The Bookman, March 1921

John Farrar (1896 - 1974)

This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is John C. Farrar, an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ( Matt Pierard)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Elder Critic and The Young Enthusiast, by Heywood Broun Elanor
00:12:29
Play 02 Hiker At Midnight, by Carl Sandburg (poem) Larry Wilson
00:01:11
Play 03 The World's Most Curious Books, by Walter H. Blumenthal Lazlo
00:13:21
Play 04 The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby, by Christopher Morley VfkaBT
00:39:29
Play 05 Child and Wind, by Lola Ridge (poem) Elanor
00:01:11
Play 06 Murray Hill Sees Mr. Chesterton, by Murray Hill Devorah Allen
00:18:57
Play 07 Apotheosis, by Keith Preston (poem) VfkaBT
00:00:47
Play 08 Dreiser - After Twenty Years, by Edward H. Smith VfkaBT
00:51:25
Play 09 The Poems of the Month, by Louis Untermeyer Larry Wilson
00:08:13
Play 10 America and the Young Intellectual, by Harold Stearns VfkaBT
00:29:54
Play 11 A Talk With Charles Dickens's Office Boy, by Catherine Van Dyke VfkaBT
00:14:05
Play 12 Maxwell Struthers Burt, by Blanche Colton Williams VfkaBT
00:23:46
Play 13 The Alleged Culture of New England, by Richard Burton VfkaBT
00:12:43
Play 14 The Londoner, by Simon Pure BettyB
00:25:41
Play 15 Lonely, by Jo Felshin (poem) VfkaBT
00:01:00
Play 16 A Literary Portrait Gallery, by Annie Nathan Meyer BettyB
00:15:57
Play 17 Thirty Thousand Poets From Japan, by Shigeyoshi Obata Larry Wilson
00:08:05
Play 18 Walt Whitman - Dramatic Critic, by Alexander Woolcott VfkaBT
00:13:38
Play 19 Old Love and New Poetry, Or Vice Versa, by Floyd Dell Chris Pyle
00:06:58
Play 20 The Baltimore Anti-Christ, by F. Scott Fitzgerald VfkaBT
00:08:01
Play 21 What is The "American Language"?, by Ring W. Lardner Devorah Allen
00:04:38
Play 22 Woman Sees Steel, by Mary Austin Elanor
00:07:46
Play 23 Repentance, by Daniel Henderson (poem) BettyB
00:01:07
Play 24 Foreign Notes and Comment, by Allen Wilson Porterfield BettyB
00:11:03
Play 25 Allegiance, by Hildegarde Flanner BettyB
00:01:05
Play 26 The Gossip Shop, by Anonymous BettyB
00:30:01