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Bookman, March 1921

This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is John C. Farrar, an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ( Matt Pierard) (6 hr 2 min)

Chapters

The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun

Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem)

The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal

The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley

Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem)

Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill

Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem)

Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith

The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer

America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns

A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke

Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams

The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton

The Londoner, by Simon Pure

Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem)

A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer

Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata

Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott

Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell

The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

What is The "American Language"?, by Ring W. Lardner

Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin

Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem)

Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield

Allegiance, by Hildegarde Flanner

The Gossip Shop, by Anonymous