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The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Literature. (search)
ed his great romance of Les Miserables, demands $60,000 for the six volumes. Solar, the publisher of La Presse, offers $15,000 for the right to publish the work in the feuilleton form, and another publisher offers $15,000 for the absolute property of the volumes, but the poet resists both inducements. Who shall talk of the lack of business talent, the improvidence and carelessness of literary men? Motley's new volume is in press by the Harpers, and indeed ready for publication. They hold it back solely on account of the times. Some of the copy of Thackeray's Virginians was written so hastily that the original manuscript was sent to this country before the author had corrected the proofs. The two first volumes of a French translation of a German work called "Enigmatical Personages and Wonderful Histories," are just published in Paris. Anthony Trollope, John Hollingshead, and George Lewee are the principal contributors to the Cornhill Magazine, besides Thackeray.