Yet people often marvel that Dickens, Scott, Bulwer, Dumas, etc., have been able to produce so many books.

If these authors had wrought as voluminously as newspaper editors do, the result would be something to marvel at, indeed.
How editors can continue this tremendous labor, this exhausting consumption of brain fibre (for their work is creative, and not a mere mechanical laying-up of facts, like reporting), day after day and year after year, is incomprehensible.

Preachers take two months' holiday in midsummer, for they find that to produce two sermons a week is wearing, in the long run.

In truth it must be so, and is so; and therefore, how an editor can take from ten to twenty texts and build upon them from ten to twenty painstaking editorials a week and keep it up all the year round, is farther beyond comprehension than ever.

Ever since I survived my week as editor, I have found at least one pleasure in any newspaper that comes to my hand; it is in admiring the long columns of editorial, and wondering to myself how in the mischief he did it! Mr.Goodman's return relieved me of employment, unless I chose to become a reporter again.