The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-17

spend 1t all and more. Lamb is not by any
means the only writer VINO has found Lon
don an aid to IMPOSITION Many, however,
write more comfortably in the country
MI Jones, the playwright, for instance,
as soon as he had made some name by his
dramas, left London and took house in
| the country, where he now writes all his
plays. Some men can only write at a
particular table, and at particular side of
that table. The writer is thinking spe-
clally of one who writes best with rusty pen
nlbS he has hundreds of these in his desk
the accumulation of vears-and he fire.
| quently changes them. The one he has been
using, however, goes back to the desk for
use on some future occasion. He is also de-
voted to anti-macaSsars. From these he
abstracts the threads with which he ties his
papers together, and on days when there are
| no antl-macaSSarS he does not write.
1t is curious to think of Mr. Herbert
| Spencer playing lawn tennis. One would
have as soon expected to see Carlyle at
| shuttlecock and battledoor. A few years
ago, however, Mr.. Spencer used frequently
to lay down his pen and lift a racquet. His
brain was overwOrked with less than an
hours writing. and it became quite com
mon thing with him to seek relaxation in
the tennis court. Before he became so much
OF an Invalid Mr.. Spencer also went good
deal to the theatrical ways into the pit, into
which he enjoyed fighting his way. Moth
ing shows Miss BraddOn's popularity with
! novel readers more than change which
she made in her way of writing a number
of years ago. She used to write in a large
hand, but discovered that she could get
| over the ground" quicker by writing small,
| as she does now. Perhaps the pleasantest
| picture OF a literary man at work is afforded
| by Prof. Blackie. He sings to himself while
he writes, as well as when he climbs
mountain Ito write a sonnet on it,, or walks
| down the streets, In one of the letters pub
lished in Scribnel'S last month, Thackeray
| gave humorous description of the selfish
| ness which came over him when he was
writing verse. While composing his ode i'll
| connection with the great exhibition he for
| got that there was anybody Ill the world
beside himself, and anything worth think
| ing of, except his ode. Had some one come
to him and announced a serious accident to
! his dearest friend, he would only have muir
INJURED III reply "Tidum- tidy, tidum-tidy.n
| While he was writing novels, however, he
was less engrossed. He could stop and count up
the lines to see how much they would come
| to-at say, half a crown apiece. Mr.. W.
S. Gilbert finds a piece of blotting paper by
| his side a great help when he is writing
comic operas. This is not for blotting his
| manuscripts, but for drawing pictures on.
| These are caricatures, and oftener the
Skeucn suggests quaint UnOugnb IMAM
thought suggests the sketch. Some literary
men write by means of an amanuensis. NJ.
du Chaillu, the traveller, for instance, large
| ly employs an amanuenss for writing the
| books for children which he makes out of
| his own works 1.-THE Land of the Midnight
| SUM- aft rded several books for the young,
all of which were dictated by NJ. du Chaillu.
| These have an enormous sale-far greater
than the original work. Tom Nash, the
Eizabethan, used, according to himself, to
make an income out Of writing books for
other persons to which they put their names.
| Perhaps there is little of that still