. The autocrat of the breakfast-table : every man his own Boswell. own, with the tyrant that masters us all 1 The company said I had been shabbily treated,and advised me to charge the committee double,— which I did. But as I never got my pay, Idont know that it made much difference. I ama very particular person about having all I writeprinted as I write it. I require to see a proof, arevise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, 56 THE AUTOCRAT especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitiveauthor. An intentional change of his text mur-
. The autocrat of the breakfast-table : every man his own Boswell. own, with the tyrant that masters us all 1 The company said I had been shabbily treated,and advised me to charge the committee double,— which I did. But as I never got my pay, Idont know that it made much difference. I ama very particular person about having all I writeprinted as I write it. I require to see a proof, arevise, a re-revise, and a double re-revise, or fourth-proof rectified impression of all my productions, 56 THE AUTOCRAT especially verse. A misprint kills a sensitiveauthor. An intentional change of his text mur-ders him. No wonder so many poets die young ! I have nothing more to report at this time, ex-cept two pieces of advice I gave to the youngwomen at table. One relates to a vulgarism oflanguage, which I grieve to say is sometimesheard even from female lips. The other is ofmore serious purport, and applies to such as con-template a change of condition, — matrimony infact. The woman who calclates is lost. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in
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