Little Visits with Great Americans. Эндрю Карнеги

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СКАЧАТЬ XXIV A Farm Boy Who Devoured Books Writes One of the Greatest Poems of the Century.

       THE MAN WITH THE HOE.

       ONE OF THE GREAT POEMS OF THE CENTURY.

       HIS MOTHER WAS BOTH PRACTICAL AND POETIC.

       HE GAINED VALUABLE DISCIPLINE ON A FARM.

       BYRON’S POEMS INSPIRED HIM.

       ANSWERING HIS CRITICS.

       SEED SOWN LONG AGO.

       XXV A Famous Authoress Tells Literary Aspirants the Story of Her Struggle for Recognition.

       HOW HER BEST POEMS WERE WRITTEN.

       THE CREED.

       SHE IS A PRONOUNCED OPTIMIST.

       DO NOT FEAR CRITICISM.

       MERIT IS NOT ALWAYS DISCOVERED QUICKLY.

       EDITORS ARE ANXIOUS FOR GOOD ARTICLES.

       PERSEVERANCE COUNTS IN AUTHORSHIP.

       WILL-POWER

       XXVI A Printer’s Boy, Self Taught, Becomes the Dean of American Letters.

       EARLY IDEALS.

       ACQUIRING A LITERARY STYLE.

       HIS POEMS ALWAYS WERE REJECTED.

       HIS FIRST EDITORIAL POSITION.

       AN EXPERIENCE IN COLLABORATION.

       THE REWARDS OF LITERATURE.

       WHAT TRUE HAPPINESS IS.

       XXVII A Famous Novelist Atones for Wasted School Days by Self-Culture.

       HE WAS A CARELESS STUDENT.

       HE LOVED TO READ.

       A FATHER’S FRUITFUL WARNING.

       HIS FIRST LITERARY EFFORT.

       THE ORIGIN OF “BEN HUR.”

       CONVERTED WHILE WRITING HIS OWN BOOK.

       XXVIII A Social Leader, Having “Eyes That See,” Earns Literary Laurels.

       HER FIRST NOVEL.

       BOOKS SHE ENJOYED.

       HER CHARACTERS ARE FROM LIFE.

       IN LOVE WITH HER WORK.

       SHE IS A GENTLE, FORCEFUL WOMAN.

       XXIX Painstaking, the Secret of a Celebrated Painter’s Success.

       A MOST INTERESTING STUDIO.

       HE WAS NOT A PRECOCIOUS BOY.

       HIS WORK WAS ENCOURAGED.

       HE ALWAYS TAKES PAINS.

       PERSISTENCE AND HARD WORK COUNT.

       XXX A School Girl, Not Afraid of Drudgery, Becomes America’s Foremost Woman Illustrator.

       ART IGNORES NOISE.

       GIRLS’ CHANCES AS ILLUSTRATORS.

       HOW SHE BEGAN.

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