Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1919 — Why American Publishers Are Liked. [ARTICLE]

Why American Publishers Are Liked.

Turn back to the magazines of 20 or 30 years ago and compare them with what is thought good enough for us. I was looking through such a magazine recently and found a poem by Swinburne, a. prose romance bV William Morris, ahd much else of a quality you would no more think of looking for in a current magazine than for palm trees in Whitechapel. It is different in America; in spite of gross business instincts, o’* because of them, they dd turn out magazines which are good to look at, and very often good to read; for American editors think nothing of paying a sum for a short story which, to mention to a London editor, would make him feel as if something snapped in his head. He wouldn't understand. The consequence is the best English writers send their wares first to the American market, where they are better displayed and get a better price.—London Nation.