...a controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought, but what is it for ? What does the man mean ? Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...he cannot rightly express himself today, the same tilings subsist, and will open themselves to-uiorrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — of truth...

...never rests in a superficial performance, hut. asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks lor a controlling sincerity. Here is activity of thought;...he cannot rightly express himself to-day, the same tilings subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — the burden...

...what is it for ? "What does the man mean ? Whence, whence all these thoughts ? Talent alone can not make a writer. There must be a man behind the book...personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctriues there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding...

...OF " i'OOR EOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS,'' 'GIRLS WHO EECAME FAMOUS," " STORIES FROM LIFE," « ETC., ETC. "TALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book." — EMERSON. "THE most interesting books to me are the histories of individuals and individual minds,...

...children. 304 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Speech at Banquet to Lord Rector, Glas9ow, Nov. 19, 1870. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...otherwise, holding things because they are things. 305 Emerson: Representative Men. Goethe ; or, The Writer. The writer, like a priest, must be exempted...

...children. 304 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Speech at Banquet to Lord Rector, Glasgow, A'oe. 19, 1870. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a...there set forth, and which exists to see and state thin,js so, and not otherwise, holding things because they are things. 305 Emerson : Representative...

...poeta, / Quäle 40 sopor fessis— Thy song is to us, О heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. I'irg. Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Emerson. Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it 1 To...

...distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers, is a property which he shares with his nation, — a habitual reference to interior truth. In England and...otherwise ; holding things because they are things. If he can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow....

...purity of their subject matter, the soundness of their principles, and the liberal spirit of the editor. "Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be...otherwise ; holding things because they are things." If this be true, Dennis Heartt was a representative man in journalism as in private life. He was never...

...trust what may be, That's life's true lesson, — eh ? " R. BROWNING. Fcrishtah's Fancies, Prologue. " Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book." EMERSON. Goethe. " Talent convinces — Genius but excites." BULWER LYTTON. Earlier Poems. Talent and...