PENS OF GOLD.
Professor Yambery’s tribute to the generosity of Mr. John Murray in the matter of payment for his “Travels in Central Asia” leaves unaffected the fact that the work, while involving a three-figure loss to the publisher, by no means paid the author. Macaulay’s £20,000 for his history Mr. Justin M’Carthy’s ultimate £IO,OOO for his history, and the handsome return which Mr. Morley’s “Life of Gladstone” must have yielded—these are the exceptional rewards for serious literature. . Novels are the books which pay. Miss Braddon’s pen has brought her £IOO,OOO, Mr. Kipling commands £IO,OOO for a volume of short stories, and Mrs. Humphry Ward has cleared as much as £14,000 for one of her later novels. The circulation of the Hall Caine and Marie Corelli books should yield their respective authors an even greater revenue.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 2
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