Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Triumph of Art. [ARTICLE]

Triumph of Art.

Literary Boston is having a good laugh at the expense of a popular Boston author who was recently beaten by an illustrator. In his story the author went to great pains to describe the hero as having a scar on his face. When the book went to the Illustrator he drew a hero without reading the novel. When the artist’s plates were made proofs were sent to the author’, who naturally found no scar on his hero. In vain he protested that there must be a scar. The publishers said that th<e book was announced, and that ft must go to press with the pictures as drawn and that the author must take out the scar, that being the shortest way to remedy the difficulty. Still the author balked, and finally the publisher Insisted that the scar go out or no book should be published. When the novel appeared the hero was without a facial blemish. —~; ~i