The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-08
bring number of valuable papers to the


DJs asked what amount he would charge
Tor e short article on the tariff In reply
be said lac could not do it for less than
Sjeo, or about ten cents WORD. know
g one senator who got 5000 for a short
article for The for5lm. and the newspaper
Mcn Of Washington have gone into the
magazine field and are making money out
Of II. George KEENAN, has made good
reputation and a nice pot Of money out OF
the Russ an articles which are being pub
lshCd in The Century. ! have already
told you about the goose that lays the
golden eggs for John Hay and John q.
Nicolay, AID know cf another magazinlst
who - also a newspaper man who has
thirty-thrce articles III the hands Of maSa-
zine editors, for which he got from SlOo
to $500 apiece. Tho leading newspaper
syudicatcs viii now pay from so 10 80
a Thousand words for good matter ana
the literary demand seems greater ana
greater every day
have been collecting for some time
items in regard TO the amount OF money
made bv authors II is very fascinating
work and II is interesting TO know that
George Eliot received $4,000 for "Ro-
mola;' that Scott got over s3,5Vo Tor
"Waverley7 and $40, 600 for Woodstock"
Wilkie Collins "Armadalc' brought S2j,
eco, and poor Goldsmith only got 500 for
his Vicar Of Wakefield" "RasselaS
brought Samuel Johnson only $500, and
Dickens made about $50 600 a year during
his latter DAYS at his writings. The fort
Une received from Grants book, which
was sort OF a history. looks very large
beside the $50 coo which Gibbon got for
his Decline and Fall of the Roman En-
pirc. and Scott was paid 10000 for a
Life Of Napoleon which no one now
ever hears OF. VIII Carleton is said 10
get Sl2j for short poem, and Bret Harte
had. YOU know, a contract for SlO,0O0a
wear for whatever he might write, ana
this was shortly before he went abroad as
consul Byron received 81 600 for
"Ch.lde Harold" and he got $1,000 for
Don Juan. Victor Hugo made a fort
uue ont Of his writings, and w. d.
HoNelle must certainly get between $40
coo and $4,000 from Harper Brothers.
Uc receives. ! am told. $1,000 and up
wards for short story, and his books
ought TO bring him in great deal OF
money.
As 10 the great American writers Of the
past. Washington Irving was the bcst
paid author Of his day, though he made
nothing like the amount of money that
similar talent would bring in today
Fanny Fern received high prices for her
works. and Harriet Bccciicr stowe cleared
$4,000 on Uncle Toms Cabin Still.
when she wrote IL she would have tecn
satisfied with "a silk dress in payment for
IL. Ilc book s.ill sells. but whether she
receives royalty or not do not know.
Bayard Taylor made a pot Of money out
ol his books If travel, bat he did not leave
much when he died. Mark Twain makes
urrhau9 a. much a. any writer Oi To-Day.
lie has business faculty allied 10 remark
able literary ability OF the Kind the mar
kCt demands, and everything he touches
seems to turn into gold. lie has written
some beautiful things. as well as some
remarkably funny ones and 1t IS hard to
realize that the same pen which wrote
"lruOccnts Abroad penned The IrInce
and the Pauper.' OF all American
writer's, should Judge that Mark Twain
was the most read abroad You viii find
li books la every country where the
ruc IN language is spoken, ana many Of
.Lcn have been translated.
l.r. TWams humor gave him his
Staff ..l iumo- i- one Of the Lcst Isy-
.lr commodities in the literary market.
Petroleum " Nasty left a fortune Of
ni.!ion dollars josh Billings died rich.
..l iii Nyc is making lots Of money out
of his lectures aud his books. as we'll d5
receiving "a rcy., salary from The New
YORK World Gnc If the greatest sue
.o..rs az today in bound books has beet
Lew Nali.ccs Ben liur. and it will be
astonishing 60 many of ,he highly philo-
SOPHIE readers of this letter 10 know that
the best paid novelist In the United States
pcrhIps is T. T. Roe Roc novels seil
900 half dozen different editions and tney
go everywhere. The editions Gic run out
by the hundred thousand copies, ana
many Of his stories having ran through
n big edition in cloth have had equal sue
cessca in paper covers.
As everybody knows by this time Robert
LoaiS Stevcnsons story. now being pub
iishcd in the newspapers, was sold TO
them for $40 COO and this provides for
the newspaper use Of the story alone.
Sir Stevenson will make Il greater
amcurt than this ont of its sale IN book
form after il has been completed. Anna
(atharlnc Green, VINO. by the way, writes
about the best detective stories of any
American writer today, thinks $500 is
pretty rood price Tor a serial, and she has,
/ understand. written one which will
shortly hc published.
As 10 Washington JOURNALISTS a nam
Ter Of them also have boCF, in hand or
~ press and the standard Of Washington
Htc.arv work among newspaper mcn j., it
sooais t. me- advancing Mr.. John :.
Shriv,r the editor cf TIE Homc journal,
40 Baltimore and much noted icr his in
resting stories about the White House
while nc was In Washington AS the >or-
respondent Of The Baltimore American,
is writing novel Perry S. Heath has II
book Of travels in press which is quite
interesting. William T. Curtis will shortly
publish a book On Russia. ! know Of q
man who has book on duels ready for
publication, and there are numbers Of the
department people who are engaged in
literary work. Spofford, the librarian, al
ways has his hands full. George Bancroft
picks up his work occasionally, but he
does not write as regularly a. in the past,
and Professor Jouy, who was sent by the
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