The So-called Human Race

The So-called Human Race

Set up and electrotyped by J.J. Little & Ives Co., New York, N.Y.Paper furnished by W.F. Etherington & Co., New York, N.Y.Printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N.Y.Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N.Y. Bert Leston Taylor (known the country over as B.L.T.) was the first of our days colyumistsfirst in point of time, and first in point of merit. For nearly twenty years, with some interruptions, he conducted A Line-o-Type or Two on the editorial page of the Chicago Tribune. His broad columnbroad by measurement, broad in scope, and a bit broad, now and again, in its tonecheered hundreds of thousands at the breakfast-tables of the Middle West, and on its trains and trolleys. As the Column grew in reputation, making the Line became almost a national sport. Whoever had a happy thought, whoever could handily turn a humorous paragraph or tune a pointed jingle, was only too glad to attempt collaboration with B.L.T. Others, possessing no literary knack, chanced it with brief reports on the follies or ineptitudes of the so-called human race. Some of them picked up their matter on their travelsthese were the Gadders. Others culled oddities from the provincial press, and so gave further scope [p viii] />to The Enraptured Reporter, or offered selected gems of gaucherie from private correspondence, and thus added to the rich yield of The Second Post. Still humbler helpers chipped in with queer bits of nomenclature, thereby aiding the formation of an Academy of Immortalsan organization fully officered by people with droll names and always tending, as will become apparent in the following pages, to enlarge and vary its roster. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 31138
Author: Taylor, Bert Leston
Release Date: Jan 31, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929