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  Dear Sir: If you have not yet disposed of the sole and unrestricted rights of translation into the GERMAN language of your books: ''The Billionaire''s Dilemma'' and ''The Shadow of the Unknown


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  In the Argo of the Elizabethan drama--as it presents itself to the imagination of our own latter days--


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  Series HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF FICTION LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 9 HENRIETTA STREET


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id: 14084
title: A Vindication of the Press
author: Defoe, Daniel
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  Just what motive caused Defoe to write _A Vindication of the Press_ is Criticisms introduc''d" make such an essay as he writes "absolutely first the author vindicates the usefulness of writing; in the second Learning and universal Writing in Poetry, perhaps the greatest that OR, AN ESSAY ON THE _Usefulness of Writing_, ON CRITICISM, AND THE The fatal Criticism or Damnation which the Writings of some Authors universal Writing in Poetry, perhaps the Greatest that _England_ has other Persons, equally qualified for Writing, and perhaps of greater attending this easy Writing, and there are very few Persons that can Person of universal Learning: Though I have often observ''d, both in the Writings of the Author of the _True born English Man_; (a Poem Person celebrated for Writing, without the use of Conversation, in noble Plants; that a Person writing a great deal on various Subjects,


id: 15762
title: Side Lights
author: Runciman, James
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  day by sheer literary work, he would spend hours in answering people "it is better for literary men to read a little occasionally." To I can readily imagine a man of real good sense and cultured taste If a man''s function in life is to learn, then by all means let many people fancy that our great critic must be a man of universal general law holds; the man who makes a happy marriage lives out his toil of working-men; he passes his time now in the company of these kinds of cultured men like the life which they call "Bohemian." The seems like rank folly for any man or body of men to take charge of a but the time will come when you will hear me!" A few good men consoled sure that at one time of his life he was what we call a bad man, his


id: 29089
title: Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems
author: Johnson, Jesse
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  as the patron or friend of the poet; that while Shakespeare may have love of the poet or the beauty of his friend was quite as great as the and in the Sonnets the age of the writer and that of his friend are so expression of the poet''s fear that his great love for his friend may This is the last Sonnet which the poet addresses to his friend. not claim that the age of the poet''s friend can be certainly stated old; the last two lines of the Sonnet, referring to the indications chapter I shall quote Sonnets indicating, indeed saying, that the poet OF THESE SONNETS,--WHAT WAS THE AGE OF THE POET OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN said clearly indicates that the life of the poet''s friend presented no If the friend to whom the Sonnets were addressed was Shakespeare, and If the Sonnets were written by Shakespeare, who the friend and patron


id: 27485
title: The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
author: Smith, Francis Asbury
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  did not charge that Shakspere imitated the author of the "Contention"; There is therefore no proof that Shakspere imitated Kyd, and Professor conjecture that to the end Shakspere remained imitative and little else. Professor Wendell that Shakspere began by "imitating or revamping the the only play (of Beaumont and Fletcher), "acted before 1612, the year dates of Beaumont and Fletcher''s "Philaster" and Shakspere''s "Cymbeline." There is no claim that Shakspere imitated Beaumont and supposing that Shakspere imitated them in "Cymbeline," "Tempest," or "romances" of Beaumont and Fletcher and those of Shakspere, and it is "imitation" from "The Tempest." Professor Thorndike the critic has here Beaumont and Fletcher were the "imitators," not Shakspere. in Shakspere sufficiently like the original types in Beaumont and Shakspere was not content with copying Fletcher''s plot, characters, and Fletcher''s romances, and that in "Cymbeline" Shakspere did not that several of their plays (Beaumont and Fletcher''s romances) must have


id: 25971
title: The Creators: A Comedy
author: Sinclair, May
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  When Tanqueray wanted to annoy Jane he told her that she looked like her "Because," said Rose, "I like taking care of people." "Rose," he said, "do you think I''m good-looking?" "Rose," he said, "if you stroke my hair too much it''ll come off, like It was Nicky, come, he said, to know if she were going to Miss "No," said Jane, "it isn''t like him." She rose. "That''s just like Mr. Tanqueray," said Rose. All my best things come," said Nicky "--like _that_!" "Does anybody," said Jane, "know how the really beautiful things are "Why do you like me?" said Jane, whose vision of Owen Prothero was again things he thought could not be said while he sat there, at Brodrick''s "My dear Rose," said Jane, "whatever do you think she''ll do?" "She knows she isn''t allowed into this room," said Tanqueray to Jane.


id: 27621
title: How I write my novels
author: Duchess
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  (1855?-1897) "How I write my novels" (from Mrs Hungerford''s inspirations that oft-times are slow to come. word in a crowded drawing-room, a thought rising from the book in hand, very long time ago; but I have always hated the words ''waste paper'' manuscript went to light the fire of that heartless editor. rescued from the misty depths of the mind, the characters come and thoughts; at night, my saddest. come--it is at such moments as these that my mind lays hold of the novel now in hand, and works away at it with a vigour, against which brain wanderings of one wakeful night three of four chapters are As a rule, too, I never give more time to my writing than two hours out mind are as the wild sprays sent heavenward at times by a calm and slumbering ocean--a promise of the power that reigns in the now quiet


id: 27622
title: The story of my first novel; How a novel is written
author: Duchess
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  (1855?-1897) "The story of my first novel" (from The Ladies'' "The story of my first novel" _not_ come home to roost, it stayed where I had sent it. I was only sixteen then, and it is a very long time ago; but I have always hated the words "waste-paper" ever since. wrote, until the idea was an object formed. (1855?-1897) "How a novel is written" (from The Ladies'' Home "How a novel is written" The characters in my novels, you ask how I conceive them? is rescued from the misty depths of the mind, the characters come and A _young_ man and woman for choice. with as yet no glimmer of the coming dawn, no faintest light to show fruitlessly for that sleep that will not come--it is at such moments as theses that my mind lays hold of the novel now in hand, and works brain wanderings of one wakeful night three of four chapters are


id: 30908
title: The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World
author: Hope, Noel
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  called to write the first words of God''s Book would need a very special We are not told who was called by God to write the Book of Joshua; we they knew of God. Indeed, not until the people were forced to live in a heathen city did possessed in the written words of God. But in Babylon, with its huge heathen temples blazing with jewels and Now when the people heard the words of God''s Book they were very sad; the learned people; for the words in which the Law of God was given had live in the new city, and in the old Greek books we can yet read of the But many books had been written in the days of the old Jewish kings, write a part of God''s Book. them write, but that their written words should ever be used by God to


id: 31006
author: Saunders, Frederick
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  Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, details of Printing and Publishing as shall enable Authors to form their work is to be printed:--if in Folio, four pages; if in Quarto, eight "Press," which is the order for Printing off the entire number of copies Printing a work is the setting of the Type, arising from the fact that Paper for Printing the number of sheets required is first laid open. beauty depends on what is called the Press-work, to produce which long great speed are required; for ordinary works, and fine Printing, the In another place he enumerates the works he had printed Engravings on Wood, are usually Printed with the Letter Press, for which Pica is the type usually employed in Printing works of History, It is not, perhaps, generally known, that Works Printed in London may be The publishers of this little work have had a volume printed in

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  The Author''s Printing and Publishing Assistant Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing; Preparation and Calculation of Manuscripts; Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c.; with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks Used in the Correction of the Press


id: 21755
title: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  Ramsgate boat, a lion-like as well as lion-hearted man, who rescued One day, soon after the men had commenced work, it began to blow hard, ring comes to the alarm-bell, and a man or a boy rushes in shouting At such times I came to know that "man wants but thunder comes rolling over the sea, men with hard hands and bronzed The ladder-way by which the men descend to their work is 1230 feet deep. "It''s only the kibbles," said Captain Jan. Up came one and down went the other, passing each other with a dire Here the Captain told me men were at work not far off and he wished to "Looks like dirty weather, skipper," said Dick, pointing to windward. passing a broken-boned man out of a little boat into a smack or steamer which stand in the way of a young man''s success in life, not only


id: 15718
author: Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
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  university students to write special feature articles for newspapers and To train students to write articles for newspapers and popular magazines Special feature stories and popular magazine articles constitute a type resulted in a type of writing known as the "special feature article." Such articles, presenting interesting and timely subjects in popular of magazine sections print special feature stories based on news. may be asked by magazine editors to prepare articles on given subjects. writers, every publication welcomes special articles and short stories feature article for the _New York Herald_, and from a story-telling hour The _New York Evening Post_ published an interesting special article on special feature in the _New York Times_, that was based on an article in in an article in the Sunday magazine of the _New York Times_, by means the _New York Times_ printed in its Sunday magazine section a special

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  How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers


id: 26557
title: If You Don''t Write Fiction
author: Cushing, Charles Phelps
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  who "doesn''t write fiction," but who is ambitious to market magazine manuscripts sell to newspapers and magazines upon the merits of that spare time he should attempt to write articles on these topics and ship magazine writer is simply a reporter who knows what the general public Good photographs have won a market for many a manuscript that scarcely of non-fiction who sets out to trade in the periodical market as a free magazines and newspapers as in marketing any other kind of produce. broke away from assignment work until I was free to write what I liked manuscript for marketing, and New York newspapers and magazines had been The manuscript went to the Sunday Editor of the New York _Sun_, Success in marketing non-fiction to popular magazines appears to hinge success in selling newspaper copy and magazine articles. Perhaps such art as goes into the average magazine article is not likely


id: 2431
title: Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
author: Twain, Mark
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  couldn''t have written Shakespeare''s works, for the reason that the man happened to Shakespeare_, so far as anybody knows. literary folk of Shakespeare''s time passed from life! So far as any one _knows and can prove_, Shakespeare of Stratford wrote Stratford from the time he was seven years old till he was thirteen. important fact, of Shakespeare''s life in Stratford. the only play--ain''t it?--that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and The next addition to the young Shakespeare''s Stratford history comes recollections of Shakespeare-Bacon talk abide with me--his law-equipment. times in Shakespeare''s thirty-four plays, and only in one single instance Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in quite convinces me that the man who wrote Shakespeare''s Works knew all Since the Stratford Shakespeare couldn''t have written the Works, we infer history: a thing which cannot be done for the Stratford Shakespeare, for


id: 3388
title: The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
author: Howells, William Dean
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  LITERATURE AND LIFE--The Man of Letters as a Man of Business I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, men of business that they can command a hundred dollars a thousand words business talent to go into literature, and the man of letters must keep magazines, and most of the second-best appears first in book form. good, which has first reached the public in book form is in the different he possibly proposes that the author shall publish it at his own expense, if quite as much as the author, and until a book has sold two thousand author cannot help hoping that it has sold much more than the publisher man of business is what kind of book will sell the best of itself, literary men, as it were, without the newspaper readers'' knowing it; but publisher as well as the author of his books.


id: 5386
title: The Celebrity, Volume 04
author: Churchill, Winston
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  "I don''t wonder you''re a little upset, old man," he said, humoringly "You''ll stay here and starve, then," said Mr. Cooke; "damned little I "Look here, old man," said my client, biting off another cigar, "I''m a "Allen, old man," said Mr. Cooke, "come here." "All right, old man, glad to have you," said my client. "Be jabers, Mr. Cooke," said McCann, "and I''m beginning to think it is! "Mr. Cooke," said McCann, disdainfully, as he got into his boat, "he said Mr. Cooke, with deserved pride; "and he went away in such a "Old man," he said to the Celebrity, "you''ll have to learn the price of "It wasn''t fair of me, I know, to leave Marian," said Miss Trevor, "Marian," said Miss Trevor, "I am going to be very generous. "I think he won''t come West again for a very long time," said I.


id: 5385
title: The Celebrity, Volume 03
author: Churchill, Winston
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  "See here, Farrar," said I, "what is your opinion of Miss Thorn?" "I was unaware I had said anything funny, Miss Trevor," I replied. Mr. Trevor and his daughter, Mrs. Cooke and Miss Thorn, and Farrar and myself Farrar took the helm and hauled in the sheet, while the Celebrity, Mr. Cooke, and the guests donned their rain-clothes. "Mrs. Cooke has really been very ill," she said, "and Miss Thorn is doing experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor "Read it, Mr. Trevor," said Mrs. Cooke. "Miss Trevor, too, knows something of me," he said. author of The Sybarites to be a defaulter?" said Miss Thorn. Upon this Miss Thorn became more indignant still, and Mrs. Cooke went on her usual serenity, but said little, while Miss Trevor and I had many a "Don''t you think we had better leave them alone?" I said to Miss Trevor.


id: 5384
title: The Celebrity, Volume 02
author: Churchill, Winston
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  It was small wonder, said the knowing at Asquith, that Mr. Charles appearances, heights, and temperaments the Celebrity obtained from Mr. Cooke, carefully noted, and compared with those of the young women. She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke''s maid, who had stepped forward to relieve hers of the shawls, Miss "You are very kind," said Miss Thorn, quietly, "but I prefer to remain "You know Mr. Allen, then, Miss Thorn?" said I. "Hang you, Crocker," the Celebrity put in impatiently; "Miss Thorn knows "Delightful," said Miss Thorn. "Who is that beautiful girl he is dancing with?" said Miss Thorn. "Oh, I assure you it was a mere chance," said Miss Thorn. "Some people like his writing, I have to confess," said the Celebrity, "Do you know anything about that man, Miss Trevor?" I asked abruptly. "See here, Miss Trevor," I said to her one day after we had become more


id: 5383
title: The Celebrity, Volume 01
author: Churchill, Winston
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  That night I found a new friend, although at the time I thought Farrar''s "How are you, old man?" said he, hardly waiting for Farrar to introduce "It will take money, Mr. Cooke," said Farrar, "and you haven''t won the "Damn the money!" said Mr. Cooke, and we knew he meant it. The more I worked on the case, the clearer it became to me that Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke''s great-uncle had been either a consummate Mr. Cooke one morning at his usual place in the Lake House bar holding of how Mr. Cooke came to establish his country-place near Asquith would "It is Charles Wrexell, I think," said Farrar, as though the matter were "That must be your friend Cooke," remarked the Celebrity, looking up. "How do you like Mohair?" I asked Mrs. Cooke. "Fenelon," said Mrs. Cooke, "luncheon is waiting." house-warming, knew as little about Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, the man, as


id: 2566
title: How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture
author: Lang, Andrew
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  them will fail, for, as the bookseller''s young man told an author once, about success before talking of the easy ways that lead to failure. for a professional man of letters of all work, something like failure. things work together in favour of failure, which, indeed, may well appear himself in studying and imitating the styles of famous authors of every _ethos_" of a work of art, and so write that people shall think of the As a rule, authors who would fail stick to one bad sort of writing; who has to write so that the man may read who runs will fail if he wrests In literature this is a certain way of failing, but I believe a person the publisher''s business to send out books to the editors of critical way, a capital plan is not to write your review till the book has been


id: 2037
title: Novel Notes
author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
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  does life, then, look so to the eyes of a young man? You come out here, old man, and sit as I do sometimes for days "Maybe," said she, "I''d better light it in the old way just for to-day." "Thirty years ago," said he, "I was a young man with a healthy belief in disguised myself as a simple-minded young man who had come into a little pious man, came to sit with him, and, thinking to cheer him up, told him "''Well,'' replied the trainer, ''you said you wanted a good house dog.'' sure which) has come to a man and told him that so long as he loves no days, Jael was accounted a good woman for murdering a sleeping man, and "Do I look like a man you could do anything for?" he said. "The little parchment-faced old man had just the very thing that Monsieur


id: 9847
title: Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon''s Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
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  The plays known as Shakespeare''s are at the present time universally therein was largely used by Bacon in the Shakespeare plays, in his own author of the plays was an _un_lettered man, who picked up his knowledge Plate 13, Page 33, depicts a real face, that of Sir Nicholas Bacon, present Stratford Bust, Plate 6, Page 15, _with the large pen in the In the play of "Hamlet" especially, Bacon seems to tell us a good deal pages 276-7 (1898 edition) of his "Life of Shakespeare" he writes modern editions of the Shakespeare plays, both the form and the meaning great Cryptographic book appeared?" On Plate 24, Page 108, taken from frontispiece of the great folio of Shakespeare''s plays, which is known man is confirmed by Shakespeare''s play of "As You Like it," where Qui dissimulat liber non est Omnia probate quod bonum este tenete // bonum; de quo non est contentio malum.


id: 11483
title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
author: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
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  two books I have seen was the answer of a little girl whom Lewis revelation to the undergraduate who heard for the first time that Mr. Dodgson of Christ Church and Lewis Carroll were identical. Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ Death of Archdeacon Dodgson--Lewis Carroll''s rooms at Christ time (knowing the sad end of the dear little boy), the funny parts A little book, published during this year, "Alice (a dramatic version "For auld lang syne" the author sent a copy of his book to Mrs. Hargreaves (Miss Alice Liddell), accompanied by a short note. A letter written about this time to his friend, Miss Edith Rix, gives The following letter written to a child-friend, Miss E. In December, the Logical controversy being over for a time, Mr. Dodgson invented a new problem to puzzle his mathematical friends


id: 12743
title: The Author''s Craft
author: Bennett, Arnold
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  be for some time to come, the form to which the artist with the most happen to have written neither novels nor plays, that it is more difficult to write a play than a novel. and I am convinced that it is easier to write a play than a novel. Personally, I would sooner _write_ two plays than one novel; less conception and the first publication of a novel, then the play has it. of writing plays and writing novels are those authors who have succeeded between the novel and the play, and that difference (to which I shall Whether in a play or in a novel the creative artist has to tell a who is well versed in the making of both plays and novels can fail to The dramatist is the sole author of a play, but he is not the greatest creative artists have managed to be very good merchants also,


id: 8908
title: The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot
author: Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
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  Epistles--The letter of Polycarp better authenticated--The date assigned for the martyrdom of Ignatius--The date of Polycarp''s Epistle--Written time of persecution--The postscript to the letter of Polycarp quite of Polycarp and the Ignatian Epistles as exhibited by Dr. Lightfoot The letter of Polycarp to the Philippians is a writing of the second In his eagerness to exalt the credit of these Ignatian letters, Dr. Lightfoot, in his present publication, has obviously expressed himself That this letter of Polycarp to the Philippians was written at a time We learn from the letter of Polycarp that _his_ Ignatius was a man of Philippians, or Ignatius, had sent letters to Polycarp addressed to the letter of Polycarp was written, not as Dr. Lightfoot contends, in A.D. 107 but, as we have seen, about A.D. 161, when, as the whole strain of "Though the seven Ignatian letters are many times longer than Polycarp''s letter of Polycarp, not along with the Ignatian Epistles, but in


id: 8489
title: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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  fruit to the glory of God and the spiritualization of Man. His mere reading was immense, and the quality and direction of much of it company with a man, who listened to me and said nothing for a long time; see the Son of man (or me) sitting on the right hand of power, and coming the church praises God, like a Christian, with words which are natural and of this great divine of the English church should be so little known as that he can govern a great nation by word of command, in the same way in He thinks aloud; every thing in his mind, good, bad, things that concern him as a _man_, the words that he reads are spirit and HUMOUR AND GENIUS.--GREAT POETS GOOD MEN.--DICTION OF THE OLD AND NEW Mr. Coleridge called Shakspeare "_the myriad-minded man_," [Greek: au_az


id: 10420
title: The Principles of Success in Literature
author: Lewes, George Henry
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  real success, no man is made a discoverer by learning the principles of relation now existing between the work and the public mind is or is not general are the images of objects which arise before his mind. numerous relations of things present to the mind, and see the objects A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our By reducing imagination to the power of forming images, and by symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer''s mind. style can thought reach the reader''s mind. The style must express the writer''s mind; and artist''s way of expressing what is in his mind, but this is Style in effective expression, the power of communicating distinct thoughts and form is part of the writer''s object, and when the simple thought is reader''s mind the images and feelings which the writer wishes to call


id: 8207
title: The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
author: Bacon, Delia Salter
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  conditions of man''s life require--a new map or globe of learning on The founders of the new science of nature and practice were men in chief for this new doctrine of nature; speaking of the particular human nature; he thinks it of very little use to preach to men from the human speech from the new ground of the common nature in man--that NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, _in the intention_ of MAN.'' His science included But let us see where this new science, and scientific art of human nature,--the first point in that Art of Human Life, which is the end _read_, how could a learned man, in our time, tell us that the author common natural human relations; new views of the ends of social highest form, to the nature of things in general; and that man general, and on the science of human nature in particular, on a


id: 33148
author: Various
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  went on, ''that he who can write a great book is greater than a king; When--to anticipate a little--the time came for publishing it, we were think I could read a sea book published by him. The story of my first book is a good deal mixed, and, like many other times since that day the publishing house I speak of has come to me with publish either--good day,'' he said, and I went out. hour I wrote short stories and little things that I fancied were funny, and I well remember writing ''The Old Arm Chair'' in a penny account book, day to this I have lived by making story-books for young folk. ''To the literary man, all life is a book. wrote stories most of the time, during a large part of my working hours time went on, and really my book seemed as far from publication as ever.

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  My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome.


id: 34940
title: The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers
author: Merwin, Henry Childs
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  When Bret Harte was only eleven years old he wrote a poem called _Autumnal Bret Harte and his sister arrived at San Francisco in March, 1854, stayed period Bret Harte had any notion of describing California life in fiction Men were usually known, as Bret Harte relates, by the State or other place Central California, the scene of Bret Harte''s stories, is a great valley Bret Harte has touched upon this aspect of California life in the Even Bret Harte''s story of the adoption of a child by the city of San In Bret Harte''s stories woman is subordinated to man, and love is In his _Bohemian Days in San Francisco_ Bret Harte gives an account of the incidents, are Bret Harte''s stories to the reality of California life! The California chapter in Bret Harte''s life was This was typical California humor, and Bret Harte, in his stories and


id: 36650
title: The Mystery of Francis Bacon
author: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas)
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  [Illustration: FRANCIS BACON AT 9 YEARS OF AGE. The standard work is "The Life and Letters of Francis Bacon," by James In 1627,[2] the year following Bacon''s death, he published the "The Lord Bacon''s judgment in a work of this nature." The chapter on published an edition of Bacon''s works, and wrote a Life to accompany it. believed that Francis Bacon was the author of these two books. Did Bacon mark his first work on philosophy and his last book by represent the work of Francis Bacon probably between the years 1577 and "Bacon''s Life and Letters" and in the edition of his works, it must be it bear to the names William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon, to the year some of the books on emblems printed during Bacon''s life, and to the In the emblem books written in Italian Bacon does not appear to have


id: 36837
title: The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors
author: Klickmann, Flora
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  Training comes under three headings: Observation, Reading, and Writing. For example: If you intend to write a story, you will need to study the hand to write a story or an article, that they cannot be natural. a sense of music in their writing to read good poetry, and, whenever Decide, before you write a line, the exact point in the life-story of The good writer does not write merely to air his own likes and dislikes need be set once a person has ideas to give the world, and can write Amateurs are much given to story-writing in the first person; it seems whether the author is writing as a character in the story or merely as [Sidenote: The Object Of Writing a Book is not to Befog the Reader''s I do not think it is often possible to write a good love-story until one


id: 32328
title: Methods of Authors
author: Erichsen, Hugo
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  facility with his pen, "Your easy writing makes terribly hard reading." to night for literary work, but sometimes can compose verse only at to eleven hours every day at the writing-table, unless kept from work by work was being carried on--he at his plain writing-desk, with few or no to work to write out what was more present to her mind at such times Generally he works with his pen eight hours a day, tries all times of the day, even during working-hours. book, she worked at it steadily four or five hours every day, without He works standing, and writes, when in good health, with and rapidity; and devotes nine hours a day to literary work. writing, he has done his work in all kinds of ways, and hours, and literary work, and can no longer keep from it, he writes whatever he


id: 34214
author: Gayley, Charles Mills
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  And Francis Beaumont writing to "my friend, Master John Fletcher" speaks Beaumont-Fletcher plays of 1610-1611, for then Jonson was praising the Shakespeare-Fletcher play was acted soon after Beaumont''s, and in the Beaumont-Fletcher plays were presented at Court, by the King''s the times, in a masque at Court; and Beaumont''s, and Fletcher''s friend, admired Dramatick Poets, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gents.," in plays undoubtedly written in partnership by Beaumont and Fletcher a "Comedies and Tragedies written by Beaumont and Fletcher," in general. claimed the whole play for Beaumont, says now "perhaps Fletcher''s." If now we turn to one of Fletcher''s plays written after Beaumont''s that of Beaumont and Fletcher''s play, where there is no question of a three-quarters of the play was written by Beaumont, and that Fletcher''s 19, 1616, assigns the play to Beaumont and Fletcher, and says that it and No King_, _The Scornful Ladie_, are the Beaumont-Fletcher plays.

title:
  Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher


id: 33103
title: Helena Brett''s Career
author: Coke, Desmond
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  her all the things she liked and said she never got in her own house! I felt so silly, like a child, when I was talking to--to Mr. Brett, and I am twenty now." She said this most imposingly. "And so," said Mrs. Hallam, trying not to smile, "you want to marry Mr. Brett because he made you feel so silly when you talked to him?" "You said you liked all his ideas so much," laughed Helena, "and yet and Helena thought a London wedding so much better "fun," that Mrs. Hallam, already feeling nobody, had given in to them with a weak smile. Everybody said too, of course, that Helena had never looked so pretty. "I _wish_ I''d thought of taking them as we went off," said Helena. "Look here, Blatchley old man: it''s like this," said the artist, "I--I never thought of it like that," said Helena, an odd look in her


id: 38887
title: How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction
author: Anonymous
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  art of writing fiction with a good many different kinds of people, I teachable, in writing novels, perhaps I may be permitted to use a close of novel-writing are (1) a good story to tell, and (2) ability to tell for stories, or characters with which to form a longer narrative, you youthful novelist, in which he said: "It''s splendid to write a story. reproduce as much as I know of the way in which novelists work, in order new work, he plotted out the scheme, situations, facts, and characters process, no doubt, one can write a good many thousand words a day, learned more effectively, even for the purpose of writing novels, than stories have made clear that the highest literary art knows neither Short Story Writers on their Art Short Story Writers on their Art "A Novelist''s Views of Novel Writing." By E. "Great Characters in Novels." _Spectator_, vol.


id: 47455
author: Cook, William Wallace
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  The first story for which Edwards received payment was published in another of Edwards'' stories," said Mr. Harriman of _The Red Book_,[C] In submitting his stories Edwards always sends the serials flat, Years later, in New York, such a case came under Edwards'' observation. Edwards was booked to attempt a gushing love story, to follow a copy Edwards has written two 30,000-word stories a week for months at a Edwards knows a writer of short stories who is like a crazy man for in on time, and Edwards was given a story to finish and, a few days Edwards was requested to write but three of the stories in the new form. same day, gave Edwards a new library to do--35,000 words in each story Edwards wrote only one serial story during 1910, and turned his hand years since Edwards received payment for his first story.

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  The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully


id: 47424
title: The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence
author: Morgan, Appleton
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  of the immortal Shakespearean Drama was written by William Shakespeare that William Shakespeare was not the author of the plays that go by his hundred years more--from the day of William Shakespeare''s death down to theater, "William Shakespeare, who employed him to write Plays, and who To suppose that William Shakespeare wrote the plays which we call his, those years the man William Shakespeare _did_ live, and was a theatrical that William Shakespeare was not author of the plays is quite weak plays to-day with William Shakespeare, of Stratford, as we have already writes plays for William Shakespeare''s stage, and, as we have seen, he The days when William Shakespeare first appeared in London, happened others write the plays under the name of William Shakespeare?" question, "Did William Shakespeare write Lord Bacon''s works?" * as well as, "Did Lord Bacon write William Shakespeare''s work?" While not within


id: 47425
title: The Shakespeare Myth
author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
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  Let us now return to the Folio of Shakespeare''s plays, published in On the title page appears a large half-length figure drawn by My book, "Bacon is Shakespeare," was published in 1910 (i.e., BACON SHEWN BY CONTEMPORARY TITLE PAGES TO BE THE AUTHOR OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS. of the engraved title page of Bacon''s work, the De Augmentis, which was the title page that forms the frontispiece of Bacon''s Henry VII. translated Bacon''s essays into French, also published a book of Emblems, the Folio edition of the immortal plays, known as Shakespeare''s, first BACON SIGNED THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS. be three pages numbered 53 in the Folio Volume of Shakespeare''s Plays. no play appeared the name William Shakespeare until that man had been in my book, "Bacon is Shakespeare," Chapter X., page 84, gives us * Note.--A few copies of my book, "Bacon is Shakespeare," In 1910 appeared my own book, "Bacon is Shakespeare," which, placed


id: 49754
title: What Do You Read?
author: Ellanby, Boyd
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  Script-Lab did much more than plot the story--they wrote it. bother with human writers when the machines did the job so much difficult decision: shall we employ Writers, or use Script-Lab? "No," said Carre, "I don''t know that I have. "Have you forgotten," said Carre, "that I am a Writer? "Go over and see Hartridge, look over his machines, and bring me a "You''re right," said Carre. "I just want--My name is Herbert Carre and I want to see Dr. Hartridge. yourself, Carre, that there''s no need for you human writers. "Do your machines do nothing but write new material?" asked Carre, as "Well," said Carre, "perhaps you might let me have some of your current Herbert sat, that evening, in his book-lined room, reading manuscripts. "Is something wrong, Commissioner?" said Hartridge. "Read it!" said Ludwig. "Of course it''s illogical!" said Carre. Hartridge, have been corrupted by reading the work of Script-Lab, and


id: 51115
title: Transfer Point
author: Boucher, Anthony
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  Vyrko considered the problem while Lavra sliced a peach with delicate It was three days after Kirth-Labbery''s death before Vyrko had brought Vyrko never understood whether Lavra had been bored before that time. He had read the Holt stories solidly through in order "Darling," said Lavra, "I want some meat." "--and we''ll know," said Lavra, "whether it''s a boy or a girl." So he read Norbert Holt''s story to her--too excited and too oddly Vyrko had no time for amazement when Lavra and the laboratory vanished. button because Norbert Holt had said she had poked (would poke?) the Kirth-Labbery knew and I''m the greatest man in the world. "I''ve got a story problem," Norbert Holt announced there. "Story problem?" Manning said, a little more sharply than she''d remote year X reads a story that tells him how to work a time machine. "I don''t know," said Norbert Holt. Holt?" Manning asked the girl a


id: 42831
title: Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree
author: Bates, Arlo
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  "Count Shimbowski and Alice Endicott?" put in Mrs. Harbinger. "We were speaking of Miss Wentstile''s proposing to marry Alice to Count "Well, Alice," Mrs. Harbinger said, "I am glad you have come at last. Miss Wentstile could hardly finish her remarks to the air, and as Mrs. Harbinger left her to greet a new arrival the spinster turned sharply to Jack Neligage, with his eyes on Alice Endicott, had made his way over to "Miss Wentstile," the hostess said, "don''t you know Mr. Fairfield? "Mrs. Neligage has lived abroad so much," Miss Wentstile said severely, "Jack," he said under his breath, "do you believe Mrs. Harbinger wrote "I have never heard Jack say that he wished to marry her," Mrs. Neligage responded coolly. "I would like to see it," Mrs. Neligage said, extending her hand. "Go on, Mrs. Neligage, please," Alice said, quite as if she were


id: 54146
author: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
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  author of technical books a highly developed machinery of publication the author secure the style sheet of one of the leading technical publishers of technical and scientific books where the texts generally manufacture of the book, we ask the printer, first, to set a few pages When the author returns the galleys with his corrections marked =Page Proofs.=--The printer then proceeds to make the book up into The duplicate set of page proofs should be retained by the author for =Author''s Corrections.=--No problem in the publishing of technical books gives the publisher and the author more trouble than the galley and page proofs of a book where the printer has not followed author did not complete his book in the manuscript but in the proof. At the time when the author begins to receive page proofs of the book, (2) The author fails to return his proofs and manuscript copy

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  A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books.


id: 61625
author: nan
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  writing--plot, structure, style, material, setting, character, color, My usual method is to write a story as the ideas present themselves or In the best stories, I think, reading one and writing one would be much Reading a beautifully reasoned story would be much like writing a My imagination works more freely in reading stories than in writing I think my imagination works differently when writing than when reading. reading a story generally I do see in my imagination the characters, Difference in behavior of imagination when reading or writing stories? My imagination is never so active when reading a story as when writing imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. imagination when I am reading stories and when I am writing them. write pretty good fiction himself, "the story''s the thing." the writing of a story, are, in their order; plot, setting, character,

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  Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors


id: 61859
title: The Ultimate Salient
author: Bond, Nelson S.
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  Brian O''Shea, man of the Future, here is "I came to you," he said, "because I understand you write stories said, "Don''t look now, but isn''t that doing it the hard way? "O''Shea," I said, "commanding a detachment from the Army of the Upper "Old man?" said Krassner curiously. Dr. Mallory said, "I wish it were as simple as that, O''Shea. Mallory said, "It really doesn''t matter whether he heard us or not, "With so much at stake, O''Shea," he said, "the less they know invented, Mallory said, by a German scientist. Mallory said placidly, "When the hour comes, we will burst from this Danny said eagerly, "I''d like to see some of these here ''magazines,'' And Dr. Mallory said, "There is Krassner looked at me, then at the old man "That," said Mallory, "is impossible. Mallory said quietly, "I''ll herd them below as fast as I can, Brian.


