Most Books have to have an Excuse by some one for the Author, but this is the only Book ever written that has to have an Alibi for the Title, too. About 4 years ago, out in California, I was writing sayings for the Screen and I called it the Illiterate Digest. Well one day up bobs the following letter from this N. Y. Lawyer. It and the answer are absolutely just as they were exchanged at that time. _My client, the Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers of the “Literary Digest” have requested me to write to you in regard to your use of the phrase, “The Illiterate Digest,” as a title to a moving picture subject gotten up by you, the consequence of which may have escaped your consideration._…
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