The sale of Mr. Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" in Great Britain, notwithstanding all the writing there was about it, only reached 4,000 copies, In America it sold 400,000 copies and more, but it should console Mr. Sinclair Lewis that his new book "Babbitt" is doing infinitely better in the English book market than its predeces-wor did. 7
Mr. L. H. Myers, son of F. W. H. Myers of "Human Personality" fame, has been at work upon a novel for many years. He has now completed it. It is to be called "The Ovissers.'" "The Orissers" is a psychological study, 170,000 words in length, of a remarkable family.
It must be thirty years since Dr. Charles Gore, then a little London Prelate, stirred the religious world by editing "Lux Munch." Although he was only the editor and there were many eminent contributors, it is still quoted in the book market as ''Gore's Lux Munch." To-day Dr. Gore remains our most read theologian of the English Church, with the possible exception of one or two books of Dean Inge. What think you of a sale of 20,000 copies for a fairly expensive book on "Belief in God"? A volume in sequence to it, entitled Belief in Christ," has started so well that it promises to have at Toast as large a sale, and a third work, completing the series, is not likely to fall behind in circulation.
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