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;^ '} i Shaw ft«|iiMst to W^ F4 TradePur .Wells kp4 Bennett Enunciate the £t}u< Their ProfeMioi London.â€" What U almost < «» lectjmized as a de.,i.;u •fa new and admirable sta •ttics for all honorable wri ?\ i'^"'"® '" general 1 stated by Arnold Bennett. H «nd George Bernard Shav J>«ve outlined a creed in wh own assessment of their respe 10 their profession and to th ten hardly fail, in the judg con petent critica, to raise an, iy establish the entire field o on a higher plane. The opportunity which the' >fruei3 have seized to defir â- ' ""itude and their own estim: their place in rational and ' tir.nai hfo was supplied tKroi bridge head of the grcit depi store of Harrod's in London. KEQUEST TO AUTIIOIi Sir Woodman's positien was I tl.oug.i Harrod's and other gre- jnucial enterprises nre able to *he best ad'.Y.rtising talent an •rtists, as well as architects Clans, and oti.ers of the profe classes, they had not had th Story of their growth, their ar complexity and ramifications, a romance of inJustry in ge.-era 8e.nted to the public as these writers would be capable of pi ing It. He thereupon wrote to they would lend their pens in s manner. Ail three dedircd, and in reasoned replies is found a stai •Rhich IS recognized as a noble wept of ideals which lesser w may strive to reach. Replving t argument that a writer is a si professional who should place hi' «nt at the services of commercia terpnse, Mr. Wells said: 'takes HI.M.SELF SERIOUSl • "The answer is that, rightlj ^'ongly, the writer takes hir more seriously than that. In his h he casses ^luself not with the art but With ii)fi4«ach/rs and the pn and prophets. *iat may be an v»w. and it ma^> going out of "We all believe, of ouTfcenerat aeep m our foundations, thaWur t paymaster o-ight to be the readJ>r- iive on sales to readers and we dc •cceptfees. fher. is. we feel, an : Plieit rnd-.standing between wri and rq^aer to that effect " WrKhaw prefcced his refuwl w _an a^vjnt of the > -.j^ j, poV;>nient-rttfB-Uag fefceTplace ,^'journaiistic s andards since he fir began to white. Of the use of t! best professional talent aside f- jrriters with established reputa' he says: WILLAIS STARTS CUSTO "When Millais was at the of his fame as a painter a ve- lar picture of hi,., represent" httle boy blowing bubbles. by the firm of Pear's, ^•eproduced as an adve Academy was shock' took no notice; the a Ipn enormous vogue;' entered on its presen it is a matter oi co Cial firms to empio\ fcrtlstic and liter? tise their wares is no reason on hot, and every , now that the i. much more impo tine of productio- AUBREY BE. Mr. Shaw th Beardsley de first play a* thing ques' mission tl Academy next one. if I were John Ervint •t.at in the i my play being be usefully quo. I should be prep , right from them f.. Heaven knows what, Probably both gentlcm to notice my play ai ll 7 why. "^y all means let r Muses engage skilled scribes ... to write t intmts as sjch. But a â-  befn consecrated bj f.n Vice of the public, and h. P'ophet as well as auth yr^ees in no other servi, < MR. BENNfiTT'S •lightly different ground there is not nei-ess.milv reason why he should rot t>nt doubts whether worth- lie opinion would sanction u lin the part of writers whom it co. â-  In a sense, he said to have made Vr„| ttmludes: "The reason i. /v, » .t opinion in mu!:tVot ^.I'rfl'H •PPove the employment of Zm\1\ ^S^''' ""''''" »» ^vhom^t has fp^icilyr^iJ^^^^^^^ «»st, .nd I wm „;; Zi !t„ «>P'°'o» Cwwt op:ni<m.,ln th, short time ^.