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not contemptible even by the stau- dards of moderately "big busines."
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THE GRUMPY GEORGIAN, tile genius lailed to develop a line!
Yet the literary temper of the pre-eminently profitable: he bas uot
Victorian age was, on the whole, de- made a bit as a playwright. But
optimistic. The writers cidedly In view of the recent split between in all other respects he is a supreme the Edit of the Daily Mail (London) master of the alchemy which can, might be dissatisfied with some as. and Mr. H. Wells, ever his anti- transmute a little ink and a few reamspects of the world in which they lived Bu. few of them looked on it French blas at Washington, the of paper into a barrow load of gold. following pen picture of the great It is rather rurious to note that, and said that it was bad. Few of British writer by Mr. E. T. Raymond as in the case of several other eat them wanted it radically changed. which recently appeared in "The literary successes, the more the world God they believed, was in World's Work" is of especial interest: caresses Mr. Walls, the less Mr. Wells Heaven, and if all was not right (as the extreme with the world LONDON, Oct. 1. is sati-fied with the world.
In that famous work, so
often attitude would have been natural optiunist held), certainly all was not With twopence (or there- aliouta) in kia pocket the cheery quoted and so little read, Adam enough with the contemporaries of wrong.
kicks Adam Smith, or even with the mo
Victorian had only minor Smith's Wealth of Nations," there
jority of the great Victorians. For is a contemptuously compassionate re with very few exceptions literary peo ference to that unpros, erons race pla, until about thirty years ago, did very poorly for themselves and their That the compassion is no longer families. called for, the happy financial history
The fact was masked by the great of Mr. Herbert George Wells abun- dantly suffices to prove. Mr. Wells sums paid for the major works o cer tain "serious" writers who had won
called men of letters."
editying essays.
This
against his social system.
Our more distinguished modern writers, on the other hand, seem to an incurable grudge against have Boriety. The law kinder to them than it was, in defending their copy- rights and guarding them against is the very opposite of unprosperous. distinction in non literary fields. Thus al adapters" of whom Dickens exploitation by the predatory theatric- Easton Glebe, bis country place on Macaulay received for his Histry an
wae constantly complaining. The the Countess of Warwick's retato near
amount such as few modern publish advance of progress has automati- Dunmow, is not blatantly plutocratic -it is, in fact, only on old rectory ere would venture for a similar work.cally increased their earnings to a refurnished and glorified--but its Alison, leo, did amazingly well out remarkable degree They appeal to of his laborious but indifferent com.
s Fublic 98 wide as the civilised comfort and luxury would suffice any pilation. Certain popular theologians world, and the civilised world is far ordinary person of moderate desires, coined money by their sermons and wider tan it used to be it includes. still more a philosopher with a life
& hundred millions of Americans and long conviction that private property should be restricted within very bar-
But on the whole the rewards of a large section of tla educated public row limits. It is described with fair literature were scanty and precarious in countries as alien as Japan, China, accuracy in Mr. Britling." la town enough to justify Joba Stuart Mill and India.
Above all, the conquering cinema- Mr. Wells sojourns pleasantly it when following the lead of his maa- Whitehall Court, the majestic block ter. Adam Smith, be instanced writ
tograph has, among other effects, ol palace flats which adorns the West ing as one of the trades in which the doubled the gains of any writer who minster Embankment; all that is guerdon of labour tests no reasonable will bear translation into "movies." most cunning in extra-size tyres, ratio to its difficulty and severity. A play's earnings are limited by con- luxurious body-work, and "aweet! Evan Dickens, popular idol as besiderations of theatre space and acting running" motor engines secure hia wa, got much less for a novel of talent, But a booming film yields smooth transit from the country life enormous length and complexity, the tr bute of every continent and to the town; and almost any sort of taking great toll on his strength and almost of every town. country-house hoste a esteems herself brain power, than a modern novelist
Authorsh p. so far as successful. fortunate if dear Mr. Wells" can be of great vogue wins by a far simpler works of the imagination are concern. induced to make one of a week-end and less exacting effort. Gadshill, of od cannot therefore be classed as party.
which so much is made in the biogra among the depress d industries, But, as any County Court judge plies, was a poor little place com. There are several novelists who are will say, expenditure is not evidence pared with the country-house of a caputed to have arned, at their of income; Deither is social demand successful author to day; the free highest producing power, as much as More reliable indications of Mr. hold cost if I remember rightly £30, 00 year, yet nearly every Wella's success are the number of nearer £1 700 than £2.000. It was not "earious novelist-and it is the large impressions" advertised of lusf mere ureed of money, but a certain serious and not the merely "popular”. every work, great or small. It was fancial apprehension based on the novelists with real these high figures stated the other day that or the cine cost if a large family and the far-isat wat with the world that treats matograple rights of his vrlier novels the future, that induced Dickens to him so peir rusly.
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of five thousand pounds a year from this source alone.
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Yet Dickens was a miracle of finan
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