THE AUTHOR-MANAGERS.
Literature is becoming so commercialised that it is to be expected that before long popular authors, who already surreptitiously practise the tradesman’s art, will go a step further and write their own advertisements. No longer will they be content to get themselves interviewed on the subject of their next book, their new car and their favourite poodle, or to depend on the oleaginous eulogies of the publishers.
For instance:
Mr. DOUGLAS DORMY
begs to announce that he is
NOW SHOWING
his new Novel,
THE HIDDEN HAND OF HATE,
and confidently recommends it to
his Customers.
It contains no fewer than 92,563 of the
BEST WORDS
in the English Language
and is guaranteed
free from Split Infinitives.
Or again:—
Are you one of the
mentally alert men, the wistful women,
who have filled up an application form
to-day for
PATTERNS OF CHAPTER ONE
of
SEPTIMUS POSHER’S
New great romance of love and mystery
THE SICKENING THUD?
If you have not already done so, lose no time, but write asking for sample of
OPENING CHAPTER
(where the pink-eyed woman prevents the marriage of Ethel and Ludovic);
of
CHAPTER NINETY,
with its nine superb-quality murders;
or
CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED
(the last), where Ethel and Ludovic at last set out through the
FAIRYLAND OF LIFE.
You incur no risk in asking for these exquisite samples.
Write direct to Septimus Posher.
Or yet again:—
Mr. BOREAS BINKS
has pleasure in announcing that his new volumes of
RECOLLECTIONS
is now showing at all Libraries. He can confidently claim that this work, entitled
PEOPLE I HAVE MET AND
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM,
is absolutely the most refined volume of Scandal on the market. All the reminiscences are novel and tasty.
Or once more:—
KEATS WILLIAMS,
Poet and Critic.
Poems of every description completed
at the shortest notice.
Ask to see our choice spring lines.
Specimens Free.
Epics within Two Days.
Odes within a few Hours.
Sonnets, Rondeaux, Triolets, Quatrains
while you wait.
A well-known Judge writes: “I should very much like to give you a trial. I am sure you deserve it.”