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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 8, 24 February 1909, Page 45

“Your love-story possesses merit," wrote a tender-hearted magazine editor, in returning a lengthy manuscript to -a struggling young author; “but you have embellished it with too much description, atmosphere, and other irrelevent stuff. What we want is a story setting out the simple facts, and refraining from twaddle. If you will revise your story according to our ideas, we may be able to accept and pay for it.” A few- days later the editor got the following from the young author: “Herewith revised story. Please semi cheek by return mail, as I very much need the money.” And this was the storv, as rewritten: “Jocelyn loved Eliza, but he was poor, and her wealthy father would not favour the match. Jocelyn went on the Stock Exchange and made a million, bankrupt ing Eliza’s fattier. Then Eliza went to the seaside, and fell off the pier. Jocelyn fished her out. Papa relented, and borrowed a hundred thousand from Jocelyn. Marriage.”