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Show only 3000 and Will Farrell's "Young Lonigan" sold only 517 copies in the first year. In one I year in America "Of Human Bondage" Maughan, sold only 250 copies. BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELIA BENNION On Thursday, Oct. 16, Dr. Lewis Browne spoke before a group of people in Salt Lake on "What Went Wrong With Civilization." Civ-ilization." Dr. Browne, author of the books "This Believing World," "The Graphic Bible," It seems that now-a-days publishers pub-lishers are reluctant to publish books of new authors if the sales can't be expected to reach 7-10,000 copies which is considered consid-ered a break-even point for fiction. fic-tion. And the surprising thing to me is that such famous authors au-thors as Theodore Dreiser's first novel "Sister Carie" failed at first so much that he offered to pay expenses. Three of Steinbeck's Stein-beck's early novels amounted to "Stranger Than Fiction," and others, is a fascinating speaker in fact, he tells so many interesting inter-esting things that I sometimes lost the thread of his theme. By the way, he paid a compliment to the people of Uah by saying that they can listen to an abstract ab-stract discussion better than any other people. He is a world traveler, born in England, but has lived in America a long time. He has lectured all over the world, is a profound scholar schol-ar and formerly a minister of the gospel. He has a keen sense of humor which is even greater than his sense of reverence. He claims that the industrial revolution which began on March 8, 1776, was the greatest revolution in world history. On that day James Watt's steam engine en-gine (he" is generally conceded to be the inventor) changed energy en-ergy from muscle power to mechanical. me-chanical. Dr. Browne then traced the changes brought . about by this change, the great-' great-' est of which is the equality of classes. "What went wrong" is that we haven't yet been able '. to accept the idea that it is not necessary to have ultimate land ownership as the ideal of life we can accept the machine age. ' . Another thing is that we cannot ', accept the red semaphoie light on our individual rights. A magazine has been added to . bur magazine file: SKYWAYS will appear monthly on our magazine mag-azine shelves bringing the total to-tal number to 62 besides, about a dozen newspapers. |