A BUSY EDITOR.
The huge amount of work (says the London “World”) undertaken by the editor of “ Punch” and writer of comedies, burlesque*, and comic operas is got through by steady attention. Unlike the hewers of wood and drawers of water, who ought to he, hut are not bumble, Mr 3?. 0. Burnand is more systematic as to his work than as to his meals. At 10 o’clock he may generally be found in his study at the top of his house in Bussell square reading the newspapers and digesting letters and a cup of chocolate. By 11 o'clock bo is at the “Punch” office, getting through all that has to bo done, and at 4 is again in Bussell square at his writing table till 7.30. Then come dinner and recreation till 10.30, when the head of the house ascends to its top and settles down, not to sleep like one, but to tackle the loose ends of dramatic work always lying about, and wrestle with them to an uncertain hour. This is the ordinary routine of Mr Burnand’a life, except Friday, when he sticks to the bureau from morning till night, and dinner becomes a movable feast. •
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 5 May 1881, Page 2
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199A BUSY EDITOR. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2242, 5 May 1881, Page 2
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