Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-20
A COURT EPISODE IN 1871.
Overproduction by Authors.


Special Correspondence
7 ONDON. Feb io-"Overproduc-
tom ON tho part OF authors is
4 complained Of by several London
publishing houses. while n critic
points out that a vast quantity OF mat.
ter written under pressure Us not liter
allure az an He invonts tho name "lit-
terry stun Tor this class 90 natter by
way OF distinction. Tho statement DO
an American paper that Frederick Day
holds the record Boo turning ont 10000
words per week, has drawn attention
20 the rate of output by English au-
thors. one book of 100000 words is the
usual yearly average of the best au-
thors iu England; though one or two
do two books and ocClslo ually
three I'm a year Miss Brad
don has written 81 novels in IS
years. S. r. Crockett Is On six years.
Frankfort Moore, 36 IN "a years; Je-
rome X. Jerome, l6 in n years; while
Mrs Macquoid has produced 81 books
in 81 years.
Speaking OF tho last-named writer
Il might be mentioned that Mrs Kath-
airline Macquoid IS now So years Old.
and still turns out her usual averag,
OF daily work. She docs eight hours
steady work each day turning out be-
tween 1000 and 5000 words, using the
typewriter, except for what she calls
emotional passages which, she finds
refuse 90 bo produced by anything but
a pen.
ono Famous and painstalSinr novel
ist. who docs not wish his name mem
toned, writes 1000 words every day
IN the yclr. rain or shine, sick or wou.
sundays included. This work o.
ways done between breakfast an q
lunch. His publishers have recent.
complained that 365 600 words O yea
IS too much, and have asked him 20
limit his output.
ROBERT BARR's METHOD.
Robert Barr has adopted a very
novel way Of writing his storlcs. He
dictates into a monograph. and finds
II a really capital way OF relieving tn
drudgcry of typewritlng, OF penman-
ship, Authors with the artistic" tenn
peramont are often appalled, by tho
sheer drudgcry OF word-craft. and
many refrain from writing on thi
account, Barr has his talking machine
al his bedside and begins on his work
even before getting up BY II o'clock.
after breakfast. "a typst takes the cyl
inders and a transcript IS ready for
revision I'm the afternoon. Barr has
found the photograph a great saver
Of time Several other writer's are now
adopting this system
jerome Is. jerome dictates most OF
LIS work to a shorthand writer, as ha
lnds that. IN literary Wlvk he no
| correct as ne goes along. whereas with
machine, immediate revision is diff
fcult and even confusing.
CoRELLI KEEPS HER MSS
Marie Corou differing from most
modern authors. does an of her worl,
/ with the pen. She Is careful and
methodilal writer producing am aver
I age of 5000 words "a day. Most of her
stuff requires very little correction,
I but SHE always has lt typed before go
] ing 90 the printer She has a "f8d"
FOR keeping her original manuscripts.
They are tied up with ribbon. and
placed in "a glass show case Boo Tho
| drowiug-room. Here you may see her
first book "Thr Romance of Two
Worlds" duly labeled and exhibited.
! n IS interesting 90 note iu this COM
/ ucCtiou that This particular book was
! refused hy four publishers readers
among whom was Hall Game. but tho
publshor-BDutcy read the MS hIm-
| self and decided % bring 10 out simply
/ because the opinions of his readers
were gO unf1NUHblu Tic wisely judged
I that M the public should get to die
cusslng tho work $50 etrguuously. 10
/ would mean big editions. Tho book
proved "a phenomenal success Bent
| ley paid only $500 for the copyright
but afterwards restored N DO Miss
/ Corelu Han Gaines criticism of her
| book came 90 Miss CorelIrs knowledge
] and fHI. .rUuTInfa f.r tho urHtIur haf-