Show REWARDS OF LITCHATUnB Dlnlr 01 hUn Yarning nhl lb renrs IUOI Ihan titrr Not all of the truly worthy authors of pit times hue been condemned to penury pen-ury and vagabonage Home of them on the contrary have acquired fortunes by ron of the liberal eompentatkm they received < for their work Scott wan paid for one of hli novels at the rate of IMi per day for the lime employed In writing It and hla total I literary earning earn-ing aggregated WW Myron not IMOOO for ChlMe Harold and ilSOOO for Don Juan Moore Hold lalla Ituokh for IUJM and his Irlth Melo dies brought him JIlOW Oray receive only IX for hlo proms and not a cent for the Immortal Elegy out of which 1104 publliher made 11000 but that was brcaui he had an eccentric prejudice against taking money for writing Tennyaon had an annual Income of front IIDOOO lo ISOOW tor many year though In the early part of his career when he wrote Iud and In Jlr morlam ha reallied next lo nothing Longfellow sold hit first beams Including Includ-ing tome of hli brit ones at very low flgurei but he lived to receive 11000 or 10 a line fur the Hanging of the Crane and when ho died he waa worth tUOOOO Whlttler left an eatate of 1700 COO and leveral of the leading American prom wrlteri have done quit aa well These ire eiceptlont It 10 I true but they erne to modify the general rule and to how that In caiwi of auperlor merit Illeraturo has proved to be notably not-ably profitable Ills I afo In ur that tho present rate ot pay for literary work of Rood quality are higher than those of any preceding time and that the number of peraoni who are earning reipectable l Income In that way li I larger than was over before known |