The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-02-26
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old and has written sixty-six books.
He hopes t. finish about round hun.
dred before he lays down his pen.
The Robert Clarke Company, of
Philadelphia, have brought out new
edition of Alexander S. Wither's
"Chronicles of Border Warfare" with
a memoir and notes by Lyman &.
Draper and Reuben g. Thwaites.
Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's
Fam" has paid him nearly s25 900
in royalties in two years. Mere than
his books, newspaper articles, and
poems altogether have paid him in
the past twenty years.
II is said that Robert Louis Stew.
euson, the author and novelist, who
died in Samoa recently, died of CT
garette smoking, his limit having
been from 100 to $50 cigarettes n
day. Peace to his ashes !"
There is only one woman in France
who amounts to anything in journal
ism. Her name is Madame Severine.
She lives in Paris and makes between
$4,000 and $4,000 yearly by her
writings.
Will Allen Bromgoole, the Tennes.
see novelist, Is little woman with
short, dark-brown curly hair and
kindly blue gray eyes. She is grace
full in manner and has soft, mellow
voice. She has lately been well re-
ceived by Northern literary people.
Legal delays are as nothing to the
delays of publishers. 1.-THE publish
er pays on the acceptance of manu-
script, the author does not care so
much, though he naturally wishes to
see his book on the market, and have
his friends congratulate him; hut the
author who sells magazine articles or
anovel which is to be paid for on
publication, generally resigns all
hope of living to zee it in print. One
firm in New York owed writer for
an article over eleven years, and an.
other firm has not yet paid for a
book that was ordered and the manu-.
script delivered more than five years
ago
The time will come" SAYS Mr..
Howells in the Out Look, "when our
p0litest literature will he written and
printed with all the contractinns that
we use in speech. They do it in
French and Italian now. We never
say 'd@ Motive say don't and
think it should SO stand in print.
The same applies TO good many 9TH
er words. / intend to write book
of essays i'll that style some time"
The late Mrs. Jane Goodwin, the
novelist, began to write for the mag
azlnes and illustrated newspapers he
fore the War-nOt 50 much from a
literary impulse, but because the sup
port of her family was mainly thrown
upon her; and it was by her pen that
they were maintained and educated
for many years. She tEen lived in
Concord and continued there for per.
haPs twenty years, writing tales ofthe
war, short stories, sketches, or what.
ever would meet the wish Of the pub.
fishers for whom she was Mt work.
Of late wears she won distinction a.
the historical novelist of old Ply.
mouth.
WHAT THINK ABOUT THE POETS.
can never like the poets of the melan-
choly class,
With their dismal, doleful waiings and
"Ah me- and "Alas I" .
How they moan about their losses, be
those losses what they may,
In 4 sickly-scntimental, weak and wishy-
washy way
How they maundcr over sorrows that
they never felt, and sigh
For "the dear days, dead forever. and
1.-THE joys that passed them by"
It's steady stream of signing and a con
slant flow Of tears,
As their ''hearts are turning backward
to the lost and vanished years"
Till ! get so out of patience with their
drvel and their whine
That's it's well they are not kittens if
those kittens all were mi e!
am partial to the poets who can sing
without Sigh"
Who "re conscious of the sunshine and
do not want to die,
But are glad that they arc living, and
are not ashamed to own
That they take an honest pleasnsc in
some Joys" that are not "Aown.v
There is something hale and hearty in
the song these poets sing,
They are like the songs Of blackbirds
'mong the olders in the spring
Just as blythe and just as jolly, just ~
free from care as they
And one feels like singing with them t,Ii