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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

DASH IT OFF.

THE following pleasant little bit of sarcasm from the Baltimore Bulletin, will not be unprofitable for writers of any class. Even some of the contributors to the REVIEW may perhaps spend a few moments over it to advantage:—

“When you take a contribution of any sort to an editor, be sure you tell him that it is something you ‘threw off’ in one of your leisure moments. If there is any one thing that an editor hates above another it is something that smells of midnight oil or bears the impress of great research, painstaking, and patient labor. To toss off a poem of fifty lines in an hour that will excite the admiration of posterity is an evidence of genius, and the man who can do it is no relation to a slow-poke like Emerson, who thinks a line a day of good poetry is enough.”