brick he has laid helps or hinders, beautifies or insults the house,
so the writer should be full cognisant whether his work helps make or
does mar the edifice called literature. Nor must the term literature
be denied to the ruck of modern writing. All that is written to
interest or to instruct goes to make the literature of our day. We
have introduced new expressions just as we have contrived new
expressions in architecture; and as in the latter case so in the
former the bulk of these is ephemeral. Nevertheless they are a part of
literature, and all efforts in them better or sully the pages which in
our day we are adding to the book of literature. From this book the
winds of cycles to come will blow all that is unworthy--only the stout
leaves will endure; but, no less because you write for the supplement
than if you have virtue sufficient for the bound volume, remember that
in every form of writing there are standards of good, and that every
line printed helps raise or does tarnish the letters of our day.




CHAPTER IV.

Excursions In A Hospital.



I.

By the half-past nine train George went to town; an hour later was at
St. Peter's.