The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-21
FORTUNES In PAPER
Some Instances i'm Which Million
Dollar Checks Have Figured.
HOW JAY GOULD BOUGHT THE MP.
Making a Fortune Out of the Car of Russia
and the Moscow Railway
Magazines Profits.

WASHINGTON, Sept IL, 1S9O.-TSpecial
correspondence of THE HERALD. II met
w. ID. Howells, the novelist, at Saratoga
the other day. He has been spending the
summer there and at Lake George. He is
one of the Woodworking writers of the day,
and like Anthony Trollope, he carries his
work with him. Every morning he sets
aside so much time for writing and ne turns
out certain amount OF work daily. He
says he finds novel-writing hard work and
does not think it pays him to spend more
than three or four hours day in actual
composition. He used to write much more
than this, and he has at times worked six
teen hours out of the twenty-four. He is
now engaged on short serial novel for
Hdrper's Magazine, and this with his editor
ial labors constitutes his present work
During our conversation 1 asked him for
his opinion of 1.-The Kreutzer Sonata He
said Il think it great work. 1t is the of
spring Of a master mind, and do not think
that the critics are right in their opinion of
its evil tendencies. The novel is true 20
life, and you can expect no other ending for
such man and such woman than that
laid out in it for Posdnicheff and his wife. -
But Mr.. Howells, do you not think that
book Of this kind is harmful to young
readerss"
at is not the kind of book, !" replied Mr..
Howells, ''that would, think, attract the
young. II is more book for men and
women Of mature years and experience L
do not know that it would be fl reading for
young girls, but it seems to me that the
young men who read it will get lesson in
the direction OF purity and good living"
What do you think of Mr. Tolstoi, Mr..
Howells2" | asked.
'He undoubtedly is a great man. was
the reply. And he is all the greater for
his simple bravery and truth. He does
what he thinks 20 be right, and he is not
ashamed to follow out his convictions. |
believe the world would be better if we
could be as brave as Toistoi is, and think
many of his IDEAS, at which tie conven-
tlona world laughs, are the right ones. [
believe for instance, in his principle of
working with his hands a part of each day
and | would that | could do it myself |
believe that II we could all do this-if we
could bring ourselves closer to a common
level of humanity-if, in short, we could
realize in Its ful the brotherhood Of man.
we would be better worknen and better
men. As for me, owe much TO Tolstoi
and his example has, think, done much
for the world
MR.. HowELLs on A WORLD LITERATURE.
The conversation turned to American lit
erature and ] asked Mr. Howells whether
he thought we were forming distinct ma
ticnai school of writers. He replied, Il
ehink not. / believe the ndency of the
times is towards the formation of world
school in literature. The writers of all the
world have more of uniformity of thought
OK Ia dow
had before. We are finding out that the
unity of the human mind is by no means
entirely fiction, and the means of commu-
nication of thought are such that the brains
of all the world work more together than
they have ever done before. You find this
In the similarity of the literary productions
Of the present all over the world A novel
written by one of the realistic school writ
ers of America to day has, perhaps, it's
counterpart in realistic story written
three thousand miles away in Spain or
Germany. The German develops and
creates the same ideas, as the American at
the same time. The Spaniard tickles his
fellows sides with the same humorous
thought as the Yankee, and, like the Yam
Eees, his fellows double themselves up and
laugh when they hear it. l don't know
whether you catch my idea, but think the
spirit of the times is tending more and more
toward the direction of world literature
lOHdiuS ILdb Ol bu6 ndJlOudl VI race
literature
MONEY IN MAGAZINES.
w. d. Howells is now employed exclu-
sively by Hdrpe,'s and he gets, perhaps, as
large salary as any literary editor of the
United States to-day. Twas told sometime
ago that he received as much as two thou
sand dollars for short story, and his roy
Rlties must bring him large income
There is more money to-day in magazines
and magazine writing than ever before
The Century company has already grown
rich, and its English circulation alone is
worth large fortune. Scribner's Maya
zinc is making big profits, and the Cosmo-
politdn Magazine has jumped from bank
ruptcy into prosperity. This magazine was
originally started by Schlicht and Field.
couple Of bright young spectators, in Roch-
ester, New York. They ran an office-file
business in connection with the magazine,
ana were making it pay when they moved
6own to New York Here they branched
mt in many directions, began tolose money.
and threw good money after bad until they
were pra ctically bankrupt 1t was at this