Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — The Kind of Best Literary Men Need. [ARTICLE]

The Kind of Best Literary Men Need.

Mr. James Payn, the novelist, does not believe in too much rest for literary men. He says that. “ although a good amount of sleep is absolutely necessary for imaginative brain work, long holidays are not so. I have noticed that those who let then* brains ‘lie fallow,’ as it is termed, for any considerable time, are by no means the better for it; but, on the other hand, some daily recreation, by which a genuine intei*est is excited and maintained, is almost indispensable. * * * What is needed is an altogether new object for the intellectual energies, by which, though they are stimulated, they shall not be strained.” There is a great deal of sense in this advice.