he has paid to authors $1,500. The total amount paid for original matter
by two magazines--the selling price of which is $3 per annum--in ten
years, has exceeded $130,000, giving an average of $13,000 per annum. The
Messrs. Harper inform me that the expenditure for literary and artistic
labor required for their magazine is $2,000 per month, or $24,000 a year.

Passing upwards, we reach the producers of books, and here we find rewards
not, I believe, to be paralleled elsewhere. Mr. Irving stands, I imagine,
at the head of living authors for the amount received for his books. The
sums paid to the renowned Peter Parley must have been enormously great,
but what has been their extent I have no means of ascertaining. Mr.
Mitchell, the geographer, has realized a handsome fortune from his
schoolbooks. Professor Davies is understood to have received more than
$50,000 from the series published by him. The Abbotts, Emerson, and
numerous other authors engaged in the preparation of books for young
persons and schools, are largely paid. Professor Anthon, we are informed,
has received more than $60,000 for his series of classics. The French
series of Mr. Bolmar has yielded him upwards of $20,000. The school
geography of Mr. Morse is stated to have yielded more than $20,000 to the
author. A single medical book, of one 8vo. volume, is understood to have
produced its authors $60,000, and a series of medical books has given to
its author probably $30,000. Mr. Downing's receipts from his books have
been very large. The two works of Miss Warner must have already yielded
her from $12,000 to $15,000, and perhaps much more. Mr. Headley is stated
to have received about $40,000; and the few books of Ike Marvel have
yielded him about $20,000; a single one, "The Reveries of a Bachelor,"
produced more than $4,000 in the first six months. Mrs. Stowe has been
very largely paid. Miss Leslie's Cookery and Receipt books have paid her
$12,000. Dr. Barnes is stated to have received more than $30,000 for the
copyright of his religious works. Fanny Fern has probably received not