'We welcome a new novel by Mr.William Magnus, who our readers will remember wrote that clever story ...

The present work seems to us at least the equal of any that have preceded it.' ...

A fortnight's advertisement--Dead silence.

Some one in the Club, 'I see you've written another book, old man.

You do turn 'em out.' A letter from a Press Agency who has never heard of one's name before, 'A little sheaf of thin miserable cuttings.' ...