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Turns About Town

Turns About Town

by Robert Cortes HOLLIDAY (1880 - 1947)

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


Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2

A Dip into the Underworld

A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial

A Humorists Note-Book

An Idiosyncrasy

Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye

Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1

Former Tenant of His Room

I Know an Editor

Including Studies of Traffic Cops

Literary Lives

No System at all to the Human System

Nosing Round Washington

Only She Was There

Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art

Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts

Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops

Recollections of Landladies

Seeing Mr. Chesterton

Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene

So Very Theatrical

Taking the Air in San Francisco

The Haircut that Went to My Head

The Hotel Guest

The Sexless Camera

The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia

Three Words about Literature

When is a Great City a Small Village?

Writing in Rooms