A few facts about the best-selling ASK ME ANOTHER! THE QUESTION BOOK Compiled by Justin Spafford and Lucien Esty 101,000 Books Printed. $1.60 THE VIKING PRESS 30 IRVING PLACE NEW YORK CITY THE DEBUT OF A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN NOVELIST On the day of publication the following reviews hailed the appearance of "Shadows Waiting" by Eleanor Carroll Chilton as an important event in American letters A STIRRING MELODRAMA OF THE INTELLECT "It would be an engaging task to write a critical essay upon Eleanor Carroll Chilton's 'Shadows Waiting' (John Day. $2.50) analyzing the various influences that are to be discerned in it, for this etraordinary first novel is one of the most fascinating blends of curiously diverse elements I have encountered in a long time. . . . It is filled with a disturbing beauty. Miss Chilton has made a sustained flight in a craft whose complexity might well have frightened away far more experienced hands; she has turned out a finished piece of fiction that would deservedly enhance the reputation of almost any novelist I can think of, either here or in England. She has succeeded in achieving in an intellectual novel a suspense that would do credit to the most expert of mystery story writers. "Miss Chilton's own phrase for her book is 'melodrama of the intellect' and so it is, and quite as thrilling as any melodrama of the external world. "Miss Chilton has assumed a difficult task in attempting to bring such a book to an artistic ending. I was almost breathless pages, fearing she might falter, but no. She is sure to the last word."-Herschel Brickell in the New York Evening Post. for Here's a Great Novel from West Virginia. "One of the great novels of the past year came from Kentucky. It was 'The Time of Man,' by Miss Roberts of Louisville. What bids fair to be listed among the great novels of the present year comes from an other neighboring state-West Virginia. The West Virginia novel is 'Shadows Waiting' the first novel by Miss Eleanor Carroll Chilton of Charleston, W. Va., a daughter of W. E. Chilton, one-time United States senator from West Virginia. Miss Chilton comes of a family that has long been eminent in the fields of politics, finance, law "'Shadows Waiting' is a first novel but that will not be discovered from the reading of it. It is as polished and finished a piece of work as any veteran hand could produce, yet nothing in the way of freshness and originality has been sacrificed." George M. Payne in Cincinnati Times-Star. Eleanor Chilton's "Mark a distinguished debut in Eleanor Chilton's story called 'Shadows Waiting' (John Day). It is acute in its psychology, and unceasing pleasure in the fluent precision of a thoroughly ripened style. . . . Her characters are rarely luminous. 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