On the Old Road Volume 1 (of 2)
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My First Editor - An Autobiographical Reminiscence
_ My First Editor.[1] An Autobiographical Reminiscence
1st February, 1878.
1. In seven days more I shall be fifty-nine;--which (practically) is all the same as sixty; but, being asked by the wife of my dear old friend, W. H. Harrison, to say a few words of our old relations together, I find myself, in spite of all these years, a boy again,--partly in the mere thought of, and renewed sympathy with, the cheerful heart of my old literary master, and partly in instinctive terror lest, wherever he is in celestial circles, he should catch me writing bad grammar, or putting wrong stops, and should set the table turning, or the like. For he was inexorable in such matters, and many a sentence in "Modern Painters," which I had thought quite beautifully turned out after a forenoon‘s work on it, had to be turned outside-in, after all, and cut into the smallest pieces and sewn up again, because he had found out there wasn‘t a nomin
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