Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — For the Defense. [ARTICLE]

For the Defense.

A noted critic and literary adviser said at the Authors’ club in New York: “A reader—whether for a magazine or for a publisher—doesn’t read the whole of every manuscript Why should he? Do I have to eat a whole cheese to tell whether it’s good or not?”