Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1917 — Many Books Are Written and Published in a Week’s Time [ARTICLE]

Many Books Are Written and Published in a Week’s Time

At a certain tea shop in the Strand many serious books were “fixed up” by a prominent literary agent over a cup of coffee, says London Answers. When the news arrived of the death of King Edward, this agent dashed to his telephone and rang up a publisher. “What about a ‘Life of King Edward VH,’ to be on the market in a fortnight's time?” “Get it!” said the publisher. Another hurried telephone call to an author, and the book was begun an hour later. The author called in two ‘“ghosts,” to write one or two chapters for him, and by the end of the week the manuscript was in the printer’s hands. That “Life of King Edward” Is still selling. When the war began a big firm of publishers telephoned and telegraphed Ito all-manner of competent and hardup authors, ordering this one to write a book on the German army in ten days; that one to translate a German book on warfare in a week; another to write a book on life in the Russian army; yet another to write the “inside" story of the kaiser’s court. Before we realized that the war had started, bookstalls up and down the country were weighed down with those books, written and printed in a few day. ■ ■ . "-■-'A .f" —Ar-