Prefatory Note
_ IF WINTER DON‘T
A.B.C.D.E.F.
NOTSOMUCHINSON
BY
BARRY PAIN
Parody of "If Winter Comes" by A.S.M. Hutchinson

These parodies do good to the book parodied； great good, sometimes； they are kindly meant, and the parodist has usually keenly enjoyed the book of which he sits down to make a fool.
---R. L. STEVENSON.

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"IF WINTER COMES" placed its author not only as a Best Seller, but as one of the Great Novelists of to-day. Not always are those royalties crowned by those laurels. Tarzan (of, if I remember rightly, the Apes) never won the double event. And I am told by superior people that, intellectually, Miss Ethel M. Dell takes the hindmost. Personally, I found "If Winter Comes" a most sympathetic and interesting book. I think there are only two points on which I should be disposed to quarrel with it. Firstly, though Nona is a real creation, Effie is an incredible piece of novelist‘s machinery. Secondly, I detest the

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