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Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918 selection of his essays.
- Chapters
- Prologue: On Carrying A Cane
- The Fish Reporter
- On Going On A Journey
- Going To Art Exhibitions
- A Roundabout Paper
- That Reviewer 'Cuss'
- Literary Levities In London
- Henry James, Himself
- Memories Of A Manuscript
- 'You Are An American'
- Why Men Can't Read Novels By Women
- The Dessert Of Life
- A Clerk May Look At Celebrity
- Caun't Speak The Language
- Hunting Lodgings
- My Friend, The Policeman
- Help Wanted -- Male, Female
- Human Municipal Documents
- As To People
- Humours Of The Book Shop
- The Deceased
- A Town Constitutional
- Reading After Thirty
- Epilogue: On Wearing A Hat