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A LITERARY MOSAIC
From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that / my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, / had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to / share my views. It is true that private friends have sometimes, after / listening to my effusions, gone the length of remarking, "Really, Smith, / that's not half bad! " or, "You take my advice, old boy, and send that to / some magazine! " but I have never on these occasions had the moral / courage to inform my adviser that the article in question had been sent / to well-nigh every publisher in London, and had come back again with a / rapidity and precision which spoke well for the efficiency of our postal / arrangements.