I've read some, too, but it has been part of my thinking, and I have read principally magazines.

I have generalized about myself, and the world, my place in it, and my chance to win to a place that will be fit for you.

Also, I've been reading Spencer's 'Philosophy of Style,' and found out a lot of what was the matter with me--or my writing, rather; and for that matter with most of the writing that is published every month in the magazines." "But the upshot of it all--of my thinking and reading and loving--is that I am going to move to Grub Street.

I shall leave masterpieces alone and do hack-work--jokes, paragraphs, feature articles, humorous verse, and society verse--all the rot for which there seems so much demand.

Then there are the newspaper syndicates, and the newspaper short-story syndicates, and the syndicates for the Sunday supplements.