The Bookman, March 1921


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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)

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The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun 12:29 Read by Elanor
Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem) 1:11 Read by Larry Wilson
The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal 13:21 Read by Lazlo
The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley 39:29 Read by VfkaBT
Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem) 1:11 Read by Elanor
Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill 18:57 Read by Devorah Allen
Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem) 0:47 Read by VfkaBT
Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith 51:25 Read by VfkaBT
The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer 8:13 Read by Larry Wilson
America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns 29:54 Read by VfkaBT
A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke 14:05 Read by VfkaBT
Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams 23:46 Read by VfkaBT
The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton 12:43 Read by VfkaBT
The Londoner, by Simon Pure 25:41 Read by BettyB
Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem) 1:00 Read by VfkaBT
A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer 15:57 Read by BettyB
Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata 8:05 Read by Larry Wilson
Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott 13:38 Read by VfkaBT
Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell 6:58 Read by Chris Pyle
The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8:01 Read by VfkaBT
What is The "American Language"?, by Ring W. Lardner 4:38 Read by Devorah Allen
Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin 7:46 Read by Elanor
Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem) 1:07 Read by BettyB
Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield 11:03 Read by BettyB
Allegiance, by Hildegarde Flanner 1:05 Read by BettyB
The Gossip Shop, by Anonymous 30:01 Read by BettyB