Show BOKS LITERARY LEAVES the comte ile dc paris to write ivi ditc itc another book on america HE WILL SKETCH US AS WE HOW ARE A literary critics nob burdettee nur Burd deitos ettes bright son the boy of his father A authors no Ro vennon of anglish an all ebors why I 1 english helmli authors Aut liora can make moro more money out oat of their books than american authors Tatu estimate of A priced writer copyright b by the ak kyndl t p pan no voak yorka arv tr w YOUR nov 10 1890 the comte do da paris has baa sailed galled away but bo be has bus left ion behind him a literary contract tor for a book of 0 american impressions which lie ho told a few friends ho he expected to write upon his return to london froni from what I 1 learned it ts is not dot to bo be a pretentious nork ork but rather 2 small volume called america re revisited is or america twenty five years v after tho the war and will contain tho the coates comtes personal opinion 0 of our growth grow th aa a nation and iho marvelous changes that he sees in our condition as a people since he was wai in this country a captain on meridians M staff lie has 3 been assiduous in gathering mater material lot I 1 for this work and also verifying other f facts acts for his bis incomplete work on the history of the llon the count Is s perhaps one ot of the few great mon men of tho the old world who have always believed in america and americans and his book Is likely to pro 0 pleasant reading since hip hl visit to tills fill country he has met only a tow few literary lights ile iio has been extremely careful in tho the expression of his opinions about our literature our politics etc reserving all these for his contemplated work A MAXS I 1 heard beard a tunny funny little story about a well knevin kno n literary critic the other day which illustrates a a point A liter literary nry periodical sent him a sot set of advance sheets of a certain book by a very famous author for a hollday holiday review the critic had an intense hatred for the author anthor of the book slid and hl hi review was wai highly colored ith his big personal pors onal prejudice but so au honest criticism was wait devised and the re review low palsied poa ird the editorial gauntlet gauntlet tho the following day abc versatile vers atilo critic received a 6 letter from another well known publishing house w aich was also going to brenir out in an edition ot of tho the same work asking it mr air would write a brief preface to tile lie book A most tempting amount was wa specified at as compensation now kow literary critics aroas a rule not dot overstocked over stocked w alth ILL wealth and tills this Is especially true of tho the re lelewer lower lewer of this story lih itil scarcely scarce lythe the ink dry of the ro boilow lew in which ho he toro up the abo author fore and aft this versatile man of letters sat down wrote a most eulogistic preface 0 of f book and anthor and next day had a comfortable check in his vest pocket and yet there aro are people who he refuse to believe that literature Is a trade DOR BOB BRIGHT SOV SOT bob bordello Bur dotte the humorist has a very bright son who Is ili truly Is a chip of the old block ile ho has the same name as his big father and Is proud of both name and parent young robert it Is 10 but has a very keen relish for humor burner and literary work when his father decided that it was necessary tor for him to have a den in lich to work young robert tell felt tho the necessity also in his bis case accordingly thero there aro are two dons in tho the pretty bryn maur four home ortho of the limmor humorist idt and in ono one of thern them works tho the future detto of humor and wisdom jo ile has in it all tho the editorial implements around him of a newspaper office and each week publishes 1 a paper tor for his bis o own on n amusement oh its complete laughingly SAM said his father lo 10 mo recently aly io ile runs a regular news department of dispatches has a marine column and b r edior in regular shape but tho ilia part of which ho he Is mot proud Is his funny column a anil nd ebli ile ho writes rites m himself oil oh my yes yea laughl ukly concluded the genial dob bab bo be Is 14 quite a humorist I 1 toll tell you it fairly carls him to carry all hl his humor around with him A ACT nona INCOME I 1 wa was reading an artiche a few days ago about some engleh authors who i ur vear from their literary work when a literary friend friand dropped lit in and wo we began talking of the tha article I 1 had jort laid saide yov now this gentleman lias has a literary reputation known to every american reader and itis now the as asor lale editor of 0 onn one a of k our best bert known knan magazines maga z ines and a s staff a editor on a weekly periodical talking of literary profit said my friand just take toy roy own caso cage I 1 suppose I 1 am what Is accepted by tho literary world As a successful author parlor during the ast t icar ear of my general literary work I 1 sold everything I 1 arrole wrote and I 1 I 1 wrote quite a deal one month I 1 had bad the leading illustrated articles in tour four magaLl magazines nes tile Cent century Har harples poes st SL Nicho nicholett latt and the since defunct altert earn can the same week of tho the issuance of these magazines I 1 hail articles in ili three leading lo cs harpers weekly the christian union and of chicago chigo ca go so ou oil see my work was well around now what was my actual in come that year tho the most successful ito in III all my literary career not 00 lor for the he entire year and I 1 sold enough manuscripts to the magazines to last the following yourl what you have bavo boon reading may or may not bo be true wha I 1 havn have just told you Is my own ex per fence INCOMES or OF ENGLISH A aud u d I 1 know personally as a positive fact arct thai several foreign authors have bava an actual income of per year from their writings writing but they ibey are of cent course those authors who are constantly writing I 1 know for In instance stanco that marion crawford craw ford makes fully that amount from his novels and so does william black As I 1 think I 1 said in a pren pre ions letter rider haggard cleared that sum stint from his writings last year thomas hardy may not reap but blithe he certainly makes a year and there are others who could bo named why is it that english writers hao ill these incomes because Ji thoa the have bavo tile the vast colo colonies oles of their kingdom to look I 1 to 0 which the american author has baa not the american author bag baa practically one market from chho can tecaro M curo any positive or lal sod and that Is his bis own tho the english author sells lis his english rights his big indian rights his australian rights his canadian rights and then often it if he bo is very popular and clover clever gets a bite of the american apple and before he ba doo does all ali this he ha sells fells his to koono ot tile the english enell h syndicates tor for biow 1000 top for serial publications in tho the why the tha english author cani can draw his bow farther than lils brother and more bodges it too NEW gossip IV IN cuttles CUt CLES sirs mrs A D T whitney a next hytlon tion a story of a quiet now england neighborhood m will ill bavo tor for its butlo A golden goo Goss gossip I 1 lp p A new juvenile by harriot harriet prescott Pr cscott spofford Sp olTon the lost jewel Is to be b bissu issued I 1 in boston for the holidays holiday akers the author of rock rack me MB to sleep mother Is now a resident of new york until this unto she has ched in now new jersey miss marietta Al arletta holley better known as josiah allens aliens blo will shortly be I 1 in ti now york to make her usual win ter visit to tile tho metropolis A well posted ported literary man told mo me recently that elizabeth stuart phelps gets higher prices for her bor work than any literary woman and be fill did trot not except mrs barnett either cither her income nifty may not bo be as largo as that of mrs It li but her individual prices are ar as high if not higher said bald my loy informant I 1 was talking to dr talmage a few evenings ago and ho he said it wasa turning point with mo me when in wyn loups knoll s book store in syracuse many years ago when a youth I 1 picked out front from among a heap of books a volume koluma entitled the beauties of ruskin 1 it was only a book of extracts but it was all ivere honey and I 1 was until I 1 had purchased all of Husk lna works and what a heaven I 1 wont went throb th roligh gli tit in reading his I 1 seven lamps of and his Sto stones ngi of venice it is impossible imhof elble for mo me to describe ex capt that it gave me ma a rupture rapture lor for rood good books and an everlasting disgust tor for decrepit or immoral books that will last iu no while I 1 live edward W dorm BOK |