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We and Our Neighbors, Or, the Records of an Unfashionable Street; (sequel to "my Wife and I")
We and Our Neighbors Or the Records of an Unfashionable Street - sequel to "my Wife and I" Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: Drama / General Drama / American Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or m... more »issing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV EVA HENDERSON TO HAEKTS MOTHER My Dear Mother, -- Harry says I must do all the writing to you and keep you advised of all our affairs, because he is so driven with his editing and proof-reading that letter-writing is often the most fatiguing thing he can do. It is like trying to run after one has become quite out of breath. The fact is, dear mother, the demands of this New York newspaper life are terribly exhausting. It's a sort of red- hot atmosphere of hurry and competition. Magazines and newspapers jostle each other, and run races, neck and neck, and everybody connected with them is kept up to the very top of his speed, or he is thrown out of the course. You see, Bolton and Harry have between them the oversight of three papers -- a monthly magazine for the grown folk, another for the children, and a weekly paper. Of course there are sub-editors, but they have the general responsibility, and so, you see, they are on the qui vive all the time to keep up; for there are other papers and magazines running against them, and the price of success seems to be eternal vigilance. What is exacted of an editor nowadays seems to be a sort of general omniscience. He must keep the run of everything, -- politics, science, religion, art, agriculture, general literature; the world is alive and moving everywhere, and he must know just what's going on and be able to have an ppinion ready made and ready to go to press at any moment. He must tell to a T ju...« less