BERT CORTES HOLLIDAY
JOHAN BOJER
WILLIAM ROSE BENET
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
KATHLEEN NORRIS
FREDERICK O'BRIEN
D. H. LAWRENCE
JOHN DRINKWATER
JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
CARL SANDBURG
SINCLAIR LEWIS
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
EUGENE O'NEILL
H. L. MENCKEN
JOHN DOS PASSOS
ELINOR WYLIE
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
FLOYD DELL

=iv=

Among the American essayists whose work has appeared in The Bookman before
its publication in book form is Robert Cortes Holliday; among strikingly
successful books that appeared serially in The Bookman was Donald Ogden
Stewart's _A Parody Outline of History_. Among The Bookman's regular
reviewers are Louis Untermeyer, Wilson Follett, Paul Elmer More, H. L.
Mencken, Henry Seidel Canby and Maurice Francis Egan. Among writers of
distinction whose short stories have first appeared in The Bookman are
William McFee, Sherwood Anderson, Mary Austin, and Johan Bojer; while the
intimate personal portraits published under the general title "The
Literary Spotlight" have Lytton Stracheyized contemporary American
literature. Possibly it is in the department of poetry that The Bookman
now shines the brightest (see the account of The Bookman Anthology in the
previous chapter); if so, that may be because the editor, John Farrar, is
himself a poet.

Probably no other literary magazine in the world exhibits such a degree of
personal contact between the editor, his readers, his contributors and the
magazine's friends. This note of personal contact is constantly reflected
in the magazine's pages; but anyone who has called upon the editor of The
Bookman once or twice will know explicitly just what I mean.

EPILOGUE

I have been surprised, on looking back over these chapters, by the variety
of the books I have talked about. That so diverse a list should be under a
single imprint and should represent, with few exceptions, the publications
of a single twelvemonth, seems to me very remarkable. I believe a majority
of the books are the production of a single publishing season, the autumn
of 1922, and the Doran imprint is but thirteen years old.

"Of the making of books, there is no end"; but of the making of any single
book, there must come an end. Yet what is the end of a book but the
beginning of new friendships?

THE END

INDEX

Agate, James E., 49;
_Alarums and Excursions_, 49;
dramatic critic, 50;
_Responsibility_, 50;
rev