Show MERELY A masterpiece not a in lovely for alie junior A man who wanted to lecture called at a bureau presided over by two managers he aroused their interest with a lecturers art says abc but unfortunately the senior member was just starting on a trip and would not return for atI east a month the senior partner called the young 0 o and exacted a solemn promise that he would not visit an other bureau or read his lecture to anybody until after ho had given this particular manager a reading and a chance to make him an offer a month K hence the interest of the member however was at white cicat and ho kept sending or the young lecturer insisting that he come down to the office and read his lecture tho young man refused with as much tact as possible but this only increased the anxiety of alie junior at last the young man told of the promise made the senior partner instead of quieting the junior manager th made him the more anxious and finally the young man consented the reading ended the junior partner said I 1 now your reading this has saved us all much valuable time ill tell you frankly my boy it wont do theres no message in it it Is loosely constructed the diction is poor it wont do bum it and try again when the senior partner returned he called up the young lecturer and soundly berated him for breaking faith how do I 1 know you have not been to every bureau in town you promised me on your honor you would read the lecture to nobody not even to my partner the man protested that he had not done so why exclaimed the senior manager of course you have he tells me that yon came down here to the office two weeks ago and read him the entire lecture and that he told you it was no good yes replied the young man after much persuasion I 1 did read him a lecture which ho told me was no good but it was not my lecture it was wendell lost arts |