"Is it good?"
"It isn't bad," he answered, with a smile
"Not as good as the things in those three volumes?"
He smiled
"This kind of thing doesn't pay, does it? How does he make a living?"
"I don't know. I understand he has several grown children."
"So they support the family?"
"I suppose so. I am not sure, though."
"Can't a Hebrew writer make a living in New York?"
He shook his head and smiled