THE LUCK OF A BOOK.
“If a genuinely gil'ied novel by an unknown band appears to-day, during the busy season, wluit happens? It may pass entirely unnoticed, though chiefly, perhaps, owing to the persevering efforts of newspaper crnics—this fate for such a book is to receive a few encouraging reviews, to sen, perhaps, just, enough copies to pay publishing expenses, and then to pass into obscurity in order to make way for some new work equally promising and equally transient. If any young author is to achieve a. great popular success, lie nearly always requires a fair measure of luck, as well a native ability. Some eminent critic, perhaps, happens to read the book, and decides to give it 'a ‘splash’; or some incident in it provokes discussion, and so the ball is set rolling. Once this happens, the author’s fortune is made.”—Torkhirc Post.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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