Show Some Authors 0 Full Name I Seeing Bret HartcM name on the title page of his latest book the oUter day recalled to me how general had become the habit with authors of dropping one of their surnames How odd Francis Bret Hartc sounds for example yet such Is Uie author baptismal name Jlayan Taylors first name was James only a leW others than Wllkle Collins Intimate frelda I Imagine know that his name f really William Wllkle Colling and to f 1 Uio case with many others Austin Dobnon was Henry Austin Doloon before he took up literature and Edmund I William uosse I today known only to tho world by hU first and last names Henry It Haggard funds strange L thousands of ears who know Elder Haggard Ilrandcr Matthews was clinstenci James Ilrander Mathews and Dutlleld Ooborne I In reality Samuel Sam-uel Dufflcld Oilwrne Laurence Hutton is f contraction of James Laurence Hutton and Howard Secley Is Edward Howard Seeley Jr Frank Stockton is really 1 Francis Fran-cis Richard Stockton while Joatjuin Miller is i a corruption of Clncln nstus Hiner Miller The principal reason for this contraction of names I Imagine is that one surname Is undoubtedly more striking find easier rememberel by the public than two JltAf literary Jjcarfi |