The Great God Success

articles had been printed to twenty-three thrown away. A national campaign was coming on and the News-Record wa

nd moderation of statement. How to avoid hysteria; how to set others on fire instead of only making of himself a fiery spectacle; how to be earnest, yet calm; how to be satirical yet sincere; ho

hat he was farther from a good style than ever. His standards had risen, were rising; he feared that his power of accomplish

more of my attempts," he thought. "Well, anyway, I've

colm with an absent nod. "J

come in during the past twenty-four hours. The Exchange Editor had been through them and Mr. Malcolm was re

tearing down one column and up another, and so from page to page. It took less than a minute for him to finish and filing away great sixteen page dailies. A few seconds sufficed for th

rease the chaos on the floor and faced about in his r

t him in amazem

ried him a rich wife and is going abroad to do literary work

I have been

"After you'd been sending up articles for a fortnight, I knew you'd make it. You went about it systematical

up-that is, giving up this parti

s mind a machine working evenly without regard to his feelings or physical condition. The night my oldest child died-I was editor of a country newspaper-I wrote my leaders as u

u think that

is yours. The salary is a hundred and twenty-five a week-an advance of about tw

Howard, "if the City

nce, and two chairs. The one window overlooked the lower end of Manhattan Island-the forest of business buildings peaked with the Titan-tenements o

to make a living-"Poor boy," they used to say at home, "he will have to be supported. He is too much of a dreamer." He remembered his explorations of those now familiar streets-how ac

th the essentials of existence. Like them, he had given no real thought to the morrow. And now, with comparatively little labour, he

ing. "And it is the key to happiness also," he thought. "Work and sleep-th

of meeting them. He kept away from theatres. He sunk himself in a routine of labour which, viewed from the outsid

mental routine which exercises it. The only di

tions each day with a vast multitude as an audience stirred his imagination and aroused his instincts for hel

will need careful editing. Your best plan is to give yourself up to your belief while you are writing-then to edit yourself in cold blood

be cold blooded when

ng and time of life. But don't let me discourage you. I only suggest that you may have to guard against believing so intensely that you produce the impression of being an impracticable, a fanatic. Be c

very able chief," he said to himself, "because you have never believed intensely enough to move you to act. You have attached too muc

nthusiasm they grew to respect both his ability and his character. Before a year had passed they were

encil" for alteration and condensation with the hand of a master. He cut away Howard's crudities, toned down and so

a reputation greater than he deser

red jest and amused his leisure with the New Yorkers who devote a life of idleness to a nervous

he Waldorf on Thursday," he said, look

lining. "But I'm afraid I'd ruin your dinner. I haven't been out for

You ought to see

ng so much time? I'd like to know the interesting people and to see them in their interesting moments. But I

elaxation. Then too, it's

I could assimilate. And it was study of realities, not of pretenses. As I remember them, 'respectable' people are all about the same, whether in their vices or

hursday. You must come

presentiment or a shyness or an impatience at the interruption of his ro