The Washington critic., 1888-04-21

telling his friends that the stormy
winter weather in the country helped
him to imagine, by contrast, the
bright and everlasting summers and
glowing scenery ofthe East.
The work was great success. The
first edition was sold in almost four
teen days, and within six months six
editions had been called for.
Thomas Campbell received, mt the
age of q years, eG00 for his "Pleas-
ures of Hope" certainly q small
amount for a fine poem, yet IL gave
him a name and enabled him to obtain
large sums for some very slight liter
ary services.
Very large sums have been paid for
historical works. Hume received
goo for volume, and Smollett, for
catch-penny rival work, cleared e.
600. The money made by Henry is
set down at $500. The booksellers,
says Mr.. Leslie Stephen, made 10000
out of Robertson's "History of Scot
land" lie was paid for his "Charles
"" the handsome sum of e4,500.
Lingard's "History of England is,
without doubt an able work, and for
IL the author was paid CA, ,6S3. The
authors profits for the Decline and
Fall Of the Roman Empire" by
Gibbon, are put down at e10,000.
The foregoing are respectable fig
ures, but they appear small when
compared with the amounts paid to
Lord Macaulay. On one occasion he
had handed to him q check for e20,-
coo, on account of three-foWths of the
net profits of his History of Eng
land"
According to careful estimate,
Charles Dickens received cl0,000 q
year from his works for five years,
and died worth nearly e100,000. He
made every penny from his writings
and readings. We need scarcely re-
peat the well-known facts, that che
not only lived in very liberal style
for over thirty years, keeping up a
considerable establishment, and often
TRAVELLING WITHOUT REGARD TO COST,
but he brought up large and expen-
sive family
Thackeray did not make large sums
with his books when we consider his
undoubted genius and the high place
he holds among the greatest authors.
1t is said that he never made more
than E5, ,000 out of any of his novels.
lie received large sums for his lee
lures; indeed, the platform yielded
him better returns than the publish
ers.
Eighty thousand pounds is the
amount of Bulwer Lytton's earnings
as q novelist.
The Earl of Beaconsiield, il is said,
received the largest amount ever paid
in England for single novel. His
last work, "Endymion," was sold for
G12,000.
Wilkie Collins was paid for "Arma-
| dale" $4,000. Mr.. James Payn re-
| Gently received 81 900 for the rights
| of running one of his novels in the
pages of sixpenny magazine.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE WORKED HARD
TO gain footing in the literary world
His earlier manuscripts were FIRE.
quently rejected. He tried to induce
managers of theatres to accept his
plays, but not one was ever produced
The first years labor with the pen
and very hard years work too, only
yielded el2. The next year the sun
was still small, only amounting tc
ego, yet he did not despair. AT las
the happy tide came, and it was taker
at the flood. 1t was in 1866 that he
scored with ''The Warden" From
that time he was man of mark; his
works were IN demand, and with ease
he earned 81 200 year, which soor
increased to $4,000 and $4,000, and al
the time Of his death to about CA 900
Large sums of money were made by
George Eliot, but we must not forge
that she had some weary years t.
wait for the days of prosperity, and
that the story of her life contains
many records of disappointment aftei
brave struggles. We read of her liv
ing in humble apartments in London
and to save a little money, which she
much needed when she went tC
Switzerland in 1S49, she tried to sci
her books and globes. 1t was not un
til she was 40 years of age that SHE
established reputation by the publi
cation of "Adam Bede.n She re
ceived in cash down, for the first SALE
of her books some 100000, or abou
$4,000 year.
Mr.. John Ruskin is his own pub
Usher, and last year the profits reached
"a, ,OOO-about Gl 600 of which repre-
sents the profits on the new edition o
the "Stones of Venice"
Lord Tennyson was paid el00 70
the right Of printing short origina
poem in monthly magazine. For hi
ballad, "The Revenge" in the "Nine
teenth Century" he was paid 30v
guineas. Ii became known some tim,
ago that his lordship did not deem
e5,000 year a sufficient sum for TIL,
exclusive right of publishing hi
works. He has changed his pub
fishers several times. He is regarded
as keen man of business, and it il
said that he generally gets the best o
the bargain.
Money will not tempt Rober
Browning to contribute to the maya
zines. His poems always see TIL,
light in book form.
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