Life — October 26, 1916 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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The Book to the Critic 'HOUGH poor we seem and insincere, Deal gently with us, brother dear. Our leaves that show but foolish words Have known the song of brooks and birds. Our sheets, now put to paltry use, Were made of many a lordly spruce. And is not this enough of shame? For we, remembering whence we came, Are still, though changed by Mammon’s spell, The forest that you loved so well. A. G. | A New Combination Suggested HE Art Alliance of America has issued its first annual report, and appears to have established its place as a help to artists; the Authors’ League of America has been steadily growing, and is about to amalgamate itself with the American Federation of Labor. The only thing that now remains to be done is for the public to form itself into a league to protect itself from artists and writers. The field is so vast we suggest, as an initial step, that the public first form a combination in restraint of amateur short story writers. When this has been running and experience has been gained and the machinery more or less _per- fected, free verse, futurist exhibits and the shameless exploitation of certain old masters can be safely dealt with. For sonie years a lot of get-rich-quick alleged short story masters have been advertising in the literary magazines that they could teach any stupid, half-edu- cated person, in a series of six corre- spondence lessons, to write short story masterpieces. Any ambitious young plumber’s helper in a suburban town, who has been spending his life in peer- ing into the dark corners of cellars and tepacking bathroom faucets, may by an expenditure of less than one hundred dollars rise from his subterranean mus- ings an O. Henry or a De Maupassant. The great power of advertising never had a better encomium. 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