Scribner's magazine . The Author Exploiting his Own Works. white screens in our own homes. Scenesdescribed in works of fiction and ro-mances of adventure will be imitatedby appropriately dressed figurants andimmediately recorded. We shall alsohave, by way of supplement to the dailyphonographic journal, a series of illus-trations of the day, slices of active life,so to speak, fresh cut from the shall see the new pieces and theactors at the theatre, as easily as wemay already hear them, in our ownhomes ; we shall have the portrait, and,better still, the very play of counte-nance, of fa
Scribner's magazine . The Author Exploiting his Own Works. white screens in our own homes. Scenesdescribed in works of fiction and ro-mances of adventure will be imitatedby appropriately dressed figurants andimmediately recorded. We shall alsohave, by way of supplement to the dailyphonographic journal, a series of illus-trations of the day, slices of active life,so to speak, fresh cut from the shall see the new pieces and theactors at the theatre, as easily as wemay already hear them, in our ownhomes ; we shall have the portrait, and,better still, the very play of counte-nance, of famous men, criminals, beau-tiful women. It will not be art, it is 230 THE E\D OF BOOKS. The Romance of the Future.(With Kinetoscopic Illustrations.) time, but at least it will be life, naturalunder all its make-up, clear, j)recise,and sometimes even cruel. It is evident, I said, in closing thistoo vague sketch of the intellectual lifeof To-morrow, *that in all this there will be sombre featuies nowunforeseen. Just as oculistshave multij^lied since theinvention of journalism, sowith the phonography yetto be, the aurists will beginto abound. They will finda way to note all the sen-sibilities of the ear, and todiscover names of morenew auricular maladies thanwill really exist ; but no23rogress has ever beenmade without changing theplace of some of our ills. Be all this as it may, Ithink that if books have adestiny, that destiny is onthe eve of being accom-plished ; the printed bookis about to disappear. Af-ter us the last of books,gentlemen! This after-supper prophe-cy had some little successeven among the most scep-tical of my indulgent lis-teners ; and John Pool hadthe ge
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