The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-18

! lish."
Working Journalist at Sixteen.
He began to write in 1862, and al
ready in 1863 that is to say, when he
was only fourteen, various poems, es-
says and tales Of his were published.
1T was not, however, until 1865" con-
! tinued Dr. Nordau, Il was then six
! teen, that I began to make money with
my pen. In that year 1 was the prin-
cipa1 collaboration on a paper called
| Der ZarSchenact, at a salary of 80
florins, or $12 month, with which L
/ kept US all. I was at school at the
! time, and spent my leisure hours at
work on this paper, and my evenings
| at the theatre in my stall as a dra
matte critic. 1 looked so young that
often a kind-hearted old compositor
offered to escort me home at nights
from the printing office-me, the dra-
matte critic!-for fear I should lose
my way. Any time that [ had to spare
/ from my studies and my journalistic
work, l employed in giving lessons.
! We needed every penny I could earn,
! for my father, mother and sister were
entirely dependent on me. 1t must
have been about this time that [ wrote
my first long work, a satirical poem
in ten cantos, entitled, Deutschland
l may remark that it never found a
publisher. l remained on Der Zaisch-
enact until 1 left school, and at the
age Of eighteen, having entered the
university of Pesth as a student of
medicine, I joined the staff of the
'Pesther Lloyd"
Sets Out to See the World.
Max Nordau was doing Well at this
period in his career. My salary Grom
the 'Pesther Lloyd was 500 a month,
and l made about as much more as
cOOfTibl1tOl- n fha Zait11r cr,
and other newspapers. An income of
5000 month is quite a fortune in
Pesth, and [ saved good deal, for l
had made up my mind that as soon
L could afford it, L would take
long holiday and see the world. I
had nothing to hope for in Pesth L
was considered a German, foreigner.
AS a foreigner, I had no chance The
Hungarians hate the resident German,
even If these be natives of Germany,
and indeed have often tried to de-
nationalize them. Besides, I had en-
couragement to continue a literary
career, for felt myself rich man.
My father died in 1872 having en-
joyed two or three years of luxury /
took my degree in 1873, as a doctor of
medicine. My degree in the univer-
sity of Paris was obtained in 1882 AS
soon as 1 had taken my degree 1 went
to Vienna, discharging my conscrip-
ton duties as a medical surgeon and
acting, at the same time as CORES
pondent of the 'Pesther Lloyd, on a
salary of 5000 a month. From Vienna
1 went to Berlin and studied upder
Vinchew, and walked the hospitals,
studying general medicine. In 1874 /
paid a two months visit to Russia,
partly as journalist, and partly to
see the hospitals in such towns as
Moscow. Kew. Petersburg, etc. Thence
1 went to Sweden, Norway and Den
mark, and afterwards to England and
Ireland, with the same purposes in
view. 1 contributed articles on social
life, literature, art and hospital life
TO my papers, and wrote on medical
questions in the Wiener Medecinischer
Wochen-Schrift.' 1t is a feather in the
cap of medical man to contribute to
this publication. These tours were eff
fected on my savings.
Did Not Care to Make Money.
II was studying all the time, learn
ing languages, mixing with all classes
of people, studying the life and liter
allure of each country visited, getting
hold of old books. seeing theatres and
art exhibitions in the various towns.
[ think 1 made good use of my ram
blings, which occupied by life between
the ages of % and q. I did not care
10 earn money. All wanted was to
heap up materials, to study men and
nations. returned nome to Pesth in
1876, and took my mother and sister,
who had lived comfortably in the
meantime on an allowance, and went
with them to Paris, where I continued
to study medicine. We lived in Paris.
partly on my savings and partly on the
income derived from my pen as con-
tributor to the 'Frankfurter 2eitung.'
Whilst pursuing my medical studies
in Paris, I began to write my first
book, 'Paris-Studien und Bilder aus
dem Wahren Milliardenlande' This
was written in the years 1876 and 1877.
found publishers for it in Messrs.
Duncker & Humblot, from whom I
received $1,000 marks after the first
edition had been sold out, and a fur
Their 1000 marks on the second edition.
The book was much attacked in
France, as it was supposed to be a re-
tort on Tissot's Pays des- Milliards.'
No doubt these attacks helped the
book, for the first edition of 1000
copies was exhausted in six months. |