Excerpt from Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists: Velasquez Here be, among writing men, those who please the populace, and also that Elect Few who inspire writers. When Horace Greeley gave his daily mes sage to the world, every editor of any power in America paid good money for the privilege of being a subscriber to the Tribune. The Tribune had no ex change list - if you wanted the Tri bune you had to buy it, and the writers bought it because it wound up their clocks - set them a-going - and they either carefully abstained from mention ing Greeley, or else went in right valiant ly and exposed his vagaries. Greeley may have been often right, and we now know he was often wrong, but he infused the breath of life into his words - his sentences were a challenge - he made men think. And the reason he made men think was because he himself was a thinker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.