New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE BUSINESS VIEW OF LITERATURE.
pa fAs Editor Of The Tribune.

THE BUSINESS VIEW OF LITERATURE
70 the EdftOr Of The tribune
s,p. Fam very much like the poor lady
snoter NJ In recent number Of TIE TRIBUNE, except
that am not "suddenly driven to tho necessity Oh
making my own living" Casting about Tor doar Ia"
not even the charm Of novelty to me- OF oi certainly "
uncertainty evenly balanced; tho story win many
women is older than their love Stories ana apot a. s'u
Some of my friends turn an honest penny by WI'ins
FOR the newspaper press and as they have beheld
the evidence OF my poverty, they have exclaimed why
don,t Won wrtel" once replied For the same feaSon
that an elephant don't climb a ughtnmgIou' lho'o
luekv friends OF mine tell mo that they set money anu
railroad passes for their little pieces. Now, both OF
either would he very acceptable to me, Tor
horo had only one new dress in year, ana
that was made by the desperate combination Vi
two old ones The result was grmly comich'
tbe cause was so evident that "the wayI"ins
man though fool" might have seen H. ana woud nave
laughed had he not also been able TO understand tno
moor ruse knew all the time was constructing tha'
dress that a fasdious taste would have been De''er
satisfied II the coors had been more HARMONIOUS ana tine
materials more congruOus put why should criticism 90
so memorable with the pathetic efforts OF poverty Wnen
IL is very lenient with the awess freaks OF fashion,
however absurd and rotesque they may be And those
railroad passes that my friends get-how should IKE
them II would be pleasant TO see the world, but IL
costs 81 co to 60 from my home TO Lawrence AMI moro
10 60 TO Ieavenworh Atchson. There is rather an
unjust distribution OF EvOrs IN TINS county, anu
speak of il because Il L. probably pecGa ~, noon
who could afford to buy tickets are apt TO nave passes
hatfu OF passes ana pocket tul oil m9hey seems 3
be the rule though perhaps should have changed
the order OF the conditions BUT 70 re-
turn" which II our minister's bridge rom one
sterile field TO another You advise the LADY VINO wishes
10 write 20 study grammar, rhetoric, anu te eyo Ui
the best ossaysts. was touched by the Kindness WIN
which You handled delicate a subject YET l, aul
Obliged TO complain that your counsel 10 her Ias hul
of my case. do know GRAMMAR can pare ue nJtl
Course OF Time" or the verb that most scorns appa-
rent connection with subject in Paradise Lost Sdn
demouStrate that there is correct, though peculiar
structure to most Of Carylc sentences, when were
written before the year 1929 and can often uhe'n a
idea when Charles leade has left DOth noun ana VeIp
The sport OF the breeze am even making discover
in the art OF using language II - that tne fues "
grammar are not necessarily more Dlnding imam tnOse
OF spelling and pronunciation thdt lho pLesent use-
OF the best authors Is as sGod auInVry ~ ~
al least such generous cOneessl0u-oughJ 70 nv me
out Of the ranks OF teachers, becoming 50 PleDean %
place me with the Htte anu ioSS9u4ne Du' f'
The study OF rhetoric which you commend would
80 an InfaTnp delight but neither would be entirely
new Ountillian, Kaine and Blair nave Wrestled lohk
and Justly with my Western crudenesses ana MacauldJ
and Christopher North, Hudson, C0ierldge ana LAhO
were my cQppauiOns on the grass uuucI uIo oalps ~
trees az the home, Of my grlhOod. No-my want uOes
not arise exactly from ignorance OF grammar, rhetoric
or the style OF the perfect esoaYsts. WI. you ot 90
little further aud give recipe Tor Iht
mind which no known stimulan eycre 10 sucleht
action 10 produce more thah lines and hai upon the
most Interesting subject for that phy slcal lasstuuc
Icncb WoiI,I max composition depend upon dream
insplrng luxurious easy-chalr, ana NdhciuA amdu
uenss. these, OF course presuppOslhg wealth. "hon
would render eXeftloh unnecessary on' .oV tis
tell how eradicate that dislike Tor sd5 lus ue
when some else must pass Judgment upon "neIhet
II il worth being said aud allow forbid according TO
his commercial estimate OF It's value do not
ure both necessary aud just and mas not probably ever
prevented good thing from being said WINE, Peinaps
Ii caused as much mental aclNiy "a n"S he D'9 Vi
Wiciita, Kas., July 6, 1873.