The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-25

convey that unwelcOmed opinion 10 the writer,
and that the writer will 20 away lncredIllous,
an,, accusing mentally The Mentor OF the mo-
mcnt of all manner of literary sins, among
which ignorance, jealousy and ialschood Will,
In the poor authors imagination, be most
prominent And yet when the writerwas ask
inc for that opinion, declaring his especial de-
sire that the opinion should be candid, protest.
ing that his present wish Is to have some gauge
of his own capbility, and that hc has come TO
YOU believing YOU To be above others able 10
give him that gIugc-while his petition 10 yoI
was being made he was in every respect sim
cprc He had come dcsirous to measure him.
self. and had believed that You could measure
him. When coming he did not think that
YOU would declare him TO he an Apollo. lie
had told himself, no doubt, how probable il
was that you would point out TO him that he was
| dwarf. You lind him to be an ordinary man,
| measuring perhaps five feet seven, and unable
| to reach tie standard of the particular rc@l-
mcnt in which he Is ambitious of serving. You
tell him so in what civillest words You Know,
| and you are at once convicted III his mnd oil
jealousy, ignorance and falschOod And yet
| hc is perhaps most excellent fellow, and ca
pabc of performing the best of service, only
| i'm some other regiment AS VIC looked III
| Miss Grcsey'S manuscript, tllmblin9 ii through
| our hands, We expected even from her some
| such result. She had gained two things from
lis already by her outward and inward glitS,
| SUCH IL tIcN McIC-lIl-i tIhtb We h'uiN iN''''
her story, and secondly that We would read il
quickly: but she had not is yet gained from us
any belief that by reading il we could serve
her.
We did read it, the most of it before we LEFT
our editorial chair on that afternoon, so that
We lost altogether the daily wall, 50 essential
to our editorial health. and were put to The
cXnense OF Il cab on our return home. And
we incurred some minimum Of domestic dis
comfort fran the fact that We did not reach
our own door till twenty minutes after our ap-
pointed dinner hour. ~ have this moment
come from the Office as hard as Il cab could
bring me-" we said in answer to the mldcst
Of rcproachcs, explaining nothing as to the
nature OF the cause which had Kept Us 50 long
| al our work.
We must not allow our readers TO suppose
that the intensity of onr application had arisen
from tie overwhelming interest oi lie Story
/, was not that the story elllanccd us, Dnl
that our feelings for the writer grew us we
read The story. Ilw;ls simple unaffected. and
almost painfully unscnsaliolA 1t contained.
as came 10 perceive afterwards, little more
| tan a recital of what her imagination told her
mi.sht too probably I've the result ol hcr own
enlargement. II was the story OF two young
pcop:t who became engaged ana cannot be
| married After Il course Of years. inc man,
with many true az -ulncnlS asks To be aIs0iNcd
| The WOMAN Yields with an expressed cpliNic-
ion thai her lover is rgli!. settles hcTscli u"Wl
ior maiden lie. thcn breaks her Heart ana
dies Tie character Ol the man vas u.leriy
| unnuc to Nature. THAT OF Tie woman was