ENTERED AT THE BOSTON POST-OFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. how he lives, what kind of man he is when he
lays aside his full-dress suit of types and binding,
CONTENTS:
and eats, or sleeps, or talks like an ordinary
AUTHORS AND AUTHORS' LIVES. John F. Genung.
person. Of the biographies that appear every
How I WRITE My Novels. " The Duchess."
month, the biographies of literary men are far
A WONDERFUL Parts Newspaper. Henry Haynie. .
GettiNG INTO PRINT. James Payn. .
in the predominance. Books of anecdote, table-
A MAGAZINE Editor's ADVICE. William J. Bok.
talk, reminiscence, treat for the most part of
WHY LITERARY Men BREAK Down. Eugene Field.
men of letters. "The lions of a metropolis are
COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH. A. S. Hill.
literary lions, literary at least to the extent of
ELITORIAL.
Notes, 10 - The Plan of THE AUTHOR.
clever after-dinner speaking or skill in touching
Queries.
off a story. How desperate have been the en-
PERSONAL Gossip ABOUT WRITERS.
deavors to track Shakespeare, through his Son-
James Bryce, 12 - Amelia B. Edwards, 12 - Erck-
nets, his “ Tempest,” his Prince Hal, to that
mann-Chatrian, - Mary Hallock Foote, 12 —
Lucy Larcom, 12 — George Meredith, 12 -- Edgar hiding-place where his baffling personality has
Saltus, 13 — - J. H. Shorthouse, 13 —
Henry M. Stan- retreated! It is a great point gained, everyone
ley, 13 — Walt Whitman.
feels, if it may reasonably be inferred from the
LITERARY News AND NOTES.
Sonnets that Shakespeare the actor, working
among associations that soi
nd stain, felt his
AUTHORS AND AUTHORS' LIVES.
sensitive nature recoil, as it became “subdued
to what it works in, like the dyer's hand "; or if
The glory for which authors are traditionally from the “ Tempest " we may identify Prospero
regarded as thirsting is in the main an elusive with the friendly magician who, as the almost
thing, especially when it comes to be measured unknown playwright, has created so much for
in the prosaic terms of a publisher's accounts; the world. Every shred of fact about such a
but on one side, what we may call its domestic personality is precious. Nor are men exacting
side, it is real, and not ungratifying. Whether about facts poetical or mysterious. They like
his literary work keeps him in shoe-strings or to read, also, at their breakfast-tables that Mr.
not, - in which latter case he is in the illustri- Whittier spent his eighty-second birthday quiet-
ous company of Wordsworth, — of one thing ly at home, receiving his friends, and that Lord
· the author may be sure, that the world will take Tennyson was removed the other day, in a
as much interest in him as he deserves. There special invalid's car, from Aldworth to Farring-
is no class of people about whom there is so ford, where he will spend the winter. All the
much eagerness for information as the literary prose of a poet's life the world insists on trans-
class. What the author writes awakes every- muting into poetry. Pilgrimage to holy shrines
where the desire to know what the author does, is not antiquated, it has only taken the new
Copyright, 1889, by William H. Hills. All rights reserved.