Garrulities of an octogenarian editor : with other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical, by Henry Holt

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Garrulities of an octogenarian editor : with other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical, by Henry Holt

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with other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical

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by Henry Holt

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• Garrulities of an octogenarian editor : with other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical

Publication

• Boston | New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923

Note

• English edition (London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1924) has title: Sixty years as a publisher
• Includes index

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• 31223003559797
• 31223902411223

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Part I: Life and friends. The octogenarian -- The editor -- Loose ends pickt up ; College days ; Town and gown ; Does Human nature improve? -- More about Yale ; The Civil War and the World War -- The Columbia Law School ; Piratical publishing days ; Some authors ; Clubs and more authors -- The author confesses to Bolshevism ; Literary society in New York of half a century ago -- Quincy Ward ; The Dickens dinner ; Sanford Gifford ; Some jokesmiths and story tellers ; The early manhood of some prominent men -- Gilman and Johns Hopkins University ; McKim ; St. Gaudens ; Eastman Johnson ; Charles O'Connor ; Winslow Homer ; Homer Martin ; Farrar ; Ruskin -- "Old New York" and new ; Various miracles ; Colonel Waring ; Some artists -- Sixty years' social changes in New York ; Dress and its purveyors ; More about clubs ; Social penalties ; Standards proving better and worse ; The young folks still puzzle the old folks ; Prize fights -- Defective planning in Old New York ; Reminiscences of William M. Evarts, Bayard Taylor, Herman Melville, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Some bishops, Henry HIgginson, Dr. Holmes -- A wolf chosen shepherd by the lambs ; Mrs. Humphry Ward as guest and observer ; Sir Henry Maine ; Turgénieff [i.e. Turgenev] ; Moncure Conway ; Alma Tadema ; Millais ; Some idiotic geniuses ; William Black -- Of and for the book trade -- Recollections of Richard Gilder, Edwin Booth, Count Greppi, Lord Bryce ; Some soldiers and statesmen ; Strange dreams of Lincoln and Carnegie ; Rafael Pumpelly -- More memorials
• Part II: My four great teachers. Francis Amasa Walker -- Edwin Lawrence Godkin -- Herbert Spencer -- John Fiske -- Part III: Conclusions. Some old truths rediscovered in the art of living -- The changed world ; Conclusions on some political questions ; Differences in fortune mean differences in men ; Competition ; Striking ; Taxation ; Legislation ; League of Nations ; Marriage and divorce ; Birth control ; Prohibition -- Some cultural questions ; Education ; Some wastes ; Simplified spelling ; Some unpopular reforms ; Reform in general -- Religion -- A little let up and then to the depths again ; Simon Newcomb ; The cosmic memory ; More about religion

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22 cm

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viii, 460 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates

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23017904

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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4 portraits

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• 1128494
• 1128494

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• 1107962
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