title: The Little Black Book of Writers' Wisdom
author: Steven D. Price
description: <strong>Steven D. Price</strong> is the author or editor of thirty-nine fiction and nonfiction books, including the bestselling 1001 . . . Things Ever Said series and the award-winning <em>The American Quarter Horse</em>. In the course of his five-decade publishing career he has been a book and magazine editor and a literary agent. Currently a consulting editor and the manuscript doctor at Skyhorse Publishing, he lives in New York City.
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  The Story of the Other Wise Man
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [THE SIGN IN THE SKY  
  
  
    
  [BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON  
  
  
    
  [FOR THE SAKE OF A LITTLE CHILD  
  
  
    
  [IN THE HIDDEN WAY OF SORROW  
  
  
    
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  # The Story of the Other Wise Man
  
  
  ### Henry Van Dyke
  
  
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  [THE SIGN IN THE SKY
  
  
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  [BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
  
  
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  [Illustration—“It is the Sign,” he said.]
  
  THE STORY OF THE OTHER WISE MAN
  
  BY HENRY VAN DYKE
  
  ILLUSTRATED
  
  [Illustration—Harper and Brothers Logo]
  
  
  NEW YORK HARPER &BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1896
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 1895, by HARPER &BROTHERS —- All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration—The Story of the Other Wise Man]
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul