Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...comic papers, from the "Atlantic Monthly" to "Tid Bits", but to almost every litterateur, his aim is to write something acceptable for the moment; to grapple earnestly with literature never occurs to him. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we would recommend to every nascent Victor Hugo - we are all such, of course - that instead of choosing topics that are easy to treat and hard to criticise - "Moonrise at Sea", "The Character of the Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive...