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Updated: May 16, 2025
But as between the two great English-speaking nations of the world, it is in the power of the most foolish politician or the most irresponsible sub-editor, on either side of the Atlantic, to create an international complication with a single spoken phrase or stroke of the pen.
"Good-bye," said the sub-editor thankfully. At the door Mr. Wilberfloss paused with the air of an exile bidding farewell to his native land, sighed, and trotted out. Billy Windsor put his feet upon the table, and with a deep scowl resumed his task of reading the proofs of Luella Granville Waterman's "Moments in the Nursery."
Told me everything I asked and a lot more. If I could have got it all down in his own language it would have been positively thrilling." The sub-editor scribbled in silence for a moment or two. He had reached an important point in his own work. His pen went slower, hesitated for a moment, and then dashed on with renewed vigour. "Read the first few sentences of what you've got," he remarked.
As he brushed his hat he looked towards his companion and said: "That young fellow is worth you and me rolled into one." "I recognised that fact some years ago," replied the sub-editor, wiping his pen on his coat. "It is humiliating, but true. Ha, ha!" Christian Vellacott soon descended the dingy stairs and joined the westward-wending throng in the Strand.
As sub-editor and contributor to The Museion, he was drawing two small but regular incomes. He found it easy enough to work for both. The Planet was poor, and it was out of sheer perversity that it indulged a disinterested passion for literature. In fact, Maddox and his men were trying to do with gaiety of heart what Jewdwine was doing with superb solemnity.
"I am so anxious not to get what you call 'the sack' from here." The sub-editor, mollified, thought the staff need be under no apprehension, provided it showed itself teachable. "I have been rather a worthless fellow, Miss Hope," confessed Dick Danvers. "I was beginning to despair of myself till I came across you and your father.
The glance was radiant with what he couldn't tell her as a sub-editor of honour about those cruel prejudices, but he gave it no other medium. "I'm afraid you know the world, Miss Howe," he said, with a noble reserve, and that was all. "A corner of it here and there. But you are responsible for the whole of the dramatic criticism," Hilda charged him roundly, "the editor can't claim any of THAT."
I had been engaged as editor and sub-editor of the Guardian, and as it was my first editorship, it need hardly be said that I valued my position highly. Mr. Toulmin, I subsequently found, had a reputation for getting all he could out of the members of his staff without much regard to the customs of journalism.
The editor now proceeded to stuff into his bag sundry morning newspapers and a large cigar case. Telegraph forms, pen, ink, and foolscap paper were already there. "I say, Bodery," said the sub-editor with grave familiarity, "it seems to me that you are taking much too serious a view of this matter.
To do this she will have to sacrifice some of her present intelligence; it is impossible to imagine a genuinely intelligent human being becoming a competent trial lawyer, or buttonhole worker, or newspaper sub-editor, or piano tuner, or house painter.
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