12 SEPTEMBER 1935, Page 6

One point in the answer made by Lady Haig to

the suspensory interdict laid on the publication of her biography of her husband is of more than personal in- terest,the statement that a Sunday paper paid £10,000 for the right of publishing portions of Mr. Duff Cooper's official life of Lord Haig in advance. That,.of course, is no abnormal sum. The price for the serial publication of Mr. Lloyd George's memoirs ran, I believe, to more than twice that figure. The fact is that the popular Press has completely changed the financial basis of publishing, so far as a certain type of biography is concerned, for both publisher and author. Whether the purchaser gets any- thing out of it in the shape of a lower published price for the volume is not so certain.

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