This Week's Books informing and interesting, but perhaps slightly gloomy,
k about publishing comes from Mr. Stanley Unwin. He as an appendix a " typical Profit and Loss Account of a erately successful first novel," showing that the publisher lls. while the author makes £29 6s. 6d. as the result eir combined efforts. Yet new novelists (a dozen a week his season) find old publishers philanthropic enough to failure, let alone moderate success. We are glad to see that Unwin considers that a single notice in the Times Literary *men!, the Spectator, the New Statesman or the Nation times starts a book on a successful career. But it is mor- ns to read that the amount of space devoted to a book is times more important than what is said about it. Let en take note that this is a sound and expert book, and that devote but a single paragraph to it because when we say everyone intending to write a book should readThe Truth a Publishing (Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d.), and that one interested in publishing should do the same, we have expressed our opinion.
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