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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) (6 hr 2 min)

Chapters

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