Show Harvard prof says U S. writers best By DICK MONSON America has become the greatest literary field m the world These were the words of Howard Mum ford visiting professor of English from Harvard who believes that the United States has a literary culture all its America has taken a commanding lead from European This has been Jones the war and the late post-war when publishing materials in England and other European countries has been very scarce and hard to considered one of the outstanding authorities in the literary is more than qualified to back up his Professor of English at Harvard since Dean of the Graduate School of Arts- and Sciences at Harvard in and president of the American Arts and he has traveled throughout the country and taught at many of the leading American Commenting upon the so-called of the publishing Jones felt that New York has gradually become the literary center of a young author whose book is reviewed on the front page of the literary review of the New York Times is practically assured his book will become at least a financial he Jones hastened to that a very discouraging situation now exists in the writing the old a publisher would gather around him four or five potential publish their and sell five or six thousand The margin of profit was necessarily small but over a period of as the writers' books continued to be the number of sales and amount of profit increased THE PRESENT time with the formation of Literary guilds and Book-of-the-Month an author is made a success overnight if his book happens to be chosen as particularly outstanding by one of these The turnover is fast and the profit but the number of writers who achieve success in this manner is very who has been in Salt Lake was very enthusiastic about the and particularly the University of the cramped and congested cities of the it feels good to get out into the wide open spaces once more even though it does |