Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Well-Paid Work. [ARTICLE]

Well-Paid Work.

When pooplo speak of authorship as an underpaid profession they reckon without their Mrs. Humphrey Ward. For the American and English markets alone she was paid for “David Grieve" 8K),000. Say that she gets B‘■o,ooo more for “Marcella," and that she got 840,000 for “Robert Elsmere." That is 8200,000 for three books, written during a period of about six years. Two hundred thousand dollars in six year's is not bad pay, when ono consider that it is all profit. The shccess of an author deponds upon the demand for his work. The book market is like any other, and the author f r whore books the public clamor has no cause for complaint.—New York Critic.