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Always in debt, he kept on advertising as subscriptions rolled in. Finally after a four years' struggle "with scarcely a night at the theatre," the magazine was netting $100 a week. He bought everything?paper, printing, salaries?"on time," and collected $95,000 to advertise some more. Munsey told it...
"Five years of poverty, five years of awful struggle, and now the earth was mine?rich at last, richer than I had ever dreamed of being?$1,000 a week net, and every week adding to it by leaps and bounds?$50,000 a year and all mine?next year...
Said a super-critic: "If critics who have so carefully laid their round formal wreaths upon Sargent's tomb should discover in these murals some reminiscence of the art calendar, let them not suggest that 'Philosophy' might have been intended as the decoration for a magazine poem...
The bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin...
And to any but the casual thinker this has certain rather unpleasant implications. Either Mr. Brangwyn asks too much of a human face or life asks too little. Of course the belief that man's character lies revealed upon his face has long been shown false. Yet the spiritual power...