IN EVERY LINE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

IN EVERY LINE.

THE poet Bryant, while editor of the New York Post, insisted that young poets should be sympathetically noticed in the book column of the paper. Once a sub editor handed him a thin volume of poems, saying that they were worthless. Mr. Bryant looked through the book, and then said, "You might say that it is prettily bound and clearly printed."

The editor of whom this story is told also had a soft side for young men who would write poetry.

"Give me your candid judgment of these lines," said the young man of literary aspirations. "Do they convey the idea of poetry at all?"

"Yes, sir," replied the editor, looking them over, "they do. There is something in every line that conveys the idea. Every line," continued the kind-hearted man, letting him down as gently as he could, "begins with a capital letter."—Youth's Companion.