A manuscript accompanying the letter is offered for publication.

It is not commonly brilliant, too often lamentably deficient.

If Rachel's saying is true, that "fortune is the measure of intelligence," then poverty is evidence of limited capacity which it too frequently proves to be, notwithstanding a noble exception here and there.

Now an editor is a person under a contract with the public to furnish them with the best things he can afford for his money.

Charity shown by the publication of an inferior article would be like the generosity of Claude Duval and the other gentlemen highwaymen, who pitied the poor so much they robbed the rich to have the means of relieving them.
Though I am not and never was an editor, I know something of the trials to which they are submitted.