The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-21
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.r7osY ABOUT JAY GOULD.
- che Wfnans Beys-A Talk
n.veliss Howel1s on Tolstoi
- Amerfcan Literature.

IN Every molulnB NC ccso eoiuo ~
- for writing and he turns out q
"a AMOUNT Of work daily. He says he
n seveI.wsising hard work. and he does
~ Il pays him to spend more than
8 iour hours . day in actual compo-
n used TO write much more than
q - has ct times worked sixteen
y a. Il the twenty-four. He is now
~ a ! short serial novel for Hdrper's
~ snd this. with his editorial
q eoostitutes his present work. Dur
-, generation l asked him for his
- q The "Kreutzer Sonata" He re-
ESaink Il Il great work. It is the off,
~ master mind, and ! do not
al the critics are right In their
80 Z II evil tendencies. The novel il
s III, and yon can expect no other
~ ~ sucb . man and such woman
70 lid out in 1t for Posdnichef and
u
~ ri. Howslls, do you not think that
e Il lhis kind is harmful TO young
as'
4 i not the kind of . book" replied
HeVslls, athat would. think, attract
eng Il is more q book for men and
! q mature years and experience. l
p know that 1t would be fit reading
M eirIs, but it seems to me that the
nsn who read it will get from 1t .
3 ~ direction Of purity and good
~ 10 you think Of Tolstoi. Mr..
81" asked.
hundoubtedly 10 great man." was
~. ''And he Is all the greater for
fnpie bravery and truth. He does
- thinks TO be right and he il not
- to follow out his convictions.
ntAs world would be better II We
II Is brave rs Tolstoi is, and / think
= d his ideas, at which the con-
md world laughs, are the right ones.
wv for instance, in his principle of
Ing with his hands part of each day
'IIxould that could do 1t myself. /
- Inst II We could all do this--if We
bring ourselves close. to . common
aa humanity-if, in short, we could
- in it, full the brotherhood of man,
sonld b better workmen and better
. Al for me, owe much to Tolstoi.
lib example has, think. done much
- world"
- HowELIs ON WORLD LITERATURE.
n conversation turned to American
5sturs and asked Mr.. Howells whether
|hoasht we were forming distinct ma
~ school OF writer's. He replied, II
knok believe the tendency of the
nh toward the formation of world
Mn literature. The writers of all the
Dhave more of q uniformity of thought
,uEession today than they have ever
hiure. We are finding out that the
sdthe human mind is by no means
~ fiction, and the means of com.
alton of thought are such that the
nd oil the world work more together
Asy have ever done before. You
~ In the similarity of the literary pro-
Us Of the present all over the world.
pWa written by one of the realistic
y Of America today has, perhaps. its
Apart in . realistic story written
miles away in Spain or Germany.
eWman develops and creates the same
= the American at the same time.
epaniard tickles his fellows sides
he same humorous thought Is the
-, and. like the Yankees, his fellows
themselves up and laugh when
lmr it. / don't know whether you
my idea. but think the spirit of the
- lending more and more toward the
20 Of q world literature than to-
hat OF national or race literature. 7"
MONEY IN MAGAZINES
D Howells is now employed exclu-
y Harpers. and he gets, perhaps.
p salary as any literary editor of
United States today. ] was told some
80 that he received as much ~
iur short story. and his royalties
KING him in Z large income. There
money today in magazines and
une writing than ever before. The
~ Company has already grown rich,
hglish circulation alone is worth q
Hmne. &cvibne,'s Magazine is max
ypso6ts, aud the Cosmopolitan Maga-
a1 jumped from bankruptcy
kosperity. This magazine was
started by Schlicht and
eeouple of bright young spectators,
MISTER. New York. They ran an
business in connection with the
ne and were making it pay when
moved down to New York. Here
s.ached out in many directions, be-
nse money, and threw good money
until they were practically bank
was at this time that Buck"
- taken into the magazine and it
ner squirt In the meantime the
anairs OF Schlicht and Field got
Nc worse, and the magazine was
:! Brisben Walker. who now owns
= made it q good property. Mr..
= enc OF the bright business liter
NE day. He is q man. / Judge,
aaus - years of age and 100 years of
he is, think, graduate of
Point or Annapolis, and he
a~vnina With Burlingame as q naval
Alter the war he took q notion
9, ses1 deal of money was TO be made
- and he anticipated the great
ss boom which has since struck
de made his first specula-
easrieston, w. Va. where he set.
.an Tor congress, and was, / am
~ out counted out. He thought
me that Charleston was going to
~ .;a paol OF West Virginia, and he in.
ra s money in property there. The
hs.s 70 change the capitol fell
0t the time. and he lost every-
u.'oering up the debris of his
no. moved to Denver and there edited
-. .. weekly newspaper. He bought
got II on the road TO making
q ~ sold 1t at a profit. He took the
~ Ialcn be received from it and be-
\ ny land on the outskirts of Dem
~ ugnt one little farm after an
49, rom IS to $40 and $50 an acre.
- : 'sst had about 1000 acres. He
49, lands when the real estate
49, oenver, and he sold, / am
&AnMn OF his land TO syndicate
rs ,l .nen the boom came. He held
ma seventy-tve acres nearer the
sa,,s 1is Is, SO Denver people
81 least 10000 today.