Walking-Stick Papers

by Robert Cortes Holliday

24 chapters6h 40mEnglish1918

About this book

Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918 selection of his essays. - Summary by david wales

Chapters (22)

1The Fish Reporter

1452

2On Going On A Journey

1007

3Going To Art Exhibitions

1427

4A Roundabout Paper

1067

5That Reviewer 'Cuss'

1705

6Literary Levities In London

965

7Henry James, Himself

697

8Memories Of A Manuscript

1125

9'You Are An American'

1085

10Why Men Can't Read Novels By Women

967

11The Dessert Of Life

1254

12A Clerk May Look At Celebrity

1243

13Caun't Speak The Language

1038

14Hunting Lodgings

553

15My Friend, The Policeman

577

16Help Wanted -- Male, Female

814

17Human Municipal Documents

1297

18As To People

548

19Humours Of The Book Shop

726

21A Town Constitutional

1196

22Reading After Thirty

360

23Epilogue: On Wearing A Hat

734

Walking-Stick Papers

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