MIRROR OF LIFE.
CHARACTERS IN NOVEL. PUBLICITY BOOM QUERIED. LONDON, Dec. 1. “I cannot accept Mr Arnold Bennett’s assurance that the characters in his latest book, ‘Lord Raingo,’ are not moulded on living British statesmen,” says Lord Birkenhead in a letter to the Daily Mail. “I cannot directly prove him wrong without repeating the offence, but the weaker points of my argument are strong enough. “The publishers of ‘Lord Raingo,’ in preliminary articles in the newspapers before its appearance in serial form affirmed that the story centred round members of the Cabinet, and prominent politicians, and that it deals with the life of a wartime Cabinet Minister and a woman with whom he associated, and who is well-known in fashionablo dining-rooms and dancing clubs. “If -Mr Bennett knew these statements to be untrue, why did he not contradict them, or did he think-they would increase the circulation of the book, and therefore remained silent?”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 9
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154MIRROR OF LIFE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 9
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