27 APRIL 1929, Page 13

A SUCCESSFUL BIOGRAPHY.

Amazing success has greeted the publication here a few days ago of A Life of Henry VIII, by Francis Hackett. The Book of the Month Club has distributed 85,000 copies to its sub- scribers. Including this total the first edition numbers 120,000 copies. The sale of no other biography since Ludwig's Napoleon has approached these figures.

The author is a native of Kilkenny, Ireland. He came to America at the age of seventeen, has written much about Ireland and is now one of the editors of The New Republic. The Atlantic Monthly characterizes his pages as " glowing With the confusion and colour of Henry's own Field of Cloth of Gold."

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