Show the man who loves words other folks of course have their poor pleasures says richard le gal lienne in harper s but tor a man who loves words no joy the world can give equals for him the happiness of having achieved a fine passage or a perfect line when thackeray struck his fist on the table as the story goes when he had finished the scene of col New comes death and exclaimed by god this Is genius there was no em pire he would have accepted in ex change tor that moment we often hear that your true artist Is never sat isfried with his work his ideal escapes him the words seem poor and lifeless etc compared with the dream who ever started that story knew very lit tie about the literary temperament or he would have known that the words are the dream the dream does not exist even as a dream or only very imperfectly till it is set down in words yes the words are the dream L |