1. Books and Things.
- Author
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Colby, Frank M.
- Subjects
AUTHORS ,POOR people ,SUBSIDIES ,COMMITTEES ,VOCATIONAL guidance ,LITTERATEURS - Abstract
Argues against the proposed subsidizing of deserving poor American authors. Challenges faced by a committee that would decide which author to subsidize; Question on subsidizing another type of person, such as a bank clerk; Difference between saving a person to preserve human life and saving a person to preserve his literary life; Impact of subsidies on the development of real talent or on the selection of the right career; Author's use of his own experience as writer of the book "The Religion of Inexperience" to explain his argument against subsidy.
- Published
- 1916