| Show English Author Champions The Literary Agent Our 0 ur Literary Letter I Correspondence i I ONION O l O Au The literary L I agent who was recently to so raw nv av I I assailed In a magazine arti arH tIC lie by Henry Henr Hull Holt the thC American publisher has hu found round on III able ahle champion In David Christie Ue Murray urra the well known kno tI novelist Mr 11 Holt described the agent arent a all as a very CI serious detriment to IC literature and ami a 8 leech Il h upon the HU u thor The Th business of ot the tuu literary agent Mr 11 Murra Murray M II says K Is to see that thaI the author r receives celM hl his fair and proper share of the of 01 his own labor If It h he had hall not nol been len wanted he would a MT have hace arrived The publisher themselves b vu made him a II Slow How he lie asks can a II literary agent be a serious nerious detriment to 10 literature un unless less leM ho hll exercises some deteriorating In luence upon the Ille quality ot of tile flu work lork done dOlle b by his hl clients and In III what ie rt can he lie ilu do that In which the pub fisher lUher deco duea not nol do the Mine So tar fir or from the Ih literary agent being belli detri detrimental detrimental mental lo to literature he tie is Id a 0 most niost this dis distinct ski Aid lo to tho ho production of or his clients best b sl Inasmuch as II he relieves r him of the harassing necessity of at chat chaffering fering for tor m his hili own lares ues And quite a from Irom that thill the writer of or books N lit safer In the hands of or a man whoso whose Interests are Ite a re everywhere eV coincident vUth lib hl hi his ran on than Ihan he Is In the hands of or one olle whose hoe pecuniary position po Is ad lid ader adversely vetI er el by II every penny penn he ho unavoidably makes over to 10 the author Even If Ir no publisher In the trade were too anxious to strike a R good bargain In his own on behalf the agent would be worth his liln fec oIL Mr Ir Murray hw hu no sympathy with the tho lamentations that are arc sometime H raided over what M is termed the lom ow thin of or Literature ture There Is hardly hll rd I any all more Orr cant In Inthe Inthe the Ihl world than thaus that Ihal pretends that real rein literature Is 1 not 1101 produced for money he Rt says Much of or the till greatest have been left leU undone If It there hail hall been no rio mon mone money to 10 be bl Rot got ot I out of It T The he hl sharp tooth of ot necessity II gnas the llie I I loan of or genius It Mm him to 10 his hi de dp desk k Ito Ile would often be bt bewell well 1111 foment lo to let hi his great escape t In III talk lalk or III tn to dream his In lii lint Hut he ht has hu to 10 tomake tomake make makl Into Inlo H K feudal mansion lon and we 11 pet get 1 the lb Va aeri erly or Sr he h has ha his hl old mother to 10 bury and nn 1 he hI turns turn out Does anybody suppose e elu lazy lu Goldsmiths Goldsmith jold would have butte shell given u uThe us The of or Wakefield If It he hI had bad seen scout no nn potential and ruffles ruffle stud and ho a Is I I of 01 punch in quills anti Ink and paper I The mone do nt make the Ih but bUI I III It II calls it out It wakes It from rota It Ite I IM tin e M Mui isy arm arm choIr It II rill puts It on It 1111 mettle I 1 Thackeray wrote Vault Vanity a 1111 Fair Fall nn nil wrote In the I way vay of or hu Non olet pecunia I Mono leaves no taint on these 1 achieve an all more niece than It II does dos anywhere else mi 1111 it sincere work I Several In jn these days dayi dB torn com combine bloc bine and commerce e and lp 1 act rl et quite an as satisfaction from the they Ihl make by b the Ihl lilt let latter I ter as II they Ih derive from the th s of ot their pens pen George It SIms wrote rol rolman I many man thrillers In iii the shapo i of or mt m before he lie thought out oUI his hlA recipe for tor his now well vell 11 Known knowlI hAir 1 restorer There may ma be bl a n between h the two Iwo hut but nt lit all events event I I I Tatcho has brought Us tin Inventor n a comfortable which Is In added to 10 yearly If fin any ny tony Judge Jude by h the Ihl costly coMly advertisements which appear In the HIP Ih papers A few years ago John JoIns Strange o Winter inter wrote a II recipe rf for tor hoist bald heads and promptly It on In sale RII I under the Iho name nam of ot Hair flair Food which according to ad advertisements may oa be he obtained from her Thin This It is a n combination lIon tion of ot literature and commerce with witha n a vengeance Sir iiiI Gilbert Parker j in one on i cit eif the bu busiest t men In the world of ot commerce and amI this lists perhaps Is II the rca ren tOIl hon why lh PO JI little lm line been heard of ot I Mm lately III leI by b the reading public The picture postcard p trade Is IB adorned by bythe bythe bythe the presence of ot Sir Arthur Arlhur Consul Corun Doyle who Is II H II director of at Mess re Raphael Tuck Sour Sons and takes taken an active part luart partIn In III the management of ot Its tt big bl business Sir Arthur Artnur has hn Just published u IJ full fail mi account aunt of lute his stewardship of at the funds b L by him him In order or er to publIsh mil anti nn distribute abroad In 10 the different languages of ot Europe H a aim sim simple pie pIc and direct statement of ot the cue case In the Hoer war and an 1111 answer r to 10 those charges chanell of or Inhumanity against out our soldiers which were wert life upon the Continent He lie wrote the book himself It will 1111 be bo recalled and andor for tor or that and the patriotic purpose to which he II devoted It the king knighted him Isbn So Su generous Iere were the contributions lions that After defrayIng nil all expenses he lie was left lert with a n surplus of ot 30 Os id critic over oCr Mr Ir Reginald Smith nod and I rat tat In III solemn conclave over this sum lum he ho CaS II and discussed how It ll might b bait st be Je used for tor the needs of or the empire The Tue presented no difficulty for lur we ice worked It ort oft upon the crossing sweeper outside who had helped to relieve Delhi DeIhl Nine IM pounds went In tobacco for tor th the Chelsea veterans nt lit Christmas There remained the hue good tood round sum lum of ClOO We e bethought us tie of or the saying Buying the safety of ot the empire might depend upon tipon a II single singleshot singleshot shot hot from a gusts gun and we de tie devoted voted voled the Ihl I whole hole amount to 10 a l cent cen cup to be shot for tor by h the various ships of 01 the Channel squadron the winner to 10 hold It for tor a n year The that flut competition for tor It U has already been held and ni IU n a result rl ull the Exmouth cause came Into Plymouth harbor with the tho cup on th the top of ot her et Miss Arabella Kenealy Keneal has line been tell 1111 telling log InK how hi sM ihO became a II Her 1111 was icon all Dr Kenealy a great legal luminary In his lay day da and a fine scholar but remembered now lion as Hi claImants claimant I the that t school life lICe and too loo much cramped Childrens I character and allowed his large lar c tam fain family tamI fly ily II to 10 run more mort or less lees wild al 1 follow I their own onn heists bents At 1 IJ 1 jears yeara old Ms says Miss Mlis II I I 1 had never dono a 1 cum nor learned leaned a table of or arithmetic tic III 1 I knew nothing of or geography J of lIllIah grammar or of ot Jn lila hili tory tox till Put I lund hall read 12 1 books of or homer four of or Virgil knew kne ll and 1111 1 Wats as 1115 could 1 tackle the Ih Greek Grek mind had Greek and Latin grammar more mort or less nt at my In lIngers fingers nn r ends end In those Iho days I II wrote I rote rolt for tor th the most part poetry and my mr hero was 1118 ever the tho Achilles At 16 becoming fired with the am ambition III Ion of stud studying Ing medicine for tor samoa somo years e rs n mY literary aspirations were pre quenched t In ho the hard routine of lie walk walking walking linK ing a hospital and reading of or Thru Thou Ill having qualified 1 came cam that In Interval Interval of or leisure in which the young doctor having put up UI his hi brass brasc plain plato hn nut a it door Ioor sits Kits down dOIn the other side 11 of ot it to wait wall for patients III In this interval ray literary II I taste tast s revived and my nw ns medical experience coming crowding Into my m mind found expression In III my rn novel Dr Pr Janet of or Harley SIret 81 tel I ThiS belo bein b I r till fit led after a mental l loved kved my medical work I to tr V ft I abandonment of ot this for tvr r the loe writer tr 0 I From all of ot which It tony may s i that Mlis Kenealy on vh wh ha t UI lal oh diet ilet mime die had hod been lJ 1 early carl life was 11 bound boun to 10 a simply became Sli ahl i much more beautifully una ci i bruins brains I IE than must most women E 8 |
