New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
..,,ps or NOTE. NEW AND OLD.

-.-.,, an TIE MYSTERIES OF MEMO PARK
& - INV MACDONALD m SKw-YoRK-EDGAR ALLAN
uor AND HIS woRKs-nEMrN1scEScEs OF
(. cYApp. o,BRIEN. AND THE OLD BoHEhiANs of
y, NETWORK.
~. ovsters and flowers are dear, and Pm think
ing Of going out of the bouquet business. tnis
bsrs literature wss as reliable as begging think
,ngat stick to IT, But the first that ever took
n nm iu America had the experience OF all his sue
oessors-I mean Charles Brockden Brown, the mover
iist of Philadelphia. He wrote in 1900:
"Book making is the duest of all trades, ana the
most that any American can look for IN his natve
country is to be reimbursed for his unavoidable
expenses. The stability of my works will much
DEPEND upon their popularity in England"
How different 1t was with Mr.. Browns Quaker
friends. the Lea Brothers. one of whom went into
the ower business. and the other into geology, and
both became rich, and their progeny is rich pub
Usher. No. win grow hyacinths under
glass and not brains under bad hat. L asked my
friend, Charles Nordhof. some time ago-wnose
beautiful wife often gets bouquet it was that
All the authors were poor aud all the publishers were
rich.
johnny said he. "it's like this. An author
writes one book and makes but little profit; pub
fisher gets little profit on great many books"
Do you know the secret of that man NordhoHs
successs Don't give it away, but Pl tell you
When he was poor fellow, working in Western
newspaper Office. think the Methodists were kind
to him and he became Methodist and that Church
has it's way of throwing its arms around fellow ana
whooping him along and religion and prosperity
have great deal to do with each Other
MARK TwATN's NEW IDEA.
The nost successful author is Mark Twain but
never can get a nosegay off on him-he has
become 30 fond of his money. He said to me at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel one day this week johnny,
manage your pen we'll and it will do tolerably well
by you. have made $125,000 by writing books.
BY occurring aud writing plays as we'll as by my
books l have made $250,0O0"
A deep gloom spread over his face, and he took O
free smell of my posies aud said in bis deep subterra-
mean drawing voice from that sardonic Hebraic
face:
Johnny. 1t might just as well have been
$400O00 Just as wellp
That sigh he heaved might have come from Barab-
has when Plate let him 60. and he repeated Just
as we'll. Johnny Bouquet"
pinned upon his coat a Marechal Neil rose.
'.Auow me to decorate the one prosperous author
]. have found-who succeeded whore Tasso and
Camoens and Cervantes failed owing to the superior
taste of his time and countrymenp
20 hoi hop exclaimed Mr.. Clemens, inwardiy.
looking mp and down and around at nothing.
deeply amused. Haven't got emp
mot the jams, hope "-for 1t was at the bar.
"No, no. mop he rumbled. in his rather leor
depths. "Pve got the Publishers where the hairs
short. Pm going to have all my money-all. all!
The whole four hundred thousand have paid one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to know how.
Draw near. industrious slave. and learn the
precious lesson. and lay it to thy hearth mean to
be my own publisher hereafter. Instead of letting
them pay mo commissions for selling my books.
shall pay them slight cOmmssi for doing il, and
take che lions share. That is the idea that will
reyoiutionize American letters, and make O poor
author preposterousl"
Never did see countenauce 80 TRANSPORTED. A
golden CLEAN was in his black Scientific eyes, as if
the miser and the Bohemian had met each other
there and the Bohemian had got the worst of 1t and
given mp his pocketbook. Yet what sdeling
drawing power and intensity the man had-his
stomatic and nasal tones seeming less profound than
his intensity. Here is man. / thought, with
reputation for ghtness bnt character for strength.
who has discovered himself late 10 life, like Ethan
Brand when he mastered the secret Of the unfor-
given sin, saying; 1T Is here, herep
"Yes pedler of petals, prodigal OF stamens thou
happy careless unacquisitive child / have COM
pleted novel. serious tale, and am having the
plates made myself I do all my writing in the
summer up at our country place on the hills OF
New-York. The last of the year shall give to bust
mesa Tell all your friends to publish for them
selves Mako friends Of the mammon OF unrlghteous-
ness aud 90. goi Ha, hap
He said that Mrs. Stowe. his neghbor at Hartford,
wrote no more being now sxty-nine years old. and
her husband, still living, being seventy-nine but
the profits Of her great novel gave them good
home and substance for old age. At forty she
wrote the wonder book, negro for its
muse, which sold 100000 copies, and half
million in England and was read like
the Arabian Nights in the language and at the
camps Of the desert At that time Mark Twain,
whose father was Virgnian and his mother from
Kentucky. and he born the slave soil Of Missouri
may have looked upon Mrs. Stowe as wild. wilful
fend. and now they rs snug and squat together
as the woman in Paradise and the Jumping frog.
THE GENIUS OF CHAINED LIGHTNING.
There was another genius talked to last week.
Edison whom o'erhasty reaction has been calling
humbug. There is q law that all stimulation shall
be followed by an equal relapse, and excessive praise
of any new fame has Its recoil. till finally the level
of Justice is found and kept. All honest contem-
poraries of marvellous man desire to be on record
az not against him, at least, even If not
enthusiastic. Learning is vain and hates To
be corrected. Here Is man who has done
what Calico and Solomon de Caus irreverently
did. made pedantry and dogma fool. Professor
Tyndall said this electric light could not be sepa
rated, and have seen during the present week
people looking at the divided. the obedient flame,
unable to protest further, yet with rage In their
faces There 1t was, and 1t mortified their consist
eney, and 90 precious charity that they could not
say frankly, You were brave and great, and we
were ignorant" What an extorted yet noble prayer
was that of old: Lord, help mine unbelief"
Still, to be also charitable to Edisons critics. he
and accident have somewhat tried their patience
His photograph. the greatest miracle that
over spoke since Adam heard the echoes
Of his own voice, was not applied to any OF
the uses expected. 1t is complete ns
fraah-lnsd egg. but the world cried: I" How about