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Show odIi lor Youag Aelbori. Do uot (all an editor that the -oem lubmlttid waa written In ttiltty mlnutai, Btwed laaxoellciil for a railway rail-way train, but la not considered a necsaaary attribute of a poet. JJo h'jt tell lilm that thontory tent la an lu-tplraltun, lu-tplraltun, aad that you ware furc d'r writ II, Ha firobahly will r.f.M lomolhlug that Ii tbo retull of a.ud aud cbaarvalloo, l Mi't lull him that l'ia itory U lni, or thai It la fouinleJ upon fact, lha Uoea (fit add to lla literary vatua, I: raoi la very apt lo detract irmu ri literary quality, aa when a wrlier I hampeied iiy facta he omi 1 ol gl"a ih. liiiaglimtiou aa free play a W: u. mhi'rwHa lie trie nine. And It la i.'.i poaibit yiur elitor will prefer Mcl.i Ua la llolii'ii, a creation of the br. n, r.ither than a narrative, more rr la aJoroeJ, which cjmeatobim at aou n hand. If you are forrtJ lo live a e (:ni-wiiv circiiuucriitwd ll'a, never yet haviin ttrnfi the larirr aapctita of tie world, .'i uot write of the thinifa that are by , Vunr ka. It la timr n, iu any r. tr. lu wnie of the lila aiicul ytu, tuu i you know Intimately, wlnc.i la Iwj.i . extvut cominoiiplaoe In your own , tnaii to avk lor grtat and atraugi Hi ota that appeal lo the reader onl, ur mainly, because of thdr e'.raiut- L)j not undertake lo bean eaeayUt.a' the outaal. If oa aru you nit In yeair, yu will nted mure jHtu i of th thinga thai go to make up Hfr, l a'oi. yfU can hope lu be a leauher; aud ll you are young lu Ittatatuie, yuu will lued time f-r the formation atylr, and to aopiire the manner of puttlug Ihinge. without which jour eaaa will be "alBif, Hal, aud uti profltable.1 And, I btaob you, do nol attempt to writ poe(i unleaa you have a living thought I., utter. Mere rhymea and metna, how aver corrttul, do n il make pootry; al-thutuh al-thutuh 1 luual confeaa that many o the vlldalfiiia which come lu my dek indicaie thai the wrltera arc ol auolhei upluluu. Ande from thU, there la a gcod commercial com-mercial revauu for the avoidance of toe mute, by lha young aud atruggllnn writer, who ueually dealre hla pen lo aid lu the bread winning itrunwl.; ; oema are not a very marketable coui-uudity, coui-uudity, aud the irj.cm.ue which ar. to certain to com, wneti tiny an ullerad, are a mual Liit illauuuragui toiurtUer liuraiy tilorl. Wrhe tht vluch uiay mtiai readily irniurn a ni-.Hum ni-.Hum lor piibllcalloo. and Ihua r c-tvt ih i,o urHeniui Withnui whicu I. m,-reiy aiiihalnu cau Joiig eudurr. the New iliemlau. |