Excerpt: ...person of our tale would frequentatively apply to his
lips, and then withdraw with a quick, swooping motion. With a
rapid, somewhat sidelong gait (at first somehow clumsy, yet upon
closer observation a mode of motion seen to embrace certain
elements of harmony) this gentleman would converge upon the
southwest corner of Madison avenue and 38th street; and the intent
observer, noting the menacing contours of the face, would conclude
that he was going to work. This gentleman, beneath his sober but
excellently haberdashered surtout, was plainly a man of large
frame, of a Sam Johnsonian mould, but, to the surprise of the
calculating observer, it would be noted that his volume (or mass)
was not what his bony structure implied. Spiritually, in deed, this
interesting individual conveyed to the world a sensation of
stoutness, of bulk and solidity, which (upon scrutiny) was not (or
would not be) verified by measurement. Evidently, you will
conclude, a stout man grown thin; or, at any rate, grown less
stout. His molded depth, one might assess at 20 inches between the
eaves; his longitude, say, five feet eleven; his registered
tonnage, 170; his cargo, literary; and his destination, the
editorial sancta of a well-known publishing house. This gentleman,
in brief, is Mr. Robert Cortes Holliday (but not the "stout Cortes"
of the poet), the editor of The Bookman. CHAPTER II (OUR HERO
BEGINS A CAREER) "It would seem that whenever Nature had a man of
letters up her sleeve, the first gift with which she has felt
necessary to dower him has been a preacher sire." R.C.H. of N.B.
Tarkington. Mr. Holliday was born in Indianapolis on July 18, 1880.
It is evident that ink, piety and copious speech circulated in the
veins of his clan, for at least two of his grandfathers were
parsons, and one of them, Dr. Ferdinand Cortez Holliday, was the
author of a volume called "Indiana Methodism" in which he was the
biographer of the Rev. Joseph Tarkington, the grandfather of Newton
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