Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all peopl…

Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; - That is, when they remember he still exists. Who. you ask, is this fellow? - What matter names? He is only a scr…