The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-09
LITERARY LOG ROLLING.

Hcw Soras Famous Authors Sought to
Advertise Themselves.
The examples cited hy Francis Crib.
ble FIJI hGs article on The Comedy of
literary Log Rolling iii the strand
Magazine arouse some suspicion as Id
their absolute authenticity. but are
amusing enough whether trne or not
sainte Beuye increased the circulation
Gu hts books Wy insisting upon lighting
duel Id the rain with an umbrella
over hts head. Gerard de Nerval used
to be seen Id the streets az Paris lead
ing d lobster by q string, Nine Kru-
dener tile aaihar of Valerie and the
FREUD of Alexander i Of Russia, made
the fortune 9f lfsx novel by calling al
hit tile Paris shoFs and asking con va.
rlous articles 81 dress ia Ii Valerie"
OF Victor Hugo and Of Alexandra nn-
mas the elder tile following stories are
told.
Nor was the great poet ashamed to
roll bis log even alta funeral He seized
tie opportunity AZ the ohseguIes of
one Of his own sons. II happened that
On tha way 10 the cemetery the pro.
cesEion passed 4 travelling msnagerie,
and the lions. for whatever reason,
stopped roaring Jnst IS Victor Hugo
was ii front Of their cage His conn
panion, minor poet named Pelieport,
drew BIS attention TO the fact Mas
ter, be whispered, sthe lions recognize
you ana hush their voices. The king
Of beasts "a silent III the presence Of the
king or men Victor Hugo bowed and
turned the matter over In his mind.
Then, after meditation, he said: "Pelle-
port. that was happy thought 81
yours. Couldn't ron write something
about itfn And peileport wrote = son,
net about il. and tie fame Of the mas
ter stood on q higher pinnacle than
ever.
And finally there was the case 81 Du-
mas. 0f whom Il may almost be said
that bis whole life was an advertise
meuf. Some one once SAID 81 him that
his vanity was such that be was capa-
bic Of getting up behind bis own car
rage ii order 10 demonstrate that be
had negro footman in his service.
He certainly did many things alEnoat
as absurd as that n his restless pug-
suit of recIane. One Of his delights
was to closhe his noble proportions in
a uniform and to emuellIsh the uni-
form With decorations 70 which be was
not entitled. he even went 80 far as
himself 10 design The uniform 10 which
be foBght--oF. rather, did not fight foT
be arrived after she fighting was ell
over-in Garibaldrs army. and be
achieved q tremendous advertisement
By conducting q we'll known actress 20
a court BAN to which she had not been
invited Tie got another advertise
menf tn allowing himself to be sued
FOR uondellvery OF a feuilieton. he
was utterly in the wrong. and he lost
hts case, but be kept the court IN roars
of laughter while he explained Bis lit
efRry methods and the nature u the
distractions which bad inteFfered with
the falallment Of lis contract But
the best u all his advertisement was
attained when the announcement ap-
pearcd that 81 Alexandra Dumas
would write the last chapter or o forth
coming romance sitting II shop win
dow. for aIl the world to see how IL
was done One can understand that
that sort OF advertisement would suit
the authors who are also Interested in
the sale OF hair restorers They al-
most owe ii 10 the public to EXHIBIT
themselves fl this way. killing tyre
birds with a single stone. But fer the
author Of Monte Cristos to do 1t was
surely the ne plus ultra Of the comedy
Of log rolling.