, 1873-03-23

Tilom the novelist Na4 tahen euc0 az alueuk
fancy that be invited him to spend the summer
at bis country house. While he WAS staying
there, his host, then engaged on the plot and
characters of "Our Mutual Friend made q
study Of lis guest, and reproduced him in Eugene
Nrayburn 1t is asserted that, the journalist had
no idea at the time that he WAS sitting for his
intellectual portrait, and that neither he nor any
of his friends hare eince beea able to recognize
the original in the copy.
SEEING OURSELVES As TIERS SEE Cs.
We appear so different to others from what wa
do to ourselves, that it ia not singular We fail to
regard Us correct tho impressions and opinions
o-4n ed by our associates. A well-known author
of this city published 4 novel, not long ago, in
which he introduced seyeral OF his acquaintance.
One OF tile characters go true to the life that
number Of the authors intimates felt confident
1t would give grave ofrense to the person delin-
Gated. The litteratcur hnd no such fear; he
aTen declared the man in question would not de-
tect tho resemblance, and made wager to that
effect. To test the matter, half-a-do2en OF tho
writer's friends, including the character, met him
atluncheon, where the book, by & preconccrted
arrangement, came up for discussion and crit-
icEm. Tho person who had reason to be ag-
gr!eyed spoke quite fayorably Of the volume; but
took exception to his representative, pronounc-
ing it unnatural, and altogether too mean g man
to live. The nuthor's vanity being hurt by the
eevero cenEuro he told the critic, in q burst Of
malignant candor, "Why copfound you! that
man who is too mean to live is an exact counter
part OF yourself" At this the critic lauGhod
heartily, declaring it the best joke the novelist
had ever gotten off. ::
What probability is there, after that, Of our
discovering ourselves in even the slightest dis
guiee OF printers ink? 1t is never quite safe
Ter any Of US to frequent the study Of story
consciously, the lookout for living material.
We may get into their minds, involuntarily on
their part, and 60 photograph ourselves there
that they can hardly help reproducing us insome
and then that men or women are so used by
artists OF the pen, and for the reason that the
great ma to,ity Of people are devoid OF iudivld~
nality. Persons frequently imagine they have
been subjects when they not; and their &C
quaintances, moreover, ndPrint ed resenblances
that have no existence outside OF the fancy.
I might Damc in this city han-a-dozen 60
called originals Enghahsnsn) Of M1ln9 ,sl M,csw .x
character in their pomposity and borrowing, but
not otherwise. Other Fepoted-to-bo characters
of Dickens have encountered and yet ven
ture to say he never saw one Of them in all his
life.
AZ rule, noyelists borrow their characters
from their scquni1ltanccs; but it is questionable
il the men and women they take from Ifo are
those they obtain credit for. They do not copy !;
they get suggestions: draw iaferonees, and so,
by ret1ous processes, make up their entirety.
FINANCIAL EDITORS
are almost the only newspaper writer's who ever
make any money. Their salaries nre not large
not larger than those i'll other departments.
The highest price paid to any of them here is
SIS week, and 7 think only two receive SO
much as that.-570 to $50 being the general
zhte in the leading morning journals, while, on
the other dallies, it is not over S25 to $50 per
Teek- Their incomes are not reGu1atc1 how
ever, by their salaries, but by what they manage
to make on the street.
Many OF them soon acquire pecunlary inde-
pendenco, End oven more. Snow, for years
financial editor OF Tho Tribune, died not long
His successor, ". T. Clark, died two years ago
in Genoa having acquired nearly S500,00o. Tie
present financial editor Of the same paper, John
D. Cleveland, Horace Grceley's brother-in- law,
might fill tho place for the remainder OF his life
aud be no better of than lie now is.
William Hudson, brother of Frederick urd-
son, tho ex-1nanager OF the Herald, had tho
1eputation of having 1rado, in a few years,
$3.50, 600 Is controller of the money column OF
$25 week. john Bonner, in the same place
afrerward, achieved handsome Independence.
end il now g wealthy stocE-broker in Broad
greet.
Ereni:g Express, and other dailies arc reputed
to have laid the base Of fortunes through their
professional duties. They may not hayo dono
anything Of the Kind Common report being, a5
al know. tho commonest Of liars often), bur
they could get credit OIL the widely entertained be-
lief. Everybody expects financial editor to grow
rlch or what would be called outside OF tho Me-
tropolis- II he does not, there are those ready
to proclaim linn fool If he does, the very
fRno persons are equally ready to suspect his in
tESrrIty. TINT the Tnlftiny, v1nt
Bile after ell.
-. The place is earnestly sought after, though
there is slender prospect Of any outsider getting
1t: 1t IS frequently T. regarded as something to
holder. or the friends of some of tho stock
holders. Tie managing editor never appoints
the financial editor; tlat power belongs to tue
editor-in-chief. During Ills life, Horace Gree
the Herald, James Gordon Bennett chooses on
the World Manton Marble; on the Times,
George Jones; on the Erening Post, William
aullen Bryant; and go On. I know men who
t<on on some leading daily, and, albeit they still
hope they have very little, ii nny, Cause for on
couragement.
fs told of two prosperous merchants in Neat
lBcoaawar Ono of them was married, rather
t1ate in life, some two years ago. and, after he
|snd his wife Iad gone to housekeeping, he in
..sited his fellow-merchant to pay them a visit.
Iho latter went, and was much pleased with the
|new wife, who appeared to be very young. They
grew to be firm friends. He told her
he could not resist the conviction that be had
Eeen her before, at which she laughed, and said
That was the impression obtained from all gym
pathetic natures, Their cordial relations contin-
Etaed for good while, and one day, the mercan-
9lo adirer received letter from an intimate in
lboston informing him that his friend had, some
R'fae before, married an eccentric woman, HRS.
-, who had the reputation OF being several |
1ames divorced This set the adualrer TO think |
2ng and tracing out circumstances. within his
,9nowicose; me result Was, he discovered be-
friend, had, soven years before. been his own |
Es1s. from whom hs had obtained leQsl diyoroe |