Show pension for authors by a curious curl aus c 0 of fate to te william 11 Bf allock who pho wrote Is lite life worth Ll living ying Is among the authors tal pe pla cedon the british civil pension list alst according to botho the most re cent announcement An another recipient of government bounty la bady murray Mur rity widow of sir James Murray who edited the oxford dictionary dr thomas ross roes the tramp poet J comyns carr the dramatist who translated madame sling sans gene ll 11 and mrs aray amy bullent bullen widow of the author a of the cruise or of the i cachalot and other oth er sea stories I 1 are also oh tho list TO bo be eligible elij ible to the pension the recipient cl must m t bavo ha r 0 been eminent in except la in the case of a de pendent ent and notwithstanding that payment la is a form of charity there Is never a dearth of applicants tho uncertainty of the rewards of literature Is nowhere better illusto illustrated than biln la in the case ca ae of doctor murray Bl urray j of the most eminent philologists of 11 saim who gave many years yeara to the perfection of LIE ills great work but died poor |