In one of his speeches Pryor had actually gone the length of rudely referring to Mrs.James Gordon Bennett.
The dinner was duly given.

But it ended John's connection with the Herald and his friendly relations with the owner of the Herald.

The incident might be cited as among "The Curiosities of Journalism," if ever a book with that title is written.

John's "break" was so bad that I never had the heart to ask him how he could have perpetrated it.
III The making of an editor is a complex affair.

Poets and painters are said to be born.