Secrets of the Sanctum: An Inside View of an Editor's Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Secrets of the Sanctum: An Inside View of an Editor's LifeEditors of newspapers, together with poets, novelists, historians, and other literary men, are looked upon by a numerous class of persons, who seldom or never come in contact with them, as very superior beings. The merchant, the banker, the mechanic and clerk in the city - and even the plowboy in the country - unconsciously learn to associate in their minds a mysterious dignity with the unseen being whose brain conceives what appears "in print," to be read by thousands and hundreds of thousands. They realize that, while their own sphere is very narrow, that of the writer, whose thoughts are placed in type and repeated to thousands, is in a manner illimitable. So they naturally grow to regard the invisible writer with feelings akin to veneration. It is not entirely unreasonable. If there is anything that ought to raise one man above another, as a man, it would seem to be intellectual power, rather than wealth, a proud ancestry, physical strength, or a fine personal appearance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.