Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-03
LETERAHY NoTEs

Edmund C. stedman is hard at work re-
Nising and collecting his poems, oldand new,
for complete edition in one volume, 20 be
published by j. r. OSgood * Co, in Octo-
ber lie IS also at work with his fellow
poet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, on two vol
umes to be made up of the minor pieces of
Walter Savage Iandor, with critical intro
duction.
In London literary circles We note that
b. L. Farieon, the clever author Of - Grit,
.' london's Heart" and other successful
novels, has four stories in hand, all intended
for publication in the form Of Christmas an
nuals Anthony Trollope has no less than
three novels on the stocks for the one now
running in the London Graphic he receives
$4,000, while the copyright, which he re-
/ tains, is worth s. ,000more. Shirley Brooks,
the editor of Punch, has begun new novel.
as have also Rhoda Broughton aud Edmund
Yates
Probably the sickest man since the days when
! llezekiah turned his face to the wall and
wept sore is the author George Augustus
Sala, who, according 10 the London Medical
Times, Is - suffering from an etythematous
affection, which, however, has yielded to the
local application of the stypic colloid and
the use Of iaTadisation.'
Biornson. the Norwegian novelist and
| poet, makes nothing by his books, and gets
/ but $3.50 a year as minister ola small parish.
which th2 government refuses to Increase
/ lie Is coming 10 America We should think
he would come 4 hod carrier in this coun-
try realizes more than twice as much
money.
The new book which Mr. Motley has in
press is entitled '' Life and Death of John
/ Of Baneyeld, including the History of the
! Primary Causes and Movements of the Thir-
/ ty Years War" \ quotation from Mr.
Motlcy's United Netherlands defines the
scope of the work There was at thi,
moment Q5S5) one Netherlander, the chie
of the mission to Queen Elizabeth already
the foremost statesman of his country, who's
name will not soon be eliaced from the re
cords of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turtles. That man was John Of Olden Bane
weld"
On the New York Tribune the principa
leader writers, like Colonel John Hay. John
r. G. Hassard Noah Brooks, +. Charles Cong
don and Isaac Ii. Bromley, get seventy-iiv,
dollars a week; 50 does John F. Cleveland
financial editor William F. c. Shanks, til,
city editor, receives sixty dollars n week
Charles Wykof, the day editor, House, tn,
foreign editor, and Stearns, the night edi
tor. fifty dollars a week; and other salarie-
are in proportion.
The Independent used to pay Theodor,
| Tilton. when he was its editor, s. 800 pei
annum, and after its publisher, Henry c
Bowen. purchased the Brook lyn Union h,
made Tilton's salary As editor of the Union
s. 500 also. yielding the duplux chief SIS,
coo per annum-the highest salary paid t,
any journalist in America. Bowen AM
Tilton as everybody knows, h@d a serious
disagreement, resulting in Tilton resigning
his position-frst, from the Independent ,anC
few weeks after from the Union. Bowen
who now Gnnounces himself in the hide
pendent as the editor, publisher and proprie
tor, gives his real editor, the Rev. William
Hayes Ward, $4,000 a year the Rev
Washington GLADDEN. $1,000, and two OIL
three other clerical gentlemen connected
with the editorial department $4,000 each.
Roberts Bros. have in press a new revised
edition of Hamerton's - Thoughts about
Art" uniform with - The Intellectual Life
an American edition of " Records of Q
Quiet Life with an introduction by the
Rev. W. L. Gage-and Flammarion's - Sto-
ries of lnfnity," translated from the French
by 5. r. Crocker, editor of The Liferars
World. For poetry. they will publish
&" Songs from the Southern Seas" by John
Boyle O'Reilly; and a new, illustrated. red
line edition of Jean Ingelow. with her por
trait on steel.