Chapter 2

PROBATION. Aspirations After a Journalistic Life--A Clerk's Stool in the W.B. Lead Office--Literary Ambitions--An Accepted Contribution--The _Northern Daily Express_ and its Editor--Founding a Literary Institute--Letters from Charles Kingsley and Archbishop Longley--Joseph Cowen and his Revolutionary Friends--Orsini--Thackeray's Lectures and Dickens's Readings.