XXIV A Farm Boy Who Devoured Books Writes One of the Greatest Poems of the Century.
ONE OF THE GREAT POEMS OF THE CENTURY.
HIS MOTHER WAS BOTH PRACTICAL AND POETIC.
HE GAINED VALUABLE DISCIPLINE ON A FARM.
XXV A Famous Authoress Tells Literary Aspirants the Story of Her Struggle for Recognition.
HOW HER BEST POEMS WERE WRITTEN.
MERIT IS NOT ALWAYS DISCOVERED QUICKLY.
EDITORS ARE ANXIOUS FOR GOOD ARTICLES.
PERSEVERANCE COUNTS IN AUTHORSHIP.
XXVI A Printer’s Boy, Self Taught, Becomes the Dean of American Letters.
HIS POEMS ALWAYS WERE REJECTED.
AN EXPERIENCE IN COLLABORATION.
XXVII A Famous Novelist Atones for Wasted School Days by Self-Culture.
CONVERTED WHILE WRITING HIS OWN BOOK.
XXVIII A Social Leader, Having “Eyes That See,” Earns Literary Laurels.
SHE IS A GENTLE, FORCEFUL WOMAN.
XXIX Painstaking, the Secret of a Celebrated Painter’s Success.
PERSISTENCE AND HARD WORK COUNT.
XXX A School Girl, Not Afraid of Drudgery, Becomes America’s Foremost Woman Illustrator.
