on the penalties of authorship
But I had another reason besides dissatisfaction with my work for wanting my name suppressed; I was doing so well at the time as a salesman of hardware that I had hopes of one day becoming junior partner in our firm — Hobbs, Tobbs, and Co. — and I feared the result of either member learning that any of my time had been spent in book-writing. ₁
Is it wise of authors to admit their calling, and is there not a great wisdom in knowing when to conceal it? The penalties of authorship are so many that it is almost foolhardy to publicly recognize a book as one’s own and admit freely that one writes. ₂
