Show IlY writer of flooks to all budding and aspiring authors may be commended the statistics concerning novels given iu in a late english publication during the last six years 1600 n novels 0 V bare have been published which have s succeeded u 0 so far that they were asked for a at t the libraries about the fame same number were published which were not asked for and failed these books were w written rit by people of whom 50 form a c company 0 m fur far in ad advance vatice of the rest EO so fa far r as popularity is con concerned verned and 70 form tt a company well behind the first make up a band who have so far succeeded as to create a email small demand for their work and the others have reaped neither pecuniary advantage nor fame which being summed up la in figures indicates that of those who w rita ones chance of being one of the 60 50 novelists novell ste in some who succeed is 1 70 and his chance of remaining in ob security and neglect is represented by the fraction MM M M which la 13 rather a discouraging certainty New york sun |