Way to Write a Short Story "The collar-button jumped from his hands and fell with a remote, half-earthly sound. He paused, with no inclination tio swear, only to wonder.. Well, perhaps it wanted to be free, after all jolly little beggar it looked, too, leaping across the floor, he thought. It rolled across a long spear of sunlight, and, for a perceptible instant, dazzled him. Then the shadow took it. Under the dressing-table was it? Well, it should scon see, by Jove! He stooped, but still good humoured-ly; no need to be harsh. One acted within that something or other—what was it Isabel would say? Oh, bother, he douldn't be clear-cut in his thoughts with the sun shining in that jolly way on his hair-tonic,. and the sky as blue as blue—and Isabel—ah, that was the meaning of things!
The collar-button. subdued now but twinkling still, lay in_ his hand. - Hard, bright, round it looked, like a note of music."
"This is the way to write a short story in England, now," says the "Times Literary Supplement." "Not a new way, since it derives from Henry James, and is diluted according to the strength acquired, but much in fashion. The idea is to concentrate on the _trivial—which is alleged to be difficult—and show it to be the significant thing in art. Everyone is doing it, with varying degrees of success."
Tur Ex-Kaiser's Memorns.
One of the largest deals of our time, in a literary way, has just been made in regard to the ex-Kaiser's memoirs. They have been bought at between £50,000 and £55,000 for world publication, outside Germany, by the old American house of Harper. The Harpers are interested in the book which they will publish in America, while other firms will issue it elsewhere. They have also acted for a syndicate of newspapers, in which the memoirs will appear serially.
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