Cargoes for Crusoes

by Grant M. Overton

When I had a little recovered from my amaze, my joy and ecstasy knew no way to communicate itself, and almost immediately, my eye falling on the cases strewn along the beach, I capered with delight. I brake open the boxes, one after the other fast as I could work. All, all, were brimmed with the newest books!

Since that day I have not lacked instruction and entertainment, and deem that Providence, at trifling expense to the maritime insurers, hath rescued me from boredom forevermore. And this I deem the only rescue worth a fingersnap in this life of ours, and one that a great majority of people do never accomplish. My days and nights have been and yet are filled with most various delights, my walks are taken with a great company of authors and my conversations are held with them.

With such profit and satisfaction do I read that more than once, being sighted by a vessel which then stood by to take me off my Island, I have waved the sailors to proceed without me, which they have done with doubt and difficulty; yet finally I have convinced them of my meaning, they proceeding with their voyage, I with mine....

Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
1	THE KNIGHTLINESS OF PHILIP GIBBS	[15]
2	THE TRAIL BLAZERS	[28]
3	THE ART OF MELVILLE DAVISSON POST	[41]
4	JEFFERY FARNOL’S GESTES	[60]
5	ADULTS PLEASE SKIP	[83]
6	THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GOTHIC OF ALDOUS HUXLEY	[97]
7	IN EVERY HOME: A CHAPTER FOR WOMEN	[114]
8	A GREAT IMPERSONATION BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM	[126]
9	G. STANLEY HALL, PSYCHOLOGIST	[143]
10	THE MODE IN NEW FICTION	[167]
11	COSMO HAMILTON’S UNWRITTEN HISTORY	[182]
12	LEST THEY FORGET	[197]
13	THAT LITERARY WANDERER, E. V. LUCAS	[212]
14	AMERICAN HISTORY IN FICTION	[232]
15	THE FIRESIDE THEATRE	[252]
16	A REASONABLE VIEW OF MICHAEL ARLEN	[266]
17	PALETTES AND PATTERNS IN PROSE AND POETRY	[277]
18	COMING!—COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER—COMING!	[290]
19	EDITH WHARTON’S OLD NEW YORK	[304]
20	NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE	[314]
21	FRANK L. PACKARD UNLOCKS A BOOK	[330]
22	ALL CREEDS AND NONE	[348]
23	J. C. SNAITH AND GEORGE GIBBS	[363]
24	MARY JOHNSTON’S ADVENTURE	[375]
	INDEX OF PRICES	[389]
	INDEX	[403]

Portraits

	PAGE
PHILIP GIBBS	[16]
MELVILLE DAVISSON POST	[48]
JEFFERY FARNOL	[64]
SUSAN ERTZ	[176]
COSMO HAMILTON	[184]
E. V. LUCAS	[224]
EMERSON HOUGH	[234]
MICHAEL ARLEN	[272]
MARY JOHNSTON	[384]