'The best thai you can do is to write the book that it gives you the most pleasure to_ 

 write, to put as much heart and soul as you have about you into it, and then hope as 

 hard as vou can to reach the heart and soul of the great multitude of your fellow-men. ' 

 7he Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by W. D. HowELLS, 

 Scribner's Mamzine, October 1891. 



