remainders remainders remainders remain remain- ders at bargain prices prIces' a after ter the first year or axe aie not Issued as re reprints reprints re- re e prints at lowered price but on the contrary go on year after year callIng call- call callIng calling Ing for In the original edition he lie may be counted an ex extraordinary extraordinary ex- ex success success Most 1 n novels vels even of ot the very best selling class go into the reprints within two or three years Donn Byrne by this test is an extraordinarily success success- ful author Since the Century comp company company com com- p pany ny published his Messer Marco 1 Polo nothing he has done has been remaindered Isn't remaindered Isn't that a lovely trade frade word word word-or or or gone Into the re reprInts reprints ro- ro prints all of them march on steadily steadily steadily stead stead- ily year after year calling for tor new printings The record so far is Sa as follows Messer Marco 1 Polo fourteenth Blind fourth o of ot second The Wind seventh seventh sev sev- ev- ev Changeling and Other Stories Stories Stories Sto Sto- ries fourth Miss Ellen Glasgow whose Barren Barren Barren Bar ren Ground Is a vivid picture of ot the seamier side of life liCe in Virginia is Js no defender o ot of the legend o of Southern chivalry In fact she has taken many a thrust at It In her novels but none more effective than this reply to a friend who sho was citing the glories of ot the Institution One of the most remarkable proofs of chivalry in Virginia said the friend was the well recognized fact tact that no man had ever been executed by the state for murderIng murderIng murder- murder Ing big his wife But retorted Miss Glasgow do you think if IC he were really chivalrous he ho would have murdered her berZ n |