text:  By this test is every man of talent tried in London; this is his grand his formal difficulty to get the opportunity of showing what he can do of being put into circulation of having the chance of being tested like a shilling by the _ring_ of the customer and the _bite_ of the critic; for the opportunity the chance to edge in the chink to _wedge_ in the _purchase_ whereon to work the length of his lever he must be ever on the watch; for the sunshine blink of encouragement the April shower of praise he must await the long winter of "hope deferred" passing away