WOES OF AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 2

WOES OF AUTHORS.

Writing from London to tile "Oia;:o Witness," "Alien" has the following. <o JW: —There was an interesting mooting at the Lyceum Oiub a) few days afto, wher-o they talked of protessic.a! Roubles. Mr. Israel feingwili said lftsraturo was in a 'bad way, not because there were Hot maiiy good autfiors,. but because the public was in a bad way, .with its matw-cars and bustle and general. movement. Mrs. llciitoul E'sler lad a scheme for starting n magazine tor authors, which should, give unpreinditied reviews and look after the younger ajsd lesser authors. But amid liiiioii laughter Mr. Albert Kinross said tat antfrars' bank would be for more desirable than an authqjs' magazine. "Authorship at the present .tints is oiie of the sweated industries," said, 51,r. Silas Hocking. "Why should We Hot demand a living wage lilso colliers? As for setting the standard of authorship *-rweM, who is to sel the standard? Wo are public entertainers. And our entertainment reached sick beds and lonely homes. And mo entertainers are so grudged their fee. An »ct<jr and a singer Will receive in one lijg'M what the .maker of the swig and play Hid not receive for tb-D conception and 'the inakifig of the sang «nd story. And theatre anil opera-geors will not grudge the entrance feo as they grudge tho pricfi of the author's work."