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Although the Scribners did not publish Mark Twain's books, the humorist was a frequent visitor to the retail store, and occasionally he would wander back to the publishing department located at the rear of the store, which was then at 743 Broadway. Smoking was not permitted in the Scribner offices, and, of course, Mark Twain was always smoking.
Both Froude and his hosts might have remembered with advantage Disraeli's fine saying that great nations are those which produce great men. But the sensual idolatry of mere size is almost equally common on both sides of the Atlantic. The banquet was given by Froude's American publishers, the Scribners, and his old acquaintance Emerson was one of the company.
Noah Brooks's Recollections of President Lincoln in "Scribners Monthly": J. H. Hackett, in his part of Falstaff, was an actor who gave Mr. Lincoln great delight. With his usual desire to signify to others his sense of obligation, Mr. Lincoln wrote a genial little note to the actor expressing his pleasure at witnessing his performance. Mr.
William Allen White, Albert Bigelow Payne, Stewart Edward White, Jack London, Emerson Hough, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, and Rex Beach were all to come. "Octave Thanet" was writing her stories of Arkansas life for Scribners but had published only one book. Among all my letters of encouragement of this time, not one, except perhaps that from Mr.
This ponderous-looking magazine was not composed of what one might call "light reading," and as the price of a single copy was eighty cents, and the advertisements it could reasonably expect were necessarily limited in number, the periodical was rather difficult to move. Thus the whole situation at the Scribners' was adapted to give Edward an all-round training in the publishing business.
DEAR CHAS: I am not much of a letter writer these days, but I have finished the novel and that must make up for it. It goes to the Scribners for $5,000 which is not as much as I think I should have got for it. I am now lying around here until the first of February, when I expect to sail to Somerset's wedding, reaching you in little old Firenzi in March. We will then paint it.
Although the Scribners did not publish Mark Twain's books, the humorist was a frequent visitor to the retail store, and occasionally he would wander back to the publishing department located at the rear of the store, which was then at 743 Broadway. Smoking was not permitted in the Scribner offices, and, of course, Mark Twain was always smoking.
New York, Longmans, 1910 ed., p. 84-5. "The American Slave Trade," J. R. Spears. New York, Scribners, 1901, p. 69. "The Suppression of the American Slave Trade," W. E. B. DuBois. New York, Longmans, 1896, p. 178-9. "The American Slave Trade," J. R. Spears. New York, Scribners, 1901, p. 84-5. "American Negro Slavery," U. B. Phillips. New York, Appleton, 1918, p. Ibid., p. 190. Ibid., p. 40.
He also turned over in his mind the wisdom of interrupting his line of progress with the Scribners, and in New York, and began to contemplate the possibilities in Philadelphia and the work there. He gathered a collection of domestic magazines then published, and looked them over to see what was already in the field.
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