Show TIE LITERARY AGENT When we next hear the question asked What shall we do with our boys we shall answer Make them literary agents All you want is a little room in a central situation siuaton pens and ink and a lady typewriter capi ta is quite unnecessary for I the agent is not absolutely destitute of wits the flies soon walk into his par lor How does he tempt them Noth ing can be simpler In an age of publicity nothing is sacred from the interviewer and after a few paragraphs para-graphs as to his whereabouts have been judiciously placed in the nivtccsna pers he shares the fate of emperors and actresses and is interviewed either in the Daily Chronicle or The Bookman both of which journals devote de-vote much space to the chronicle of small beer The interviewer naturally begins hy saying that there are few men better known than the agent and proceeds to describe his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and his personal per-sonal appearance with the minuteness which the British public expects in an interview My authors are then touched upon and the agent modestly says that they came to him unsough unasked You would be surprised if I gave you the names of one or two and so on ad nauseam Then a note is handed in and the agent bows the interviewer out after arranging for a few copies of this nice homely chat may be sent to him for private circulation circu-lation A few days later the files arrive ar-rive their manuscripts in one pocket 1 their preliminary fees In the other National Review |