Show Literary nfpntatiou Tlie editor of tho Jorunt has aikI mo to say how a literary reputation t JI Is formed writes Edmund Gone It is like asking one how wood Is turned into J gold or I how real oils mouds can manufactured I I knewthcanswcr U Is not in the IIIer I pages of a review that I should prInt It I should bury myself a cOLtIUC In the woods exerclso my secret arts and her wait for Fame to turn trumpet Into a hunting horn ant wake the I forest echoes vrilh my pra se In one of MrStocktonE rimS J priucrss sets all thIn wise men of tier dominions searching for tho lost secrtt of what root beer should b nladeof The philosophers fallid to UUcover it ant tlie magicians e hautt their arts in rain Kot the slightest IIr8 thrown on the nb ttruse problem until an old womtn Is persuaded to reveal that it onuguit to lie made of roots In the ianle way the only ijulto obvious answer to the Query how should a lIterary reputation t be formed is to reply by thinking nothing about reputatto but writing earnestly and careful on the subjects and in the stylo mat congenial to your liabits of mind |