Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-10
LITERARY REMUNERATION.
Exchange and Mart.

The rates of remuneration for literary
work vary very much indeed. TO men
with names all sorts of high or fancy prices
are given but most papers and magazines
have sci scale Of literary pay, according to
which the rank and file Of writers are re-
muperated for their contributions. The
leader writers Oh the Times are generally
salaried men receiving couple OF thousand
or so Il wear, Tor no more than three articles
il week; but if All outsider-that Is, Il man
who is not regularly OH the staff OF the
uauci-cOutributeG an article Of Il column
or 50 in length to the so called leading
journal, he would noj probably be presented
with anything smaller than Il checque for
five guineas. The editorsh!p Of the Times
is the big plum Of journalism, the present
editor receiving, il Is said, $4,000 IL year,
with free chambers in Serieants' Inn; and
that was The late editor Mr.. Delane's,
salary also The Ech0, on the other hand,
only pays guinea each for its articles,
though it formerly paid a guinea and q hall
When Messrs. Cassell, Peter Il Gal lpln
were the proprietors OF the paper, they
presented 4 we'll known literary lady, who
is a most fascinating and bright writer on
social subjects, with six guineas week for
coming to the Office three mornings week
aud writing an article and note THAT IS, d
Ieadcrettc for lis columns on each one OF
three mornings. The salary Of Mr.. Arthur
Arnold as editor OF the Echo during liessrs.
CasseU, Peter {; Galpin's proprietorship,
was 81 900 q wear. There are provincial
journals who pay their editors as much rs,
ant! more than, that sum. Wcprcsume the
editor Of ;hc Manchester Guardian, tie cdi-
t0r Of the Scotsman, the editor o! the New
castle Duiiy Chroniclc and the literary heads
Ct several other leading daily Journalistic
organs of the provinces. have not less than
q 900 Il year each, and it is likely one or
two Of them have considerably more. Alr.
Charles pebody, who has recently been ap-
pointed editor OF the Yorkshire Post, at
Leeds. is to receive - 900 year Tor bis
services though his predecessor IN the
editorial chair Of this journal, we believe,
was in receipt Of salary OF 81 800 per
annum. 4 guinea or sovereign Is the
loves; ausn that is given for an article, of the
orthodox column il length, by any Journal
Of any standing at ali. 1t is the price that
is paid by daily and weekly papers IN Lon
don and the provinces. The Globe gives
Guinea forwhatit calls its turn overarticle.' y
whjci! begins on the last column of its first
4
raic Of :, guinea & column while the Daily
Chronicie, scornjng the obsolete coin, pre-
sents its outside penmen with checqucs for
sums for work lone at the rate Of q pound a
column. The Morning Post gives two gull
neos l3r leading articic-or, at least. II
did-and the 81. JdmcSs Gdzett" three. The
PGl ifQU Gugcttc is credited with formerly
paying prices for literary work second only
to those given by the Times itself. Five
cuireas is The sum named as paid each for
articles when the journal was conservative
in politics !: but whether during the present
liberal rule of its pages the literary remun-
Grafton of the writers is equally liberal we
do not know. We might continue our list
VITA the Spectator, which will gladly give
five .uineas for good article, and eradu'
ally descend tn IL daily paper, which has
been known 70 present = poor starving
"iuei" wirh the muniiicent sum Of 4d. for
four line paragraph of news, and news, too,
| Of imDoTtaucc.