Literature and Life

at it was a disadvantage to send a thing from a small or unknown place, and that it doubled my insignificance to do so. I believed that if my envelope had born

on learned that the fresh things, the original things, were apt to come from such places, and not from the literary centres. One of the most interesting facts concerning the arts of all kinds is that those who wish to give their lives to them

auty. It may also suggest to that scholar- pride, that vanity of technique, which is so apt to vaunt itself in the teacher, that the best he can do, after all, is to

e acceptable young contributor from the country, the village, the small town, and he will look eagerly at

e this or correct that; he will leave him as much to himself as he can. The young contributor; on his part, will do well to realize th

ently docile, can always divine them. It behooves him to be docile at all times, for this is merely the willi

doing, and a great deal more from doing over

e of my novels, and I have always thought it the best written, or at least indefinitely better than it would have been with a single writing. As a matter of fact, nearly all of them have been rewritte

h you can feel it. If you are secure of the frame you must observe the quality and character of everything you build about it; you must touch, yo

return it to him for revision, with those suggestions which he will do well to make the most of; for when the editor onc

ical has invented for itself, and will transgress none of its unwritten laws; if he perceives that he has put artistic conscience in every general and detail, and though he has not done the best, has done the best that he can do, he will begin to liberate him