Chapter X: Journalists and Authors 133

Not all Journalists are Critics, Nor are all Critics
Fault-finders.—The Most Savage Newspapers not the Most
Influential.—The Critic’s Duty.—Horace Greeley.—Mark
Twain’s First Earnings.—A Great Publisher Approached
by Green Goods Men.—Henry Watterson.—Opie Reid.—Quimby
of the “Free Press.”—Laurence Hutton, Edwin Booth and
I in Danger Together.