LITERATURE AND BUSINESS
6 The view that literature as an art is j faced with an increasing danger of being swamped by commercialism was 1 expressed by the Duke of Kent, who t presided at the 148 th anniversary | dinner of the Royal Literary Fund in t the Mansion House. "I am not sug- :, gesting," he added, "that the finest ' writers in this country are waging a ' losing battle against an unscrupulous ', adversary, either-in the lorm of the . publisher or the reader; but literature l has developed from an art into an ini dustry." The Lord Chancellor, Lord I Maugham, giving the toast of "Literaj ture," said that one of the fundamen- > tal features about literature was that • it had no rigid rules. Literature had I no religion, no politics, no country, no i particular language, and nothing which could confine it to any sphere.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 146, 23 June 1938, Page 23
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