BELATED SUCCESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 221, 19 August 1931, Page 8

BELATED SUCCESS.

POACHER-AUTHOR’S FATE. ( Hailed as tlie latest literary genius, Jonathan Denwod, a former poacher and itinerant ballad singer in Cumberlandshire, is unable to enjoy to the full the fruits of his success, because of illness brought on by poverty before the sale of. his book.- “Fate makes sport of us all and success is ashes in the mouth,” writes Mr Denwood. Thirty thousand copies of his book, “Red Ike,” have been sold in a few weeks. It is claimed as equal to the most romantic of George Borrow’s writings. Mr Denwood was invited to dine with a London literary circle. Ho replied, declining the invitation, and revealing for the first time that., after his strenuous life in the hardbitten ’eighties in America, and because of tho poacher’s tendency to “die from tho middle,” the result of chills arising from constant immersion, ho is so ill and crippled that he was unable to enjoy his success. “While the book was being kicked from publisher toi publishers for two years I desperately needed money and skilled attention,” he wrote. “Now it is too lato. If 300,000 copies were sold it would make no difference.”