Two wills of which details have just been published provoke
so, reflections. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch left £5,431, and another we known writer, Mr. C. L. Graves, long connected with Punch a earlier with this jcumal, £4,421. Either of the testators may, course, have made financial arrangements which would acco for the smallness of his estate, but it hardly seems likely. It more reasonable to take the figures as examples of the kind material reward which literary attainments so frequently comma There is no particular grievance to harp on. More men WII because they have writing in them than because they see money i it. Yet most of them have wives and families to provide for and if with that in mind they felt they must drop their pens seek a competency in trade the world would be in sum a good d the poorer. There are some of our valuations that need revising.
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