Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-30

stances OF their betrothal had led Miss
barrett into any artistic expression of
| feeling. AS little did he suspect 1t dur
ing their honeymoon in Paris, or dur
ms their first crowded weeks In Italy
Ihey settled at length in Pisa, and.
| pelng quilted by Mrs. Jameson and her
niece IN a very calm and happy mood
the young couple took up each his or
her separate work. Their custom was,
Mr.. Browning said, TO write alone, and
not to show each other what they had
written. This was rule which he
sometimes broke through. but she
never He had the habit of working In
a downstairs room, where their meals
were spread while Mrs. Browning
studied in a room on the floor above.
ono day, early In lSf7. their breakfast
being over, Mrs. Browning went up
stairs, while her husband stood at the
window watching the street I'LL the
table should be cleared He, was pres
emily aware OF some one behind him,
although the servant was gone. II was
Mrs. Browning, who held him by the
shoulder 10 prevent his turning to look
at her, and at the same time pushed a
packet OF papers into the pocket OF his
coat.
"She told him to read that and To
tear 1t up II he did not like IL; and then
she fed again TO her own room, Mr..
browning settled himself at the table
and unfOlded the parcel. II contained
the series of sonnets which have now
become so illustrlous. As he read. his
emotion and delight may be conceived
Before he had finished 1t was impos-
slble to restrain himself. and, regard
less OF his promise he rushed upstairs
and stormed that guarded citadel. He
was early conscious that these were
treasures not to be kept from the
world; I dared not reserve to myself
he said, the finest sonnets written In
any language since Shakespeare's
When 1t was determined to publish the
sonnets in the volumes of 1850. the ques-
ton of title arose. The name Ill
tlmately chosen, SOnnets from the
Portuguese was invented by Mr..
Browning as an Ingenious device to
we'll the true authorship and yet to
suggest kinshlp with that beautiful
lyric called 'Caterina to Camoens. In
which so similar passion had been ex-
pressed. Long before he ever heard of
these poems. Mr. Browning called his
wife his own little Portuguese and
so, when she proposed 'Sonnets Trans
lated from the Bosnian he, catching at
the happy thought OF translated re-
piled. No, not Bosnlan-that means
nothlng-but from the Portuguesel They
are Caterinas sonnetsr And so, in
half Joke. half concelt. the famous
title was invented"
Alphonse Daudet thus describes his
method OF writing book; II write
slowly, very slowly. and revise and
revise. l am never satisfied with my
work. My novels I always write my
self. I never could dictate a novel; As
to my plays, / formerly used to die
tate them. l had a certain talent IN
my legs. Just as Napoleon had GER
tain genius In the legs Of his soldiers. |
NV books 20 through many processes. |
To begin with, MI my notebooks. |
Each note as It is used Is scratched out |
in blue or red pencil From these |
memory-'the deltoi of my memory
write out In cOpy-books the first |
copy OF my novel. I write this first |
copy on alternate pages of my copy |
books, and leave the opposite sheet |
blank. When the book is finished IN |
its rough state. rewrlte 1t page by |
mage on the blank sheets The page /
on the right Is the amended copy OF !
the page on the left. Then my wife Z
looks AT this second copy and suggests /
10 me what improvements might be |
made. I note these down. Then ] re-
write the whole book again with the
Joy Of a schnolboy who feels that
mart from my notes. / write each |
could 40 So. would write I, as many
times more for, as I have said, ] am
never satisfied with my work. But
am very irregular In my way OF work
ing. Sometimes work eighteen hours
a day. and day by day
Grant Allen published his first book
,rder the pseudonym Of Cecil Bower
Ills real name is Charles Grant Blair
fndie.
Grant Allen says Of "The Woman
vvbo MD; at was written With long
"a coir, deliberatlon. speEt hNe
years in maturing It before ! eyer .,f,, pss
~ 4, "u'rl.in1 the first outline. spent
Two Years In rc-readng, polishing. eor-
rsctIne IT. tin every episode every
sentence. every Image. mao Deen r rpns
ti,nes aver, dood or bad Il Is nv hes'
nossible work" ga