Show A publisher confession one gets confessions now and again which are distinctly interesting though it may not be possible to turn them to any practical use here Is an example yesterday a publisher was talking of twenty years ago then he said I 1 could publish any novel that came along it it were not hope lessly bad and be sure of a profit which I 1 could generally estimate pretty accurately before the MS went to the press he only possibility of error lay in the fact thai the book might by chance achieve an unexpected success and so bring an unexpected profit he went on to explain that conditions are changed and of course they are or he would not have talked with such frankness admitting all that was vehemently contradicted only a few years ago when sir walter besant spoke of the echles of publish ing london morning post |