Literature and Life

vexation and disappointment were as great as if the work hod been my own. It was even greater, for if I had really writte

upon his own feet; and the young contributor may be sure that the editor's pride, self-interest, and sense of editorial i

eat many others, and that the editor's affections, if constant, are necessarily divided. It is good for the literary aspirant to realize very early

the earth, a planet of inferior magnitude. The thing we strive for is recognition, but when this comes it is apt to turn our heads. I should say, the

ances of reflection, and can ask ourselves whether we are r

ed, of course, and encouragement; but I am not sure that the lack of these is not a very good th

ck, even after a first acceptance, and even a general newspaper proclamation that he is one to m

l, and rogue, and wretch; but after that, if one is worth while at all, one puts the rejected thing by, or sends it off t