The Young Reporter. By William Drysdale. (Andrew Mei- rose.)—Dick Sumner
is the " last boy " in the printing office of the Russellville Record, and is seriously meditating whether he will not give up his place for work in a saw-mill, and gain thereby an additional six dollars a week,—a matter of serious moment to his widowed mother. Just then there comes to him "the tide in his affairs." The Governor of the State oomes to Russellville to see a sick sister, and his coming has to be reported (a piece of impertinence we should think it here). He comes, and is seriously hurt by a carriage accident, and Dick makes something good out of this important piece of news. He carries it to a New York paper, tells the story in an effective way, luckily within the hearing of the night editor, and his fortune, so to speak, is made. He has his reverses, and he makes his mistakes. But he does not fall back. Mr. Drysdale tells the story of his rise in a most interesting fashion. We feel all along that we are in the hands of a master of his subject, one who knows what he has to say, and how to say it.
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