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Show LITERATURE NOW A BUSINESS Days When It Was Considered an Art Seem to Have Completely Passed. An editor rend at' the New York Authors' club a letter that hud come in that morning with a story. "Oh, yes," he said, "we get lots of such letlvrs. Literature becomes more and more a business, and less and less un art. every day. " 'Dear sir.' the letter said, 'please let me know by return why you kept my story so long and then returned It all tintreriiiarked up? I try you on another an-other story herewith, which I expect to lu.ve better luck. Please don't take me for a faker, but an honest, young hustler, who Is trying to fight the battle bat-tle of life. If you accept the story pay me rt reasonable sum down, say, $:10, and the remainder year's royalty and 1'iomix' Then you can announce In all the literary news columns all over the country, for I will stand by you In tot.o, that you paid me $1,000 for the story, which is the best of the year. They will take this as a news item. I will keep the real figure strictly secret and you will do the same. Have a short history of my life wrote up. with photo, and tinder photo the words. "The handsome young author who received re-ceived $1,000 for a few strokes of his pen." ' " |
