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Show ar.lt-i AelLon nalvrna. It may bo InUrwIln to know bow literary men fare, both In Franco and Uermnny, In tho flrat namtil conntry anthora bnvo certainly uot inncli cauno for complaint. Mine, do Qcnlt reci Ivcd I.C(firher"iIraoIra,"La.rocntiild llvrangrr tb90 for fifty of hla "(Janaon Noni ellea," and twenty poun Ja for each aucceulrepoeiuitboBainnpublltlierg4o L.iinartliio -.".,000 for ono edition of hla work, an 1 iubiuenlly tl,i,W for hu "C'hnte d'nn Ange," whllo lilt "IlUtoIro ilea UlromlloV brought him 10,000, Thla ajtiio amount wua paid to Thlir fur Ma "IlUtoIro du Comulat et do 1 Empire." Em-pire." It la a well known fact, too, that modem author ill-nono now of their vorktatfubulout price. Iu Ucnnnny, boweur, thioga are by far not o flour Uhlng. Iu I.nthera tlinoicvcn pence per print I pno w aa conaiderul to Im a bigu figure, Voaa wna obliged to uffi r hla celebrated trnuxlatlon cf lloiner direct to tho pub Ho fornix ahtlllngs per olnme bixauso no tiublishtr would pay Mm that lam. Wlelaud rtccirM firo florin per jago from Urol. Greunir Ss Co., in Zurich, fur hta "Koiulatbo l.rxahlntigeii," and Klopatock'a "JK-f-lah" fetched alx ahtl. Ilnga .'r printed juge, Schiller, ami filtlally (Joctlio, fured mulIi liettcr lu that napn-t. Cotta, tho publiiher, paid (JC-clho JL 1 5,000 for u complete eilltlou of hi work, and moreover bongbt the ciipyrlght from Ooeibe'a belra fori..',. 000. Tliero li atlll, however, a groat dlf. furcnco in the amount paid to niodirn ncnmiu author compared to thrlr more foituuato I!mrllih and Trench confrere. Jnllguitnl Menaenger, |