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ROMANCE OF A GREAT PUBLISHING HOUSE,
.An Interesting literary event is the purchase of the famous pub- | lishing house of Cassells by Mr. Newman Flower who has been associated with the firm for 21 years.
LONDON'S "HOME OF NATIONS."
FOR LONELY WOMEN OF INDIA AND THE EAST,
The present upheavals in China have probably been discussed more. in an unpretentious tenement in King Edward's road, Hackney, E., than anywhere else in London out- aide the Foreign Office.
As Sir William and Mr. J.
This is the East London "Home Gomer Berry have sold, all their of Nations," run for the London ordinary shares, and as the pre-City Mission by Mr. and Mrs. Wil- ference share capital is about to liam Fletcher, two ex-missionaries. bo. redeemed, Mr. Flower there- fore becomes owner of all the shares in the company.
Mr. Newman Flower, under whose literary guidance the House of Cassell has prospered, is a Dorset man, and for many has been an intimate
years
They take care of all the lonely women of the Oricat who are travelling through Britain,
Nearly all of them are Eastern nurses from China, Indid, Burma, Federated Malay States and Siam. Sixteen of them wore there during friend of Mr. Thomas Hardy, mall week, when a reporter called Among the many congratulatory on Mr. Fletcher, all gossiping in Ceylonese, Hindu, Siamese, Bur- On his letters he has received purchase is one from the famous mes, Tamil, Cantonese and other
tongues. novelist.
John Cassell, founder of the firm, was a Manchester carpenter, who caught up in the temperance Lancashire. Early crusade in last century he walked to London And arrived with 7d. in his poe ket.
Fortunately Mr. Fletcher knows a few languages such as Urdu,. Marathi, Hindu and Malay, in ad dition, as he put it, "to a little English," so they are not lost for
words.
A hundred of these Ayahs and Amahs Ondian
Chinese
He was the first person to sell tea in packets, and Cassell's" tea nurses) have been cared for at the became famous throughout Eng-"Home of Nations" this year, and land. Then he purchased a small the troubles in China have meant printing machine to print his tean increasing number of Chinese labels, and in the evening print-women at the home. ed on it a small paper, The Work- ing Man's Friend. Out of that tea campaign sprang the famous publishing house.
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"The youngest is about 18 and the oldest 65," anid Mr. Fletcher, and in case anyone thinks these foreign nurses are cheap labour Many famous men have passed can assure you are not. They through
Cassells. Henley was get £5-a month and all found on there. Oscar Wilde edited one contract when they leave their of Cassella magazines, and used country, generally getting the
to write verses on the backs of money down beforehead, and leav his salary cheques about the small-ing it behind. ness of the ambunt he received.
Stevenson and Rider Haggard.
Cooking Problems.
"Many of these travelling nurses
Stevenson walked into Cassells for British families have made the one day and put down the MS.journgy backwards and forwards of "Treasure island," then called across the world a score of times. "The Sea Cook." For months "Having made their pile they after the story had been accepted retire. We had one here the other not be found. Then day who had been here 26 times." 10 could he suddenly appeared and in- quired for his manuscript...
When told that the book, would be "published and he would £100 advance royalties for it, delight was unbounded.
The cooking problems in this unique home-it is the only one of its kind in the, United Kingdom- getare solved by Mrs. Fletcher, who his knows all about the intricacies of The aste, religion and diet. Amah mostly lives on rice curry and pork. Beef is tabbo.
"A hundred jingling, tingling. golden-minted quids," he wrote to his people. It not this wonder- ful?"
"My wife understands it all, from curried eggs to watercresa When "Treasure Island" up soup," said Mr. Fletcher..
his "When they go out to see Lan-. peared Rider Haggard bet brother 5s. that he could write adon, as they can do before dark, better book. He wrote. "King they form themselves into little Solomon's Mines" in the train companies, and go, about on their Toing to and from between Lon-own. A few of them can say a don and Norwich, and left the few words of English, and so do MS. at Cassell's.
their own shopping."
Ile was told that the firm would give him £100 for the copyright, and he accepted. The editor went
way to get a form for Haggardi to fill up, when an old clerk look-
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are known to them as "Fader" and "Mudder.".
up and said: "If I were you, and asked him how the argument. Mr. Haggard, I would take the concluded. "Well," said Wilde, royalty."
Henley and I finished it over the When the editor. returned. [ Rider Haggard announced that he kidneys and bacon just half
hour ago." and changed his mind. That re-j mark of the clerk cost Cassell's in the neighbourhood of 10,000.
Henley and Wilde Quarrel
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Farrar, author of the famous Life of Christ," was a poor cur- ate when a director of Cassell's, wandering from church to church in search of a preacher who got the personality of Christ into his permions, heard him preach. The
the service and offered the 08- tonished curate £500 to go to the Holy Land and write a Life of Christ. The book that result- ed sold over a million copies.
When Oscar Wilde joined as sell's, Henley was very anxious Lo meet this clever, young man, director went to the vestry alter and asked a Cussell director to arrange a meeting. The director Agave a little dinner at his house at St. John's Wood. Henley fook an instant dislike to Wilde, and, with his accustomed bluntness, All the early Barrie novels come. was very rude across the table, out from Cassell's and Mr. Now The argument became heated and man Flower has brought in Arnold went on till two in the morning, lennett, II, G. Wells, Sheila Kaye- when the host, tired of it all, put Smith, Compton Mackenzie, H. A. them both into
and Vachell, Ethel M. Dell, Hugh Wal- a hansom sent them home.
pole, and discovered many young Next morning he met Wilde writers like Ernest Raymond and
coming up the stairs at Cassell's Olive Wadsley.
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