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years of work that went into the of Rabble inArm s" aften sev~ yeara of :research. Roberts gives an ,~ t of his work on Arundel 1n 'll,l'he Truth About a Novel," an essay 1n his collection, For Authors

Only. NEW VOLUME COMING

In Italy Roberts will finish · the novel on which he is now working. It deals with anoth er phase of our countryz, early history. While doing his resea rch for tne i><lek Mi; RM• erts unea.rthed valuable hlsoorical material hither to believed by his• torians not to exist. This will published in an appendix volume be to accompany a special edition of the new book. Never before has a novel~t uncovered so many new historical facts that he was obliged, on the advice of histor ians, to publish these facts in an appen dix lllmultaneously th his novel in order to prote ct libnsel! from the charge of distor t• ibg histor y and misrepresenting the motives of his cha.racters.

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