The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-11
ROLL OF THE AUTHORS CLUB
MANY DISTINGUISHED WAVES
on ITS LIST o. MEMBERS.

NeN GsTk Has the Only National sseIeIy
% she Kind IN America -IlteFary
Treasures Of the Club watch NlEhl
+ Frsthah- It's Aims MOstb serial.
You have ~ many men in your club
that I've never heard Of complained
some one b a member II the Authors
/ Club
VERY likely answered the member
} You have simply mistaken the title:
/ u 10 not the Great Authors Club. for.
B tunately for most u ma With ne. pub
fishing one book proper 10 literature
4 constitutes an author
+ The Authors Club has had neverthe-
less, on it, rolls of membership some Of
the most distinguished contemporary
names of the literary world siuoe ito
organization, twenty eight years ago
81 the home n the late Richard Watson
Glider lo9 ERs' Fifteenth street In
the past year alone Il has lost by death
Mr Glider. Or James Holme CanReld
Edward Everett Hale and George Mere
dith, a. well a. others whose names are
surely not unknown
The Authors Club a. II exists to-day
does not pretend 70 he a literary club.
u "a merely a club ~ literary men. A.
no time does anybody rad papers or
turn loose manuscripts; Il Is a perfectly
safe place lts meetings are like other
meetings ~ men. with plenty e. eat
drink and smoke IN SATURDAY. after.
Moons m February and March u opens
its doors n women authors. and through
out the seasons II gives dinners. but
never courts publicity
The only real function Is that which
celebrates watch night. celebrating not
with ceremony generally hut with
nonsense 4 feature ~ the Last was a
sketch written and acted by members
81 the club representing the Possible
Authors Club u the future
The scene was a brokers ofioa with
h'ackboArds hearing quotations ~ Poetry
common. Romance preferred and other
similarly appropriate inscriptions Here
vas shown the invasion Of women we'll
known authoresses unprecedented nv
members u more or ezs diEnifCd report
who demanded their rights in membsr-
ship for women
Inc watch night committee ronfesses
tn undue mental stress. even for authors.
IN getting out the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The
happy vein IN which author writea for
author NAV be discerned m the announce
ment for the festal night Just past.
The club will meet on Friday evening.
December a. 10 provide - members
with eNultation over pas, victories and
r"freshmsnt for nov comhats We grow
Older. bat the challenging years spring
ever young from the nursery II rrrre
Therefore ha II derreed that w. take rn
ourselves such fnod n philosophy A. tho
frivolous may proffcr with such season.
ING NJ folly a. the wise may sprinkle n
the favor n tho dish 10 high rrsv W. all
that appetite shall respond and dirr,rlon
d" no. lacking Health '1 YOU and ifa
Just long enough
An0ther example ~ tho wear ul.f mo.
o"ding read1 az follows
Tho club viii meet On THr-.dsv eve.
mnS per"mh"r 80 to attend no orsalrrar
~ lgus and 0a.ehrarc tho birth Of ta1a
From credible advlc,. o. BE- an'irinared
thai tho ocrau'n will DO -ienlliyed nv rha
pre- 'ence ~ several literary star. Uho
have hitherto heen prevented BY nrayrn,s
or p'harvtsa from grazing
uur halls IN confederation % tf. nor.
-nnaE"s eyp.. f0d and tho fact that th.y
may want o tain % good doaI o. - possirla
ma ~" Will have COB sflfs some " aur
nri'st" p''aR- ~ eNuIiation and ind.
vidual walls n uuappreria,tve renrus u
j. hoped that moTbsrs Nll lear TIM.
deprivation hrayr'v m 80 far a. u may
Re necessary. reauVng how tho coming
year NAV change rRans 'n walls a.
walls 10 pscans
Aiholgh o." particular business ~ rho
club - 'n 0roupr" s1r.al rn'ar.1Ir..
among author. fh'-" lr. farilitias and a
small reference library Tor those 81. h, 1..
sire o. work m fhe cIubrooms nov ,,,y.
pied Tor seventeen wears m the ,arpeg,.
Binding The library faciIits. here Ar.
limited n course and the univer.tI N.K
YORK cry u what 10 do frr space D., heard.
bat the club has made "Torrs along 90,
sral lines one of which - 10 keep COME.
Of the books written nv neml-rg
Though these books arc Kent IN the
first room 40 entrance 0f the suite ra.drrg
~ them is not compulsory On tho other
hand not long ago when the key m The
department was lot an aNnhDsti1n Wa
advanced that some On" n henefcau,
intention had locked rlp tho hook. ana
thrown away the key thar tho literary
style n the other members might nor h.
vitiated However ~ tho key later reap. .
reared II ~ n he surmisad that th. prs-
caution was IT no avail
In the adjoining room rs tho Interesting
and rapidly growing library ~ literary
biography. rapidly growing 10 the nofnt
Oi the members asking Where uaEr,-
Hopeful nevertheless. making a snar,al
point NJ tins and watching 10 get ali n
can. the club keeps track NJ auctions
sales 81 private collections and all sources
promising additional supplies vt trs
nature
Most interesting and important NJ all
- the valuable collection Il rare hooks
and autographs haaueatbed
20 the club by the late Richard Henry
~ oddarf. first an active and later an
honorary member The most remarka bic
specimen n q copy n Cornelius Agrippa
with what purports 10 he an autoxraph
n Shakespeare on the title mage. faded
almost 90 illegihllity and very ike the
m the second folio edition Of
i,s plays
Mr. Stoddard believed this 70 be one Of
he most extraordinary literary finds n
recent times and the book. 81 an edition
published FIVE years after Shakespeare
birth ~ have bean tho poet = own COPY.
idducing a. evidence an autographed
quotation in ink different from Sha ke-
,peare's autograph written by Hugh