The Progress of a Sensational Mr. A. J. Russell, who was Madame Tetrazzini's literary adviser in the writing of her autobiography "My Life of Song" is now publishing through Messrs. Y. Werner Laurie Ld,. his first novel, entitled "God's Prodigal." The novel has probably established a record, inasmuch as it was accepted on the first day of its first submission to a_ publisher. When sending in his MSS., instead of attaching a letter asking for the favour of an early reading, the author stated bluntly that he required the MSS. back within seven days; otherwise he would call and collect it—an unusual and usually fatal course for a new novelist. The minimum usually taken for the reading of a new novel is a month, nevertheless the management were 80 impressed with the imperative nature of the new novelist's request, his bright literary style, the novelty and interest of the plot, that they decided to accept it for immediate publication, on the day the MSS. was deposited in the office.
As for the story itself, Mr. Ruesell has certainly achieved a work of outstanding merit in this class of literature. It is frankly
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