Walking-Stick Papers

Walking-Stick Papers

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Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918 selection of his essays. - Summary by david wales

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Episodes

Prologue: On Carrying A Cane

Episode 0 · 19:23
The Fish Reporter

Episode 1 · 24:12
On Going On A Journey

Episode 2 · 16:47
Going To Art Exhibitions

Episode 3 · 23:47
A Roundabout Paper

Episode 4 · 17:47
That Reviewer 'Cuss'

Episode 5 · 28:25
Literary Levities In London

Episode 6 · 16:05
Henry James, Himself

Episode 7 · 11:37
Memories Of A Manuscript

Episode 8 · 18:45
'You Are An American'

Episode 9 · 18:05
Why Men Can't Read Novels By Women

Episode 10 · 16:07
The Dessert Of Life

Episode 11 · 20:54
A Clerk May Look At Celebrity

Episode 12 · 20:43
Caun't Speak The Language

Episode 13 · 17:18
Hunting Lodgings

Episode 14 · 9:13
My Friend, The Policeman

Episode 15 · 9:37
Help Wanted -- Male, Female

Episode 16 · 13:34
Human Municipal Documents

Episode 17 · 21:37
As To People

Episode 18 · 9:08
Humours Of The Book Shop

Episode 19 · 12:06
A Town Constitutional

Episode 21 · 19:56
Reading After Thirty

Episode 22 · 6:00
Epilogue: On Wearing A Hat

Episode 23 · 12:14