LITERARY GOSSIP
... . Mr. Edward H. Cooper has been proposing in the columns of the Daily Mail an interesting self-denying ordinance; that is to say, the majority of our novelists should abstain for a period of five years from adding a more to the immortal literature of their country. I am afraid such a proposal is exceedingly quixotic, not to say Utopian. There is not the slightest likelihood that any of the men ...