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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 44 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 52005 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Mr. 14 man 12 work 11 good 11 author 10 time 10 John 10 God 9 Lord 9 London 8 great 8 Miss 7 Shakespeare 7 Mrs. 6 story 6 play 6 life 6 book 6 Sir 6 New 6 Henry 6 England 6 Bacon 5 year 5 mind 5 little 5 like 5 William 5 King 5 English 4 writer 4 thing 4 reader 4 novel 4 illustration 4 day 4 York 4 Stratford 4 Dr. 4 Cooke 4 Celebrity 3 writing 3 word 3 woman 3 look 3 english 3 art 3 Trevor 3 Thorn 3 Thomas Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 6673 man 4331 time 3970 story 3272 thing 3112 work 3025 day 2934 book 2813 year 2584 life 2520 word 2253 author 2233 way 1997 hand 1938 writer 1819 mind 1722 play 1717 part 1703 one 1602 fact 1596 woman 1594 letter 1514 name 1503 character 1499 reader 1496 nothing 1460 eye 1421 people 1416 nature 1405 friend 1402 world 1393 place 1367 idea 1250 person 1199 writing 1191 something 1188 child 1146 page 1143 subject 1103 case 1100 line 1097 course 1084 point 1074 question 1065 matter 1062 form 1052 end 1033 power 1030 face 1005 art 977 house Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 32223 _ 2576 Mr. 1916 Shakespeare 1133 Bacon 1051 Beaumont 1047 Mrs. 934 Miss 878 Harte 817 John 812 William 783 God 777 Fletcher 744 Jane 731 Bret 721 Sir 690 New 675 Brodrick 660 London 626 Henry 622 Tanqueray 550 | 523 King 517 Lord 507 England 489 Edwards 469 Rose 467 George 460 California 448 English 422 Jack 414 Dr. 411 York 392 Francis 365 . 348 Stratford 345 Laura 344 May 344 Cooke 318 Jonson 305 Dodgson 304 Alice 300 James 298 Nina 293 Thomas 290 Gertrude 279 W. 278 thou 276 Poet 275 Helena 271 St. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 29154 it 27132 i 25785 he 12786 you 8990 she 7962 they 7823 him 6946 we 5524 me 5466 them 3179 her 2386 us 2204 himself 944 itself 746 themselves 701 myself 560 one 558 herself 294 yourself 158 ourselves 135 thee 113 yours 106 his 103 ''em 99 mine 52 hers 48 theirs 42 ''s 29 ours 25 thyself 16 em 14 oneself 12 yt 11 ye 9 yow 8 ay 6 thy 5 hisself 4 yourselves 4 you''re 4 i''m 3 you''ll 3 thewes 2 you''ve 2 whereof 2 termd 2 imself 2 do''t 1 | 1 yy Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 89610 be 30665 have 11765 do 7865 say 5694 make 5415 write 4969 know 4710 see 4170 go 3960 come 3689 think 3576 take 3203 give 3158 find 2656 get 2359 tell 2193 read 2136 look 1928 seem 1706 call 1525 put 1460 leave 1440 use 1432 begin 1424 want 1402 feel 1337 let 1304 speak 1286 bring 1268 follow 1246 keep 1239 appear 1225 become 1211 live 1201 show 1146 hear 1136 ask 1089 believe 1070 mean 1069 turn 1049 try 1024 work 999 stand 919 hold 904 learn 886 set 874 sit 855 like 839 send 832 pass Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 20691 not 6873 so 5055 more 3988 only 3702 very 3618 other 3542 then 3502 first 3454 good 3293 well 3215 out 3189 up 3116 great 2897 most 2877 much 2875 never 2874 now 2757 little 2580 own 2420 as 2250 even 2090 old 2042 such 2033 too 2028 here 2026 long 2022 many 1801 down 1798 same 1711 always 1706 new 1608 ever 1551 just 1461 there 1407 again 1402 all 1387 still 1355 last 1295 also 1259 far 1213 young 1212 once 1193 few 1190 yet 1166 on 1144 back 1142 perhaps 1137 human 1055 less 1032 away Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 983 good 719 most 709 least 262 great 159 high 112 bad 110 Most 81 early 68 fine 57 slight 53 noble 52 low 48 late 42 small 40 large 39 near 35 strong 35 simple 34 wise 32 deep 32 big 31 old 25 dear 24 manif 22 faint 21 young 21 pure 21 full 20 eld 19 hard 18 short 17 l 16 rich 16 poor 16 easy 15 mean 15 close 14 safe 14 -1 12 wide 12 true 12 sweet 12 common 12 clear 12 base 11 long 11 j 11 bold 10 wild 10 weak Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2178 most 147 well 113 least 6 hard 3 worst 3 highest 2 potest 2 near 2 long 2 hardliest 2 gavest 1 writhe 1 soon 1 smallest 1 man_,--the 1 life,-- 1 lest 1 deepest 1 back,--"lest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 archive.org 1 www.archive.org 1 digital.library.villanova.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34214/34214-h/34214-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34214/34214-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/5/9/7/25971/25971-h/25971-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/5/9/7/25971/25971-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/authorsprintingp00sauniala 1 http://digital.library.villanova.edu/) 1 http://archive.org/details/loveincloudcomed00bate 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 2 ccx074@coventry.ac.uk 1 ccx074@pglaf.org Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 84 _ is _ 51 _ was _ 39 _ did _ 34 _ do _ 33 _ are _ 26 _ had _ 19 _ am _ 16 _ have _ 16 _ see _ 13 man is not 12 _ do n''t 12 _ know _ 12 _ said _ 11 _ does _ 11 _ feel _ 11 one does not 11 shakespeare was not 10 story is not 9 _ are not 9 _ be _ 9 _ is not 9 shakespeare did not 8 _ has _ 8 _ was not 8 characters are not 8 days gone by 8 work is not 8 writer is not 7 _ did n''t 7 _ read _ 7 _ think _ 7 author does not 7 nothing is more 7 one has ever 6 _ did not 6 _ made _ 6 _ make _ 6 _ want _ 6 _ were _ 6 author did not 6 writer does not 5 _ does not 5 book does not 5 book was not 5 life is so 5 men are not 5 play was not 5 reader does not 5 story called _ 5 story does not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 _ ''s no good 2 characters are not historical 2 play was not well 2 shakespeare had no prominence 2 story is not likely 2 times were not ripe 2 women have no character 2 words are not mine 1 _ am no more 1 _ are no fit 1 _ are no member 1 _ are no security,"--"for 1 _ are not _ 1 _ are not afraid 1 _ are not romances 1 _ are not so 1 _ are not unworthy 1 _ does not necessarily 1 _ has no right 1 _ has no subjectivity 1 _ have no more 1 _ have not only 1 _ is not _ 1 _ is not clear 1 _ is not necessarily 1 _ is not yet 1 _ want no eyes 1 _ was no less 1 _ was no little 1 _ was not _ 1 _ was not less 1 _ was not successful 1 _ were no _ 1 _ were no lion 1 author had not quite 1 author has no idea 1 author has no ideas 1 author has no right 1 author has no sense 1 author has no spite 1 author is not satisfied 1 author was not indifferent 1 authors are not always 1 authors did not purposely 1 authors is not surprising 1 book has no possible 1 book is not only 1 book made no impression 1 books are not only 1 character is not attainable A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 38887 author = Anonymous title = How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction date = keywords = Fiction; Hardy; Raven; Review; art; chapter; character; man; novel; story; word; work; write summary = 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 = 8207 author = Bacon, Delia Salter title = The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded date = keywords = Advancement; Bacon; Brutus; CHAPTER; Caesar; Casca; Cassius; Cit; Cor; Coriolanus; Elizabethan; England; Fool; Gloster; God; Hamlet; King; Learning; Lord; Marcius; Men; New; Novum; Organum; Poet; Raleigh; Rome; Sic; Sir; Tom; art; author; common; english; find; form; good; great; human; like; man; mind; nature; play; power; roman; science; scientific; speak; state; thing; time; work summary = 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 = 21755 author = Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title = Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories date = keywords = Bell; Captain; Dick; God; Grain; Harry; Jan; Jim; Lifeboat; London; North; Rock; Stumpy; life; like; little; look; man; time summary = 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 = 42831 author = Bates, Arlo title = Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree date = keywords = Alice; Barnstable; Bradish; Calthorpe; Cloud; Count; Croydon; Dick; Endicott; Fairfield; Harbinger; Jack; Langdon; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Neligage; Wentstile summary = "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 = 12743 author = Bennett, Arnold title = The Author''s Craft date = keywords = Flaubert; Meredith; artist; author; dramatist; english; great; novel; novelist; play; work summary = 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 = 15718 author = Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor title = 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 date = keywords = Boston; Bureau; Carl; Chicago; City; County; English; Home; John; Kansas; Knefler; Louis; Magazine; Man; Miss; Mosquito; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Niagara; Peet; Pullman; St.; States; Sunday; Troy; United; York; american; article; feature; girl; good; reader; special; subject; time; woman; work; writer; year summary = 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 id = 61859 author = Bond, Nelson S. title = The Ultimate Salient date = keywords = Brian; Danny; Dr.; Earth; Jefferson; Krassner; Mallory; Maureen; O''Shea; Toties; Wilson; man summary = 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. id = 51115 author = Boucher, Anthony title = Transfer Point date = keywords = Holt; Labbery; Lavra; Norbert; Vyrko summary = 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 = 5383 author = Churchill, Winston title = The Celebrity, Volume 01 date = keywords = Asquith; Celebrity; Cooke; Farrar; Mohair; Mr.; Mrs. summary = 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 = 5384 author = Churchill, Winston title = The Celebrity, Volume 02 date = keywords = Celebrity; Cooke; Miss; Mr.; Thorn; Trevor summary = 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 = 5385 author = Churchill, Winston title = The Celebrity, Volume 03 date = keywords = Allen; Celebrity; Cooke; Farrar; Miss; Mr.; Thorn; Trevor summary = "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 = 5386 author = Churchill, Winston title = The Celebrity, Volume 04 date = keywords = Celebrity; Cooke; Crocker; Farrar; Miss; Mr.; Thorn; Trevor summary = "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 = 33103 author = Coke, Desmond title = Helena Brett''s Career date = keywords = Alison; Blatchley; Boyd; Brett; Geoffrey; Hallam; Helena; Hubert; Hugh; Lily; Mr.; Mrs.; Ruth; Zoë; know; look summary = 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 = 8489 author = Coleridge, Samuel Taylor title = Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge date = keywords = April; August; Beaumont; Bill; Charles; Christ; Christianity; Church; Coleridge; Commons; England; English; Fletcher; France; God; Greek; House; Jesus; Jews; John; Johnson; July; June; King; Latin; Lord; March; Milton; Mr.; Paul; Plato; Rome; Shakspeare; Sir; St.; State; christian; footnote; french; good; great; life; like; man; mind; scripture; thing; time summary = 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 = 11483 author = Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson title = The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) date = keywords = Alice; Bishop; Bruno; Carroll; Charles; Christ; Church; College; Common; Dean; December; Diary; Dodgson; Dr.; Euclid; God; Lewis; London; Macmillan; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Press; Rev.; Sylvie; University; Wonderland; child; illustration; letter; little; print summary = 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 = 47455 author = Cook, William Wallace title = The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully date = keywords = Argosy; Cent; Chicago; City; Edwards; Factory; Fiction; Harte; John; Library; Milton; Mr.; Munsey; New; Perkins; Stella; White; York; story summary = 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. id = 26557 author = Cushing, Charles Phelps title = If You Don''t Write Fiction date = keywords = Kansas; New; York; editor; fiction; magazine; manuscript; market; newspaper; story; write summary = 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 = 14084 author = Defoe, Daniel title = A Vindication of the Press date = keywords = Defoe; Learning; Mr.; Performance; University; World; Writings; author; person summary = 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 = 27621 author = Duchess title = How I write my novels date = keywords = Hungerford summary = (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 author = Duchess title = The story of my first novel; How a novel is written date = keywords = novel summary = (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 = 47425 author = Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir title = The Shakespeare Myth date = keywords = Bacon; Folio; Shakespeare; Stratford; William; page; play summary = 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 = 9847 author = Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir title = Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon''s Promus of Formularies and Elegancies date = keywords = Avon; Bacon; Ben; Blank; CHAPTER; Dr.; Folio; Francis; God; Greek; Honorificabilitudinitatibus; John; Jonson; Latin; London; Lord; Loues; Mr.; Promus; Quarto; Richard; Shakespeare; Sir; Stratford; Wallace; William; author; good; great; illustration; man; page; plate; play; word summary = 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 = 49754 author = Ellanby, Boyd title = What Do You Read? date = keywords = Carre; Hartridge; Ludwig summary = 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 = 32328 author = Erichsen, Hugo title = Methods of Authors date = keywords = Balzac; Mr.; author; book; day; german; good; great; hour; literary; night; paper; pen; time; work; writing summary = 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 title = Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher date = keywords = Act; Beaumont; Ben; Court; Dieu; Don; Drayton; Earl; Elizabeth; Fletcher; Francis; George; Grace; Hater; Henry; III; Inner; James; John; Jonson; King; Knight; Lady; London; Lord; Maides; March; Massinger; Mr.; Philaster; Queen; Revels; Richard; Shakespeare; Sir; Temple; Thomas; Tragedy; William; Woman summary = 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. id = 30908 author = Hope, Noel title = The Bible in its Making: The most Wonderful Book in the World date = keywords = Bible; Book; Christ; God; Jerusalem; Jews; Law; Lord; Moses; Testament summary = 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 = 3388 author = Howells, William Dean title = The Man of Letters as a Man of Business date = keywords = author; book; business; good; literature; man summary = 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 = 2037 author = Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title = Novel Notes date = keywords = Amenda; Brown; Cross; Ethelbertha; Geibel; God; Hannah; Jephson; Josiah; Smith; day; good; like; little; look; man; old; poor; thing; time; woman summary = 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 = 29089 author = Johnson, Jesse title = Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems date = keywords = Lee; Lucy; Shakespeare; Sonnets; William; age; friend; play; poet; year summary = 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 = 8908 author = Killen, W. D. (William Dool) title = The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot date = keywords = Church; Dr.; Epistles; God; Ignatius; Lightfoot; Polycarp; Syria; Vol; ignatian summary = 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 = 36837 author = Klickmann, Flora title = The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors date = keywords = MSS; Mary; amateur; article; author; book; good; idea; life; matter; mind; reader; sidenote; story; subject; time; word; work; writer; writing summary = 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 = 2566 author = Lang, Andrew title = How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture date = keywords = Mr.; author; failure; literature; man; style; way summary = 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 = 10420 author = Lewes, George Henry title = The Principles of Success in Literature date = keywords = Literature; Sense; Sincerity; Style; art; fact; great; image; law; man; mind; object; power; thought; vision; work; writer summary = 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 = 54146 author = McGraw-Hill Publishing Company title = A Few Suggestions to McGraw-Hill Authors. Details of manuscript preparation, typograpy, proof-reading and other matters in the production of manuscripts and books. date = keywords = author; book; illustration; manuscript summary = 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 id = 34940 author = Merwin, Henry Childs title = The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers date = keywords = Alcalde; Bill; Boston; Bret; California; Colonel; County; Dickens; East; England; English; Francisco; Hamlin; Harte; Henry; Indians; Jack; James; John; London; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Oakhurst; Overland; Pemberton; Pioneer; Plains; Sacramento; San; States; United; West; York; american; man; reader; spanish; western summary = 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 = 47424 author = Morgan, Appleton title = The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence date = keywords = Bacon; Ben; Condell; Delia; Elizabeth; England; English; Greene; Hamlet; Henry; Holmes; James; John; Jonson; King; London; Lord; Malone; Miss; Mr.; New; Robert; Shakespeare; Shakespeareans; Sir; Southampton; Stratford; Thomas; White; William; man; play summary = 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 = 15762 author = Runciman, James title = Side Lights date = keywords = Byron; England; London; Lord; Mr.; Rover; Runciman; Scott; Shakspere; child; come; day; death; english; find; good; great; life; like; little; man; people; poor; time; way; woman; work; world; year summary = 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 = 31006 author = Saunders, Frederick title = 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 date = keywords = 8vo; Manuscript; Page; Paper; Post; Press; Vols; author; printing; type; work summary = 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 id = 25971 author = Sinclair, May title = The Creators: A Comedy date = keywords = Bickersteth; Brodrick; Collett; George; Gertrude; Gunning; Hambleby; Henry; Holland; Hugh; Jane; Jinny; John; Laura; Levine; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nicky; Nina; Owen; Prothero; Rose; Sophy; Tanqueray summary = 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 = 36650 author = Smedley, William T. (William Thomas) title = The Mystery of Francis Bacon date = keywords = Advancement; Anthony; Bacon; Burghley; Court; England; English; France; Francis; French; God; John; King; Latin; Learning; Lord; Mr.; Queen; Shakespeare; Sir; Spedding; Thomas; Thy; book; life; lordship summary = [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 = 27485 author = Smith, Francis Asbury title = The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant date = keywords = Beaumont; Contention; Cymbeline; Fletcher; Greene; Henry; Philaster; Professor; Shakspere; Thorndike; Wendell summary = 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 = 2431 author = Twain, Mark title = Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography date = keywords = Bacon; Claimant; London; Lord; Mr.; Penzance; Shakespeare; Stratford; law; time; work; year summary = 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 = 33148 author = Various title = 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. date = keywords = Chatto; George; God; JEROME; John; London; Messrs.; Mr.; Press; STUDY; Street; book; day; good; great; hand; illustration; life; little; long; man; novel; old; paper; story; time; work; year summary = 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. id = 61625 author = nan title = Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing Advice, opinions and a statement of their own working methods by more than one hundred authors date = keywords = Henry; answer; author; character; fiction; good; idea; imagination; mind; reader; story; thing; work; writer; writing summary = 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,