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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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before their eyes. A young woman living in a country villagemust take it upon herself to describe metropolitan balls andparties, and send her heroine to the opera and the picture-gallery, even if she refrains from English mansions, Germancastles, and Italian palaces. All this will be quite sure to be somuch labor thrown away. Sketches of incident and character -enter largely into ourcurrent periodical literature. If a person has a quick eye fordiscerning the pathetic or the humorous, and has the faculty ofportraying in words what he sees, this affords one of the mostpromising openings for literary effort, and more especially iffacility in the use of the pencil be added to that of the pen.The person who can design cleverly, as well as write clearly,need never lack profitable employment. Such a person may,with perfect confidence, make literature a profession for life. Not a little depends upon the appearance of the manuscriptsubmitted to an editor. Let it be assumed that the contributor
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THE GATES OF GHIBERTI.See Note 19. THE PROFESSIONS. 297 spells correctly and falls into no gross grammatical errors; yet,if the manuscript be illegibly written, it has very little chanceof receiving a careful perusal. If the powers of the editor aresorely tasked to make out the written words, he cannot havemuch left to appreciate any vigor of thought or grace of ex-pression which may be hidden under those obscure hiero-glyphics. A manuscript submitted to an editor, especially ifthe contributor be a stranger to him, should be as legible as aprinted page, in order to have even a tolerable chance of success.Other things being at all equal, the most legible manuscript willhave the greatest probability of acceptance. A prize was onceoffered for a tale, and Edgar Allan Poe, then quite unknown,was one of the competitors. His offering gained the prize,mainly because the manuscript was so clearly written that thejudges could easily decipher it. It was an exceedingly cleverstory; but its clever

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