Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-03

chung 10 The vuiumo-at least up 10 the
day that the Harpers published this
book OF mine, when she sont it 10 my
house with the brief inscription. You
VIM
The personal characteristics Of great
men so often display meanness. and
this meanness Is $50 commonly exploited,
that this paragraph contained Jon the
enlarged edition o. the Life and Lott
ters ~ Lord Macaulay.' 10y Sir George
otto IreVolyau. newly issued by the
Messrs. Harper is worth noting Ma
cauiaN was tt some pains tO iuculcate
upon me- says the writer the duty
OF never beating seller down below "a
fair price ana never keeping c. trades
man WAITING for bis money I reColleCt
bis telling us how Dice had received his
annual bin from very Wen known
London shop, and had sent a check by
return of post Next morning the head
of the firm brought the receipt himself
and burst out crying boz Macaul8y's
room Every morning. the poor man
said, two people walked past his office
window, one of whom owed him 1900
and The other 1900 pounds. and me last
of the two was among Oh, most disc
tinguIshod and powerful statesmen n
the country Whether as "a customer.
never undcrpaid a service rendered"
Not long ago Mr. Montgomery
schuyler Jr. sent as little note ou
the subject OF Anthony Tr1llope's earn
iues. "a uropus of am article which we
published with regard tO the profits
made by authors. This statement ot
Mr. Schuylgr's gave the earnings OF
Anthony Ir0Ilope from lN4s to 1873
al t6A,93s, or u round numbers $3.50 600.
These figures however. do not repre-
sent Trollopc's entire income from ut-
erature. They are taken from h.s au-
photography which hp finished iu 1879.
As "a matter of fact, one should reckon
iu his receipts from that year uutl
the end of 1882 whom be- died Don that
period of three years. ho composed no
dliirreut books among them such WDn
known stories as An Eye for uu Eye.
cousin Henry Marion Fay" "lhe
bukcs children ana can Oll Mans
Lofr besides his memoirs ON IhJck-
cray and Lord palwerstnu. aui his eIab-
orato and interesting llo of Cicero. We
do mot know precisely what Doc received
for these ~ works. hut judging from
statement made Iu DTS IutDbiugrHU
they would pruhuOy average at TOO
very lcust $500 .IDh or s3lOlO This
would hrlus uu The total amount of his
IiNIufN earnings tn LlUuuO. or uoHrIN
s3l00l0 &c. himself remarked spsat-
luE of NIa income. 81 look upon tho
result as comfortable but NOT spIsu-
did, Authors uf popular novels at the
present umo may Dr. inclined t0 -nir
when they learn that TToIlopo usually
received only $1,000 or g5 600 for "a long
novel whereas writer's of ephemcrlI
books today earn many times chat SUM
1900 on thn other hand their vogue is
short After they have written two or
three books they aro usually written
OUT and cannot market their Nureh
save with the greatest dlfhcuIty on
thD other hand rrollope's literary Ga
rerr lasted from lNil untl hIs death--a1
years boz all-and tho DAY before b. was
stricken down he still had "a strong hold
upon his public and his publishers
alike This is tho interesting difference
between conscientious Writrr with
swat g,fts and ono who is merely bent