Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday
page 56 of 198 (28%)
book than anybody else, anyway; and you sign it and get the money."
And this was done; and it was an excellent review; and the paper (which
you read every day) was no wiser.

The literary editor who signed my reviews for me was a youth of an
independent turn of mind. He encouraged the expression in reviews of
exactly what one thought; he liked an individual note in them; he had
an enthusiasm for books of literary quality, somewhat to the neglect of
other branches of the publishing business; he gathered about him a
group of writers of a spirit kindred to his own; and he was rapidly
moulding his department of his paper into a thing, perhaps a plaything,
of life and colour.

But he lacked commercial tact. He wanted to make something like the
English lighter literary journals. He offended the powers behind the
man higher up. I saw him last on a Wednesday; he outlined his plans
for the future. On Friday, I know he "made up" his paper. Saturday I
looked for him, but he had gone from that place. There was in it a
dried man of much hard experience of newspapers, who reigned in that
youth's stead. The wrath of authority grinds with exceeding quickness.

This which I have written is history, as many excellent of mind know,
and should be put into a book: for it reveals how close we came to
having in this country a Literary Doings that could be read for
pleasure. I continued to learn the business.

Sometimes reviewers are poets also. I know fifteen. Sometimes they
are Irishmen. Sometimes both. I knew one who was one of those Celtic
Poets. His name had all the colour of the late Irish literary
movement. That is, after he became a man of letters; before that it
DigitalOcean Referral Badge