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    Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
    Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
    Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
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    Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)

    By William Dean Howells

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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      Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life) - William Dean Howells

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor, by William Dean Howells

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      Title: The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor From Literature and Life

      Author: William Dean Howells

      Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3386]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EDITOR'S RELATIONS WITH ***

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      LITERATURE AND LIFE—The Young Contributor

      by William Dean Howells

      THE EDITOR'S RELATIONS WITH THE YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR

      One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the editor is in great and constant dread of the young contributor; but neither my experience nor my observation bears out his theory of the case.

      Of course one must not say anything to encourage a young person to abandon an honest industry in the vain hope of early honor and profit from literature; but there have been and there will be literary men and women always, and these in the beginning have nearly always been young; and I cannot see that there is risk of any serious harm in saying that it is to the young contributor the editor looks for rescue from the old contributor, or from his failing force and charm.

      The chances, naturally, are against the young contributor, and vastly against him; but if any periodical is to live, and to live long, it is by the infusion of new blood; and nobody knows this better than the editor, who may seem so unfriendly and uncareful to the young contributor. The strange voice, the novel scene, the odor of fresh woods and pastures new, the breath of morning, the dawn of tomorrow—these are what the editor is eager for, if he is fit to be an editor at all; and these are what the young contributor alone can give him.

      A man does not draw near the sixties without wishing people to believe that he is as young as ever, and he has not written almost as many books as he has lived years without persuading himself that each new work of his has all the surprise of spring; but possibly

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