Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-29

derS. They will return tO NorWlch | Sunday evening. N
 A walhngford correspondent notes 1 that Arthur Brooks. Steve Mead and 1 Forest Fletcher of Norwich, Conn., l spent the week end with MT. Brooks parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brooks of South Orchard street.
 --------e----A--- NOTED MAGAZINE EDITOR
 ADDRESSED ACADEMY PUPILS. William. Webster Ellsworth Gave in-
 structiee Address on Publishing and
 Literature.
 On Wednesday morning William Webster Ellsworth gave a most inter | esting address on Publishing and Lit l wich Free Academy assembled in | Slater hall. There were also present 1 a numbe rolf invited friends. Principal Henry A. Tirrell presented MT. Els 1 worth ard spoke of the rare oppor- tunity the listeners enjoyed of hearing a man who had spent a lifetime editing and managing magazines. For 40 years he had engaged in such occupation, having been with the Century com pany, which was formerly Scribner's magazine, for nearly that length of time, the latter years before his re- tirement having meen the president.
 MT. E1lsworths address was appre- ciated by pupils and friends alike and his very ready speech and flow of wit was delightful to listen to. He stated books and book publishing beginning with the half century mark of 1900.
 Dreams and books. he said, are each 8 world. If possible, he would have desired to be writer, since that did not lie within his scope the next best Al~s.~ l. s-l- l,s- early and caliow days he wrote some poerty but was .advised by his superior in the publishing house in which he had humble position to try only one thing. either poetry or publishing, and his advice was to keep to the publish ing end. There one has at least re- ward in numbers, usually at least 50 to 100 being issued 1early. The money rewards are not great, but 1t is a daily joy.
 In the 10 year period from 1850 to 1860 there were great many books of lasting value printed. books that are classics and will live beyond their own generation. Among these he mentioned David Copperfeld, Bleak House, Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorritt, Adam Bede, Pendennis, NeWeomes, Cloister and the Hearth, Hard Times. Tom Brown, Scarlet Letter, House of Seven Gables, John Halifax-Gentleman and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Almost all of them you notice, by English authors. Among those not truly fiction may be listed the works of Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, Lowell, Tennyson, Wordsworth, the Brownings, Walt Whitman, Iongfel- low, Fitzgerald Many of these au- Dickens shows very clearly the irflu ence of Washington Irving in his de- picting of country life. And in turn Dickens exercised his influence ever our American writer, Brete Harte
 American literature at this time was eastern, must of it emanating from Boston or whereabouts. And most of the publishing was done in Boston There is in this day a disposition to ignore the writings of Longfellow and to give precedence to North of Boston and the Spoon River Anthology. Sure ly finer poem of Indian life than Hiawatha was never written and Longfellow should keep his place in our literature.
 The entire period since the middle of the last century has been one of great literary importance, numbering l among notable authors Bryant, Irving, Donald Mitchell, Emerson, Longfel- tow. Hawthorne, Motley.
 Between 1860 and 1879 Thomas Bailey Aldricll wrote The Story of a Bad Boy and Louise Alcott achieved fame with her Little Women. Sidney Lanier and Mark Twain appeared and StevenSon'S genius developed. MT. Ellsworth spoke of Mark Twain s difficulty in obtaining a publisher on ! account of nis disreputable appear l ance and of his huge success as an actor in amateur theatricalS his one | drawback being disposition 10 con- | tinue talking after his lines had ceased, to the great confusion of his l fellow actors.
 Between 1870 and 1880 Brete Harte's
 Luck Of Roaring Camp started a new | era of short story writing, of which i there had been but little previous to | this time. Also this decade saw How | els first publication. The Civil war was held responsible for the new lit | erature. It set in motion different | forces. The Centennial at Philadelphia l also played it's part in moulding the ] thought and expression of the times. 1 It made for a purely American Etera- :! ture. Although much of it could have l been by Europeans, yet more of it was | of the very bone and sinew of Ameri | can life
 | And just at this time there was Stedman. a man who moved in two | worlds, widely separated. By day one | of those to crowd the floor of the stool;
 exchange, buying and selling, and by 1 night living in world of dreams and 1 poetry. Surely in this his native town
 it is most fitting he should have found
 the faithful chronicles of his life and
 boyhood days. In A New England l Childhood Margaret Fuller has achieved the double distinction ot
 bringing the flesh and blood boy ir all his miscnievous youth before us and of producing a little masterpiece
 deserving of a far-reaching recogni-
 ton.
 After these men came those who
 took nature in her various forms foi
 their theme: Burroughs. Burbank, Err
 nest Thompson Seton. Their keynote was simplicity, as. was fitting.
 Stockton, Runner, Hopkinson Smith Richard Watson Glider, Jack London Thomas Nelson Page, Oliver Hereford
 Frances Hodgsone Burnett were all ia. miliar figures to MT. Ellsworth. many Indeed passing beyond that into Friendship.
 | Generals Sherman and Grant eacf
 published their war biographies il
 Century and Joseph Jefferson his au
 tobiograpify.
 The old method of securing an au'
 thor's work was to pay him a fla
 sum, often what would appear ab
 surdly small now, but time has chang
 ed that. The usual method now is tt
 advance a certain amount, perhap'
 five or ten thousand dollars, and late
 pay the royalties.
 MT. Ellsworth gave list of bes l