The book will be found conveniently divided into sections representing the principal divisions of modern literary activity; each section will contain an introductory essay, which will form a practical guide to the subject with which it deals, and each will be adorned with one or more examples of the finished article, which, if the instructions be carefully followed, should soon be turned out without difficulty by any earnest and industrious scholar of average ability.

If the Work can raise the income of but one poor journalist, or produce earnings, no matter how insignificant, for but one of that great army which is now compelled to pay for the insertion of its compositions in the newspapers and magazines, the labour and organizing ability devoted to it will not have been in vain.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION[3]
REVIEWING[17]
POLITICAL APPEALS[35]
THE SHORT STORY[59]
THE SHORT LYRIC[75]
THE INTERVIEW[93]
THE PERSONAL PAR[113]
THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTICLE[121]
ON EDITING[131]
ON REVELATIONS[143]
SPECIAL PROSE[163]
APPENDIX
PRICES CURRENT[173]
NOTE ON TITLES[177]
NOTE ON STYLE[179]
THE ODE[183]
ON REMAINDERS AND PULPING[187]
INDEX[191]

INTRODUCTION.

A Grateful Sketch of the Author’s Friend (in part the
producer of this book),

James Caliban.

INTRODUCTION.

Few men have pursued more honourably, more usefully, or more successfully the career of letters than Thomas Caliban, D.D., of Winchelthorpe-on-Sea, near Portsmouth. Inheriting, as his name would imply, the grand old Huguenot strain, his father was a Merchant Taylor of the City of London, and principal manager of the Anglo-Chilian Bank; his mother the fifth daughter of K. Muller, Esq., of Brighton, a furniture dealer and reformer of note in the early forties.