SALLY

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

From "The World's News"
9 March, 1918.

Readers of "The World's News" will have noticed, in the announcements of this story during the last two issues of the paper, some extraordinary discrepancies as to its title. The explanation is this: The author wrote the story with the intention of calling it "The Currency Lass." At the last moment, when the opening chapters were already in type, it was brought to his notice that a serial story by "Alex. Wethered"the nom-de-plume of a well-known and gifted Sydney journalisthad appeared last year, in the "Watchman," under the same title. A new name, of course, became necessary, and, with little time for consideration, owing to the exigencies of the composing-room the author altered his title to "Captain Crossthwaite: A Tale of a Currency Lass." Further consideration decided him to adopt the present one, as being more suitable to the story. But the first alternative, in the course of a few hours, had by that time already been printed in last week's issue. The author sincerely trusts that no one has ever written a novel named "Sally," for these coincidences, though singular and diverting to anyone who is not personally concerned with them, are unmitigated nuisances to those who are. The present one is all the more extraordinary, for the reason that the author has to confess, regretfully and apologetically, that he has never opened the pages of the "Watchman," and only knows that excellent journal from its contents bills.J.H.M.A.

Dettagli