This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... apolis. His cousin, Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton, of Cincinnati, is well known as a writer. In acknowledgment of his services in the International Copyright cause, the French government has just conferred upon him the cross of the Legion of Honor (chevalier), and some of his associates in the copyright cause have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ... apolis. His cousin, Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton, of Cincinnati, is well known as a writer. In acknowledgment of his services in the International Copyright cause, the French government has just conferred upon him the cross of the Legion of Honor (chevalier), and some of his associates in the copyright cause have presented to him a handsome silver loving cup.--Edmund Gosse, in The Author ( England) for June. HOW LITERATURE IS DEGRADED. But it is the easy entrance into the ranks of literature which is the great cause of whatever social contempt clings to the profession. A man who goes into a large trading business, or who spends years in preparing for the law, gives society a bond for his respectability. He has invested either time or money, perhaps both. But a pretense of literature is too often used by the lazy and vicious as a cloak for their evil lives, and thus the noblest of professions becomes a kind of a cave of Adullam, to which men of unsteady habits and women of doubtful respectability resort. A sprightly fancy, a ready wit, a knowledge of life, a soured disposition, able and unscrupulous enough to write scurrilous personalities, are all the introduction needed to the daily press, where the demand is constant, and the availability depends more on the mental than the moral qualities of its servants. For if a man writes a brilliant paper, do the public really care whether he is a member of a Christian association or not? But this class of writers are in no true sense " men of letters." They produce paragraphs, epigrams, short, clever sketches, short stories, poems for the newspapers and other periodicals j but works demanding learning, patience, steady application, are as much beyond their power as they are out of their liking. Such eph...
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