Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...in the seclusion of your own room, not before, you may venture to seek out the literary editor of some paper and show him a sample or two of your work and ask for the privilege of writing for his columns a review of some book that he has on hand, expecting therefore no pay except the copy of the book reviewed. The getting of this privilege, if you have no acquaintance with any one on the staff, will probably be no easy 'task; but, unfortunately, the guide to the path of newspaper life, like the preacher, must leave each pilgrim to cross the darkest stream alone, trusting only in that inspired text, "Where there's a will there's a way." This completes the outline of the work done by the editorial staff of a paper, so far as it will be profitable for the beginner to investigate it. Dramatic criticism is similar to literary criticism, but is still more the work of a specialist. Financial and commercial writing, too, are special branches that are best approached by the reportoriarroute. The woman's department will be treated in a separate chapter hereafter. This, then, is the great intellectual ma-chino called the editorial force. The editor-in-chief, who stands at the head, sets the pace, not only for the editorial columns, but for I he whole paper, and his work is for the most part confined to editing editorial utterances and indicating by suggestions and criticisms the lines to be followed by his lieutenant, the managing editor. The latter, who is second in authority and in size of salary, keeps the city editor, the telegraph man, the exchange reader and the more important of the department men straight by maintaining a close watch over' their work as it appears in the paper each day and reprimanding them, for anything that does not meet...
