Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — Author’s Names. [ARTICLE]

Author’s Names.

For a man of letters a strong name of striking originality is a precious possession; it is a pearl beyond price, the attainment of which is well wOrth a resolute effort. An author is fortunate if it la given to him by decent and by baptism—John Milton, for example, or Francis Parkman, names combining vigor with a certain distinction. He is lucky if he can achieve It by arbitrary suppreeslon of a superfluous given name, as Bret Harte did and Mr. Rudyard Kipling.