Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-29

laugh, "now we're married" Easy,
isn't it?
They have terrible troubles, inciud-
ing dyspepsia. Thyrsis concludes that
all their sufferings should be placed be-
fore the public in detail, for the pub
lies northumberland the public
doesn't have any troubles of its own.
He also thinks it just as well to place
before the public all the verse they
have in the house, which is a large
quantity. Mr.. Sinclair Is as prodigal
of his verse as he is of suffering. Inc
feeling that the reader has In reading
the book Is that 1t is a "half-fanciful
half-true story of Mr.. Sinclair's life.
1t is startling in itsl fidelity to truth,
but it falls far short of emancipatinS
woman.
Like the hero and heroine Of Cell
bacy." if Corydon and Thyrsis had been
different kind of people-a little Dit
more discipline, a whole lot more of
common-sense-their love (they must
have known what it meant, for Mr.. SIN
clair analyses 1t to the last grain for
them) would have brought them hap
piness. AS it was, it was very seldom
that their souls tipped the scales on an
exactly even beam. We are sorry Mr..
sinclair's name wasn't Dante. He
would have gotten a whole lot out of
the Inferno that Dante never got.
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Seven Ages of a Modern Manuscript
IT is ALMOST POSSIBLE TO SAY
that the novel of a successful author
has seven lives-or more properly,
seven ages. There are six, at any
rate. In the first place, almost every
author, in writing a book, writes with
a view to its use as a serial. The
first serial rights, therefore, are first
to be considered.
It has been a mooted question as to
whether the reading public likes to read
serials. Many people object to them
because of the period of time thai
elapses between ach instalnlent. A
serial which, published as a book, k
but a few hours to read, coversa period
of six months in its magazine form.
Many magazines, you will notice, never
publish serials; some of them discon-
tinue the serial habit now and then;
and 1t Is said that still others, who
make a constant practise of publishing
serials, do so against their own judg-
ment.
Viewing the matter from the COM
mercial standpoint alone the author
decidedly prefers the serial. He may
be very uncertain as TO the success of
his book as a book, but II he can dis
pose of the serial rights that much is
certain. 1t is said that authors whose
reputation justifes them in SO doing
will ask their publishers to take the
serial rights and pay for them spot
cash, in addition to paying a royalty
on the book. This results often In the
publishing house selling the serial to
the. magazine, instead of a direct sale
to the magazine by the author. :
1t is believed, however, that serials
by particularly big men aid materially
in boosting the circulation of q maya
zine. If you watch the purchasers of
a certain Philadelphia weekly you will
find that invariably they turn to the
serial before reading anything else
contained therein. However, assume
that an author has first written his
book, and, after writing it, has dis
posed of the serial rights. what next?
This subject Of the seven ages of a
modern manuscript will be continued
next Saturday