I found it altogether impossible to brandish my cane over the individual
actor in his individual part. But the form of it was merely a pretext. I
wanted to show myself as I was, speak out about dramatic and other
literature, reveal how I felt, show what I thought about all the
conditions of life represented or touched upon on the stage.
My articles were read with so much interest that the editors of the
_Illustrated Times_ raised the writer's scale of remuneration to 10
Kr. a column (about 11_s_. 3_d_.), which at that time was very
respectable pay. Unfortunately, however, I soon saw that even at that,
if I wrote in the paper all the year round, I could not bring up my
yearly income from this source to more than 320 kroner of our money,
about I7_l_. 12_s_. 6_d_. in English money; so that, without a
University bursary, I should have come badly off, and even with it
was not rolling in riches.
The first collection of my articles, which I published in 1868 under the
title of _Studies in Aesthetics_, augmented my income a little, it
is true, but for that, as for the next collection, _Criticisms and
Portraits_, I only received 20 kroner (22_s_. 6_d_.) per
sheet of sixteen pages. Very careful management was necessary.
IX.
With the first money I received for my books, I went in the middle of
the Summer of 1868 for a trip to Germany.
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