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Show Cave Lesser Man His , Brief Hour of Triumph i Great writers have had "artistic con- I science" to a degree that sometimes cnused them painful labors. In 1700, when Joseph iidlson, the English poet and essayist, was undersecretary of state he was given as a matter of official business the task of writing to Hanover that' Queen Anne was dead. He found It so difficult to express himself satisfactorily that the lords of the regency were obliged to employ Southwell, at that time on of the clerks. For hours Addison had struggled In attempts to druft a sutt- able message, but the last one seemed as Inadequate as the first, and In despair de-spair he cast It after lts predecessors Into the waste basket. Southwell stated the simple fact, as he was ordered, In the ordinary language lan-guage of business, and It is said he, then boasted of his superiority to Addison Ad-dison in having Readily done- that which Addison attempting to do had failed. Kansas City Times. |