Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-29
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reputation curing the ei'u "af as ,ne eoi
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| estimated To pe worth more IMAM sioV'"V'
and he has also lived IKE one VINO Possesses
| d hindsoihe income uuIll- the years WHICH
iie WAS writing These BOOKS.
| IL Noah Webster had been aoie 10 feceNe
the usual foSail5 patiu ior 'eAsp.ohs' ~ Is
estimated that lis earnings ana those Oh ms
heirs from tue sales oil "eosters speiiihs
| book would have amounted 70 over SiV'"''-
Oh The publishers of the ohited states,
| at least those puoiisners "h"se ha'iies ar
familiar and VINO are at the he'td 81 great
business institutions, declare that II II Were
| not for their profits upon the sale Oh schooi-
| books and other educational works they
would DE compelled either 10 20 out OF the
business or very greatly to eurtaii Their ven
lures There are score or more OF text
| books which have earned more money ior
publishers ahd for Their authors thah any
work Of fiction ever published in English
with perhaps four or I'VE exceptions. Puo'
fishers are unanimous in the opinion that
writer who conceives new and popular
method of placing any of the departments
of education before scholars will find that
the pecuniary rewards are greater than
those 10 DE obtained from any other form
| of writing.
One of Harriet Beecher stoves sisters,
having written some essays which CAUSED
her to be regarded as even more brilliant
intellectually than the writer of Uncle
| Toms CABIN, found that her earning,
! from these essays hardly pad her Tor the
pen, ink and paper which she used up III
| writing them, and complaining OF TINS To !.
| publisher he said 10 her. Miss Beecher, II
| you VIII write "a textbook Tor schools, or
will compile even cookbook, will guar
,ntce that you can can enough from ii to
support you as long as You i've
| She was amazed AT this suggestion, but
her father, the distinguished DIR. Lyman
Beecher, advised her to undertake. it, and a
few months later Miss Beecher's cookbook
appeared upon the market. Its profits were
not rs great as those Of Uncle Tom 5
| Cabin, but they were greater than any
thing else that any of the Beechers ever
wrote, excepting possibly Mr.. Beechers
| star Sayings, which had a very wide sale.
| star Sayings Itself was simply acompiia-
ton of brief essays and common sense sug-