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Turns About Town

by Robert Cortes HOLLIDAY (1880 - 1947)

Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye

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

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Listen next episodes of Turns About Town:
Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2 , A Dip into the Underworld , A Humorists Note-Book , An Idiosyncrasy , 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 Steeplejack of the Seven Arts , Recollections of Landladies , Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene , So Very Theatrical , The Sexless Camera , Three Words about Literature