7/8 Every author writes to the _Times_. As a matter of course I have written both with my name and without it (according to editorial rule) in many magazines and reviews, from the _Quarterly_ of Lockhart's time to the _Rock_ of this, not to count numerous reviews of books _passim_, besides innumerable fly-leaves, essayettes, sermonettes, &c. &c., in the _Rock_ and elsewhere. I was editor for about two years of an extinct three-monthly, the _Anglo-Saxon_: in one of which I wrote nine articles, as the contributions received were inappropriate. I never worked harder in my life; but the magazine failed, the chief reason being that the monied man who kept it alive insisted upon acceptance when rejection was inevitable. |