Large sums of money were made by George Eliot, but we must not forget that she had some weary years to wait for the days of prosperity, and that the story of her life contains many records of disappointment after brave struggles. We read of her living in humble apartments in London; to earn a little money, which she much needed when she went to Switzerland in 1849, she tried to sell her books and globes. It was not until she was forty years of age that she established a reputation by the publication of "Adam Bede." She received in cash down, for the first sale of her book, some £40,000, or about £2,000 a year. George Eliot had a great objection to her novels appearing in serial form, and she sacrificed much money by not first publishing them in the magazines. Ouida had for a long time the same objection to her stories being published piecemeal in newspapers and periodicals. She now appears to have got over her prejudice in this matter, and consents to write for newspaper readers. It is generally believed amongst literary and journalistic men, that she is not a brilliant success as a newspaper novelist, yet Ouida's income as an author must be very great. The reader of the weekly paper in which fiction forms a feature is not educated up to her standard; authors like those engaged on the _Family Herald_ and similar journals are much more popular. It is pleasing to state that Mr. John Ruskin has made large sums with his books, but not so much, we think, as his merits entitle him to receive. We have seen it stated that by "Oceana," by no means a large volume, Mr. Froude cleared £10,000. In the "Life of Longfellow," written by his brother, are a few particulars of his earnings. During 1825--the last year of his college course--he contributed poems to the United States _Literary Gazette_, and was paid one or two dollars a poem, the price depending on the length of the piece. He wrote, in 1840-1, "The Village Blacksmith," "Endymion," and "God's Acre," and was paid fifteen dollars each. When his fame was fully established, Mr. Bonner the publisher of the _New York Ledger_, paid him, for the right of publishing in that paper, 3,000 dollars for "The Hanging of the Crane." Lord Tennyson received considerable sums for his poetry. He was paid £100 for the right of printing a short original poem in a monthly magazine. For his ballad, "The Revenge," in the _Nineteenth Century_, he received 300 guineas. It became known some time ago that his lordship did not deem £5,000 a year a sufficient sum for the exclusive right of publishing his works. He changed his publishers several times. He was regarded as a keen man of business, and it is said that he generally got the best of the bargain. Money never tempted Robert Browning to contribute to the magazines. His poems always saw the light in book form.