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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 10 September 1869, Page 3

The Golden Age of Literature. —The sums publishers pay authors for their works are a striking contrast to those pahl in former times. Scott, even after the failure of Ballantyne and Co., reduced their debts from LI 17.000 to L 54.000, which latter sum was paid by his executors out of the moneys arising from his life insurance, copyright property, and oilier literary remains. With respect to living writers, we have only the authority of the newspapers for what follows; but even if they magnify in some cases, the exaggeration is significant. It is stated that Lord (then Sir E. B.j Lyiton received LIOO for each -week's instalment of ‘ ‘A Strange Story and that j\]r Wilkie Collins received L 5,000 for a novel contributed to the GornhUl. Messrs Blackwood and Sons are said to have paid .Ifcss Evans L2AOO for “Silas Mariner,” kigoOO for “The Mill on the Floss,” and L7,0()0 for “Romola.” The Literary Bud yet stated that in 18G2 Mr Coventry Patmore was paid L 2,000 for his “Victories of Love,” contributed to Macmilkin's Mayazine —or about a guinea a line. Messra Sirahan and Co., the publishers of Good Words, placed L 5.000 to the credit of Dr Guthrie, for the pi-rpose of going to the Holy Land and there writing a Commentary on the Bible, to be published m penny numbers. The same publi -hers paid LI,OOO to Mr Millais for twelve illustrations to “The Parabbs read in the Light of the Present Dav.” by Ci Mess re; ;pi(( C«., of Binsse’s, stated that they paid Victor Hugo LI(5,0(10, or 400,000 francs, for “ Les Miserables ” ; hut the author was for twentythree years engaged, op flig wm'k. According to tk o’Pall Mali Gazette, the same publishers have just signed a contract with Victor Hugo to purchase, for the sum of LI 2,000, the right of publication, fora limitedferpa, of an historical novpl, in four volumes, entitled “Par Ordre chi Boi (By order pi the King), the scene of which is laid in England, at the close of the 17th century ; together with a volume of poems entitled “Fin de Satan,” and a volume composed of three dramas, not intended for representation, and entitled ‘ ‘ Theatre cn Liberte. ” Mr Tennyson is said to have been offered L4,oiio a year, by his new publishers, for the exclusive right to publish his works. Journal, New ai]d Inipx-oc^d The ordinary mode of churning in Chili is to put the milk in a skin—usually a dog-skin—tie it to a donkey, mount a boy on him with rowels to his spurs about the length of the animal’s cars, and then run him about four miles.

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