The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-10

great literary boom concerning which that veteran journalist, MT. James Payn, prophesied some sixteen years ago, is now in our midst. Nearly ev- issue, and hence in London, where pa pers on the bookstalls are returnable,
 the bookstalls at the railway stations threaten to extend into the tunnels, so great is the strain upon their accommo- dation. It is still, hoWevr, the custom
 to speak sllghtingly of journalism as an ill-paid and half-starved professioni
 MT, Stead has said that a man must be unusually mentally active, and ever on the alert, to make G4 or 65 a week; but
 the latter observation was made some
 few years ago, and hardly applies to
 the present state of affairs in the jour
 nalistic world. h fact, an energetic
 and capable free lance" can pick up
 a very sung little income, untrammel- led by any of the drawbacks of an office
 life; and while all cannot be members
 of the regular staff of a newspaper, it should be remembered that there is
 always room for good copy, even in the most exclusive of journals Unques-
 tionably most of the best writing for
 the press is done by the free lance:" his articles must be good or they will
 be rejected.
 The Times will pay from , to 10
 guineas for an article contributed by a correspondent, and rather than lose
 @ good one, considerably more. If one
 has really got anything to say of great
 public interest, or>any information of a peculiarly exclusive character, it is al ways better to begin with the Jupiter of
 Printing House Square. No paper is
 more prompt and courteous in return ing unsuitable manuscript, provided, of l courses that the golden rule of always | enclosinga fully stamped and addressed
 envelope is carefully attended to. The rate on the other great London dailies | is, as a rule, 2 guineas per column, the | Daily Telegraph, the Daily News the | Standard, and the Morning Post all | paying that sum. Formerly the Daily | Chronicle would have nothing to do
 with that obsolete coin, the guinea, | reckoning its remuneration in pounds,
 and that at the rate of one to a column; l but with increased circulation the rate
 has probably made a corresponding ad- vance. Articles exceeding 9 column in | length, or at the most column and a | stick" are not encouraged. As q well known newspaper manager once
 told the writer, articles should just turn
 the column and no more, space being
 an important consideration with all ed itors, and therefore allowance for copy | exceeding the column is rarely given, payment being in reality guineas for an article rather than per column; though the Daily News always gives l it's contributors the benefit for all that l is printed. The "halfpenny'' mornings vary so much in size that 1t is difficult
 to lay down any hard and fast rule con-
 corning their scale of remunerat ton. A
 guinea and a half per column will be | found near the mark, the latter being
 the rate on that extremely prosperous venture, the Daily Mail, while the pro-
 vincial dailies rarely exceed an honora-
 rum of 1 guinea. The daily morning | journals, however take very little from l outsiders, having large staffs and corre- | spondents of their own in all parts of | the world; therefore the free lance will
 do far better by bombarding the even ing papers with his lucubrations, since
 for their copy these stIbsist to a far | greater extent upon that sent in from
 extraneous quarters
 | Among the London evening newspa- pers the Pall Mall Gazete holds pride of place for most 1nunificent reWarding
 it's contributors, two gllineas per col- | rs1ta fnr | special articles good deal more is | given. The Evening Standard, whose | literary matter is practically confined to the entertaining essays that form the | leading feature of it's outside page. pays
 for them at he rate of guineas a col
 umn, but a contributor fortunate l enough to receive a proof will have to
 wait some time before his article will
 appear. The St. James Gazette at one l time was said to pay as much as 3 | guineas for an article; now the remun- 1 eration is a guinea and half while 1 should the copy submitted be converted | into a leader" 3 guineas will be al- | lowed. The Westminster Gazette pays
 a guinea and a half per column and
 during Baron Grants regime this was
 the sum given by the Echo, which now rarely renders more than guniea. The | Globe rewards the wrlers of it's turn
 overs" with a guinea; and as with such
 a small paper space is very much cramped, litterateurs should be careful
 to cut heir effusions intended for this | journal as short as possible.
 The weekly reviews, the Spectator.
 the Saturday Review, etc, give as much
 as , guineas for accepted articles, but l in their case special attention should | be drawn to the editorial warning that
 the sending of a proof is no guarantee of acceptance. During its early years ] Tit-Bits, the forerunner of innumerable
 similar productions, only paid guinea | for it's weekly prize story, outside con | tributions for it's other columne not be- | ing invited; now, however, 1 guinea per | column is the rate throughout the pa
 per, and quite recently a special premi-
 tim page has been instituted on which l the remuneration is double the above. | Answers, the Success, the Golden Pen
 ny all pay 1 guinea per column; and the | first-named by the weekly award of a l 2 note for what is considered the best article in each issue, may be said to re-
 ward it's fortunate recipient in a truly | liberal manner Pearson's Weekly gives
 guineas a column for original articles:
 and this shall close our list.-Chamber's S Journal