Part 7 (1/2)

CONTEMPORARY COPYRIGHTS

The late Mr Tegg, the publisher in Cheapside, gave the following list of reuished authors in his time; and he is believed to have taken considerable pains to verify the itements of History, by Charles Fox, sold by Lord Holland, for 5000 guineas Fragard's History of England, 4683_l_ Sir Walter Scott's Bonaparte was sold, with the printed books, for 18,000_l_; the net receipts of copyright on the first two editions only must have been 10,000_l_ Life of Wilberforce, by his sons, 4000 guineas Life of Byron, by Moore, 4000_l_ Life of Sheridan, by Moore, 2000_l_ Life of Hannah More, 2000_l_ Life of Cowper, by Southey, 1000_l_ Life and Tie IV, by Lady C Bury, 1000_l_ Byron's Works, 20,000_l_ Lord of the Isles, half share, 1500_l_ Lalla Rookh, by Moore, 3000_l_ Rejected Addresses, by Smith, 1000_l_ Crabbe's Works, republication of, by Mr

Murray, 3000_l_ Wordsworth's Works, republication of, by Mr Moxon, 1050_l_ Bulwer's Rienzi, 1600_l_ Marryat's Novels, 500_l_ to 1500_l_ each Trollope's Factory Boy, 1800_l_ Hannah More derived 30,000_l_ per annu the latter years of her life

Rundell's Domestic Cookery, 2000_l_ Nicholas Nickleby, 3000_l_ Eustace's Classical Tour, 2100_l_ Sir Robert Inglis obtained for the beautiful and interestingof Bishop Heber, by the sale of his journal, 5000_l_

MISS BURNEY'S ”EVELINA”

The story of _Evelina_ being printed when the authoress was but seventeen years old is proved to have been sheer invention, to trumpet the work into notoriety; since it has no more truth in it than a paid-for newspaper puff The year of Miss Burney's birth was long involved in studied obscurity, and thus the deception lasted, until one fine day it was ascertained, by reference to the register of the authoress' birth, that she was a woman of six or seven-and-twenty, instead of a ”Miss in her teens,” when she wrote _Evelina_ The story of her father's utter ignorance of the work being written by her, and reco her to read it, as an exception to the novel class, has also been essentially modified Miss Burney, (then Madame D'Arblay,) is said to have taken the characters in her novel of _Camilla_ from the family of Mr Lock, of Norbury Park, who built for Gen D'Arblay the villa in which the ritten, and which to this day is called ”Camilla Lacy” By this novel, Madauineas

EPITAPH ON CHARLES LAMB

Lamb lies buried in Ed lines to his memory, written by his friend, the Rev H F

Cary, the erudite translator of _Dante_ and _Pindar_:--

”Farewell, dear friend!--that sladden our do tear, with pain forbid to flow-- Better than words--no e our woe

That hand outstretch'd from small but well-earned store Yield succour to the destitute no e, With sterling sense and hulish bosom, pleased to see That old and happier vein revived in thee

This for our earth; and if with friends we share Our joys in heaven, we hope to meet thee there”

Lae, only a fewwhich the author of _Christabelle_ had left him ”Poor fellow!” exclaimed Lamb, ”I have never ceased to think of him from the day I first heard of his death” Lamb died in _five days after_--December 27, 1834, in his fifty-ninth year

”TOM CRINGLE'S LOG”

The author of this very successful work, (originally published in _Blackwood's Magazine_,) was a Mr Mick Scott, born in Edinburgh in 1789, and educated at the High School Several years of his life were spent in the West Indies He ultimately married, returned to his native country, and there embarked in commercial speculations, in the leisure bethich he wrote the _Log_ Notwithstanding its popularity in Europe and Anito to the last He survived his publisher for some years, and it was not till Mr Scott's death that the sons of Mr Blackere aware of his name

CHANCES FOR THE DRAMA

The royal patent, by which the perforular drama was restricted to certain theatres, does not appear to have fostered this class of writing Dr Johnson forced Goldsmith's _She Stoops to Conquer_ into the theatre Tobin died regretting that he could not succeed in hearing the _Honeye Barnwell_ (an adular theatre, after it had been rejected by the holders of the patents _Douglas_ was cast on Ho was introduced as a dramatist at an unlicensed house; and one of Mrs Inchbald's popular co accident, she was able to obtain the er's _approval_

FULLER'S MEMORY