The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-25
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
WHITING Or JUVENILES As a PER-
NsNEsT LITERARY TaDT sTRf-


Hrs. s0athvorth 81 sg-The Value
of the Fight A. Literary Prop
erty-Oae Of W. Croekeft-s Virtues
various Literary Items
Saw YORK. Dee 1L-The I-51strT %
zr.t-ng -JaveIllez'' sens 80 have SUI
feEe5 10 1ec1e sl--e TIE days wa=n
Lo1lzz s. AI-orr secured sale u ao5a-
1880 cops u -Lstll= Wonsn~ u abo1-
three years Eyen Hiss AIaost wzz Eoz
tas arzt % pr0se tast quick and Wa
popularity awaited good a31k flE
c1idren- For 1ftsel years o@10rl Ese
Publication Of Little FF1E1en william
T. ADAMS f++Olzver Op-se-J 1ad been hnt-
-1z 11y@LIses corss1eTsD-F better I1sn tze
DroTsE1ial wheat ir rhe UEl
source Of sussznsnce- and as early rs
81 Mrs xix aeta Stuart P1sfps rmotn-
r. u Mis- Eilzsb@tn Stuart Phelps War9
rad written z c1ll1reo-s book sunny
; &C. t1sL within a year attained sale
q te1.1a cCp5es Tlere - uo5o5y pro-
5uc-ng juveniles just now--sI least IN
THIS countrywide sweeps the whsle 6e-l
lr SIC royal 1sslion o. these departed
nlasrers. 3ITs. Burnett djd q. and more.
Win Little L9rd Fauntleroy. Whicn
must have raj a sale il gh= United States
acne q sDo1t 5000 copies, 01t shis
was about aer Only venture INFO Jhe fed
o. juveniles AS 4 steady, plain. uErO-
msnEe every day occupation. however.
the wiring Of juveniles never vas bet-
ier.
There are a good many people ~no fol
D." T. They hope 70 get. and generally
% zef. about z cent a word for she use
q taeir matter in periodicals.. and q roy
al-y Of u pr cent. when II is Published
-75r..r
Is their main depenGence. The number
of exclusively juvenile periodicals. ard
the nlknoer OF other periodicals taat
maintain a juvenile department makes the
demand for such matter steady and large.
The writers y 10 make business OF
meeting tais demand proceed with much
the same matrer-of-factness and method
a. If they we're curing pork CT packing ice.
They keep an eye constantly open. as IT
were, 10 tne weather; taey see what is
coming. and shape their course shreWdly
70 ft what they see. For instance. the
first discOverers Of gold n the Klondlke
were not well rested from their Journey
home before the writer OF juveniles had
/ produced a ful-blown novel conducting
some favored lads through all the rare
adventures and experiences Of a journey
in q season Of prospecting and mining.
royal find" the Journey out and a he
6 AD4e E-Al-iJL Y san 1AA-DL- anu dtALLlEAl4E
friends. A man or woman weI yerzed
in --Ie craft and following it win faith
I fuiHess, day BY day easily produces 500
words a week and this, al a cent a word.
means so a week; and 80 a week for work
I that you en- do without expense, and
/ mainly in the quiet and seclusion OF your
/ own library. is a reward not 10 be dis
missed iightiy-exceDt by promoters and
7 politicians.
/ fancy il viii be In the nature Of news
10 z number Of my readers il I tell them
I that Mrs Emma D. E. y. Southworth Is
I stiii living. 10 day or two now CDec.
/ ~ she VIII be 60 years old. and she still
/ resides in The cottage she built for herself
/ over forty years ago at Washington. on a
/ high point that commands a superb view
+ OF the Potomac valley. She is now fee
I bic. and visitors are generally refused ad-
/ mission to her, not" as they carefully ex-
/ plain to you ar her door. because she
! does not wish to see people, but simply
/ because she is rot strong enough TO do SO"
/ Washington Is her rative place; she was
4 born there I'm 1878, the descendant Of an
/ old and well-kroWn family, the Newt
4 ties. The death of her husband in 1873
/ left her without resources and with two
/ young children TO support. Some years
/ OF extreme difficulty followed for her In
] Ae1Jt hliiiE lfdFLtHA III q phD4Lc SEiADJ4f
caring for her house and family. and
even nursing one of her children through
1 q long illness, she wrote her first novel
| ''RetribUtion." 1t was written for the
National Era, the paper that two years
later made the first publication Of I'm
/ Gle Toms Cabin" Under the strain of
| all her cares and labors, her health final
! ~ gave way. But her novel proved i'm
/ mediateiy popular; after the serial publ
"a ton ~ was feetIpd in hook form rIar
/ per &, Bros. and the author. TO quote her
| own words, found herself born as it were.
into a new life; found Independence. sym
| pathy friendship and honor and an oc-
cupation in which she could delight. IAN
| this" she adds. came very suddenly as
after a terrible storm a sunburst" Hav-
| irg thus. by hard degrees, got her start.
she went on producing with wonderful
I abundance, writing one, two, and at times
even three novels year She had writ
ten not less than fifty when she finally
laid by her pen.
w. A Fraser. the Canadian enginoc-
who writes stories out of his own strange
| experience in two opposite quarters of the
globe. Canada and India IS rejoicing in
the arrival OF new daughter The young
lady enjoys the distinction of having Mr.
Rudyard Kipling for her god father. and
she has been christened Ruth KiDling
Fraser" Her father says she is 20 be
called Kip" OF course it is open to any
admirer to name his baby after Mr.. Kip
ling: but in Mr.. Frasers case there was
a special impulse. not 30 say almost ohll-
Ration, for while they were yet, person
ally entire strangers, Mr.. Kipling showed
extreme friendliness 10 some Of Mr.. F'ras-
er's offspring. I think ! have, at one time
or another. referred to the matter in this
correspondence but there will be no harm