SERIES FOR 1896
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Authors.
The papers below specified were, with the exception of that contributed by the editor, Mr. Hubbard, originally issued by the late G. P. Putnam, in 1853, in a book entitled Homes of American Authors. It is now nearly half a century since this series (which won for itself at the time a very noteworthy prestige) was brought before the public; and the present publishers feel that no apology is needed in presenting to a new generation of American readers papers of such distinctive biographical interest and literary value.
| No. 1, | Emerson, by Geo. W. Curtis. |
| ” 2, | Bryant, by Caroline M. Kirkland. |
| ” 3, | Prescott, by Geo. S. Hillard. |
| ” 4, | Lowell, by Charles F. Briggs. |
| ” 5, | Simms, by Wm. Cullen Bryant. |
| ” 6, | Walt Whitman, by Elbert Hubbard. |
| ” 7, | Hawthorne, by Geo. Wm. Curtis. |
| ” 8, | Audubon, by Parke Godwin. |
| ” 9, | Irving, by H. T. Tuckerman. |
| ” 10, | Longfellow, by Geo. Wm. Curtis. |
| ” 11, | Everett, by Geo. S. Hillard. |
| ” 12, | Bancroft, by Geo. W. Greene. |
The above papers will form the series of Little Journeys for the year 1896.
They will be issued monthly, beginning January, 1896, in the same general style as the series of 1895, at 50 cents a year, and single copies will be sold for 5 cents, postage paid.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS,
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The ROYCROFT Printing Shop has in preparation GLYNNE’S WIFE, a story in verse by Mrs. Julia Ditto Young.
Mrs. Young is a Poet who has written much but published little. This, her latest and believed by her friends to be her best work, is the product of a mind and heart singularly gifted by Nature, and ripened by a long apprenticeship to Art. As a specimen of the pure “lyric cry,” illustrating the melody possible in the English tongue, the volume seems to stand alone among all books written by modern versifiers. The delicacy of touch, the faultless rhythm, the splendid vocabulary and the gentle tho’ sure insight into the human heart, make a combination of qualities very, very seldom seen. The author knows, and knowing blames not: a sustained sympathy being the keynote of it all.
The publishers have endeavored to give the story a typographical setting in keeping with the richness of the lines. Five hundred and ninety copies are being printed on smooth Holland hand-made paper, and twenty-five on Tokio Vellum. The copies on Holland paper will be bound in boards covered with antique watered silk; the Vellum copies are bound in like manner save that each will bear on the cover a special water-color design done by the hand of the author.