THE MAN WHO IS UNBEATABLE

money enough to keep him and his small
family in a little cottage in Kent.

But he kept on. He knew that he could
write. He improved his style. He defied the
critics. He was armour-proofed against discouragement.
 And now his books are in every
large library in the world.

The same fact is true of Eden Phillpotts.
He was determined to write plays as well as
novels. Fourteen times he tried to have his
plays produced in the theatres of London, and
fourteen times he failed.

At last, he had a play accepted— The Farmer's
Wife. It ran for more than three years. It was
one of the most successful plays that London
has ever seen.

Both Conrad and Phillpotts were unbeatable.
Each had a Purpose-will. Each had the
tenacity to persist in spite of a long series
of defeats. And each, eventually, became a
winner of both money and fame.
The success of a pugilist depends as much
upon his capacit— to ‘‘ take punishment ”’ as
to learn the art of boxing. A young man who
sets out to take boxing, lessons will sometimes
change his mind after he has been laid flat by
a blow on the chin. He had thought only of
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