"Celebrities" have hitherto been valuable to the interviewer, photographer, and proprietor of a Magazine in due proportion. Is it not high time that the Celebrities themselves have a slice or two out of the cake? If they consent to sit as models to the interviewer and photographer, let them price their own time. The Baron offers a model of correspondence on both sides, and, if his example is followed, up goes the price of "Celebrities," and, consequently, of interviewed and interviewers, there will be only a survival of the fittest. _FROM A. SOPHTE SOPER TO THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS._ SIR,--Messrs. TOWER, FONDLER, TROTTING & Co., are now engaged in bringing out a series of the leading Literary, Dramatic and Artistic Notabilities of the present day, and feeling that the work which has now reached its hundred-and-second number, would indeed be incomplete did it not include _your_ name, the above-mentioned firm has commissioned me to request you to accord me an interview as soon as possible. I propose bringing with me an eminent photographer, and also an artist who will make a sketch of your surroundings, and so contribute towards producing a complete picture which cannot fail to interest and delight the thousands at home and abroad, to whom your name is as a household word, and who will be delighted to possess a portrait of one whose works have given them so much pleasure, and to obtain a closer and more intimate acquaintance with the _modus operandi_ pursued by one of their most favourite authors. I remain, Sir, yours truly, A. SOPHTE SOPER. _To the_ BARON DE BOOK-WORMS, _Vermoulen Lodge_. _FROM THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS TO A. SOPHTE SOPER, ESQ._ DEAB SIR,--Thanks. I quite appreciate your appreciation. My terms for an article in a Magazine, are twenty guineas the first hour, ten guineas the second, and so on. For dinner-table anecdotes, the property in which once made public is lost for ever to the originator, special terms. As to photographs, I will sign every copy, and take twopence on every copy. I'm a little pressed for time now, so if you can manage it, we will defer the visit for a week or two, and then I'm your man. Yours truly, BARON DE BOOK-WORMS. _MR. A. SOPHTE SOPER TO THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS._ MY DEAR BARON,--I'm afraid I didn't quite make myself understood. I did not ask _you_ to write the article, being commissioned by the firm to do it myself. The photographs will not be sold apart from the Magazine. Awaiting your favourable response,-- I am, Sir, Yours, A. SOPHTE SOPER. _FROM THE BARON TO A. SOPHTE SOPER._