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Show Dickens and Defoe as Editors Writing about the kind of literary talent that would be most valuable In editorial work today, we mentioned mention-ed Voltaire, Macaulay and Swift Among the suggestions that the mail has brought In, the most Interesting are Dickens and Defoe. Defoe, however, how-ever, with his marvelous impression of actuality, would be greater as a special writer than as an editorial :ritlc. Dickens, if he could adapt himself to brief units, would In American journalism today be Indeed a mighty power to, reach and move the hearts of men. The same genius that went into his fiction has overflowed over-flowed Into some of his critical work, and always there is the great ability to entertain, mixed with a need of using that power for the betterment of life, which Is exactly the combination combina-tion that the Ideal editor ought to have, particularly in America, but more in all countries as they become more democratic. Collier's Weekly, j |