THE NEW REVIEWING
" It is only in the last few years that popular novelists (best-sellers, in several cases) have been paid high rates to review their colleagues. For this development the ' national newspapers ' are mainly responsible. They have made reviewing a 'feature,' and in doing so have undoubtedly promoted a sale of individual books and made a number of new reputations," writes Mr Douglas Goldring in the English Review. " One popular success is credited in Fleet Street with receiving £75 for his weekly article of 1000 words. Obviously he must be worth it to his newspaper or he would not get it. But for this amount it is fair to suggest that £7O is for his signature and £5 for his reviews. He writes clearly and trenchantly—who wouldn't for half-a-crown a word?— but he is neither so catholic in his tastes nor so detached in his judgments as many an unknown literary journalist who would be glad to do the same work for a tenth of the fee." '
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3196, 28 June 1932, Page 8
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168THE NEW REVIEWING Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3196, 28 June 1932, Page 8
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