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Frank Frankfort Moore. A Journalist's Note-Book
A Journalist's Note-Book
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.—PAST AND PRESENT
CHAPTER II.—THE OLD SCHOOL
CHAPTER III.—THE EDITOR OF THE PAST
CHAPTER IV.—THE UNATTACHED EDITOR
CHAPTER V.—THE SUB-EDITORS
CHAPTER VI—THE SUB-EDITORS (continued)
CHAPTER VII.—SOME EXTINCT TYPES
CHAPTER VIII.—MEN, MENUS, AND MANNERS
CHAPTER IX.—ON THE HUMAN IMAGINATION
CHAPTER X—THE VEGETARIAN AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XI.—ON SOME FORMS OF SPORT
CHAPTER XII.—SOME REPORTERS
CHAPTER XIII—THE SUBJECT OF REPORTS
CHAPTER XIV.—IRELAND AS A FIELD FOR REPORTERS
CHAPTER XV.—IRISH TROTTINGS AND JOTTINGS
CHAPTER XVI.—IRISH TOURISTS AND TRAINS
CHAPTER XVII—HONORARY EDITORS AND OTHERS
CHAPTER XVIII.—OUTSIDE THE LYCEUM BILL
CHAPTER XIX.—SOME IMPERFECT STUDIES
CHAPTER XX.—ON SOME FORMS OF CLEVERNESS
CHAPTER XXI.—“SO CAREFUL OF THE TYPE.”
THE END
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Frank Frankfort Moore
Published by Good Press, 2019
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In a town of moderate size in which I lived, there were forty men and women who described themselves for directory purposes as “novelists.” Not one of them had ever published a volume; but still they all believed themselves to be novelists. There are thousands of men who call themselves journalists even now, but who are utterly incapable of writing a decent “par.” I have known many such men. The most incompetent invariably become dissatisfied with life in the provinces, and hurry off to London, having previously borrowed their train fare. I constantly stumble upon provincial failures in London. Sometimes on the Embankment I literally stumble upon them, for I have found them lying in shady nooks there trying to forget the world’s neglect in sleep.
Why on earth such men take to journalism has always been a mystery to me. If they had the least aptitude for it they would be earning money by journalism instead of trying to borrow half-crowns as journalists.
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