The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1858-11-11
Authors, as Conver.at tson siBsss.

PRODUCTION. You hope that your own TO-
ferority in conversation will not be very ap-
parent, and 10 be on tho sure side, resolve 10
play the part Of listener. You meet the
great man, aud vaiDly expect wit or wisdom
from his lips lie turns out To be a very or
dinary mortal. lie maj. be shy and silent, or
garruious and bold, but he does not realize
the expectation which you had formed oi
him from bis writings a subject II discus
sed before him and he either says nothing
about il, or IL he enters into the controversy
makes little Of the subject, throws no light
upon ii, and leaves IL where he found IL. Y0n
go away, dreadlully disappointed, aud can
not understand how a man can talk 10 tame.
ly and write so spiritedly-how he can be
weak ~ well ~ strong be can cmbody
the poet ayerment that we are "hali dust,
half deity" A lew months pass, and our
author produces another book You have
the curiosity 10 read II, and are wonder.
smlttcn at finding the difficult subject on
which the author, in your presence, had ci-
ther not spoken, or spoken badly, fully and
luminously discusscd-rcsearch and ana!y
sis, reflection and sagacity, wit and pathos,
wisdom and sentiment. poetry and pbioso.
ply, grace and carnes'Dess. eloquence and
refinement, al combining to illustrate il I'D
mirably. all makinga thnj dguure which
I delights the Present and will I'LL the Future
with admiration.
What. you may ask, in utter wondermcnt
what an extraordinary difference between
this mans writing and his conversation
what curious quality OF mind. ~ II were,
in ono and the same individual Well,
there sa difference. lie who was sby. and
silent, awkward, and perhaps commonplace
in the crowd, was simply out Of his element
there and then. What changed man you
would see, were you to behold him IN soli-
tude "A casual passage In book, u pass
ing paragraph ia newspaper. may suggest
sn idea which. working into his mind, ere
atcs train Of thought, 10 carry on, which
be s implled TO take pcn in hand and write.
One page leads 10 another, until he has dis
cussed the subject In every point and, in
due season, the completed production, be il
article or book, il before the world, chal'
lenging i,s need ot appreciation and cn-
tightening ia heart.
AT period not very remote, when au'
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