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Show rejj and Ink. The late Dr. Holmes, like Goethe, sys Mr. Smalley iu the New York Tribune, Trib-une, "dwelt on the importance of sta-jlonery sta-jlonery and of a good pen and good ink in the writer, especially the imaginative writer. Between him and the due expression ex-pression of .-his thought in black and white there ought to bo as few obstacles as possible, no friction that can be avoided. Many a fine thought he declared de-clared had perished ere it was fairly born, strangled in the birth by a hair on the nib of the pen or choked out of life by muddy ink. His paper was ruled and glazed; his ink a thin black, not blue black, as is much of the best writing fluid in "this country. He had written I know not how many books with the game pen. And he lookedlit the pen as If it were a part of himself." |
