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Show Modern Literary Cbftncea. The aspirant for literary honors with pecuniary remuneration ehould remember remem-ber that the meet famous names in the literary guild earned their money for the most part in other than literary ways. Bryant was an editor and publisher. Longfellow and Holmes and Lowell were Harvard professors. Emerson and Bayard Bay-ard Taylor were lecturers, and Taylor was also a Tribune editor. Curtis and Stoddard depend upon editorial salaries; Stedman is a broker, and Holleck was John Jacob Astor's private secretary. And one might go further with this list. Whittior began as an editor, and only in middle life attempted to lean on literature litera-ture alone for a support which his early savings and simple habits mado possible. It was always Longfellow's advice to - young mon who wished to be literary to have first, and mainly, a vocation inde- pendent of the finer muse. If a young writer thinks he possessos genius he may of courso experiment with it. but it will servo his pui-so and peace of inind better to secure some source of labor and income in-come that i3 more philiatine and worldly , und ride hid Pegasus only at inspired intervals. in-tervals. For it is a fact, in spito of the occasional big figures that are given as tho result of literary work, pure and simple, that tho mon who prosper or have prospered by that alone ore only, at any one time, a few dozen in number among our sixty-five millions of people. Ladies' Homo Journal. |