Shorter notices
The Author's Empty Purse and the Rise of the Literary Agent James Hepburn (out, 25s). The complaints of authors through the ages are carefully examined and often found justified. Some fascinating sketches of the early agents, A. P. Watt and Curtis Brown, and of the authors with whom they dealt. Perhaps the people who come best out of this witty and informed study are the publishers, most maligned of all in the authors' pandemonium.
Dearest Mama; Letters between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864 edited by Roger Fulford (Evans Bros 63s). Mr Fulford is an admirably sympathetic and scholarly editor. The letters retain their fascina- tion, shedding light on two remarkable charac- ters, and increasing our understanding of the.. way in which Prussia emerged, between 1860 and 1870, as the dominant partner in a. triumphant, new confederate Germany.
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