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
1 The Hotel Guest 13 min 2 A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial 18 min 3 Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops 13 min 4 The Haircut that Went to My Head 13 min 5 Seeing Mr. Chesterton 22 min 6 When is a Great City a Small Village? 13 min 7 The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia 13 min 8 Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art 13 min 9 Writing in Rooms 24 min 10 Taking the Air in San Francisco 13 min 11 Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye 24 min 12 No System at all to the Human System 13 min 13 Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene 17 min 14 Literary Lives 17 min 15 So Very Theatrical 13 min 16 Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts 20 min 17 Former Tenant of His Room 12 min 18 Only She Was There 16 min 19 A Humorists Note-Book 16 min 20 Including Studies of Traffic Cops 11 min 21 Three Words about Literature 8 min 22 Recollections of Landladies 22 min 23 An Idiosyncrasy 25 min 24 The Sexless Camera 7 min 25 I Know an Editor 8 min 26 A Dip into the Underworld 13 min 27 Nosing Round Washington 55 min 28 Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1 28 min 29 Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2 28 min
