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LITERARY BYWAYS.
LONDON: WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO.,
5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.
1898.
Preface.
In the following pages no attempt has been made to add to the many critical works authors bring under the notice of the public. My aim in this collection of leisure-hour studies is to afford entertaining reading on some topics which do not generally attract the reader’s attention.
It is necessary for me to state that three of the chapters were originally contributed to the columns of the Chambers’s Journal, and by courtesy of the Editor are reproduced in this volume.
William Andrews.
The Hull Press,
July 5th, 1898.
Contents.
| PAGE | |
| Authors at Work | 1 |
| The Earnings of Authors | 43 |
| Declined with Thanks | 67 |
| Epigrams on Authors | 76 |
| Poetical Graces | 90 |
| Poetry on Panes | 94 |
| English Folk-Rhymes | 100 |
| The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards | 110 |
| Toasts and Toasting | 120 |
| Curious American Old-Time Gleanings | 131 |
| The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet | 143 |
| A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe | 149 |
| A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter | 160 |
| A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper | 167 |
| The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips | 176 |
| A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller | 186 |
| The Cottage Countess | 199 |
| The Compiler of “Old Moore’s Almanac”: Henry Andrews | 206 |
| James Nayler, the Mad Quaker, who claimed to be the Messiah | 213 |
| A Biographical Romance: Swan’s Strange Story | 222 |
| Short Letters | 228 |
| Index | 237 |
LITERARY BYWAYS.
Authors at Work.
interest of the public in those who write for its entertainment naturally extends itself to their habits of life. All such habits, let it be said at once, depend on individual peculiarities. One will write only in the morning, another only at night, a third will be able to force himself into effort only at intervals, and a fourth will, after the manner of Anthony Trollope, be almost altogether independent of times and places. The nearest approach to a rule was that which was formulated by a great writer of the last generation, who said that morning should be employed in the production of what De Quincey called “the literature of knowledge,” and the evening in impassioned work, “the literature of power.”