The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-17

ABSOLUTELY PURE

with interviewers. I once had tho good for
tune to make a splendid interview with Mrs.
Deland, though after it was published she
was very captious about what | said, not
because it was untrue or disagree
able, but because l did 1t on my W re-
sponsibility. There are two sortso of authors,
the captious and the genial. The first
are those who seem to rank their own inn
p~ortance so high they allow none to approach
their serene sanctuary the second are the
unmindful great, who, having nothing to
conceal, are courteous to the courteous, and
simply silent when they meet the vulgar.
This second class are always well treated by
the press; the first class get the benefit of all
the superfuous spleen which the reporter
must work off in some way, and will not let
loose upon his friends.
The Outlook has a word OF regret for the
large number of manuscripts which are
written, but not printed. 1t is said that
| ninety-seven per cent. of all the manuscripts
offered are rejected. This, however, is not
at all true. The percentage holds only OF a
very few large periodicals, and the same re-
jected contributions are sent to all of them
in most cases. Then there are thou
sands of other periodicals, count
ing newspapers, which really absorb a
large number of them in the end. OF the
remainder, the authors doubtless see how
they can improve them, and finally make
saleable articles out of them. Since there is
III oC1OOl 1OI llt dltA
contributors yet, the magazine editors must
be the test for a great deal of prentice work.
There is simply no other way for a young
author to get instruction. He doesn't get
much this way; but he gets all he can hops
for from any source.
been hearing that Daily was to bring out will
not appear this year, at any rate, and it
seems uncertain whether it will ever come
out.
1t is reported that a syndicate of capital
lists have taken up Stead's idea for a DAILY
Paper which shall combine the e~xcellences
of a daily paper, review, n illustrated
a great while.
Mr.. Smith, of Houghton, Mifiin e Co, in
some "reminiscences of the great authors who
used to come there, says-"Longfellow
could come into the room like a superior be-
ing, with such dignity that no one in the
world would ever think of tapping him on
the shoulder with a sGood-morning, Henry
Whittier would come like a frightened bird.
Lowell dressed and looked like a business
man rather than an author; yet every letter
he wrote on business had something in it
that made it worth keeping. Miss Lucy
Larcom was like the coming of some source
of light
The much talked of new Revue de Paris,
which is to dispute the field SO long held by
the Revue de Deur Mondes, has a number of
letters of Balzac, written to the lady who
afterward became his wife. which together
form an autobiography. There are many
references to well known people whom he
met. He says:-"Eugene Sue is a good sort
of young fellow, who likes to parade his
vices, is wretched because his name is Sue,
and lives in luxury to make believe he is a
grand person. But otherwise, though he is
somewhat used up, he is better than his
books"
Paul Bourget writing to this same maya
zine called the editors attention to a certain
New York review as a good model-proba-
bly, the Forum and already the arena and
the North american had been carefully
studied. To think that we can give lessons
to Paris.
The romance of Elizabeth Peabody's life
was not told at her death. In her youth she
was engaged to be married to Nathaniel
Hawthorne, who had not then seen her sister
Sophia, who later became his wife. The two
met, fell in love, and stroye in vain to con-
quer their sentiment. Miss Peabody discoy-
cred the true state of affairs II broke her
engagement that Hawthorne might marry
her sister"
In concluding his article on his first book
C'Dead Mans Rock, in the Idler, 'Q", con-
fesses that he is not inclined to rail at litera-
ture because he cannot get rich in it. Says
he, "My calling ties me to no office stool,
makes me nc mans slave, cOmpels me to no
action that my soul condemns. 1t sets me
free from town life, which / loathe, and al
lows me to breath clean air, to exercise limbs
as well as brain. to tread good turf and wake
up every morning to the SOUND and smell of
the sea and that wide prospect which, to my
eyes is the dearest on earth. All happiness
must be purchased with a price, though peo-
pie seldom recognize this; and part of that
price is that, living thus, a man can never
amass a fortune. But as it is extremely UNI
I.I~-l- xt~~A -1,,I1 lA-A IDnnn Ata -, ~-- $3.50.
suit, I may claim to lave the better of the
bargain"
All he had to do with his first book was to
send it to the first publishers he picked out.
and they accepted it, and have taken every
thing ever since.
ALPHEUs SHERwIN CODY.
New York, Feb. 10, 1894.