Show methods of several novelists our own matchless hawthorne was a labored writer As a general thing he wrote only what would amount to a few pages a week using for his manuscript the ordinary letter sied paper fre he would wrice only a few lines during the same space of time it was no unusual thing for him to go to his chamber and take his pen to compose only to find himself wholly unable to perform any literary work I 1 fancy thia trait of character to be a peculiarly of genius in the case of bryant though in reality the sum total of liis poetry might be included in a swall volume so few are his lyrics we cannot fail to be impressed with the truth of the statement when we are told that even cheso few gems of verse cost our later wadsworth hard toil to bring into being and endow with the splendor of immorality william dean our really most representative living novelist and indisputably a man of genius confesses without a blush that he is unable to write but some three hours in of a day and he toils as laboriously over his manuscript as if it were a piece of actual dougery dru gery bret harte whose creations read as if they had come from his brain without flaw or hindrance showing brilliancy of thought with the grace of an artist ia yet another writer who passes days and weeks upon a short story or poem before he is ready to deliver it into the hands of the printer which speaks volumes of praise for the author of tha most strikingly original productions in prose and verse which have ever come before the reading public ica york sar |