THE SEVEN-PENNY NOVEL.
Our richest men and women, who denied themselves nothing else, denied themselves books, said Dr. Andrew Lang, presiding at the 119 th anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund at the Hotel Metropole last night. It had been calculated, he said, that only 20 per cent, of the common novel at 6s was bought by private purchasers, the circulating libraries took- the otheT 80 per cent. The sevenpenn-y novel was hanging over their head, and the public was being taught that no book shouldcost more than sev«npence. He need not point out to the mathematician that the result to the novelist must be rtiki. His advice to the ardent youth (says the Daily Mail), who thought of commencing authorship in the fields of history, poetry, the essay, literary criticuni, tintbropolnxy, and bo forth was "Don't."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 10
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