The Archive · 1938

When Book Titles are Changed

"What's in a name?

Quite a lot of American publishers apparently think, when the name is the title of a book, "An English theatre hit may fail to please American audiences, but an English best-seller usually does well in the United States, even though it often considered necessary to give the book another name.

For instance. Winston Churchill's recently published collection o? speeches, "Arms and the Covenant," appeared in America under the mor sensational title Slept." Galsworthy's River" became "One More Riv "improvement" which may › (7, 40 appealed to the English nov "aet the other hand, Major Y eats-Brown, as an old soldier, m ay not have objected to his "Goldr, rhe turned into "Bloody yagi being The Dean of Dur iam, however, was mot at all pleagya when his novel Issued. in denominations of £2, £5, £10, also

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