Speaking at ijlie Bath Club (London), Sir Hall Caine Baid: —"Never in all my fortv. years as an author has the commercial side of authorship been at bo low an ebb. The enormous increase in tho cost of manufacture, added to the limited range in the price which the public is able or willing to pay _ for books, has almost crushed authorship as a profession out of existence.. A bttle more, and it would be quito'extinguished, and literature would neither be a walking-stick nor a crutch, but something like a coffin. Not since the time of the breakdown pf the three-volume novel has the trade in books been in any such peril. And if the present condition is dealing hardly with the old and established author, it is dealing Btill more hatdly with the new and untried one. by making it difficult for him to . be born." J
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 4
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148Untitled Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 4
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