Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-19
urIrIyc ron MONEY.
,o,xr,s OPINION OF AUTHOR
HAw aIIr As A TRADE.

~" when he gets n contract or
'h',n., 20 write n story, simply
unu' ,tl, and keeps IT up until the task
,nnls,ea. He bcgins work at y o,
soon ,' ~ morning and keeps at II until
y ~ :, a, night. OF those shorter
10 o. mol ns afe printed In lhppin.
nossl' .nJ Belfofd's magazines, ne
e1Ws 20 IA ten days or two wechs.
Nfi'e' soao,aln 10000 words, ana That
Ihel ~ raie Of 1000 wor'is day, or
u o. ", and a half columns Of the
80 aThe troublc," be saiu, was
~ Inc central idea TOT the stoty' II
ps", a satisfactory one, why, wy
~. w., xriles itself, and ! can DO a great
~ of work In q day" .,,..
u' W. y, 80 occasion he wrote stehullN
On o.ana v hours. This was cur
bi M. ,-.ldence In London, ehortly
w ~ had entered upon literary
wv. ~ lie had agreed TO havea Story
'hs a certain hour on a certain
yo~ "a a. l. very apt 10 10 the way
w .oany men, he had put or toe
N'1 mill tbe 18th hour. Then, con.
vpl l,. VI Iv Iibe incorporating fact
MI he mus, do the work OF Ioso III,
s. n,sS he sei himself nj the tllas win
NM. might and main. lie Hl.ftei ~
1Sa,rioek one morning, aud stuck
81 Al work until nVnrly noon tho
5sv. lie says he found no ulih-
~ In writing after ithe ilrst hour
~ ,honehts came freely and his hand
~ .,,s,I Mechanically. He romembeiH
Nv, ub.n he finished the story lie bc-
~. awnrr that his little Children were
,i.ying atout thereon where no bhu
- writing; he neither saw nor
s..,d them when he was Mt work, anu
80 they looked more Ike shadows
,ban rial, tangible forms.
Ne dld not feel particularly worried,
hat hls brain seemed 10 bc strangely
amused, 10, instead Of going 10 bed M
.m,n naturally would think Of doing,
"a IN on his hat and UvcrcOnt aud set
,n,'nr a long walk. He remained out
n doors until dusk, then, upon his re-
,r,n home. he ate light supper, drank
,xoLoilles Of ale and went 10 bed. The
hoJllv exercise had cleared his head,
bIs ifaln was NJ cool and quiet as
eoall 10 wished, and he slept eighteen
hours as soundly aud peacefully asa
child. ~
TallIng over the success that stories
Of London life have had, " WIS men.
toned as n curious fact that no tales u
New Yof. life had succcedcd. "rhat
% aid Hawthorne, "bccausc Now
Ysik city lacks the old background
which London has. London n n tDOl
into which All elements drilt, but New
York they pass through"
lie went on 10 tell how he forgot one
story as soon as another was written,
1pi cited curious Illustration Of this
M novel Of Spanish life which he
Iiekel ~ about tho house not long ago.
lie rad the novel with interest aud be.
gantofcylcw II a. something new until,
happening 10 look through mn old scrap
look Of his writing, he discovered that
four year bcforu be had written n long
review Of II for tho World. Yet Oiu
memory Of the novel had quite van.
shed.
In q llltlp literary autobiography
Hawthorne tells IN a few words his Is.
ilmaie Of authorship NJ trade. After
telling Of his novels, he says; 81 can
not consclentlou.ly say that ! have
fund the literary PROFESSIONALISM and
bi iiseli--eullfely agreeable. Almost
everything that ! have written has
ton written from necessity, and
there i very little Of u that | shall
10, he glad 10 sec forgotten.
The tue rewards OF literature
iof men u limited cnlihrc, are the incl
dental ones-the valuable friendships
and The charming associations which
! btngs about. For the sake Of these
would willingly endure again many
la-ago of life that has not been all
io.,s. Not that ! would appear u
btlitle my own work-it does not need
~ hut the present generation I'm
America NJ lea-t) does not strike me
q containing much literary genius.
Ihe number OF und.rslled persons Il
Aigv anl active, aud We hardly lie.
ileve In the possibility ofheroic stature.
! cannot sufficiently admire the pains
NrMe al u make our work --embod.
llng Tue aims II d0es-immaculato In
ipfm. Form without idea IL nothing,
aud We have no idcns. II one of ~
we're 70 get an Idea II would create liz
ON ioim ~ easily ~ does q flower or A
lAnr'' think We take ourselves too
Nholslyi our p0st.riiy viii not hn
.'Aiiy ~ grave over us. For my part.
20 not wTl. better than 1 do because
have no Ideas worth better clothes
Wan hey can pick up for themselves.
"lM y worth doing ut all Ia worth
uglny WIN our best pains, n n saying
snleh mas Injured our litera.uru mort
suan any other single thing. How
many llmher'clOsct since the world
s,san mas been filled by the result OF
ns lufbllnd and deluslve thcoryl Rut
NJ ~ not photographed, save that
ShaVe written II shows how Hide pru.
Assee my life has taught me.D
~ much Tor his literary wsrk. We
Nen1 OUT into the sunshine and looked
sc'9,s the fippling blue Of tho water,
r's hawthorne told how, In the early
aa .llhlng, NE place was covered with
i"" .AA shu There was much good shoot.
~ ne told how no helped do the
s ssy'iig "a summer ON tho 30 acres of
w hhu, how his two soyenteen.ycnr
uoys tah The farm, and, with the
~. uhe man, raised all the veR,-
~ 'es 'he hmily ufed. aud Ind som,
~ I've 10 sell; how tho place belong.
my Nm. doodsell, but he hoped 10
s ss y IN Two Year., aud how his oldest
M I.vt hlldegarde, was enjoying
sss ny winter In Philadelphia, while his
Hsss,,,lAushlers, Gwendolen, GLADYS.
ns,lae and lm0gene, helped their
M. s,i, ~ home. Then the hoy. with
H. Ml'day" horse, drove nm. and tha
handsome big fellow. wjthr, .,san. Wv
and W., glp' Turned back to his dcsH
Wilt spa, on hlllng the long sheets of
Ind h.oo',cap with fine black marks,
gslrsd n W. sheet was covered Inc had
s@'Atu OOD words ma H.. -, w '''"