...le of 20,000 volumes in the first three months after its publication. In December, 1891, Mr. Brooks wrote a prize story, published in the Detroit Free Press, entitled A Son of Issachar, of which Mr. Brooks said: It was written to see if a religious novel would have a chance with a secular public, and the result easily proved that such was possible. I maintained, as is seen in the case of Ben Hur, th...