Little Journeys to the Homes of American Authors.
The papers below specified were, with the exception of that contributed
by the editor, Mr. Hubbard, originally issued by the late G. P. Putnam,
in 1853, in a book entitled _Homes of American Authors_. It is now
nearly half a century since this series (which won for itself at the
time a very noteworthy prestige) was brought before the public; and the
present publishers feel that no apology is needed in presenting to a new
generation of American readers papers of such distinctive biographical
interest and literary value.
No. 1, Emerson, by Geo. W. Curtis.
” 2, Bryant, by Caroline M. Kirkland.
” 3, Prescott, by Geo. S. Hillard.
” 4, Lowell, by Charles F. Briggs.
” 5, Simms, by Wm. Cullen Bryant.
” 6, Walt Whitman, by Elbert Hubbard.
” 7, Hawthorne, by Geo. Wm. Curtis.
” 8, Audubon, by Parke Godwin.
” 9, Irving, by H. T. Tuckerman.
” 10, Longfellow, by Geo. Wm. Curtis.
” 11, Everett, by Geo. S. Hillard.
” 12, Bancroft, by Geo. W. Greene.
The above papers will form the series of _Little Journeys_ for the year
1896.
They will be issued monthly, beginning January, 1896, in the same general
style as the series of 1895, at 50 cents a year, and single copies will
be sold for 5 cents, postage paid.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS,
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The ROYCROFT Printing Shop has in preparation GLYNNE’S WIFE, a story in
verse by Mrs. Julia Ditto Young.
Mrs. Young is a Poet who has written much but published little. This,
her latest and believed by her friends to be her best work, is the
product of a mind and heart singularly gifted by Nature, and ripened by
a long apprenticeship to Art. As a specimen of the pure “lyric cry,”
illustrating the melody possible in the English tongue, the volume seems
to stand alone among all books written by modern versifiers. The delicacy
of touch, the faultless rhythm, the splendid vocabulary and the gentle
tho’ sure insight into the human heart, make a combination of qualities
very, very seldom seen. The author _knows_, and knowing blames not: a
sustained sympathy being the keynote of it all.
The publishers have endeavored to give the story a typographical setting
in keeping with the richness of the lines. Five hundred and ninety copies
are being printed on smooth Holland hand-made paper, and twenty-five on
Tokio Vellum. The copies on Holland paper will be bound in boards covered
with antique watered silk; the Vellum copies are bound in like manner
save that each will bear on the cover a special water-color design done
by the hand of the author.
The price of the five hundred and ninety copies is two dollars each; the
Vellum copies five dollars each. Every copy will be numbered and signed
by Mrs. Young. Orders are now being recorded and will be delivered on
September 1st, numbered in the order received.
THE ROYCROFT PRINTING SHOP,
East Aurora, New York.
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