Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1875 — A Persevering Author. [ARTICLE]

A Persevering Author.

Some forty yerrs ago, it is said, a lady called upon Mr. Longman, head of the publishing firm in Paternoster row, and pleaded: “ Give me the subject of a book for which the world has a need, and I will write it for you.” Mr. Longman asked—“ Are you an author?” “lam a poet,” was the reply, “ but the world does not want poems.” The publisher remarked, a little dubiously : “ Well, we want a good cookery book.” “Then,” said the lady, “you advise me to write a cookery book?” Cautiously the publisher rejoined: “I should advise you to do so if 1 were confident of your ability to write a good one.” Well, years went by, and daring those years cooks and epicures and housewives in all parts of England were besieged for recipes to be forwarded to the address of a certain lady. The lady’s own flattering letters or persuasive speech elicited from the cooks Diemselves the information required or enlisted the cooks’ masters and mistresses on her side; and “ the result of her exertions, carried on for many years with equal resoluteness and good temper, was the ‘ Modern Cookery in All Its Branches,’ published in 1845. Its author was Miss Acton, who derived from her one great work an adequate provision for the re mainder of her life.”— Chambers' Journal. An Oakland (Cal.) young lady entered a drug-store lately and .wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clef* gljptyea ber a rpll of sticking, plaster.