Let The Scribes Beware

NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 12

Let The Scribes Beware

■.v ; ■■■•: '■■■'■.■.: •.:,■•':. ': * i — — —■."■■..'■..,. 1 '' •' ; - ' . . .. THERE : is an ancient Latin warning to wh,ich all housewives may well * take heed when dealing with mendicant sellers.; It says: "Let the purchaser beware." \ To the compendium of friendly advice must be acTded another. tag, > ■ this i time 'for, the benefit of best-sellers m embryp F .who, with the gems of incipient genius tumbling from their pen tips, place their manu-. scripts into the hands of unscrupulous, publishers or their agentSi ; For the most part the bettor-known publishing houses are completely above suspicion, yet, like many other trades or callings, they suffer the disability of contemporaries who play innocently with your money — after they have steeped their fingers m treacle. Manuscripts should oe submitted only to publishers who have established themselves beyond the urge of improper practices. Demands or suggestions that money should be transmitted- towards publishing cost of manuscripts ought to be disregarded, since few pubi Ushers will consider publication unless merit has manifested itself m the rough draft.

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iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiim Wous trouble, and m ordertto get away from associations which were apparently not good for her. ' Tayior, said Senior-sergeant Scott, was certainly not going to. do any good for herself, and needed some detention m her own interests. After communicating by telephone with the Magdala ' Home, the senior-sergeant reported that the Mother Superior would take her badk t though she had been troublesome before; ' : ' . ; ;' ■ ■ '■... "The girl demurred about being sent to Mount Magdala, but when the magistrate intimated that she would be sent to Point Halswell, she signified her willingness to go to the Home for three years. " . ■ . ' . She was convicted on the first charge conditional on her entering Mount Magdala Home for three years, and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence at any time during three years on the second charge. On the remaining charges' she was convicted and discharged. ' ■ - :