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Show Prices Received by Authors. These are some of the prices that authors have recolved for works now famous: Goldsmith, Gold-smith, 20 for "The Traveller," 00 for "The Vicar of Wakefield" and 100 for "Tho Deserted De-serted Village;" Fielding, 1,000 for ! "Amelia" and 2,200 for "Tom Jones;" Dr. Johnson, 123 for "Rasselaa;'' Macaulay, 0,000 for tho "History of England;" Bos-well, Bos-well, 1,000 for the "Life of Johnson ;n Dry-den, Dry-den, 1,200 for his translation of Virgil; George Eliot, 2,000 for "Romola," and never less than 1,600 for any novel, it is j said; Walter Scott, 700 for tho first Waver- j levs and large sums for later ones, with 1 S,000 for "Woodstock" and 18,000 for tho "Lifo of Napoleon;" Zola, $S0 for his first story and $30,000 for "L'Assommoir;" WUkie Collins, 5,000 for "Armadaio;" Milton, 15 for "Paradise Lost;" Byron, 3,000 for "Don Juan" aud 4,000 for "ChUde Harold;" Moore, 3,000 guineas for "Lalla Rookh" and 15,000 for "Irish Melodies;" Campbell, 20 for "Pleasures of Hope;" Burns, 20 for tho first edition of his works and 700 for tho last; Poe, 520 for "The Raven;" Longfellow, $4,000 ($20 a line) for tho "Hanging of the Crane," the highest price ever paid for a poem; Whittier, .jO0 for tho copyright of his works, which he afterward bought back for 1,200; Tennyson, $12 a lino for "R-vengo." "R-vengo." Now York Sun. |