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...little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl said: "Mr. Blank, I should think you would be so glad to meet Lord So-and-so; you know he is a real Englishman...
...L400 for "Dr. Thorne." He began to run into four figures with "Framley Parsonage," for which he received L1000; and his highest price was L3500, for "Can You Forgive Her ?" The highest sum that was paid to Miss Edgeworth for one of her incomparable Irish stories was L250. Lord Lytton is believed to have cleared L80,000 by his novels. It is a fact that Mr. Colburn's readers reported so unfavorably of "Pelham" that the manuscript was on the point of being returned to the author, when the publisher happened to glance at the first chapter...
...Romola" exceeded L10,000, and nearly double that amount is believed to have accrued to her by another of her works. Wilkie Collins received L5000 for "Armadale," the agreement being signed before a line of the book was written, and he gained the same amount by "No Name." Lord Beaconsfield profited little by his earlier books, but from "Coningsby" downward the gains were considerable, and he must have cleared at least L30,000 by his writings. It is probable that "Endymion" will be remembered as the latest novel for which many thousands have been paid down, as the new practice...
...Lord Reay's election to the lord rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's gratifies Mr. Lowell's friends, Lord Reay having withdrawn in favor of Mr. Lowell at the first election...
...face, and the bad position of desks, have all had their supporters. Doubtless all of these may add to the trouble, but the chief cause is not among them. It is the color of the paper and the ink which we use. No one dissents from the opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare...