Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — Dickens and Defoe as Editors [ARTICLE]

Dickens and Defoe as Editors

Writing about the kind of literary talent that would be moet valuable In editorial work todays we mentioned Voltaire, Macaulay and Bwift Among the suggestions that the mail has brought in, the most interesting are Dickens and Defoe. Defoe, however, with his marvelous Impression of actuality, would be greater as a special writer than as an editorial niitic. Dickens, if he could adapt

himself to brief units, would In American journalism today be indeed a mighty power to reach and move the hearts of men. The same genius that went into'his fiction has overflowed into some of his critical work, and always there is the great ability to entertain, mixed with a need of using that power for the betterment of life, which is exactly the combination that the ideal editor ought to

have, particularly in America, but more in all countries as they become more democratic. —Collier’s Weekly.