Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-07-30

Rejected Manuscripts,

AuLlOIS nave nara time TO ma pup
fishers before they win reputation and
their works become famous.
Thackeray carried his "Vanity Fair "
to nearly score Of publishers before its
merits were discovered, and Charlotte
Bronte" had q similar experience with
"Jane Eyre"
Kinglake could find no one willing to
take "Eothen," one of the most Gle.
gantly.written works of our century, and
finally made it a present to q publisher,
after frankly stating his bad luck.
Anthony Trollope, who has accumu-
lated q fortune by his popular novels,
received only $66 for his first years
labors in literature, and 800 for the
second.
Mr.. Motley's great book, "The Rise
Of the Dutch Republic" was declined
by Mr.. Murray, " with compliments and
thanks" and Carlyle's "French Revo-
luton was returned with the same
courtly refusal. .
Even Lord Macaulay had two or three
articles returned from the Edinburgh
Review. This, however, was not due to
their want Of merit, or to the editors
failure to discern it, but solely to the
jealousy Of Lord .Brougham. Any
young writer who hopes to win fame or
fortune without hard struggles may cool
his enthusiasm by thinking Of such re-
pulses.
The Man with Glass Eye.
As train on the Kansas Pacific
pulled away from the Sixteenth street
depot, few mornings since, a tall,
angular specimen Of humanity took q
seat opposite lady passenger, and, to
all appearances, was intently engaged
in studying her face. At first the lady
treated the rudeness with good-natured
Indifference. But at last it began to
tell on her nerves. It was a curious
and astonishing piece of impertinence.
He apparently had the faculty Of look
ing two ways at once. One Of his eyes
was restless, excited, and roved in all
directions. The other, fixed and stony,
fastened on her with an Underwriting
stare. She turned her head away, but
it intercepted her vision. She tried to
hide behind q paper, but she felt that
cruel eye piercing through the screen
and creeping with a stony look all
over her features, It seemed to be
picking them up one by one, and ex-
amining them with care. The thing be-
came uncomfortable, and she cried ont to
him fercely: - .
"sir, why do you look at me SO per-
sistently ?"' s:..:: 49,:
."'Me, madam; why, bless my soul !!
I haven't been looking at you" :. ,--.
"You have, sir-for q half hour or
more your eye has been absolutely riy-
eted on my face. - ''9f =" :.7'
: ~ beg your pardon, madam, but it's
this eye, is it not?" lifting his finger
to his left optic, a.s,s;.. ..,..' =, D..
eyes, sir, it's that eye ..,.,.
i "Well, madam, that eye won't; do
you any harm. It generally looks any
way it p1eases- gives me good deal
Of trouble. A great many complain of
it., At first I, thought they were making
fun Of me, but I've found out differently
now. I've been knocked down two or
three times for the imperinence of that
eye. ! would leave it out altogether
but for the looks Of the thing. It's q
glass eye. madam only glass eye. I
hope you'll excuse it. But, upon my
soul, I'm not surprised that even glass
eye should feel interested in so pretty o
woman" and he brought his other eye
to bear upon her il undisguised admire
ton. .-s M Z. 80, zSsa.s,s
& The lady laughingly accepted the e1-
planation, and the rest Of the journey
was passed very pleasantly to both Of
Them Rocky Mo,t,ataig Ne,cs. T.. -