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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1914.
B 37
TALI OF THE GAY
& F. BENSON MAKES THIS COM-
MENT AFTER READING "MAN
AND SUPERMAN."
\UTHOR REMINISCENT
Author of "Dodo" Discusses Change
in Girls Since His Most Famous
Novel Was Written, Apropos Publi-
cation of "Dodo the Second"—Date
of First English Newspaper.
LONDON, March 28.—E. F. Benson's Ion/?
awaited sequel to "Dodo" is announced for
publication in the next fortnight, and
meanwhile its author has arrived back in
London from Switzerland, where he has
been having his annual orgy of winter
sports. The youngest, and perhaps the
most famous, of the throe Benson brothers
is not only an expert skater—with several
cups and medals to prove it—but an en-
thusiastic skier and toboggan 1st,, too (as
they understand tobogganing in the Alpine
region), and he lias published a book on
the subject which is considered authorita-
tive.
"Has the society girl changed since i
'Dodo' was written, and if so, how?" Ben-
son was asked yesterday, having been run
t(» earth in the flat which he occupies in
Chelsea no great distance from the famous
studio of .John Singer Sargent.
"The girl of today is absolutely differ-
ent from the girl of twenty years ago,"
said Benson. "Two things have helped
largely to bring this about—the disappear-
ance of the chaperon and the improved
methods of education.
"Chaperonitis was a positive disease in
Victorian times—quite as universal as ap-
pendicitis is today. But just as people re-
move the appendix because it is unneces-
sary, so they have removed the chaperon
because she was equally unnecessary. No-
body thinks of Mrs. Grundy nowadays.
She is mortally ill, and the sooner she
dies the better. Young men and women
think for themselves far more than they
did. They do not blindly obey their eld-
ers.
"And they are not forced to learn all
kinds of useless things in which they have
no interest. Education used to be like a
stiff, unbecoming hat, which was jammed
down firmly and often painfully (when It
was a particularly bad fit) 011 the heads of
girls of all sorts and sizes, quite regard-
less of whether it suited them. The edu- ,
eatiou of today is like a nice warm poul-
tice, which is applied at the proper time
and in the proper way, and draws out ail
that is inside, it is only when one likes a
thing that one can really learn it. Other-
wise it is never assimilated, but always re-
mains something outside oneself. Modern
education makes for the development of in-
dividuality.
MARRIES FOR LOVE.
"Another noticeable thing about girls
today is that they do not care whether they
marry or not, and their mothers do not
seem to mind either. The match-making
mother has almost disappeared. The free-
dom which the modern girl enjoys makes
it unnecessary for her to marry for more
liberty, and the result la that when she
does marry she marries for love far more
than did her predecessor of twenty years
ago. I was re-reading G. B. Shaw's 'Mian
and Superman' the other day, and his point
of view—the girl pursuing the man-
struck me as quite old-fashioned and Early
Victorian. Girls do not pursue men now-
adays; they go to the British Museum and
study beetles and play golf, or go abroad
to shoot lions."
"I suppose your new Dodo is a modern
type ?"
''Yes, she Is a daughter of the old Dodo,
and though she has the same originality
and individuality of character, yet she is
different in many respects. For one thing,
6he is less impulsive, more serious (she
reads Plato in the original), and is inter-
ested in social problems. She Is not so
fond of social gaiety as her mother was,
and has aspirations after a different kind
of life. She does even more shocking
things than the poor old Dodo did, but no-
body thinks anything about it It is im-
possible to shock people today.'*
BAR III E RETURNS HOME.
Another famous writer who is recently
back from Switzerland Is Sir .Tames M.
Barrie, and yesterday it was my fortihie to
behold him for the first time, in spite of
the fact that, like most other newspaper
writers, I nave written at one time or
another many columns concerning him.
I was on my way down Adelaide Street,
which runs into the Strand dose to Char-
ing Cross, bound on no more important er-
rand than a visit to a barber shop, when
suddenly I saw approaching me through
the inevitable Saturday afternoon rain that
was falling, one whom I knew could be
no other than Barrie. There was ab-
solutely 110 mistaking him—a host of snap-
shots have reproduced him Just as one
saw him, umbrella less In spite of the
downpour, an exceedingly low-crowned
derby hat on his head, a silk handkerchief
tied tightly around, his neck, and a whack
lng big pipe in his mouth. This pipe, ap
parently, was not going well, for as we
neared each other, Barrie took it out,
peered into its depths in a disappointed
way, and proceeded to tinker with it, an
operation that was still in progress as we
passed each other.
The surprising thing about him to me,
however, was his height, or rather lack of
height. He Is actually tiny, and I can now
understand the old resident of Kirriemuir
who alluded to him as "wee Jamie Barrie."
His whole exterior, too, is tomehow
rougher than one would expect, and I can
now also believe the story of an English
Interviewer who laid In wait for him anil
eventually missed him, having mistaken
him for a scene shifter. He had Just come,
no doubt, from his chambers in the Ariel-
phi. which are situated over some steam-
ship offices, and presumably was on his
way to the nearby Duke of York's theater
from which the revival of his play. "(Jual-
itv Street." has just been withdrawn.
('live Holland, who wrote "My Official
Wife," and is the author of a lot of other
successful novels, has deserted Bourne-
mouth. the sea coast town where he has
lived for the past few years, and moved
up to Ealing, one of London's pleasantest
suburbs. There he was interviewed the
other day, and along with much other
Interesting information instanced an ex-
ample of dogged perseverance on his part
which is not calculated to encourage the
literary beginner. "I cherished." he re-
marked, "a great ambition to get into
Chambers* Journal, for which I now write
frequently, and it may interest you to hear
that for ten years I persistently bom-
barded the editor with my manuscripts.
Ten years perseverance resulted in one
manuscript being accepted at last, al
though, personally, T think the article ac-
cepted was no better than many which had
been 'returned with thanks.*"
ELINOR GLYN ON TOUR.
Mrs. Elinor Glyn, who now has definite-
ly abandoned London in favor of Paris is,
I* hear, traveling with her daughter
through France to the Riviera by motor
Cfl\Vhat is probably the first English news,
paper ever published is now on exhibi-
tion at the British Museum. It is the
firvt of .1 scries of "corantos," as these
budgets of news were called, extending
lYcestlbfr 2. 1620, to the close of the
fcfcwttg year, which recently came liitu
tse possession the Museum, and which
up set st he theory that English journalism
began with the news sheet printed in
IN TWO RECENT AFFAIRS HUS-
BANDS WERE KILLED BY
ADVERSARIES.
PENALTY IS PROPOSED
Utmost to Which Army Is Willing to
Go Is Code Shall Not Ik* Invoked for
Trivial Causes and Officers Who
Provoke Trouble Shall Be Ban-
ished.
Special Cable Service to The Express.
BERLIN, March —The two recent
fatal army duels fought in Germany and
Austro-Hungary, which prompted the
Clericals in Parliament to ask the Minister
of War what steps would be taken to ter-
minate "this relic of barbarism," were
typical Instances of how the innocent suf-
fer and the guilty escape. In each case a
husband was killed by the adversary who
was responsible for the combat.
In a duel at Metz, Lieutenant linage of
the Ninety-eighth Infantry was required
by the regimental court to challenge Lieu-
tenant Von La Valette St. George of the
same regiment for an alleged invasion of
linage's home, liauge tell at the first ex-
change of shots, thereby vindicating the
honor of his unwounded adversary.
At Budapest Stefan Hadjii. lieutenant in
the aeronautic corps. w;is killed by his
brother-in-law, Sigmund Babocsay, an of-
ficer of the reserve. Babocsy in a quarrel
with his wife, Hadju's sister, had made
some insulting reference to the Iladju
family. This came to the ears of the mili-
tary authorities.
They declared this family affair only
could be settled with pistols, and assigned
Lieutenant Hadju two officers as seconds,
who saw to it the duel took place, al-
though Babocsay was willing to apologize
for the insult. This was the twentieth
duel iu which Babocsay has been involved.
The fall of General Von Heeringon, the
late Minister of War. Is generally attrib-
uted to the last Reichstag debate on the
subject of dueling. His statement holding
out no hope of an abolition of compulsory
dueling in the army was highly displeas-
ing to the leaders of the powerful Cleri-
cal Center party and his retirement fol-
lowed in due course.
General Von Falkenhayn, his successor,
like all Prussian officers, holds tlie same
views, believing officers must follow the
"code" in defending their honor or leave
the army.
The utmost to which the army authori-
ties are willing to go is that duels for
trivial causes are to be prevented and that
officers who, by their unworthy conduct,
provoke duels, must leave the army.
Japanese Art Students
Make Appeal in Paris
Exotic Character of Their Work Has
Made Impression on the Novelty-
Loving Frenchmen.
Special Gable Service to The Express.,
PARIS, March 28.—The latest art colony
in Paris is made up of Japanese street
artists from Tokio, who have set up their
household goods in the working class quar-
ter of Javel 011 the left bank of the Seine.
Their first prospects are most encour-
aging. The exotic character of their work
has made an immediate appeal to the fancy
of the novelty loving Parisian, and there
is already a nig demand for their Japan-
ese interpretations of the city's familiar
scenes and landmarks.
The venerable pile of Notre Dame they
represent standing out against a gray
cream-colored sky, and the fragile, rigid
lines of the Eiffel Tower, repellant to the
Occidental artist, seem almost beautiful
through the medium of their quaint Ori-
ental pencilings.
Scientists and psychical investigators
are baffled by a series of strange mani-
festations observable nightly at a little
house at Fougeres sur Bievre, near Blots.
The house is a sort of bungalow belong
lng to a retired business man. Between
10 and 11 at night, and again just before
daybreak, the curtains of the house occu-
pied by the owner and his grandson are
shaken feverishly, as if by an Invisible
hand. At the same time a dull thumping
shakes the walls and the floors, causing
the plaster to fall in thick flakes from the
ceiling.
Electricians thought perhaps it might be
caused electrically, but a thorough search
revealed nothing to support this theory.
It is thought by the 11011 -superstitious
that there may be a subterranean passage
J from the old castle of IVureges near bv
communicating with the "haunted house,'
and that the phenomena are either caused
bv an inrush of wind or by someone who
1^' desirous of acquiring the "haunted''
premises at a low price.
Duke's Estate Up Again.
Special Cable Service to The Express.
GENEVA, March 28.- -Division of the
fortune of "John Orth," the long-missing
archduke. John Salvator of Austria, is
Queen of Spain Wears Costume
Which She Herself Has Designed
The Queen of Spain wears a costume designed by herself. '1 his is the latest portrait of her majesty Educated on common
sense lines by her practical mother, there probably is no domestic science with which the Qu?en of Spain is not familiar.
Georgiana, Countess of Dudley, is about to issue her second book on cooking. This aristocratic authority on the culinary art is
a celebrated beauty.
The Countess of Northbrook is one of the handsomest women la England.
again being sought by members of the
house of Hapsburg. Leopold Woelfling,
himself a former archduke of Austria. Is
leuder of the present agitation for> settle
ment of the estate. Woelfling, who has
been a Swiss citizen since he renounced
his title and married Maria Hitter, the
daughter of a German horseman, has taken
up the question of the fortune with Em-
porer Francis Joseph, but it Is doubtful
that he will meet wltli any success. The
Emperor many years ago selected the year
191. as the one in which the affairs of the
vanished archduke should be settled.
Motor Boats to the Congo.
Special Cable Service to The Express.
ANTWERP. March 28.-The Belgian
government Is sending three so-called
sliding motor boats to tiie Congo for river
traffic. These boats are 57 feet long and
have a draught of only 27Jv inches. They
are driven by motors of r>00 horsepower
and have an ordinary speed ».f twenty-
three miles an hour. The boats each can
bear a load of eight tons and accommo-
date eight passengers in an airy cabin
suited to the tropics. The accommoda-
tions are much like those of a sleeping
car. The boat service for freight, mail
and passengers will be started on June 4
from Leopoldville to Stanley Falls and up-
on some other river routes.
Cornhill by one Thomas Archer in May.
1422. The British Museum "corantos," it
is true, were printed and published in Am-
sterdam, but the language was English
and the periodical evidently was circulated
in England.
The first number contains news of the
battle of Wei*sen burg, at which the King
of Bohemia. James* t*on in law. was de-
feated. Some of the later "corantos" In
this series were reprinted in England, and
then similar journals, written as well as
published in this country, began to appear.
No specimen of the earliest newspaper
! printed by Thomas Archer of Pope's Head
| Alley. Cornhill. has yet been discovered.
but it is known from a contemporary
J writer that in September. 1421. he was
I "laid bj the heels'* for his enterprise.
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RED HATS SOON
AT LEAST TWO PRELATES ANX-
IOUSLY AWAIT CONSISTORY
THIS SPRING.
RIGHT MAN A PROBLEM
SALES OF AMERICAN BOOKS
TO FOREIGN PUBLISHERS
SHOW GAIN IN SIX MONTHS.
BRITONS BEHIND
Apostolic Nuncio at Munich Is Promi-
nently Mentioned—Prince Max of
Saxony a Candidate, but His Utter-
ances Have Incurred Displeasure
Bishop Korum Favored at Rome.
RIGHT TO HISS A PLAY, "WITHIN
BOUNDS," REAFFIRMED BY
DUBLIN MAGISTRATE.
PATRON'S DUTY ISSUE
Defendant Declared Play Was "Foreign
Filth" and He Considered $t His
Duty to Protest Under Common-Law
Rights—History of Preeedent Is
Again Told.
Special Cable Service to The Express.
LONDON, March L'8.—The Briton has a
common law right to hiss a play, provided
he does so within bounds. This right,
first affirmed In 11 case reported iu 1810,
has been reaffirmed by a Dublin magis-
trate, who discharged a man charged with
hissing a play recently imported from the
Coutinent. The defendant said the' play
was "foreign filth" and he considered it
his duty to protest. His protest was so
violent that the play was interrupted for
some minutes.
The leading case of 1810 appears to
have been the first instance of a prosecu-
tion for this offense. Counsel In that case
said it had been difficult to find prece-
dents, for although "cat-calls are as old
as the English drama, Mr. Garrick and
tlie first men who have undertaken the
management of our theatrical concerns
have hitherto cheerfully yielded to the
Jurisdiction of the pit without a thought
of appealing to the courts.**
In the case of Gregory vs. the Duke of
Brunswick, reported In 1843, the defend-
ants were sued for conspiracy to hiss off
the stage an actor who was appearing as
Hamlet. They set up that they consid-
ered the man's private character and
career so bad as to disqualify him from
playing. They admitted that they did "a
little hoot, litss. groan and yell at the
plaintiff, anil make a little noise, outcry
and uproar at and against the plaintiff,"
but they made only such a disturbance
"a* for the eauses aforesaid** (the plain-
tiff - character) "they lawfully might."
It is said, however, that Macklin, the f
famous comedian, obtained a verdict of I
guilty in a prosecution agninst divers
persons for a conspiracy to hiss him off
the stage whenever he might appear, and
it is probable that the wanton 111 user to-
day would find himself without the law.
If. however, the hissing be the spontane-
ous outcome of the spectator's feelings,
he < an safely "hoot, hiss, groan and
yell."
of a regular yearly budget, which does not j
now exist.
Another reform is the reorganization or
judicial power, modifying it so as to give
certain colonial agents political power,
such as exists in certain British colonies.
This will secure for the white people a
greater prestige in dealing with the na-
tives.
Young French Woman
Member Legion of Honor
King Albert's Reforms
Are Going Into Effect
Special Cable Service to Tbe Express.
BRUSSELS, March 28.—Reforms in the j
Congo, which were urged by King Albert \
in his address to Parliament, are being J
put into effect gradually and the prediction
is made that the colony in Africa soon will
cease to be regarded ns a burden to Bel-
gium, or as a sour e of criticism from the
powers, as was the case under the late
King Leopold. . .
The large deficits recorded each year
since the Congo was incorporated into
llelglum have made financial help one of
the first iceds. The government plans to
grant this by endorsement of all of the
past and future debts of the Congo.
It i- also proposed to grant the colony
a greater administrative autonomy.
The olonial government is to bp trans-
fer r« 1 to Bona «»r to an even more central
'.. nit as to enable the Governor to re-
ceive the virions district prr -idents and
t<» :^rniit him to frame adequate laws, ln-
by real necessities of each district.
It will also make possible the institution
FIGURES ON PRIVATE ESTATE
SUPPORT KING OF BELGIUM'S
REPUTATION.
ITEMS ARE OMITTED
Monarch Had Obligations to Baronesp
Vaughn and Held Shares All Over
the World to Enormous Value—Gov-
ernment H^8 Various Other Persons
to Be Recompensed.
Mine Adolphe Brisson (nee Yvonne Sar-
cey) is tbe youngest woman 4ki France
who has been made a meml»er of the
Legion of Honor. She is a daughter of the
popular Sarcey who was the foremost liter-
ary and dramatic critic of the last genera-
tion. She inherited her father's talent and
has b^en a prolific journalist for the last
twenty years. At the age of 18 she met a
promising young writer a few years older
than herself. This was Adolphe Brisson,
now dramatic critic of the Temps, a paper
* bleb fields as much influence as did the
fc^'inhurgb hvWr llscM'W ' ti*a»
Special Cable Service to The Espreaa.
BRUSSELS, March 28.—The private for-
tune left by King Leopold amounts to
$21,000,000, according to a Government
memoranda attached to the bill for set-
tlement of the estate. The figures sup-
port the reputation which Leopold had
of being one of the shrewdest business
men In Europe, and as large as tbey are,
they do not include about $6,000,000 given
to the Baroness Vaughn, second wife of
the King, nor various other millions he
gave away.
In the long itemization of his personal
property It appears that he held shares In
companies all over the world to the pres-
ent total value of $12,000,000.
As previously announced, the Belgian
Government proposes to pay the three
daughters $1,000,000 each in consideration
of their giving up further claims, and to
pay the Empress Charlotte of Mexico
$700,000 for the royal properties of Cierg-
non and Ardenne. The State will also
renounce a claim for about $700,000 of
shares in the Congo, which King Leopold
had given to his unfortunate sister, Char-
lotte, and pay $1,200,000 for that part of
the millions invested in the Foundation of
Nlederfulbach, which had not been turned
over to the State as a part of the Congo
public property.
The Government will also pay another
$1,200,000 to the royal Princesses for fur-
niture, paintings. Jewels, Egyptian an-
tiquities. silver and gold table service*,
and about ."'>.000 a-res of land In the Con-
go, which belonged to the Princess Cle-
mentine, the wire of Prince Victor Na-
poleon. Besides all these sums something
like $4,200,000 were paid orer to the heirs
immediately after King Leopold*! death,
t
Special Cable Service to The Express.
BERLIN, March 28.— Candidates for
cardinals to fill the two vacancies left in
the Sacred College by the deaths of Car-
dinals Kopp and Fisher are being dis-
cussed. At. least two German prelates are
expected to receive the red hat at the con-
sistory this spring.
The apostolic nuncio at Munich, Mgr.
Dr. A. Fruehwlrth, is prominently men-
tioned.
Prince Max of Saxony, younger brother
of the King of Saxony and now a profes-
sor in tlu; Catholic Theological Seminary
at Cologne, at first was picked as a prob-
ability. But some have eliminated him,
recalling he Incurred tlie displeasure of
the Pope several years ago by his views
on the Greek orthodox church, expressed
in a published book.
One of the most likely candidates, ac-
cording to reports from Rome, is Bishop
Korum of Treves, llis name, however,
lias been unfavorably received in govern-
ment circles, which which he has been iti
conflict often.
The selection of the right man is believ-
ed to be a real problem at the Vatican.
The Pope, it Is said, desires to appoint
men who nave not been identified with re-
cent political struggles and who are on
good terms with the government.
The death <-f Cardinal lvopp deprives the
Catholic Church at once of its highest
functionary aud its strongest personality
in Germany. Kopp played an important
part in restoring amicable relations be-
tween tlie Vatican and Prussia after Bis-
marck's campaign against the Catholic
Church.
Iu later years the Emperor recognized
liis efforts to promote good relations be-
tween Rome and Berlin by calling him to
the Prussian peerage and conferring upon
him the order of the Black Eagle, the
highest Prussian order.
It carries with it a patent of nobility
and the right to use the coveted "you" be-
fore the holder's name, of which, however,
the cardinal never made use.
The Emperor further made him a mem-
ber of t he commission to reform the Prus-
sian school laws and entrusted him with
other important missions.
While England Keeps Up in Top-
Notch Authors, Moderately Good
Ones Are Left in Rear in the Race
With Their Cousins—Our Maga-
zines Fail Abroad.
Special Cable Service to The Express.
LONDON, March 28.—"More American
books have been sold to English and con-
tinental publishers in the last six months
than have ever been sold before sine®
books began to come here from America."
That is the significant statement made to
the writer by the representative In Lon-
don of the Authors' League of America.
Of course, one wanted to know why,
for if the fact had any other cause than
mere happen-so it means much. Here la
the answer:
"l ntll lately only a few American au-
thors took anough pains with their work
and had a broad enough outlook to at-
tract international notice. The writers of
fairly good novels In Englaud could turn
out better work than the corresponding
class of writers in America.. It may not
have been so vigorous, but it was more
experienced and more finished, and the
result was that such English writers had
a steady sale in the I'nited States. In the
last decade the tide has turned tho other
way. The "fairly good* English novelist
has practically no market In the United
States and the fairly good American nov-
elist has not only filled his home market,
but has progressed enough to compete
with his British compeer In the market
here.
"On tbe other hand, one after another
of the American magazines have stopped
trying to get an English circulation, and
the few still sold on the English news-
stands probably will have to give up the
fight before long. To be successful in
America they have to contain too large a
proportion of purely American material
to make them interesting as a whole to
readers here. But everyone of them con-
tains matter—especially fiction—of great
interest here, and the new custom of giv-
ing English editors an opportunity to buy
what they like from these American
CAR STARTS OVER EMPIRE WITH
EXHIBITS SHOWING RESULTS OF
EXCESSIVE INDULGENCE.
"THE NATIONAL VICE'
It Is Understood the New National Ad-
ministration Proposes to Reduce Pro-
duction of Vodka, Country*!* Drink
and to increase Penalties on Illicit
Trading-.
8pecial Cable Service to The Express.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 28.—The ed-
ucational campaign against Intemperance
has started with a vim In Russia. At the
instance of the Minister of Ways and
Communications a large railway car has
been fitted out with exhibits showing the
results of excessive indulgence in alcohol.
It will be taken all over the railways
of Northern Russia by a lecturer and sev-
eral attendants. The car will be side-
tracked at the principal stations and lec-
tures on the evils of drink will be given
to tho railway employes. The lectures will
be Illustrate*! by magic lantern slides.
It ls increasingly apparent that the re-
cent changes in the Cabinet were due sole-
ly to the desire of Emperor Nicholas to
strengthen his campaign against alcohol-
Ism. lie la determined to do away with
"the National vice," and he has instructed
his new ministers to attack the drluk evil
vigorously.
Tt ls understood the new administration
proposes to reduce the production of
vodka, the National drink; to Increase the
Eenaltles on illicit trading, and to refuse
ereafter to consider drunkenness as a
mitigating circumstance in cases of crime.
Excise officials are to be held to a stricter
accountability of what goes 0x1 In their
districts.
How the government proposes to meet
th# loss of revenue on voaka Is not known.
Receipts from taxes on liquors last year
were $101,340,000, against total receipts of
$0,481,118,000 from all sources.
The government intends also to take
measures to rentier financial aid to small
farmers and rural industries The form
of this relief has not yet been decided, but
it Is probable that it will include a sys-
tem of co operative country banks, baaed
011 the system in operation iu Germany
and other continental countries.
Quakers Have Electric Milk Route.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com-
pany, under recent progressive manage-
ment, has goue Into the feright servi-e
more extensively, putting in two more
freight station*, enlarging a third, and
putting In new sidings at two city markets,
says the Engineering News.
Aa part of its increased service the Rap
id Transit Company has placed a new type
of milk - ar in service, making daily trips
between Philadelphia and dairy districts to
the north. The new cur has a length of
thirty six feet over corner post v. with a
foure foot veatlbuled platform. Two bulk
heads at the «vnter cut the interior into a
cross passage and two main compartments.
Along the sides of each section arv folding
sectional tables for the milk cans. Along
the outer edge of each table la a T bar
with one leg projecting to support cross
shelves. The floor la covered with gal-
vanized iron laid on top of asbestos insula-
tion. For cooling, the car has a 2-ft. 3-ln.
by 3 ft. 8 in brine tank, ice chest, fan mo-
tor and piping The cooled air is cumu-
lated through each compartment b#
uy
periodicals has had an influence in the
establishment of American authors here
that ls even yet scarcely recognized.
"If such authors had sent their MS3.
direct to English editors nua asked Amer-
ican prices not one in a hundred would
have achieved a sale, unless their names
were already known to English readers.
Coining in easily read and admirably,
illustrated magazine pages and with the
prestige of acceptance by shrewd Ameri-
can editors, and at tempting rates, Eng-
lish editors have found it hard to resist
them. Once such authors have mada
friends of the English readers tliey be-
come a necessity to the editors—and then
the harvest, begins.
"Likewise, up to a certain point the
American author can do better for hlmsell
by leaving his foreign book rights in tbe
hands of his American publishers. They
can establish him here better than ha can
establish himself—and to sell well in Eng-
land. in .099 instances out of 1,000, you've
got to be established. Once the American
author lias got his foothold here he is in
11 position to break loose from his Ameri-
can editors and publishers and sell here*
independently, for himself. It is onlj
lately that he has discovered this fact,
thanks largely to t'lie activities of the Au-
thors' League of America, of which appar-
ently about all the American writers wo it a
mentioning are members.
"Of late the contents or nearly all of the
American magazines have been sold here
to English editors, aud to an Increasing
extent In translation to continental edi-
tors. These contents are sold at low rates
for publication some time after tbey have
appeared in America. I don't know
whether or not the American editors hav«
shared with their authors the modest
financial results of these European sales,
but I do know—and this ls where we get
back to the point we started from—that
the result has been the great discovery by
readers here and on the Continent that
there is a whole lot of hitherto unknown
American writers, especially of fiction,
whose work is uncommonly good. Their
names have been remembered and watched
for, and now at last the harvest ls begin-
ning to come in. and the authors concern-
ed are beginning to find that they can
count 011 a steady European market, to
which they can sell direct if they know
how. Except for absolutely top-notch
English fiction, like May Sinclair, Hewlett,
Locke, Galsworthy, Bennett, Mrs. Hum-
phry Ward (when she confines herself te
English higher life love stories and doesn't
attempt to be didactic) and a few others,
there Isn't anyone on this side of the At-
lantic who can compete with the work of
the keen young American novelists who
are coming up so fast and who, if they
will only take more time, get more bal-
ance and not try to become rich too quick-
ly will, I believe, conquer the field before
many years."
the
most of the leading American authors
in Europe and probably knows more of
As the speaker looks after the Interests
of most of the leading American author^,
the subject than anyone living, the state-
ments I have quoted eeem of unusual inn
portance.
It is with deep regret that the death In
London this week of T. W. Hanshew has
to be recorded. Every magazine editor la
America except, maybe, some of the new-
comers. knew him well. His capacity fof
turning out skillful popular stories was
unlimited, and likewise his capacity for
doing a good turn to every friend. Ha
came over from New York aud settled
down to live here some years ago and
presently invented "Cleek, the Man of
Fortv Fac»s." Cleek was a high-born
criminal, who in time saw the error of his
ways and became a detective, thus com-
bining the fascinations of Raffles and
Sherlo. k Holmes. First an English maga-
zine took up "Cleek" and ran him through
adventure after adventure; then an Amer-
ican tnagaslne discovered him and began
to run him simultantously with the Eng-
lish magazine; then it was discovered that
the stories could be knit together into a
novel, and "Cleek, the Man of Forty
Faces," appeared lu book form here ana
iu America last year.
Then one of the big American publish-
ing houses made the further discovery
that the "Cleek" stories were by no means
mere pot boilers, but were marvela eg
ingenuit v and clever in charactertsatleflfc
Thev took over the American tnagaslne
and book rights of yet aaother Cleek
series and made a deal with a film cos|-
pany to spread the fame of Han*hew*s
Invention in tbe "movies" throughout
world. The resulting book, entitled 44C
t>f Scotland Yard," has Just been publii
and the first copy of the American edition
of it reaehed England on the day Us au-
thor died, broken down from overwork
in the effort to keep up with the sudden
and overwhelming demand for "Cleek,**
and yet ujore "Cleek.** He left behind hUp
a complete* "Oeek" novel, which Is yet te
be published.
Mrs. He*shew, also an American, Is con-
nected wiM the principal literary agency
it the
Cleek
llshei
here and ha* charge >f its American asaf-
* 1 ed-
ctlcallr all e, ^
leading American weeklies and monthlies
azlne department, selling to English
ltors the contests of practically all of.U*
She is known—by name, at least—to ha
dreds ot American authors^sad^-^—
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