Americans, Drawn by Charles Dana Gibson

Drawn by CHARLES DANA GIBSON
HIS is the fifth book in the regular series of Mr. Gibsons published drawings, consisting of
Each book contains eighty-four of Mr. Gibson’s best cartoons, and all are uniform in size, shape and binding. Thanks are due Messrs. Mitchell & Miller and Charles Scribners Sons, for their co-operation in making this volume as representative and complete as possible.
Copyright by MITCHELL & MILLER. Copyright by CHARLES SCRIBNERS & SONS. COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL.
THE book is published in Great Britain by especial arrangement with Mr. James Henderson, the proprietor of the English copyright of some of the drawings.
Printed in the United States of America.
Entered at Stationers Hall.
PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORK.
Enthusiastic Young Miss : TO THINK OF YOUR BEING A REAL LITERARY MAN! I DO SO LONG TO KNOW HOW YOU WRITE THINGS. CANT YOU EXPLAIN IT?
Venerable Hack : IT IS THE SIMPLEST THING. YOU HAVE A MIND SUITABLY PREPARED. YOU GET AN IDEA. THE IDEA BEING INTRODUCED INTO THE MIND CAUSES FERMENTATION, DURING WHICH A SCUM RISES TO THE TOP AND IS CAREFULLY REMOVED, LEAVING A RESIDUE OF CLEAR THOUGHT. THIS YOU BOTTLE UP FOR YOUR OWN USE. THE SCUM YOU SELL TO A PUBLISHER.
He : YES, DEAREST, I HAVE LOVED BEFORE WE MET; BUT LET US NOT DIG UP THE PAST.
“OH, ALL RIGHT, THEN; IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DIG UP THE PAST, WHY, LET’S NOT DIG UP THE FUTURE EITHER.”