Turns About Town

by Robert Cortes Holliday

29 chapters8h 27mEnglish1921

About this book

Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared originally in various American newspapers and magazines. - Summary by Tom Penn

Chapters (29)

1The Hotel Guest

756

2A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial

1095

3Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops

804

4The Haircut that Went to My Head

776

5Seeing Mr. Chesterton

1310

6When is a Great City a Small Village?

800

7The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia

790

8Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art

763

9Writing in Rooms

1424

10Taking the Air in San Francisco

793

11Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye

1460

12No System at all to the Human System

800

13Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene

1022

14Literary Lives

997

15So Very Theatrical

755

16Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts

1194

17Former Tenant of His Room

701

18Only She Was There

982

19A Humorists Note-Book

984

20Including Studies of Traffic Cops

665

21Three Words about Literature

461

22Recollections of Landladies

1291

23An Idiosyncrasy

1484

24The Sexless Camera

422

25I Know an Editor

455

26A Dip into the Underworld

803

27Nosing Round Washington

3306

28Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1

1700

29Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2

1671

Turns About Town

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