The Arizona champion., 1891-01-24
ADVICE 10 AUTHORS.
Bm Nye Gives Few POints-His Back
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 The following letter, written in a nervous, cramped hand on an empty stomach, with red ink, was received some months ago, but politics and other matters of greater import ance, yielding more money than literature, have crowded out an earlier reply. do not use the full name, which is that of a young woman, judge. At least, her first name is l Jennie, and, as nearly as one may be able to | approximate one's age by simply knowing one's name, 1 should say that she was no doubt l6 years of age on the lst day of last ! April
 ] HUMBOLDT Minn Aug I2 lS33-DEAR SIR-will you pleas to tell me what would be the price fora l good siSed book not to large nor not verry small now this Is Just that l have commenced to write myself and think it Is going to be Q verry l good one Pleas to tell me where l could get 1t printed and also all you know about it as verry proud of this one pleas be kind as to not mension this in closed find stamp for nanswer pleas to obledge me I am Yours truly Pleas to address it to me at St Vincent in care of MT | Thos Brown as I am here now Yours Should write 1t on both sides of the paper it being so you can tear 1t out and turn 1t over P. S The name of it is The Folly of Blackeyed Nell
 The Second Daughter
 The Brenett Flirt.
 Replying to this long neglected letter, would say briefly, yet succinctly and even tersely, that much would depend upon the size of the book. There is tremendous call this season for an eight ounce book, with small 1ecks of foam on it.
 Can you write such @ booki Can you write book full of implied and expressed passion! Can you churn up the great depths of human nature and shorten the longing which ono may have for another heart against which to throbl Can you do this and still go on with your primary studies at Humboldt Can you prepare such work and still get your spelling lessons every dayi
 1 do not know why you should have re- ferred the matter to me, however. l would rather refrain from giving advice in matters of literature as general thing, for am not a regular ltterateur. 1 could not write c book about ''The Brenett Flirt" to save my life. Writing passionate things in red ink, on both sides, regard as gift. cannot do it.
 l once published O work in two volumes which sold well and is still meeting with an excellent sale both in this country and in Europe. It was also well received by the critics; at least nobody said anything dis paraging of it, and it has helped many a one to pass a pleasant evening, as I know. It consisted of two large volumes of history being history of the war, in two volumes Struck with the wonderful paucity of war his tory, prepared these two volumes in neat black and gold muslin and beveled boards. When closed the work was ornamental, and when opened it became backgammon board.
 Where others had been in the habit of put ting word painting, and October haze, and the odor of crushed watermelon, and the lull of being miles and miles away from the par entS of one you deeply love and who is with you in the heart of the forest and oil that, 1 did not put anything at all. Where O mod ern author might have written things which might have caused tho rather questionable career of Don Juan, by contrast, to read like the loves of q snow man, just left the reader to insert his own wicked thoughts as he went along. In this way, and by reinforcing the corners by means of zinc shanls on the in- side, knew that when the critics jumped on it they would not hurt it,
 To this l attribute what little literary suc- cess l may have attained, and that is the req son 1 speak of it to you. But times are changing and you must keep up with the times. See, for instance, how the smut has been eradicated from comedy and humor, and how It has been gently but firmly re- tained by romance. Even the bright but doubtful jokes of war times, twenty years ago, could not find place n print or on tho stage now. and further back than that we find many, many little bon mots which could only be found now in a congressional oom- mittee room or a late novel.
 congratulate comedy, Jennie, and am sorry for you literary people But you can do just as you think best. If you are writing book for the market, you have got O good subject. It conveys the idea of just enough wickedness so that, if properly handled the book will be very much talked about and therefore sold in great quantities. I sincerely hope that your name will soon be household word and that your book will not only be O great success here in New York, but that every farmer in Minnesota will be using it on his potato bugs next sunmer.- Bill Nyo in New York World