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DEBT TO DICKENS. VALUE OF POETRY. AUTHORS' EARNINGS.
WORKS FRUITFUL OF PROGRESS.
"I will let you into a secret. City men live mostly on sandwiches and an occasional cup of coffee or tea, but more ofton a glass of water," Bald Sir Charles Wakefield at a reception - following his-presidential address to the Dickens Fellowship | at the Haberdashers' Hall.
come to these big City halls expect me to that some people who magnificent banquets," he said, "but I hope you will take pot luck and drink as much tea and coffes and eat as much bread and butter as you like."
action on behalf of a lost cause.
MAN'S SOUL HUNGERS FOR BEAUTY.
JERMOME K. JEROME'S $5,000.
"If we left music, poetry and art
Many of his admirers were pro- from the New England, we should bably very surprised to learn that find that man could not live by the late Jerome K. Jerome left only. bread alone," Bald Mr. Sydney £5,000. The author fo "Three Men Walton in a speech reported in the in a Boat" had a very long vogue "Oxford Chronicle." "His soul and his books were translated into. not be content without it, however tion, he wrote at least one pheno hungered for beauty, and he would many foreign-languages. In add!- perfect his material equipment.
Yet he live. Without beauty humanity could not menally successful play.
died a comparatively poor man.
"We must minister beauty to the Why? Two possibilities suggest people, and to do that we must steep themselves: first, he lived up to our souls in the poets. Our objective his income; second, he had a very must be a more beautiful, a more much smaller Income than the prosperous Britain. The poet could reading public would imagine. enrich and enlarge our imagination. 'Do not be a slave to Shakespeare merely because he is famous, anid the lecturer.
alive the sense of wonder which
knowledge and understanding,
"As a social reformer, and as an
The earnings of authors are not inspirer of the desire for better things which has proved so fruitful
casily gauged. Fame does not al- ways bring in the shekels, while, on of progress in our own day, and
"Great poets needed great audi- the other hand, obscurity 28 a generation, the civilised world is ences, too. The poet would quicker literary light sometimes goes with greatly indebted to Dickens," Sirour imagination, give us polos and an immense output of popular writ- Charles said in his presidential balance in our daily work, bringing ing that gives its author a princely address. ..
the the invisible and redressing the income. For example, the Inte "In the Dickens Fellowship we balance, when the visible tangible Charles Garvice, one of the most have no foreign army of devoted responsibility of the day tended to delightful of men, if a writer of adherents, fighting a rearguard depress. We would thereby keep the third rank, left a vast fortune. We have not to defend an obscure was the very gate and portal of Sir William Watson, perhaps the fin
est living poet, on the other hand, and well-nigh forgotten cult in an "They would keep us perman, has never made an Income that alien age. We do not jealously ently aware of the great truths; would have drawn an envious sigh preserve some precious and subtle they would witness to us that the from a clerk. Walter de la Mare, magic of which we are the high | British were a ainging people, that most delightful of poets with ad- priests and of whose secret we alone king and commoner were united in mairers all over the world, was glad possess the key. If that were so I the commonwealth of song, and to accept a Civil List Pension as should not. be here, for I am before finally they would teach us the great was W. H. Davies, the whimsical lesson confirmed in history that no- all things simple and normal in my thing great was achieved even little Weishman who knows so much
practical affairs without a dream of the birds and hedgerows.
The late John Davidson, and a song.".
sidered a poet of the first rank by some, found life so impossible that The committed suicide. In striking contrast, the American rhymer, Walt Mason, whose daily contribu- tlons of verse appear in hundreds of Transatlantic newspapers, has admitted that he earns an Income -la Several blographical and histor-running into six figures ical works worth noting have
re- dollars. cently appeared at Home. Among What do the most famous of liv literary biographies there Ising authors earn? At the head of "Francis Thompson: the Poet of the list come probably G. Bernard Earth in Heaven," by Mr. R. L. Shaw, Sir James Barrie and H. G. Megroz, whose scope ia udicated by Wells, all men of the first rank of its sub-title, "A Study in Poetic literary artists.. Love Poetry." A new life of "Ed- that there are no rewards for the Mysticism and the Evolution of Disappointed scribes often claim mund Burke" has been written by
literary affections, No; the Fellow- ships concerns itself with no such dismal task. It is select in the sense that it is composed of the most consciously enthusiastle students of the great master. But in its activities it is the spearhead of a great democratic army, too numer ous to be counted, and scattered far and wide over the habitable globe.
NEW BIOGRAPHIES.
LATEST LIFE OF EDMOND BURKE.
con-
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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"Although this is a small hall and we are not too many to the numbered no hall would be large enough to accommodate those who are with us in spirit to-night in honouring once again the memory of Charles Dickens. I realise, that in profound knowledge of Dicken- sian lore I should rightly occupy a humble place. At least I have this calm upon your goodwill:Mr. Bertram Newman, a young au- writer unless he panders to the that I do not come before you with thor who had already won a good taste of the vulgar herd. This in yet another solution to the mystery reputation by his biography of his demonstrably wrong and the men of Edwin Drood!
namesake, the Cardinal, This is a whose names I have given are tonger book than Morley's study of evidence of the fact. An American the same subject in the "English connected with
a Mid-West news- Men of Lettere" series, and it gives paper, over in London on holiday, more of the detailed facts of Burke's recently conceived the notion of So much fresh light has getting for his newspaper an ex- when Morley's little volume appear stead of sharing a syndicated con- cast on Burke since 1870, clusive article by Bernard Shaw In- ed, that Mr. Newman's work is am- ply justified and will render a use- ful service. In "A Constitutional He suggested $500 for a column King" Sir H. M. Imbert-Terry does contribution. He W08 told that his best to persuade us to revue Mr. Shaw never wrote for so low the traditional conception of the a figure as that. After cabling his George the First. personality and
politicies of owners he offered $2,000. He was of Journalists, the claims made by
Truth in Art, "Supreme as he was in his know ledge of the human heart, in his insight into human foibles, and his sympathy with the joys and sorrows of ordinary men and women, it is not surprising that Charles Dickens is worshipped as no other Victorian novelist. Others may have shared his warm
sympathies. and deep affection for his fellow-men, but no one of his age possessed the magic gifts which give to his writings a truth and an appeal which seem
immortal. likely to prove
He portrays a social scene which has almost completely vanished, but it lives for ever in the pages of hie books. Even those of his characters who are grotesque to the point of unreality have & truth and vigour,
transcende reality.
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to mill others. A letter belongs in each white space words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the anave cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
schools for the
of monetary
the possibilities amateur in Grub Street wore de- plored as misleading and mis- chlovous: They are.
English not interested then as he was busy correspondence Churchmen" series has made a good start with biographies of Thomas
book about Cranmer, by Dr. A. C. Deane: John socialism! Wesley, by Dr. W. H.Hutton;
It is not always the literary man Archbishop Laud, by Mr. A. S. of eminence who demands and gets Dancan-Jones; and Thomas Arnold, high prices. Sir William Orpen, by Dr. R. J. Campbell. As the title who gets his thousands for his of the series "suggests, Dr. Camp brilliant portraits, will not write a
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Writing, like anything else, is a technical job. Readers often throw aside a newspaper or magazine with that." But they deceive themselves. and the thousands who have retired Writing is not so easy as it looks,
THE
as fashioned by his art, which bell's study of Arnold pays more at-newspaper article under £501 Mr. the remark: "I could do as well na
"Dickens is complete in his works. tention to his religious and ec- G. K. Chesterton, however, is con-
clesiastical position than to If by some extraordinary mischance place in the history of English fee, as are many famous Hterary hie tent with a very much more modest all record of the man Charles public chool education. His atti- Dickens had been lost we could still tude was a'distinctly individual one. men.
from the experiment in the literary construct from his books the picture He was strongly opposed to the!
What does H. G. Wells eam? or journalistic life heart-broken, of a great-hearted man, passionate Tractarians, while his vehement Probably £25,000 a year. This does prove the fact "The Statesman." for justice and fair dealing, unique Erastianiam provoked the intense not mean that he produces literary in his robust sense of fun, and god- dislike of the Evangelicals. Arnold's work of that value every year. As like in his vision of the world about views of the relations of Church and Bernard Shaw, has pointed out, a him. It would be the essential part State figure prominently." Dr.writer's output is capital, since it of the man. The most memorable bodied the researches of many years out" he has nothing more. Thus, Frederick J. Powicke has en-is his all and when he is "written- passages of ble greatest books-au in a life of Richard Baxter, of which in the case of famous or popular for instance, the early chapters of the second and final volume has just, writers, the work of other years David Copperfield are those in appeared, which he unpacks his heart in words. He lives to-day, surely, be- cause in chapter after chapter he wrote with a pen dipped in his own
Sir James Barrio has been lifeblood, from a heart quickened able misery of the social life of his credited with 'an Income of £20,000; by the memories of his childhood, day which he pictured with such "G.B.8." could probably top that by youth, and early manhood.
generous indignation has gone for 50 per cent, while among the -"Were- Charles Dickens to come ever. He appealed powerfully to "popular" writers (which does not amongst us again he 'would rejoicsthe social conscience of the nation, mean that they lack literary talent) and the better conditions that exist one may name Edgar Wallace, one to-day are in part the outcome of of the most remarkable of writing his work. In his final message to meu, as a tremendously lucrative You judge a man not by what he the world he said: 'I rest my claim producer, promises to do, but by what he has to the remembrance of my country
Only a few names have been men- done. That is the only true test. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Judged upon my published works,' and no tioned here. Do they suggest that by this standard has no superior claim has ever been more splendidly writing is a splendid way to im- People everywhere speaks of it in the justified In the event."-"Manches. mense fortune? The other day, at highest terms of praise. For sale, everywhere.
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