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 LIBRARY OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 
 AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 
 
 IN MEMORY OF 
 
 STEWART S. HOWE 
 
 JOURNALISM CLASS OF 1928 
 
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 CHICAGO LITERARY 
 
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 REVEREND ROBERT COLLYER
 
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 i^ By Frederick William Gookix ^ 
 
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 PRINTED FOR THE CLUB 
 1926
 
 COPYRIGHTED I926 
 
 BY 
 
 THE CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB
 
 FOR li WORD 
 
 IN large measure this history of The Chicago Literary 
 Club has been made up from the recollections of the 
 writer^ augmented by those of several of the early mem- 
 bers ivhose narrations have been built into it. No excuses^ 
 therefore^ for the somewhat frequent use of the personal pro- 
 7WU71 in the recital^ need be offered. The account of the later 
 years should^ perhaps^ be more full; but conspicuous hap- 
 penings in these years have been comparatively few. They 
 have been years marked chiefly by sustained interest on the 
 part of the members^ by the excellence of the literary feast pro- 
 vided at the meetings^ by the steady maintenance of the spirit 
 of fellowship between the members^ and by the atmosphere that 
 this has created and which has been a distinguishing feature 
 of the club from its earliest days to the present time. 
 
 As the roll of members^ past and present^ shows that 
 resignations were sent in by no less than three hundred and 
 thirty -five of the eight hundred and seventy-seven whose names 
 appear upon the list., it may here be stated by way of expla- 
 nation^ that in a great majority of the cases the reason for 
 resigning was^for one cause or another^ inability to attend 
 the meetings. This prevented many from ever becomiyjg in 
 any real sense identified with the club: some of them did not 
 come to even a single yneeting., and it is not surprising that., 
 after being enrolled for a year or two, or in some instances, 
 for ?nany years, they dropped out. In cojitrast to this show- 
 ing, the devotion of those who did become actively identified 
 with the club has been so constant that during the entire fifty 
 
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 vi Foreword 
 
 years the attendance of members at meetings held once a week 
 save in the suminer months^ has always averaged more than 
 twenty-five per cent, oj the number of those on the resident 
 list. 'This is a record that must be regarded as extraordinary 
 when the facts are taken into consideration that with few ex- 
 ceptions the members were {or are) busy men having many 
 demands upon their time, and that the homes of most of them 
 were {or are) distant several miles from the club rooms. 
 
 Of the members who joined the club in its first year, the 
 only one now living is Franklin MacVeagh; and Alfred 
 Bishop Mason is the sole survivor of those elected in the second 
 year. Two who came into the club in its third year ^ Joseph 
 Adams and Robert T. Lincoln., are still with us^ and John 
 J. Schobinger who resigned in 1 904 when he beca?ne a resi- 
 dent of Morgan Park., is also living and regrets that he is not 
 now in the fold. Of the fourth year members only Clarence 
 A. Burley and the present writer remain; and of the fifth 
 year contingent one alone survives, Charles Norman Fay who 
 made the mistake of resigning in 1903. 
 
 The personnel of the club is of course constantly changing 
 from natural causes , yet the club itself has changed little if 
 any as the years have slipped by. The distinctive character 
 that was given it in the beginning has always been main- 
 taiyjed. New members take the places of the old but the club 
 remains the same., and it is to be hoped that it will so con- 
 tinue for many years to come. 
 
 Frederick W. Gookin 
 
 Winnetka, November i, 1925.
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PACE 
 
 I. Founding and early days i 
 
 II. The first and second seasons 15 
 
 III. The third season. Rooms of the club in the 
 American Express Company's Building on 
 Monroe Street occupied 32 
 
 IV. Events of the fourth season 45 
 
 V. Other seasons in the first club rooms. . . 60 
 
 VI. Removal to rooms in Portland Block. The 
 Matthew Arnold hoax and other memorable 
 incidents 76 
 
 VII. Removal from Portland Block rooms. Meet- 
 ings held at Kinsley's Restaurant. Head's 
 paper on "Shakespeare's Insomnia" ... 97 
 
 VIII. Removal to rooms in the Art Institute Build- 
 ing and events of the first year there . . .115 
 
 IX. Events of the next two years. Memorials of 
 
 three well-beloved members 129 
 
 X. The last two years of the club's tenancy of the 
 rooms in the Art Institute Building. More 
 memorials 140 
 
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 VIU 
 
 Contents 
 
 XI. The years when the club's home was in the 
 
 University Club Building in Dearborn Street 153 
 
 XII. The years when the club was domiciled in the 
 Orchestra Building and then in the Fine Arts 
 Building 176 
 
 APPENDICES 
 
 A. List of the rooms occupied by the club, and 
 other places where its meetings have been 
 held, with dates 203 
 
 B. List of the club's officers, 1874 to 1924 . . 205 
 
 C. Roll of members, past and present, arranged 
 alphabetically 211 
 
 D. Lists of papers read before the club, and other 
 contributions to the literary exercises, with 
 dates, tabulated under the names of the sev- 
 eral contributors . 235
 
 L I S r OF 1 L L U S T R A T I O N S 
 
 Reverend Robert CoUyer, first president . . i-rontispiea 
 From a photograph by Brisbois, about 1888. 
 
 FACING PAGE 
 
 William Frederick Poole, sixth president ... 12 
 From a photograph by Brisbois, about 1885, 
 
 Edward Gay Mason, first secretary and fifth presi- 
 dent 16 
 
 Frofn a photograph by Max P/atz, about 1888. 
 
 James Sager Norton, twelfth president .... 40 
 F}-o/)i a photograph taken in Rome ifi 1893. 
 
 Major Henry Alonzo Huntington, tenth president 84 
 Fro??i a photograph taken about 1885, 
 
 Dr. James Nevins Hyde, sixteenth president . . 88 
 From a photograph by Steffens 1909. 
 
 General Alexander Caldwell McClurg, thirteenth 
 
 president 100 
 
 From a photograph by Max Platz, about 1898. 
 
 Franklin Harvey Head, seventeenth president . .112 
 From a photograph by W. J. Root, about 1905. 
 
 Reading Room of the club in the former building of 
 The Art Institute (now the home of the Chicago 
 Club), Michigan Avenue and \^anBuren Streets 1 16 
 From a photograph taken in 1888, 
 
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 X 
 
 List of Illustrations 
 
 FACING PAGE 
 
 Assembly room of the club in the Art Institute 
 
 Building, 1888 120 
 
 Reverend David Swing 124 
 
 From a photograph taken about 1892. 
 
 John Crerar 136 
 
 From a photograph taken in New York by W. Kurtz^ about 
 1885. 
 
 Reverend Clinton Locke, eighteenth president . . 140 
 From a photograph by C. D. Mosher, about 1900. 
 
 Reading Room of the club, tenth floor, Fine Arts 
 Builidng 176 
 
 Fro7n a photograph taken in 19 12. 
 
 Assembly Room of the club, tenth floor. Fine Arts 
 Building, 1912. Its day-time aspect when used 
 jointly by the Literary Club and the Caxton 
 Club ; the chairs used for the Literary Club meet- 
 ings removed and the president's table placed at 
 the side of the room instead of the north end . 180 
 
 Edward Osgood Brown, thirty-sixth president . .188 
 From a photograph taken in 1904. 
 
 Frederick William Gookin, third secretary and 
 treasurer and forty-eighth president . . . .192 
 From a photograph by Matzene, about 191 5.
 
 THE 
 
 CHICAGO LITERARY 
 
 CLUB 
 
 Chapter I 
 
 THE story of the founding of the Chicago Literary 
 Club turnishes in some sort an historic parallel to 
 the nursery rhyme of "Little Dickey Dilver and 
 his bow of silver," of whom it will be remembered that 
 "He bent his bow to shoot a crow 
 And hit a cat in the window." 
 Under the able leadership of Mr. Francis Fisher 
 Browne, "The Lakeside Monthly" in 1873 had attained 
 an honorable position in the field of literature, and was 
 struggling to maintain a high standard in spite of inade- 
 quate pecuniary recognition on the part of the public. Of 
 the articles that appeared in its pages many of the best 
 were written by Chicago men. With a view to stimulat- 
 ing further literary eflfort in our city, and at the same time 
 to furnish a supply of desirable papers for his magazine, 
 Mr. Browne conceived the idea of forming a Club some- 
 what similar to the Century Club of New York, which 
 
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 should accomplish this result. This is the story as told in 
 
 his own words: 
 
 Chicago, June 3, 1892. 
 My Dear Mr. Gookin: 
 
 Since our brief chat about the formation of the Literary Club I 
 have refreshed my memory a little in the case, though the most of 
 what I can recall was given you in outline. 
 
 The idea originally was to make it a sort of "Lakeside Contribu- 
 tors' Club," — "The Lakeside Monthly"(of which I waseditor) being 
 at that time about five years old, and having succeeded in gaining 
 signal recognition in foreign quarters, was beginning to attract notice 
 among the more slowly appreciative but literary-aspiring people 
 nearer home. Hence some of its friends thought it would be a good 
 thing to organize a club from among its contributors and other 
 literary people, to extend its influence and advance the claims of 
 literature generally in the city. That was the inception. During the 
 winter of 1873-4, several informal meetings were held in my office 
 in the Lakeside Building, at which the project was discussed; those 
 present being Rev. Dr. J. C. Burroughs, Hon. J. M. Binckley, Mr. 
 C. C. Bonney, and myself,— a quartette of B's, of whom I was the 
 youngest but not the least interested member. At one of these con- 
 ferences it was decided to call a more general meeting at the Sherman 
 House, and this was held in the spring (March or April) of 1874, 
 those present being Rev. Dr. Burroughs, Mr. Binckley, Rev. Dr. H. 
 N. Powers, Rev. Robert Collyer, and Mr. E. G. Mason, — all of 
 them Lakeside contributors except Mr. Mason. I was not present 
 at this meeting owing to serious illness, — from which cause also the 
 magazine was, not long after, given up; and for the next few years 
 I was absent from the city most of the time, and my membership 
 in the club lapsed. 
 
 The early history of the club from the time of the Sherman 
 House meeting is, I suppose, matter of record; but I have trans- 
 cribed from memory these few details of its unrecorded history — now 
 known at first hand only to myself and to Mr. Bonney, whose recol- 
 lections will doubtless confirm my own as to the club's incipiency 
 and the facts that make it an emanation or outgrowth of "The Lake- 
 side Monthly." 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Francis F. Browne. 
 
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 Mr. Bonney's Recollections 
 
 Mr. Browne's remembrances of what led to the for- 
 mation of the club are confirmed by those of Mr. Bonney 
 and Mr. Collyer. In August, 1892, Mr. Bonney wrote: 
 
 I have been asked to state my recollection of the ori- 
 gin of the 'Chicago Literary Club.' It originated in the 
 editorial office of 'The Lakeside Monthly,' of which Mr. 
 Francis F. Browne was then the editor, and who talked 
 with Dr. J. C. Burroughs, Hon. J. M.Binckley and myself 
 in regard to the project, and we agreed with him that it 
 would be advisable to attempt the formation of a Literary 
 Club of the same general character as that of the Century 
 Club of New York City. According to my remembrance, 
 Mr. Browne was the author of the original idea and pro- 
 posal. Those whom I have mentioned approved his views, 
 and agreed to aid him in an endeavor to carry them into 
 effect. Conferences followed with Rev. Dr. H.N. Powers, 
 Rev. Robert Collyer, Prof. David Swing, and others; and 
 it was finally agreed that a meeting should be called of 
 the club room of the Sherman House for the purpose in 
 effecting an organization. Such a meeting was held and 
 was followed by several others, in the course of which the 
 present Chicago Literary Club was organized. During 
 these meetings there was much discussion in regard to a 
 proper name, and the present name was finally chosen. 
 Mr. E. G. Mason was made secretary of the club. Accord- 
 ing to my recollection the club owes its constitution and 
 distinguishing characteristics chiefiy to the influence, 
 during its formative stage, of Mr. Browne, Mr. Collyer, 
 Dr. Powers, and Mr. Binckley." 
 
 Mr. Collyer's testimony, though brief, is to the same 
 purport: 
 
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 "The spring head of the Chicago Literary Club can be 
 easily traced to my dear old friend F. F. Browne, who has 
 done so much beside, of which his city, — and mine for 
 so many years — may well be glad and not a little proud. 
 'The Lakeside Monthly' was then to the fore, full of good 
 Hterature, though there is a tradition in my family that 
 some things I wrote must have helped to swamp the fine 
 adventure. Be this as it pay, it is true that my friend 
 thought such a club would bring grist to his mill and the 
 thought was a sound one; but the mill stopped when the 
 miller could not be at his post, to our regret; while I will 
 venture to say that the monthly will some time be sought 
 for and paid for at a great price. 
 
 "Then Mr. C. C. Bonney took hold of the idea, as he 
 takes hold always, with his whole heart, and the Chicago 
 Literary Club was organized and launched; and I want 
 to say that no man did so much after Mr. Browne had to 
 retire, as he did to 'make the thing go,' as we say, while 
 the great and unexpected honor was conferred upon quite 
 an unfit man of being elected the first president, of which 
 he is still proud and grateful also, as well he may be." 
 
 The actual history of the club begins with the meet- 
 ing held m the club room at the Sherman House at three 
 o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, March thirteenth, 
 1874; ^"d from this time forward nothing further appears 
 to have been heard of the idea of making the club a sort 
 of "feeder" to "The Lakeside Monthly." Seven were pres- 
 ent at this preliminary meeting: Rev. Robert Collyer, 
 Rev. Dr. John C. Burroughs, Judge Henry Booth, Rev. 
 Dr. Horatio N. Powers, John M. Binckley, Edward G. 
 Mason, and W. J. Leonard. The latter did not afterward 
 
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 Edward Mason's Recollections 
 
 join the club; indeed his presence at the meeting appears 
 to have been a surprise to the others in attendance and to 
 have been due to a misconception on his part growing out 
 of a notion that the purpose of the gathering was to found 
 some sort of a journal to be embellished with chromo- 
 lithographic illustrations. In a paper read before the club 
 on the occasion of the celebration of its twentieth anniver- 
 sary, Edw^ard G. Mason gave some recollections of this 
 first meeting and other early meetings, and related a num- 
 ber of incidents concerning which the minutes in the 
 club records, also prepared by him, are discreetly silent. 
 He says : 
 
 "My memory goes back to a day in March, 1 874, when 
 the Reverend Dr. J. C. Burroughs asked me to attend 
 a meeting of gentlemen interested in the formation of 
 a club in Chicago somewhat like the Century in New 
 York, which was to be held at the Sherman House on the 
 afternoon of March 13, 1874. J was present at the time 
 appointed, and found there the Reverend Robert Collyer, 
 Reverend Dr. J. C. Burroughs, Honorable Henry Booth-, 
 Reverend Dr. H. N. Powers, Messrs. J. M. Binckley and 
 W. J. Leonard, forming with myself the mystic number 
 of seven, which doubtless has had a great deal to do with 
 the fortunes of the club. We were seven, and Wordsworth's 
 lines might be paralleled in more than one respect by the 
 subsequent fortunes of the persons in question, two in 
 the churchyard lie, two elsewhere dwell, and two have 
 gone to see what they can find outside the club, at least 
 they no longer belong to it, and I am tonight the sole 
 representative of that part in the resident membership 
 of the club. I knew no more of its inception then than 
 
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 the invitation which came from Dr. Burroughs, nor have 
 I heard until very recently of anything which preceded 
 that meeting. Strange rumors have reached me of late 
 that the idea originated in the editorial rooms of 'The 
 Lakeside Monthly,' a magazine then printed in Chicago, 
 and that the first plan was to make it a sort of Lake- 
 side Contributors' Club. I hear it stated in proof of this 
 that of those present at the first meeting four were con- 
 tributors to 'The Lakeside Monthly.' I recall furthermore 
 that one of the persons present on that occasion was said 
 to have come to interest the other gentlemen in some 
 scheme not altogether unconnected with the issue of 
 chromos. However correct these reminiscences may be, 
 of one thing I am certain, that neither the magazine idea 
 nor the chromo idea took any root in the club from the 
 first, and I think the records will show that the gentle- 
 men having these things in view before a great while 
 ceased to have any connection with the club. I remember 
 that when it was agreed that an association should be 
 effected, one gentleman present produced and read a list 
 of proposed members which seemed to have been copied 
 from one of our newspaper articles upon Chicago million- 
 aires. Not a local capitalist of any note was omitted, and 
 those credited with less than a million had no occasion to 
 apply. The reading of this remarkable roll of nominees for 
 membership in a purely literary organization paralyzed 
 the hearers to such an extent that it was nearly adopted 
 by default. One of those present, however, rallied suffi- 
 ciently to recollect that it had been stated to be a reason 
 for forming the proposed club that there should be one 
 place in Chicago where money did not count, and he 
 
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 A Memorable Meeting 
 
 mildly suggested that such a membership was not exactly 
 the best way to accomplish this object. The list was 
 tabled and another one adopted better suitetl to the 
 objects of the organization. It was solemnly agreed that 
 only those whose names appeared in the list agreed upon 
 should be invited to attend the next meeting, but as we 
 went out of the room Mr. Collyer remarked, 'Oh, well, I 
 suppose if one sees another good fellow anywhere he may 
 ask him to come in.' Although this was promptly objected 
 to, the good Dominie for a time forgot the objection and 
 surprised his associates by introducing friends whom he 
 had casually met and asked to drop in upon us, and it was 
 quite a time before Brother Collyer was persuaded to 
 abide by the restraints of the constitution." 
 
 Some of the gentlemen thus introduced became valu- 
 able members of the club: the names of others do not 
 appear upon its records except in the list of those attend- 
 ing the meetings at which they were present. 
 
 Another preliminary meeting was held at the Sherman 
 House on March 17, 1874, at eight o'clock in the evening; 
 and a third, at the same place on March 24, when a pro- 
 visional organization was effected and a draft of a consti- 
 tution and by-laws was adopted, but referred for revision 
 to the committee which prepared and presented it. "This 
 committee," writes Edward G. Mason, "then proceeded 
 to elaborate and effloriate its work until a gorgeous struc- 
 ture was reared upon the simple foundation first laid. 
 When we met on the evening of Tuesday, April 7, 1874, 
 for the purpose of perfecting the organization, our busy 
 committee of three B's presented a stately preamble and 
 constitution to our astonished ears." 
 
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 "Over the lapse of twenty-five years," says Edward O. 
 Brown in a paper, read on the twenty-fifth anniversary 
 of the founding of the club, "I remember with a vividness 
 which actually startles me, the oppressive silence which 
 reigned around the table in the club room for several min- 
 utes after Mr. Binckley, the chairman of the committee, 
 had finished the reading of this wondrous report." 
 
 The preamble which has fortunately been rescued from 
 oblivion, read as follows: 
 
 "To promote the true sovereignty of letters and cul- 
 ture; to sustain the same by the moral and social virtues; 
 to form and maintain a literary organization fairly repre- 
 sentative of the intellectual rank and progress of Chicago; 
 and to cultivate fraternal relations with other exponents 
 of literature and art, 
 
 "We, the undersigned citizens of Chicago, convened 
 for this purpose do ordain and establish this 
 
 "Constitution," 
 and the constitution opened with the following statement 
 of its objects: 
 
 "The business of this Association in pursuance of the 
 objects mentioned in the preamble of this constitution, 
 shall extend to the cultivation and enjoyment of litera- 
 ture in its largest sense so far as may be consistent with 
 the nature of our organization and the limitations hereby 
 imposed." 
 
 Mr. Mason's account of this meeting and of what oc- 
 curred after the presentation of the amazing report is as 
 follows : 
 
 "I very much regret that the whole constitution was 
 not preserved in our records, and that the remainder of 
 
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 An Amazing Rkport 
 
 it cannot now be found. It was unique in its way, and as 
 a model of what the constitution of a literary club should 
 not be was beyond all praise. I only remember now that 
 among its other oratorical flourishes it provided in swell- 
 ing and glowing terms tor a chaplain, an orator, a poet, a 
 marshal, an assistant marshal, a scribe, an assistant 
 scribe, and other dignitaries for the club, by the side of 
 whom plain presidents and secretaries seemed very insig- 
 nificant. There were to be committees on a great variety of 
 subjects such as 'xArt in the Western States,' 'Art in the 
 Eastern States,' *Art in Europe,' on 'Science and Litera- 
 ture' in various phases; and a crowning feature of the 
 exercises was to be a grand pageant of which the marshal 
 was to be the major domo. 
 
 "x-\s we listened to the rolling periods of this remark- 
 able document, visions of waving banners, of glittering 
 insignia, and of magnificent regalia danced before our 
 eyes, and we were treated to a surprise even greater than 
 that caused by the list of capitalists read at our first meet- 
 ing. We all sat in silence for a time when the last notes 
 of the reader died away, and before the complacent faces 
 of the committee who sat together on one side of our 
 round table it was difficult, and even cruel, to criticize 
 their work at all. However, one bold individual whose 
 name is now lost to fame, rose to the occasion, and 
 remarked in a quiet conversational tone, 'The preamble 
 impresses me as being slightly ornate. I think it must 
 have been written by the candidate for poet; I move 
 that the preamble be omitted.' The motion was quickly 
 seconded and then Mr. Collyer stated it and asked for 
 discussion, but not a word was spoken until the question 
 
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 was put. The committee sat aghast and refrained from 
 voting, so that the decision upon the question was 
 unanimous in its favor. Then we meandered for a while 
 among the winding paths and flowery shades of the con- 
 stitution, until we became entangled and darkened in 
 its mazes, and there seemed to be no relief at hand. But 
 Mr. Horace White, at that time editor of The Chicago 
 Tribune, at last cut the Gordian knot by a motion to 
 strike out all but the preamble. This passed with equal 
 unanimity, the horror stricken committee making no 
 effort to save their bantling. New members were added to 
 the committee and the whole subject went over to the 
 meeting of April 14, when a new constitution was pre- 
 sented shorn of the glories of its predecessor but better 
 suited to the needs of such a club. This with some amend- 
 ments, together with a code of by-laws, was formally 
 adopted and the election of officers under it held April 
 21,1874.'; 
 
 The episode just related marks only the beginning of 
 what developed into a long struggle before the club suc- 
 ceeded in formulating a code of rules perfectly adapted to 
 its needs. The vital principles, however, which have 
 proved to be the source of strength and have kept it free 
 from dissensions throughout the entire course of its exist- 
 ence, were contained in the first constitution, and in an 
 "Order of Exercises" adopted at the meeting held on May 
 4, 1874. These principles may be stated thus: 
 
 1. That the literary exercises are of chief importance. 
 
 2. That the social advantages afforded by the club 
 depend largely upon the excellence of the literary work 
 done. 
 
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 The Principles of the Club 
 
 3. That the general business of the cKib is placed in 
 the exclusive charge of committees, so that no business 
 other than amendments to the rules or matters of such 
 importance as to call for general discussion and expres- 
 sion of opinion, comes before the club at its ordinary 
 meetings. 
 
 4. That while the largest liberty is given to the expres- 
 sion of individual opinion the club itself is prohibited 
 from having any opinion or creed and cannot be used to 
 further any sort of propagandism however worthy it may 
 seem. 
 
 The credit for placing the club upon this solid founda- 
 tion is due to Dr. William F. Poole. He was elected a 
 member at the first meeting of the club as such, which was 
 held on the evening of March 31, 1874; ^^d he attended 
 the meeting held a week later, when John M. Binckley 
 read the famous constitution, which, to quote Mr. Poole's 
 words, "was the most gorgeous piece of literary composi- 
 tion that ever came under my notice; tropes, figures, met- 
 aphors, and rhetorical fireworks chased each other with 
 dazzling brilliancy." Mr. Poole had recently removed to 
 Chicago from Cincinnati where he had been a prominent 
 member of the Literary Club of that city, which was 
 founded in 1849 and had behind it the accumulated ex- 
 perience of a successful career of twenty-five years. This 
 experience Mr. Poole declared might be drawn upon with 
 profit; and to the suggestions made by him the club is 
 indebted for many of the rules which have worked so 
 admirably. Of him Mr. Mason wrote: 
 
 "He brought with him the constitution of the Cin- 
 cinnati Literary Club, and although we used jokingly to 
 
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 allude to his quotations from it as the ^Cincinnati Plat- 
 form' and to speak of its printed order of exercises as 
 *Poole's Index,' we all realized that his experience in that 
 association was of great value to us. He took an honest 
 pride in his early connection with the club and his placid 
 temper was sometimes ruffled by the teasing assertion 
 that he was not really a founder of the club because he did 
 not join it until four meetings had been held. He used to 
 assert with great positiveness that he was truly one of the 
 founders of this club; and if it was necessary, in order to 
 establish that fact, to hold that the meeting of April 7, 
 iSy^, preceded tha.t of March 13 of the same year, he was 
 ready to maintain that position. And he was right. For he 
 was certainly one of the men who founded the Chicago 
 Literary Club, which may well be proud to write at the 
 beginning of its annals the honored name of William 
 Frederick Poole." 
 
 Among those present at the memorable meeting on 
 March 17, 1874, Dr. Poole alone appears to have had any 
 personal experience in such an organization as they were 
 endeavoring to form. He was, however, not alone in the 
 yeoman service which he rendered in giving the club its 
 initial impetus. Many of those then enrolled in its ranks 
 contributed ideas and suggestions; but those who gave 
 most largely of their time and energies and sound com- 
 mon sense were Robert Collyer and Edward G. Mason, 
 who were on April 21, 1874, elected as the first president 
 and secretary. The success and harmony that have 
 marked the course of the Chicago Li terary Club are largely 
 due to the fact that it started right at the outset; and 
 that these men helped to steer it and keep it steadily in 
 
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 The First Constitution 
 
 the right direction. Masoi), especially, was active in the 
 upbuilding and in combating every attempt to introduce 
 features which he clearly foresaw might have unfortunate 
 consequences. For this service the club members should 
 always cherish his name in grateful remembrance. 
 
 After the first constitution was adopted the process 
 of amending it began. The records of the early meetings 
 abound in proposed amendments, most of which failed 
 ot adoption. Some of them, however, were carried, and 
 on March 6, 1876, a revised draft was adopted. Although 
 this was again revised on January 28, 1884, and again 
 on March 28, 1887, when the club was incorporated and 
 the constitution became by-laws in compliance with the 
 statutes of the State of Illinois, these several revisions 
 involved little beyond mere verbal alterations. Indeed 
 the only important change made in the rules at any time 
 was that put in force November 28, 1881, by which the 
 Electoral Committee was constituted and the election 
 of members placed in its hands. Prior to that time the 
 club voted upon candidates for membership on the fourth 
 Monday evening in each month, which, under the consti- 
 tution was set aside for business. As an inducement to 
 the members to attend on these occasions it was cus- 
 tomary to serve a collation after the business was dis- 
 patched. The success of this plan was unquestionable, 
 though Brooke Herford stated at the annual dinner June 
 25, 1877, that he "found it difficult to convince outsiders 
 of the purely literary character of the club, when one 
 meeting in every four was devoted to 'business and col- 
 lation.'" It was a report of this meeting contained in a 
 letter from Henry W. Raymond to The Boston Globe, 
 
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 which brought forth the editorial comment on the club: 
 "In time it may rank with the — -let us say it modestly 
 — famous literary clubs of Boston. At present, we should 
 judge, from the frequency of its meetings about the festive 
 board, that it takes its literature mixed." 
 
 We can afford to laugh now at the aspersion imphed in 
 this paragraph. The collations did much to promote good 
 fellowship among the members, who in this way were un- 
 doubtedly stimulated to give to the club their best liter- 
 ary efforts. The wine, too, that flowed on these festive 
 occasions helped to soothe the wounded feelings of those 
 whose candidates met with defeat. 
 
 It may here be noted that the name chosen for the 
 club had been borne by an earlier organization which 
 does not appear to have left any visible signs of its exist- 
 ence save in the business directory for the year 1858, 
 wherein it is recorded that the Chicago Literary Club 
 met on Wednesday evenings in the rooms of the Bryant 
 & Stratton College. Lester L. Bond, a well-known lawyer 
 of that day, was the president; W. L. Perkins was the 
 secretary, and A. S. Seaton was the treasurer. Like its 
 flourishing contemporary, the Joliet Literary Club of 
 which Arba N. Waterman was then the president, its 
 existence was probably terminated by the outbreak of 
 the Civil War in 1861. 
 
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 Chapter II 
 
 l*<^ «B»< l Wi ^ -««f<^<&^r«&«t<Cr^<Br^ 
 
 A FTER seven preliminary meetings devoted to most 
 /-\^ careful consideration of the basic structure of the 
 jL Jm^ cluh, the first regular meeting of the club as such 
 was held at the Sherman House on Monday evening May 
 4, 1874. I^ ^^^s attended by twenty-two members, none 
 of whom is now living. Their names, however, mean much 
 to those who remember Chicago as it was then and for 
 some years after, and although fifty years have elapsed 
 since the meeting was held, to many of our present mem- 
 bers most of them are still much more than mere names. 
 This is the list, in the order in which the names appear 
 upon the record: Judge John A.Jameson, who, in the 
 absence of President CoUyer, occupied the chair; Dr. 
 William F. Poole, then librarian of the Chicago Public 
 Library and always one of the most clubable of men; 
 Daniel L. Shorey, lawyer, public-spirited citizen, and 
 apostle of literary culture; William E. Doggett, merchant 
 and polished gentleman, deeply interested in everything 
 making for the higher life; William M. R. French, then 
 a landscape architect and then as now dear to the hearts of 
 all who knew him; Horace W\ S. Cleveland (Mr. French's 
 senior partner), the distinguished landscape architect to 
 whom the cities of Chicago and Minneapolis are indebted 
 for the beautiful planning of their parks, a charming 
 writer and one of the most gentle and lovable of men; 
 John M. Binckley, a well-known lawyer, who had been 
 assistant United States attorney general under President 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Johnson; Thomas S. Chard, a business man of Intellec- 
 tual tastes who was a devoted member for nineteen years 
 and whom we were sorrv to lose when he resigned, as he 
 did with much regret, because he was unable without re- 
 sulting illness to attend meetings in rooms where there 
 was much tobacco smoke; George Rowland, of blessed 
 memory, principal of the West Division High School, 
 classical scholar and all-around good fellow; David Swing, 
 eloquent preacher, man of letters, gifted and witty writer, 
 and of such winning personality that no one who knew 
 him can ever forget it or him ; William Henry King, one of 
 the most cultivated of Chicago's early citizens, whose 
 genial manner made him a general favorite, but who was 
 already feeling the weight of years which caused him to 
 drop out of the club in 1880; Lyman Trumbull, distin- 
 guished United States senator and statesman; John Bor- 
 den, lawyer ot high standing; John V. LeMoyne, then one 
 of Chicago's prominent citizens; John Wilkinson, hard- 
 ware merchant but not so deeply immersed in business 
 that he could neglect the intellectual life; JosiahL. Pick- 
 ard, then superintendent of the Chicago schools, and later 
 president of the Iowa State University; Rev. Simeon W. 
 Gilbert, a man of the closet-student type as I recall him; 
 Frederick B. Smith, then and for many years thereafter, 
 of the firm of A. C. McClurg &Co., whom we all remember, 
 as he lived until only a few years ago; Rev. Dr. Leander 
 Trowbridge Chamberlain, a widely-known clergyman 
 who was one of the most enthusiastic of the founders, and 
 who, although he removed to Brooklyn two years later, 
 continued to cherish the warmest interest in the club 
 during all of the succeeding thirty-seven years of his life; 
 
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 EDWARD GAY MASON
 
 The First "Regular" Meeting 
 
 James L. High, whose attainments as a lawyer, whose 
 worth as a man, whose gracious and kindly bearing are a 
 part of the club's heritage of which we may well be proud ; 
 Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson, eminent physician, deeply loved 
 and revered — a "world-wide man" as David Swing called 
 him; and lastly, the secretary, Edward Gay Mason, 
 lawyer — the brilliant and witty speaker and writer, who 
 was one of the most conspicuous figures in the galaxy 
 of notable men that constituted the club membership, and 
 who was ever indefatigable in his eflorts to make the club 
 the center of the intellectual life of the city. 
 
 It was these men, and such as these, that gave the club 
 the deep hold upon the affections of its members which it 
 developed at once and has held for half a century. 
 
 At the first regular meeting a plan of literary exercises 
 was reported and adopted, an amendment to the constitu- 
 tion was offered, and six candidates were elected mem- 
 bers of the club after their qualifications had been duly 
 discussed. Not until the next meeting which was held at 
 the same place two weeks later was the first paper read. 
 The author was the Rev. LeanderT. Chamberlain and his 
 subject was "Physical Pain; Its Nature and the Law of 
 Its Distribution." Of the twenty-eight members who 
 gathered to hear it read, fifteen had been present at the 
 first regular meeting; the other thirteen were President 
 Robert Collyer,\Villiam Hull Clarke, Judge Henry Booth, 
 Henry W. Bishop, Dr. Edmund Andrews, Rabbi Bern- 
 hard Felsenthal, Rabbi Kaufman Kohler, William Eliot 
 Furness, Samuel S. Greeley, Joseph E. Lockwood, Frank- 
 lin MacVeagh, Rev. Minot J. Savage, and Edward Osgood 
 Brown. 
 
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 It is a curious circumstance that, although the avowed 
 purpose of the club was the promotion of literary and aes- 
 thetic culture, the first paper read before it should have 
 been upon a topic neither literary nor aesthetic. Without 
 doubt the paper that was read was the only one available 
 upon short notice, and the Committee on Exercises had 
 only "Hobson's choice" in the matter. Nevertheless at the 
 outset, a precedent was established of catholicity in the 
 choice of subject, thus broadening the scope of the club 
 and making it a forum for the expression of views upon 
 any subject whatsoever. This was quickly interpreted to 
 signify also that one need not necessarily be a literary man 
 in the narrow sense of the term, to be qualified for mem- 
 bership. But it may be noted in passing that while the 
 rules from the very beginning left the essayist free to 
 select his own subject and to express any opinion thereon 
 that he may wish, no member is under compulsion to 
 listen to any paper that he does not find interesting. This, 
 however should not be construed as an argument for ab- 
 stention from meetings because the topic announced does 
 not make an insistent appeal. The members who have 
 formed the habit of regular attendance soon discover that 
 any subject can be made interesting if presented in an 
 effective way; and, besides, the paper is not the only 
 thing, as we all know. Realization of this soon found ex- 
 pression in an amendment to the constitution in which the 
 object of the club was declared to be social, as well as liter- 
 ary and aesthetic culture. After all what is more precious 
 in this world than the fellowship of men of intellectual 
 tastes? x^nd does it not add to the delight of coming to- 
 gether that they should have different interests and thus 
 
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 The First Annual Dinner 
 
 be able to present fresh thoughts and to divert each 
 others' minds from their accustomed grooves? 
 
 Two more meetings brought the first short season to an 
 end. At the first of these — the third of the club's regular 
 meetings — held on June i, 1874, the officers and commit- 
 tees for the season of 1 874-1 875 were elected. The other 
 meeting was held at the Sherman House on June 15, 
 1874, a^<-^ ^""'^^ the first annual dinner. How many mem- 
 bers gathered does not appear of record. The custom 
 of excluding reporters from the club meetings had not 
 then been established, so the secretary adopted the long 
 account, including the text of President Robert Collyer's 
 inaugural address, which appeared next day in one of the 
 newspapers, and, pasting the clippings upon the pages of 
 the record book, signed it as the official record of the meet- 
 ing. I cannot think, however, that in doing this he meant 
 to imply that he was the author of the following choice 
 paragraphs which I venture to transcribe for the delecta- 
 tion of the club members: 
 
 "The Chicago Literary Club which began its life sev- 
 eral weeks ago, and numbers among its membership the 
 most notable scholars, wits and poets we have among us, 
 by last evening came to the time when it seemed proper to 
 inaugurate its serious labors by a social meeting in which 
 speeches should be made, a feast should be eaten, and a 
 time of good fellowship generally be had. For this purpose 
 the Society met at the Sherman House, where a banquet 
 was laid {sic^ in the ladies' ordinary. 
 
 "At 8 o'clock, a full attendance being present, the mem- 
 bers sat down to the feast. This was all that it should 
 be and needs no description. It might be remarked in 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 passing that the Hterary men displayed an epicurean taste 
 and delicacy that presages that they will live long to con- 
 fer the benefits of their labors upon us. 
 
 "When all had eaten heartily and a modest glass of 
 pure wine had been added to the inward stores, the liter- 
 ary character and talents of the organization" — not of 
 the members, it should be noted, but of the organization 
 — "found expression in speeches." 
 
 After this demonstration of the possibilities of repor- 
 torial English it was decided that in the future the meet- 
 ings of the club should not be public functions. For several 
 years, however, reporters persisted in coming to the meet- 
 ings and sometimes it was difficult to turn them away. 
 
 "Literature and Great Cities" was the topic which Mr. 
 Collyer chose for his address. The opening paragraphs 
 reflect so well the feeling that animated the founders of 
 the club at that time that they may well be quoted here. 
 He said: 
 
 "If ever the time comes in which it will be worth any 
 man's while to write a literary history of Chicago and 
 the Northwest, and this club should then put in a claim 
 to be mentioned as one of the signs of a prior and larger 
 life, which succeeded the rude, stern fight of the first 
 forty years, I trust this fact may be stated as quite the 
 most notable, that The Chicago Literary Club was the 
 result of a feeling those who became members of it had 
 in common before they came together, that the time had 
 fully come when all true lovers of books in our city should 
 enter into a league through which whatever each man 
 had of special worth to his fellows should be brought to 
 the exchange, so that there might be a common wealth 
 
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 President Collyer's Address 
 
 of culture which had come to any ripeness, together with 
 a company of men eager and anxious to welcome every 
 new sign of such culture either among those of their own 
 community or those who might come to us from other- 
 wheres. For this is to me the best thing about our society 
 so far as we have come, that each man among us seems 
 to have been moved by this inward impulse, so that all 
 we needed in order to get a fair start was to pass the word 
 to fall into line, and then see what could be done to carry 
 out our common purpose in the best fashion. In all my 
 experience I have never seen a society formed with such 
 a cheerful spontaneity, or one that in my opinion had a 
 truer or more unselfish purpose, or that met as we meet 
 tonight under fairer auspices of a large success; and this 
 is just as it should be, for of all things I can think of 
 for which men league together, there is not one which 
 depends more entirely upon such a spirit as we have 
 witnessed than the companionship of men who gather for 
 a purpose like this with the risen presence about them 
 of those who have given to the world a glorious gift of 
 thoughts that breathe and words that burn in immortal 
 books. 
 
 "And if we shall think a moment of our position, we 
 shall see how imperious the call must be to men of a genu- 
 ine literary instinct and aspiration to enlist in some such 
 company as this we have formed." 
 
 After this opening Mr. Collyer proceeded to show that 
 the homes of literary productivity have been for the most 
 part in the great cities of the world. Then after present- 
 ing a glowing vision of Chicago as he foresaw it would 
 become in after years, he said: 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 "If our city, with her wonderful future, is remembered 
 in a future still more wonderful, these are the conditions 
 of her immortality. Not alone that she shall be great, 
 but that she shall have writers, thinkers, poets, and his- 
 torians greater than herself." 
 
 Mr. CoUyer felt this deeply, and it was therefore not an 
 empty rhetorical flourish, when, after referring to certain 
 pictures of Chicago that he held in his heart, he added: 
 "Still, as one generation passes away, and another takes 
 its place, there will be chapters full of wonder in its own 
 way, and still we must depend on this we are seeking to 
 cherish and ripen; not on our Historical Society, not on 
 our Academy of Sciences, not on our schools, churches, 
 hospitals; not on the noblest things besides or the most 
 imposing; all of these are of incalculable worth, but that 
 which is of quite singular, separate, and unique worth is 
 this literary quality, this power which can tell the whole 
 storyofit to future ages." A little earlier in the address he 
 had said: "It is to literature that we are to look, not only 
 for a great place in the world's history, but for any place. 
 These pens catch our thoughts and deeds on the wing 
 as they are flying swiftly toward forgetfulness and old 
 night, and if the pen is tipped with the gold of genius 
 they are touched with immortal youth." 
 
 Turning his thought again to the Chicago Literary 
 Club, Mr. Collyer, as was the custom fifty years ago, 
 closed his address with a florid peroration. It is too long 
 to quote in extenso, but his "anticipation that beside 
 the pleasure and profit each man of us will receive from 
 these gatherings, there will be this solid purpose at the 
 heart of all, to build up in our young, city a society of 
 
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 Some First Year Members 
 
 men who will do all they can for the development of liter- 
 ary culture," well expresses the enthusiasm that animated 
 the men who brought the club into being. And in these 
 decadent days when the finer flowers of literature have 
 been largely submerged in a welter of rapacious greed and 
 luxurious living, it may not be unprofitable to let our 
 thoughts turn backward for a moment while we contem- 
 plate that enthusiasm. The need for a like stimulus is 
 apparent when on every hand we hear men say that the 
 agonizing events through which we have lived in the last 
 decade have made it almost impossible for them to think 
 of or to care for literature or art, or to turn their minds 
 to things eternal when temporal things are so insistently 
 engrossing. 
 
 After this dinner adjournment was taken until the au- 
 tumn. Seventy-three members had been enrolled and the 
 list includes the names of many of the intellectual lead- 
 ers of the community. Some of these have already been 
 mentioned; others are equally worthy to be held in mem- 
 ory. Let us recall for a moment the eminent clergymen, 
 William Alvin Bartlett, Arthur Brooks, John Curtis 
 Burroughs, Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain, William 
 Jacob Petrie, and Minot Judson Savage. Though all ot 
 these men except Mr. Petrie soon moved away from Chi- 
 cago, as long as they lived they never forgot the club nor 
 what it stands for. The legal profession was well repre- 
 sented among these early members. The list includes the 
 names of Benjamin Franklin Ayer, general counsel for the 
 Illinois Central Railroad Company; Edwin Channing 
 Larned and Julius Rosenthal, both highly revered and 
 beloved; Henry Walker Bishop, the well-known master 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 in chancery; ex- Senator James Rood Doolittle; Judges 
 Henry Booth, John Alexander Jameson, Charles Burrall 
 Lawrence ; John Gorin Rogers, and Lambert Tree, all men 
 of marked ability and strong personality. Judge Lawrence 
 in particular was a man who would have been notable in 
 any community. And who of those who were privileged 
 to know them will ever forget the genial Major Joseph 
 Kirkland, or Major William Eliot Furness, another most 
 clubable man, or the courtly General Alexander Caldwell 
 IMcClurg? — soldiers all three when their services were 
 needed to save the Union from disruption, but all devoted 
 to literature throughout the span of their lives. Then there 
 were Horace White, whose fame as an editor is nation- 
 wide; Henry Demarest Lloyd, brilliant writer, radical 
 thinker, earnest student of social problems, and philan- 
 thropist, who, as an editorial writer on the staff of The 
 Chicago Tribune was just beginning his career; David 
 Swing, most lovable of men and fearlessly independent 
 thinker in a day when it took courage to combat ortho- 
 dox religious views; Leonard Wells Volk, the sculptor; 
 Df. Charles Gilman Smith, distinguished physician, witty 
 writer and prince of good fellows; Dr. Edmund Andrews, 
 founder of the Chicago Academy of Sciences; our dear 
 friend Judge Edward Osgood Brown who has so recently 
 been taken from us; and Henry Thornton Steele, lawyer, 
 master in chancery, one of the most devoted members the 
 club has ever had, — a gentleman of the old school whose 
 innate refinement is well reflected by the delightful pocket 
 edition of the Latin text of Horace which was his daily 
 companion, and which, as it was his favorite book, he 
 bequeathed to the club that he so dearly loved. 
 
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 Beginning of the Second Season 
 
 Other Hrst year meinhers whose names should he held 
 in remembrance were: Rev. Dr. Horatio Nelson Powers 
 who, as a graceful writer and a poet had achieved more 
 than a local reputation, and who, alas, was one of the 
 first of our number to have his name enrolled upon the 
 non-resident list; Daniel L. Shorey, who from the begin- 
 ning was unflagging in his devotion to the club, of which 
 he became the fourth president, and who, for twenty-five 
 years, was one of the most faithful attendants at the 
 meetings; Dr. Isaac N, Arnold, widely known and greatly 
 revered physician, whose later years were given over to 
 literary work; Judge Homer N. Hibbard, who often en- 
 livened our meetings with his pungent wit; Norman 
 Carolan Perkins, genial comrade and facile writer of 
 verse; Moses L. Scudder, all-around good fellow, clear- 
 headed student of and lucid writer upon economic subjects 
 in years when erroneous views regarding them were the 
 rule and sound thinking the exception; William M. R. 
 French, beloved by his fellows, highly esteemed for his 
 character and rare personal charm, as also for his excep- 
 tional gifts as an entertainer which always insured for him 
 a large audience whenever he favored us with one of his 
 cleverly illustrated papers; and Franklin Mac^'^eagh, who, 
 we rejoice to say, is still with us. 
 
 On October 5, 1874, the meetings were resumed after 
 the summer recess, and thereafter during this second sea- 
 son two meetings a month were held; on the first and third 
 Mondays, save in June, 1875, when the dinner scheduled 
 for June 21 was omitted and the season was ended with 
 the meeting held on June 7. In addition, the club on the 
 evening of Tuesday, November 3, 1874, celebrated the 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 eightieth birthday of William Cullen Bryant by a dinner, 
 which was attended by thirty-six members, and, as guests 
 of the club, by the poet's brothers Arthur and John H. 
 Bryant, of Princeton, Illinois, both of whom made ad- 
 dresses. Besides these there were addresses by President 
 Collyer, the Reverend Dr. Horatio Nelson Powers, James 
 Rood Doolittle, the Rev. Dr. Hiram Washington Thomas, 
 and Thomas Septimus Chard; and a poem written for 
 the occasion by Francis Fisher Browne. As a memorial of 
 this celebration, the record of the meeting with the full 
 text of all the addresses was printed for the club in pam- 
 phlet form by Jansen, McClurg & Co. early in 1875. With 
 the exception of a leaflet giving the "scheme of exercises" 
 for the season of 1 874-1 875 and a list of the members as 
 of October i, 1874, this is the earliest of the club's pub- 
 lications. It is the only one bearing an imprint other than 
 its own. From this pamphlet and the club records we learn 
 that the dinner was served at nine o'clock, the members 
 and guests having met in the club room of the Sherman 
 House an hour earlier to listen to an essay on "Thomas 
 De Quincey" by William Mathews, after which they 
 "moved in procession to the dining room" to hold the 
 birthday celebration. 
 
 The club was now firmly established and had begun to 
 take the hold upon the affection of its members that has 
 been so notable and so constant during all the succeeding 
 years that have elapsed. The meetings were made attrac- 
 tive by the personality of the members and by the quality 
 of the papers that were read. Dr. James Nevins Hyde has 
 given us the following account of one of these meetings: 
 
 "One of the great events of the Sherman House era was 
 
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 A Stormy Meeting 
 
 the reading on April 15, 1875, o^ ^ paper on 'Financial 
 Crises' by Horace White. We all of us had an acute 
 interest in his subject and for reasons that need not be 
 particularized were exceedingl y anxious to know when the 
 financial crisis of which the effects were then painfully 
 evident would be over. Mr. White did not tell us; in fact 
 he told us that he did not know, but the essay, much to 
 our satisfaction, was published in full on the other side 
 of the water, the first of our club papers honored with a 
 transatlantic reproduction, x^s the financial crisis soon 
 after passed away we have since entertained the con- 
 viction that the work of Its undoing was begun and 
 accelerated by the co-operation of this club in conclave 
 assembled." 
 
 During the first season It was customary to follow 
 the paper by an informal discussion which was often ex- 
 tremely pungent and sparkling as might be expected In a 
 gathering of exceptionally gifted men among whom were 
 an unusual number of brilliant and witty speakers. This 
 custom, however, came perilously near to ending the 
 career of the club. The last essay of the second season 
 was read at the meeting on May 17, 1875, by Judge Henry 
 Booth. His title was "Evidences of the Resurrection Ex- 
 amined," and he subjected the evidences to the searching 
 analysis of a trained jurist, thus reaching the conclusion 
 that they were Inadequate. In these days when agnosti- 
 cism is common and conventional religious views are so 
 often lightly held, it is difficult to realize the intensity 
 with which they were believed half a century ago. Judge 
 Booth was then regarded as a misguided atheist. Among 
 his hearers were several clergymen and a number of other 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 members, who were greatly grieved and incensed by his 
 argument. The discussion that followed became decidedly 
 acrimonious and so heated that Judge Jameson, the vice 
 president who occupied the chair, had to intervene and 
 bring it to an abrupt end. 
 
 This incident which caused much feeling at the time, 
 despite the desire of most of the members that the club 
 should be an open forum where men of the most diverse 
 opinions could meet in friendly intercourse and exchange 
 their views, led a little later to the adoption of the rule 
 that "no paper at the time it is read shall be open to 
 adverse criticism in the club." It was not intended that 
 this rule should put a stop to discussion, but merely that 
 the discussion should not be permitted to become offen- 
 sive. In practice, however, as we all know, it has operated 
 to make discussion of the papers read before the club most 
 unusual. On the whole such loss as there has been, has 
 been fully compensated for by the resulting harmony. And 
 every essayist has felt that he could express his thoughts 
 with the utmost freedom. 
 
 Major Henry Alonzo Huntington, who was elected a 
 member in November, 1 874, has given us his recollections 
 of some of these early meetings. "The first meeting of the 
 club I attended was held at the Sherman House Decem- 
 ber 21, 1874, and the paper I listened to was by Rev. C. 
 D. Helmer, whose subject was 'The Ring,' the finger, not 
 the political variety. The next essay I heard was Bonney's 
 'American Antiquities,' in announcing which Mr. Collyer 
 humorously supposed it would be largely autobiographi- 
 cal. Then came the ever-welcome Edward Mason with his 
 sympathetic appreciation of Arthur Hugh Clough whose 
 
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 Rkmimscencks by Huntington 
 
 lines beginning: 'Say not the struggle naught availeth* 
 must so often have been in his thoughts in later years. 
 Poole's 'The Origin and Secret History of the Ordnance 
 of 1787' followed and is worthy of remembrance, not 
 only for its instrinsic merit, but also as the first contribu- 
 tion by a member to a leading periodical. Booth's paper on 
 'Evidences ofthe Resurrection' was the occasion of many 
 obvious pleasantries suggested by the author's emacia- 
 tion which, however, tell to silence as soon as the scoffers 
 discovered that a death's head is not necessarily empty. 
 My own debut was made on December 4, 1876, with an 
 essay entitled 'A Neglected Author.' There was a large 
 attendance and it is worthy of notice, in view of Pea- 
 cock's growing fame, that the only person present who 
 had heard of him, and he had not read him, was William 
 Mathews, an old librarian. When I closed my manuscript, 
 Judge Jameson asked how I accounted for the obscurity 
 of such a man as I had described and quoted. My reply, 
 'I don't account for it,' was received with uproarious 
 delight, which is explicable on no other ground than that 
 wit is less startling than such a stroke of unpremeditated 
 art as speaking the truth." 
 
 At the meeting held on June 7, 1875, J^<^ge Charles 
 Burrall Lawrence was elected president. His inaugural 
 address was delivered at a dinner at the Sherman House 
 on June 21. No account of this dinner appears upon the 
 club's records. But, at the meeting that followed it — the 
 last ofthe season — the secretary reported that one hun- 
 dred and eight regular members were enrolled, and one 
 honorary member, the Honorable George Baldwin Smith 
 of Madison, Wisconsin, who had been the guest of the 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 club on February i, 1875, and had read a paper entitled 
 "Was Bacon the Author of Shakespeare?" Two members 
 had died during the year, two had resigned ^ and four had 
 removed from the city. Although some of those who were 
 enrolled had never achieved more than a nominal mem- 
 bership, the attendance at the meetings had averaged 
 twenty-eight, an excellent showing when we consider that 
 three of the eighteen meetings were devoted solely to 
 business. Such business meetings were necessarily some- 
 what frequent until the machinery of the club could be 
 got to working quite smoothly, but they did not greatly 
 attract the members; so in the next year the expedient 
 was adopted of serving a collation at the close of the 
 session. The first meeting marked by this feature was 
 held on March 25, 1876, and, although there were no 
 literary exercises, forty-two members were present and 
 one guest. In a paper read in 1894, at the twentieth an- 
 niversary of the founding of the club, Edward G. Mason 
 said: 
 
 "I do not remember when we began to enliven our ex- 
 ercises with a collation. But I still recall, though many 
 years have past, the flavor of the beverage served at the 
 first of these. Some guileless member of the committee 
 on arrangements who must have been himself a prohi- 
 bitionist, was persuaded to furnish the table with an 
 alleged product of the domestic vine. Not one of all the 
 wines famed in song or story had such staying power. It 
 was equaled only by that draught mentioned in the Bride 
 of Lammermoor which Caleb Balderston concocted from 
 the lees of the expended hogsheads, who found no encour- 
 agement to renew his first attack upon this vintage, but 
 
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 Notable Early Members 
 
 contented himself, however reluctantly, with a glass of 
 fair water. We followed the example of the Laird of Huck- 
 law, and ever after branded this disappointing heverage 
 as ^collation wine.' A label from one of the bottles has been 
 preserved in the club's 'Archives.' " 
 
 This chapter would not be complete without recalling 
 the names of a few of the members who joined the club 
 between October 5, 1874, and June 7, 1875, and whose 
 devotion to the club makes it especially imperative that 
 they should not be passed over without particular men- 
 tion: Generals Joseph Bloomfield Leake, John Leverett 
 Thompson and Joseph Dana Webster; Judge Mark Skin- 
 ner, Ezra Butler McCagg, and Abram Morris Pence, were 
 among those whose names come to mind when we think 
 of the club as it was in its first year. So also and with 
 greater insistence do we think of Major Henry Alonzo 
 Huntington, Edward Swift Isham, Colonel Huntington 
 Wolcott Jackson, and Dr. James Nevins Hyde. Each of 
 these men should have a chapter to himself to tell of his 
 rare personal qualities and his part in building up the 
 club. It is impossible to think of them without a swelling of 
 the heart and a realization that the intimate association 
 with such men, as fellow members of an organization as 
 dear to them as to us, is one of the most precious expe- 
 riences in life. From the very beginning it was perceived 
 that the mission of the club was not only the fostering of 
 literary and lesthetic culture, but also the upbuilding of 
 friendships between men of congenial tastes. 
 
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 Chapter III 
 
 AT the meeting held on October 4, 1875, the first of 
 / % the third season, the committee on rooms and 
 -iL .m. finance reported that rooms Nos. 38 and 39 on 
 the fourth fioor of the American Express Building, No. 
 74 Monroe street (now No. 23 West Monroe street) 
 between State and Dearborn streets had been leased for 
 the use of the club until May i, 1877, at a yearly rental 
 of five hundred dollars. These rooms, which were at the 
 south end of the building, were of equal size, each about 
 forty feet in length by about twenty-five feet in width, 
 and were connected by a door near the north end of the 
 partition that separated them. Each had a door at the 
 north end opening upon the entrance corridor; and just 
 within the doors each had a closet partitioned off, making 
 the rooms slightly irregular in shape. In an address made 
 by William M. R. French at the twenty-fifth anniversary 
 meeting in 1899, he said, "The securing of the first per- 
 manent rooms, as I remember, was a great event in the 
 history of the club. For the furnishing the committee 
 spent all or nearly all the funds we had, before it reported 
 to the club at all." From the report of the treasurer made 
 at the end of the season, we discover that the cost of 
 fitting up the rooms was ^1,552.87, whereas the balance 
 carried over from the preceding year was only $401.16, 
 thus leaving $1,151.71 to come out of the dues for the 
 current year. The annual dues were then only ten dollars 
 and there was no entrance fee. It required careful figur- 
 
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 The Club's First Home 
 
 ing, therefore, to avoid a deficit at the end of the season, 
 but by postponing payment of three months* rent until 
 October when the next semi-annual dues were payable, 
 the other bills were paid and a balance of $65.97 "^^^^ ^^^f 
 in the treasury. 
 
 The rooms were ready for occupancy on Saturday, 
 November 22, 1875, when fifty-one members gathered in 
 them to celebrate their opening. In what way they cele- 
 brated does not appear of record, the minutes merely 
 stating that "the meeting adjourned at 1 1 130 p. m." For- 
 mal literary exercises there were none; and there is no 
 record that the committee provided refreshments of a 
 material sort. It is to be presumed, therefore, that the 
 evening was spent in mutual felicitation while inspecting 
 the wall paper with which the rooms were bedecked and 
 the chairs and tables in what has been called the Eastlake 
 gothic style, which had been made to order by one Mr. 
 Bates, a cabinet maker then in high repute in the city. 
 Two of these tables we still retain, but their appearance 
 has been transformed by staining them dark brown. The 
 fitting up of one of the rooms — the east room, called by 
 us the smoking room, which we used as a gathering place, 
 while the other was the assembly room where the meetings 
 were held — was in the especial charge of Mr. Mac Veagh. 
 The writer's recollection is that it had a soft gray-green 
 paper on the walls, and that the west room was done in 
 blue. The east room had a fireplace in the middle of the 
 east wall, and about this the members were wont to gather 
 as they dropped in to the meetings. The city was then but 
 a small town compared with what it is today, and all the 
 members not only knew each other, but they knew each 
 
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 other well. And in the words of Dr. James Nevins Hyde, 
 "few ever enjoyed club rooms more than we did ours in 
 those days." They were conveniently located, and until 
 the increase in the membership made it necessary to have 
 larger quarters, they answered all our needs. 
 
 The season opened auspiciously, and at the four meet- 
 ings held at the Sherman House before the rooms of the 
 club were ready, the papers were of marked brilliance and 
 had stimulated the interest of the members to a high 
 pitch. When the rooms were occupied, and at last the club 
 had a home, the enthusiasm became very great. There was 
 an immediate increase in the attendance at the meetings. 
 At several of them nearly half of the resident members 
 were present, and the average for the season was nearly 
 thirty per cent. As the members were among the busiest 
 men in the busy city and the meetings were held once a 
 week from the first of October to the end of June — there 
 were no golf clubs in the United States in those days — 
 this is a remarkably high average. 
 
 The early meetings in the new rooms were somewhat 
 protracted, as, after the papers had been read, there were 
 long discussions of proposed changes in the constitution 
 and by-laws, which led finally to the embodying of all the 
 rules and regulations in a revised constitution that was 
 adopted on March 6, 1876. This was an improvement on 
 the old order, but it did not settle one moot question that 
 was first raised by Edward G. Mason when, at the meeting 
 on November 16, 1874, he proposed that the name of the 
 club should be changed from The Chicago Literary Club 
 to The Marquette Club. Nothing came of this at the time, 
 although a number of the members disliked the name of 
 
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 Proposed Changes of Name 
 
 the club, feeling that It was too pretentious and not suffi- 
 ciently distinctive. But no one was able to suggest a better 
 one, all things considered. Mason and MacVeagh were the 
 most insistent upon the desirability of a change, and both 
 favored the imparting ot what they characterized as local 
 color, by naming the club after the famous Jesuit mis- 
 sionary and explorer, whom they claimed to have been 
 the first Hterary man to make Chicago his dwelling place. 
 But the members generally were not impressed by the 
 notion that Marquette was a literary man, nor did they 
 accept the fact that he was compelled to camp here dur- 
 ing one winter, as constituting him a resident of Chicago. 
 And there were those who insisted that The Marquette 
 Club sounds too much like The Market Club to connote 
 "literary and aesthetic culture." 
 
 Mason renewed the attack in a contribution to an "In- 
 formal" or group of short, anonymous papers read by Dr. 
 John C. Burroughs at the meeting on June 3, 1876. This 
 was followed by a discussion of the subject in the course 
 of which Mason argued in favor of The Marquette Club, 
 while others suggested the following names as preferable 
 and equally or more appropriate: The Club; The Chicago 
 Lyceum ; The Kinzie Club ; The LaSalle Club ; The Sphinx 
 Club; The Lawrence Club (in honor of Judge Lawrence, 
 then the president); The Illinois Club; The Thackeray 
 Club; The Monroe Club; The Garrick; The Lotos Club; 
 The Irving Club; The Chicago Radical Club; The Open 
 Ballot Club; The Great American Excelsior Club; The 
 Miralac Club; The What's in a Name Club; The Club 
 Which Is Too Modest To Say What It Is; The Mayor 
 Colvin Club; The Belles Lettres Club; The Goodenough 
 
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 Club; The Brown Club; The Amateur Club; The Indian 
 Club; The Club for the Aggregation and Fostering of Old 
 Citizens Regardless of Qualification; and, finally, The 
 Marquette Eye and Ear Infirmary. Mason took this 
 chaffing in good part, though he continued to protest that 
 The Chicago Literary Club had a most unpleasantly 
 boastful sound that jarred upon his sensitive ears. 
 
 Young though the club was, by this time it had reached 
 a place in the regard of most of its active members that 
 made the thought of a change in its name repugnant to 
 them. While the name had not become so much a part 
 of the club as it is now after the lapse of half a century, 
 even then associations had attached to it. The name had 
 not made the club; but it was plainly recognized that 
 already the club had put its own impress upon the name. 
 Gradually and without any heralding by the press, save 
 the account of the first annual dinner and the printing of 
 the paper on "Myths and Miracles" read by Dr. Kauf- 
 mann Kohler at the sixth regular meeting held on October 
 19, 1874, it became known among the men of intellectual 
 taste in the city that the meetings of the club were no 
 ordinary gatherings. Membership in an organization that 
 included many of the most eminent men in the com- 
 munity was eagerly sought and was justly regarded as a 
 high honor. But from the first it was perceived that it 
 would be easier to maintain the standard that had been 
 set, if candidates were not permitted to make application 
 direct, but were proposed by the members; the theory 
 being that so far as possible no one should be admitted 
 who would not strengthen the club. This led to such rigid 
 scrutiny of the character and qualifications of all whose 
 
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 Merited Reparatio 
 
 N 
 
 names were proposed and to the rejection of so many 
 candidates, that men of unimpeachable fitness sometimes 
 hesitated to let their names be presented, and the club 
 acquired the reputation of being the most exclusive and 
 difficult to gain access to of any in the city. 
 
 Such being the case one might suppose that all of those 
 who were within the fold would have prized their mem- 
 bership privilege too highly to forfeit it; yet at the end of 
 the second season, Secretary Mason was obliged to report 
 that the names of twelve members had been dropped from 
 the rolls for failure to pay their dues. The majority of 
 these had not attended the meetings and therefore had 
 never become really identified with the club. Some there 
 were, however, who were perhaps entitled to more con- 
 sideration than they received. That is certainly true in the 
 case of Francis Fisher Browne to whose initiative more 
 than that of any other man, as has been set forth in the 
 preceding chapter, the founding of the club was due. As 
 was most fitting, his name was placed upon the roll of 
 members at the first preliminary meeting, but he was then 
 seriously ill and unable to make any response. A short 
 time after he was taken to the South to recuperate, and 
 he was still absent from the city and in ignorance of what 
 was done, when on October i, 1875, his name was taken 
 from the roll. Not until some time later did he return to 
 Chicago and learn that he had been made a member and 
 then dropped from the club. Then, feeling too deeply hurt 
 to make complaint, he said nothing. A less sensitive per- 
 son would have secured reinstatement at once, and it is 
 greatly to be regretted that Mr. Browne did not make the 
 effort, for there can be no doubt that the injustice done to 
 
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 him was unwitting and without knowledge of his illness 
 and absence. Not until many years afterward did the facts 
 become known, and then to the credit of the club be it said 
 that it honored itself by offering such reparation as lay 
 in its power and making him an honorary member as of 
 March 13, 1874. 
 
 From the men whose names were submitted during the 
 second session, forty-four were elected and all of them 
 accepted and qualified save one, a clergyman who de- 
 clined because he could not be free on the evening when 
 the club held its meetings. Among the forty-three who 
 accepted were many whom we hold in warm regard, in- 
 cluding four. Dr. Charles Adams, Joseph Adams, Owen 
 F. Aldis, and Robert Todd Lincoln, who, happily, were 
 still with us at the end of our first fifty years. To each 
 one of the thirty-nine who are gone, I feel tempted to 
 pay at least the passing tribute of the mention of his 
 name. But some were more intimately connected with 
 the club than were the others, and of these only shall 
 I speak. The earliest elected was Charles True Adams, a 
 brilliant young lawyer whose untimely death was deeply 
 lamented when he passed away on February 28, 1877. 
 George Clinton Clark, who was elected at the same meet- 
 ing as Mr. Adams, was another member whose life was 
 cut short before his time. It is thirty-seven years since 
 he died, yet I have a vivid recollection of the grief we all 
 felt when he was taken from us. Murry Nelson, Norman 
 Williams, and General George W. Smith, who were elected 
 on October 18,1 875, were deeply attached to the club and 
 were among the regular attendants. Their names and the 
 names of John Crerar, John G. Shortall, James A. Hunt, 
 
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 Our }amks Norton 
 
 Walter Cranston Larnetl, George L. Paddock, Bryan 
 Lathrop Bronson, Peck, John W. Root, John J. Herrick, 
 George E. Adams, and Benjamin D. Magruder call up 
 faces and awaken precious memories of the days that 
 were. Fewer of us, perhaps, recall George P. A. Hcaley, 
 the eminent portrait painter, since much of his life was 
 spent in Paris. And the Rev. Dr. Samuel S, Harris, though 
 he was a devoted member, was soon called away to become 
 the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan. More per- 
 haps will recall that most delightfully genial and always 
 mentally alert Englishman, the Rev. Brooke Herford. He 
 was with us for a few years only, but in those years he 
 made a deep impression on his fellow members. And who 
 among us that knew him can ever forget James Sager Nor- 
 ton? To those whose memories do not reach back to his 
 day — his life came to an end in September, 1896 — it is 
 not easy to describe his rare personality. He was indeed 
 sui generis, yet without any trace of eccentricity. It was 
 his unfailing courtesy, his gracious manner, his inimi- 
 tably quiet way of speaking, and his flashing wit free from 
 the least trace of anything save pure fun, that marked 
 him as different from other men. But Norton was not 
 merely the member whom we were always eager to hear 
 when we could persuade him to address us, or when some- 
 thing chanced to bring forth a sally that enraptured us at 
 the time and would evoke joyous ripples oi laughter as 
 often as it was recalled: in all that goes to make a man, 
 — character, serious aims, devotion to duty, profession- 
 al standing, thoughtful kindness to his fellows, stead- 
 fastness, and capacity for friendship, he measured up to 
 the highest standard. The membership rolls of the club 
 
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 include the names of many who have shed lustre upon it 
 but none who will be dearer to us than James Norton — 
 our James, for somehow he seemed in a very special and 
 intimate way to be an integral part of the club, and it can 
 never again be quite the same as when he was with us, for 
 there was only one James Norton, and there can never 
 be another. 
 
 Notwithstanding the large number of members elected 
 during the third season, at its close the resident member- 
 ship, which stood at io8 at the end of the second season, 
 had increased only to 128. Twelve members had been 
 dropped, eight had removed from the city and were trans- 
 ferred to the non-resident, then designated as the honor- 
 ary, list; five, four of whom were clergymen, had resigned 
 because of inability to attend the meetings. Two had died, 
 William E. Doggett and General Joseph Dana Webster. 
 Both of these men were of engaging personality and of 
 distinction in the community; they were devoted to the 
 club and by their presence at its meetings had helped 
 much to make them enjoyable. Their loss was keenly felt. 
 The memorial of Mr. Doggett, made at the special meet- 
 ing held at the time of his death, records that he was a 
 gentleman whose courtly bearing, literary cultivation, 
 catholicity of thought, refinement of feeling, and exquisite 
 sensibility to art peculiarly fitted him for the companion- 
 ship of a club "the object of which is not less to foster 
 friendship than to encourage intellectual improvement." 
 To this characterization I am unable to add anything as 
 I did not become a member of the club until a year later 
 and it was not my privilege to know Mr. Doggett. For 
 the same reason I can give no personal impression of Gen- 
 
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 JAMES SAGER NORTON
 
 A Distinguished Early Member 
 
 eral Webster. I well remember the expressions of admira- 
 tion by those who did know these men that the mention 
 of their names was sure to evoke. And this seems a fitting 
 place to insert a brief biographical sketch of General Web- 
 ster that Horace White sent to the club a short time 
 before his death. In the course of a long talk about the 
 early days of the club which I had with him when he made 
 his last visit to Chicago, I told him that it was my inten- 
 tion to write a history of our organization and he offered 
 this account of the life of his old friend and business asso- 
 ciate as his contribution to the work. 
 
 "Gener^il Webster was born in Old Hampton, New 
 Hampshire, on August 25, 181 1, a son of Josiah Webster 
 who was pastor at Hampton from 1808 until his death in 
 1837. The son was graduated at Dartmouth in 1832, and 
 read law in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but became a 
 clerk in the engineer and war offices in Washington, was 
 made a United States civil engineer in 1835, ^^^^ o'"^ J^^Y 
 7, 1 838, entered the army as a second lieutenant of topo- 
 graphical engineers. He served throughout the Mexican 
 War, was promoted to first lieutenant on July 14, 1849, 
 and captain on March 3, 1853, but resigned on April 7, 
 1854, and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in busi- 
 ness. He was president of the commission that perfected 
 the remarkable system of sewerage for the city, and also 
 planned and executed the operations whereby the grade 
 of a large part of the city was made from two to eight 
 feet higher, whole blocks and buildings being raised by 
 jack-screws while new foundations were inserted. At the 
 opening of the Civil War, he entered the service of the 
 state, taking charge of the construction of fortifications 
 
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 at Cairo, Illinois, and Paducah, Kentucky, in April, and 
 on June i, 1861, was appointed an additional paymaster 
 of volunteers with the rank of major. On February i, 
 1862, he became colonel of the First Illinois Light Artil- 
 lery. He was chief of General Grant's staff for several 
 months, was present at the capture of Fort Henry and 
 Fort Donelson, and at Shiloh was also chief of artillery. 
 At the close of the first day's fight at Shiloh he occupied 
 with all the available artillery the ridge that covered 
 Pittsburg Landing, thus checking the hitherto victorious 
 Confederates. He received the highest commendation in 
 General Grant's official report, and continued to be his 
 chief of staff, until, in October, 1 862, he was detailed by 
 the War Department to make a survey of the Illinois and 
 Michigan Canal. He was appointed a brigadier general of 
 volunteers on November 29, 1862, and, after serving for 
 some time as military governor of Memphis, Tennessee, 
 and as superintendent of military railroads, was again 
 General Grant's chief of staff in the Vicksburg campaign, 
 and from 1864 until the close of hostilities he held the 
 same post under General Sherman. He was with General 
 George H.Thomas at the battle of Nashville. On March 
 13, 1865, he was given the brevet of major general of 
 volunteers for faithful and meritorious service during the 
 war. He resigned on November 6, 1865, and returned to 
 Chicago, where he remained until his death on March 12, 
 1876. 
 
 "General Webster was assessor of internal revenue in 
 Chicago from 1869 until 1872, and then assistant United 
 States treasurer there until July, 1872, when he became 
 the collector of internal revenue. He was also chairman 
 
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 The Meeting Night Changed 
 
 of the executive committee of the National Kansas Com- 
 mittee in 1 856, of which George W. Dole was treasurer, H. 
 B. Hurd, secretary, and Horace White, assistant secre- 
 tary. This was an organization formed at a National 
 Convention held in Buffalo, New York, in July 1856, to 
 support the Free State movement in Kansas. Its head- 
 quarters were in Chicago. General Webster was a man of 
 attractive presence, genial manners and sterling charac- 
 ter. At the time when I came to Chicago to make it my 
 place of residence, at the beginning of 1854, ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ 
 of the foremost citizens." 
 
 The election of officers and committees for the fourth 
 season was held on June 10, 1876. Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson 
 was chosen as president; Edward G. Mason, Dr. William 
 F. Poole, and Daniel L. Shorey were made vice-presi- 
 dents; and William Eliot Furness, secretary and treasurer. 
 As the season came to an end it was felt by all that it had 
 been very successful and enjoyable. Several important 
 innovations had been made. One of these, the serving of 
 a collation on the evenings devoted to business has already 
 been recounted. Another was the holding of a meeting 
 every week instead of only once in a fortnight. Perhaps 
 the most important of all was the change in the meeting 
 night from Saturday to Monday. This was proposed at 
 the April business meeting but action upon the constitu- 
 tional amendment was postponed until the last meeting 
 of the season, and a postal-card vote was taken to learn 
 the individual preferences of the members. Although this 
 showed a large majority in favor of Monday evenings, 
 the change was opposed by a very insistent minority, and 
 there was a prolonged discussion before the amendment 
 
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 was adopted. The decision having at last been reached, 
 the forty-seven members present sat down to a collation 
 and then listened to Dr. Johnson's inaugural address. It is 
 interesting to note that since that meeting no member has 
 ever proposed the selection of another evening than Mon- 
 day for our meetings. We recognize, of course, that some 
 among us cannot always be free on that evening, yet no 
 other seems at all likely to suit the most of us nearly so 
 well. 
 
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 Chapter IV 
 
 THE fourth season, whicli opened on October 2, 
 1876, when x^lfred Bishop Mason read a paper on 
 *'The AboHtion of Poverty," was even more suc- 
 cessful than its predecessors. The long struggle to get a 
 constitution that would ensure the smooth working of 
 the machinery of the club had very nearly come to an 
 end, and with the conduct of its affairs placed in the hands 
 of standing committees, much less time than formerly 
 was required for the consideration of business by the club 
 as a whole. There was a steady growth in the membership 
 and at the close of the year there were one hundred and 
 forty-nine names on the resident list. Only one member 
 had died during the year, Charles True Adams, whose 
 early death was greatly lamented. Two among those 
 admitted, Elbridge G. Keith and the Rev. Edward F. 
 Williams, should be mentioned specially, as to the end of 
 their lives they were actively identified with the club and 
 constant in their attendance at its meetings. 
 
 It was not a season of many notable incidents. The 
 records show only a few occurrences out of the ordinary. 
 Among these was the first occasion where an essayist 
 failed to keep his appointment. There was no lack of enter- 
 tainment, however, for William M. R. French came for- 
 ward and gave an impromptu talk on "Graphic Art," 
 which he illustrated with drawings made in the presence 
 of the audience. This was received with such marked 
 approval that Secretary Furness put the statement on 
 
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 record that only "after a few very pleasant hours" did the 
 meeting adjourn. Another episode that occurred a little 
 later in the season serves to show how devoted to the club 
 the members had become. On the evening of January 15, 
 1877, a blizzard was raging that had forced an entire 
 suspension of the street car service, — horse-car service 
 it then was; yet eleven members plodded on foot through 
 the wind and snow and gathered in the club rooms with 
 the prospect of listening to or taking part in a conversa- 
 tion on "Tax Legislation." But when they were gathered 
 about the open fire in the smoking room, they merely 
 swapped stories for awhile, voted tax legislation a bore, 
 and then cheerfully set forth to trudge homeward through 
 the deepening snow. 
 
 To me personally this season is memorable, as it was 
 the one in which I was elected a member. I have often 
 wondered at my great good fortune in being admitted into 
 this choice circle of which I was for a long time the young- 
 est member. The first meeting that I attended was that of 
 March 5, 1877. Edward Mason was in the chair, and Dr. 
 Charles Gilman Smith read a paper on "The Physical 
 Basis of Character," in which he held that climatic con- 
 ditions here in America have marked influence in amal- 
 gamating immigrants and natives into a homogenous 
 stock having very similar physical characteristics. I shall 
 never forget the cordial reception with which I was wel- 
 comed when I was introduced to the group of members 
 gathered in the smoking room before the paper was read. 
 It may be of interest to have me call the roll. Besides 
 Ned Mason and Dr. Smith, and Secretary Furness who 
 was my next door neighbor and with whom I had come to 
 
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 A Rejected Offer 
 
 the meeting, there were present Daniel L. Shorey, Murry 
 Nelson, John G. Shortall, James A. Hunt, Judge John G. 
 Rogers, Joseph Adams, General Alexander C. McClurg, 
 General Joseph B. Leake, Major Joseph Kirkland, 
 Edward D. Hosmer, Dr. James Nevins Hyde, Dr. Henry 
 Hooper, Alonzo Abernathy, Bronson Peck, William H. 
 Barnum, George F. Harding, Samuel Appleton, Horatio 
 L. Wait, Samuel P. McConnell, Horace W. S. Cleveland, 
 Leroy D. Mansfield, Dr. William F. Poole, Samuel 
 Bliss, Max Hjortsberg, William H. Clarke, Cecil Barnes, 
 George Howland, William Macdonell, Frederick B. 
 Smith, Rev. Dr. John C. Burroughs, John Wilkinson, 
 John J. Herrick, Major Henry A. Huntington, Henry D. 
 Lloyd, Albert ^L Day, Edward O. Brown — who was not 
 then Judge Brown. With the possible exception of Samuel 
 Appleton, about whom I have heard nothing for many 
 years, all these men save Joseph Adams have passed 
 away. Most of them I then met for the first time. To me 
 the recital of their names means a great deal. Many of 
 them became my very dear friends, and most of our older 
 members could make the same assertion for themselves. 
 About the time I was admitted to the club one of the 
 leading photographers in the city offered to take the pho- 
 tographs of all of the members for a very small price, 
 assuming that enough extra prints would be ordered to 
 make the transaction profitable. The offer was referred 
 to the executive committee, of which Dr. Poole was the 
 chairman. I recall quite distinctly the business meeting 
 when he reported that the committee regarded the 
 proposition favorably and he moved that the photographs 
 be taken and kept in an album or albums to be a part of 
 
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 the archives of the club. It is much to be regretted that 
 the club did not agree with the committee. We can now 
 see clearly that such a collection of the portraits of the 
 members would be a possession we should greatly treas- 
 ure. But the wits of the club were at that time ever eager 
 for an opportunity to poke fun at anything and everything 
 that offered a fair target. And when Dr. Poole had moved 
 the acceptance of the report, Samuel Appleton, who was 
 something of a wag, made a humorous speech pointing 
 out the chagrin we should feel at seeing a lot of photo- 
 graphs grouped In the photographer's window and accom- 
 panied by a placard reciting in large letters that these 
 were the portraits of the distinguished gentlemen calling 
 themselves The Chicago Literary Club, special emphasis 
 being placed upon the "The." Charles Gregory, who had 
 seconded Dr. Poole's motion, came to the rescue and tried 
 to make fun of Appleton's fanciful objection, but he only 
 succeeded in setting off Ned Mason, Harry Huntington, 
 Brooke Herford, William Macdonell and Jim Norton. 
 Then the fun became "fast and furious." I do not think 
 there was any real objection to the proposition, but It 
 could not stand the ridicule and the flippant jibes that 
 were bandied back and forth, and no one ever afterward 
 had the hardihood to bring it up again. As for the jokers, 
 when they had slain the bugaboo they sat down to a colla- 
 tion and the merriment was prolonged until the time for 
 home going arrived. 
 
 This episode had a sequel which is not mentioned in 
 the club records. Fortunately, however, a few years later 
 Dr. Nevins Hyde set down his recollections of it in black 
 and white for our benefit. "There had been," he tells us, 
 
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 Portraits by Brother Wait 
 
 **some talk of collecting the photographs of members, and 
 Poole had put forward such a proposition. For some of 
 us the plan was not without a vista of delightful possi- 
 bilities. Those of us who were very little known, might 
 thus be enabled to appear in the company of the relatively 
 great. Questions of minor importance did not fail to sug- 
 gest themselves. Should the attire be full evening dress 
 for those who at that early day were fortunate enough 
 to be provided with such garments? Or was the idea 
 rather a presentation of the membership of the club as it 
 appeared oh ordinary occasions, say with a pepper-and- 
 salt suggestiveness in the coat, and a collar not too closely 
 assimilated to the style adopted by the average Wall 
 street broker? It was then that Brother Horatio Wait 
 appeared in the role of the *God from the machine.' At 
 the next meeting after that at which Poole's proposition 
 had been wrecked, he presented himself before the club 
 with the statement that he had been thinking over the 
 matter of photographing the members, and this opening 
 sentence caused our hopes to run high. But he went on 
 to add that the idea had occurred to him of reproducing 
 the faces and figures of the brethren of the club, not as 
 they actually were, but only as they wished they might 
 be. On this he exhibited a series of sketches which he had 
 made of certain selected individuals, selected not so much 
 for their mental acquirements as for their physical peculi- 
 arities. Thus James High was portrayed as an exceedingly 
 short man; and your present reader, by way of contrast, 
 was depicted in the elongated proportions peculiar to Mr. 
 High. Norman C. Perkins, the clever writer of verses, who 
 had a sufficiently ample girth measure, was delineated as 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 one of the slender order of Byronic poets, with long hair 
 and a rolling collar. But the piece de resistance of the col- 
 lection was a portrait representing our present master- 
 in-chancery — 'the artist himself — in a character which 
 he declared was the ambition of his heart. It was that of 
 a corsair with drawn scimitar." 
 
 It is a pity that these suggestive pictures, which were 
 of good size and done in colored crayons, were not pre- 
 sented to the club. 
 
 As the winter of 1876 — 1877 drew to a close, it became 
 evident that the club rooms were no longer sufficiently 
 commodious. Accordingly, on May i, two rooms across 
 the corridor to the north were leased, and these rooms 
 which were identical in size with those already occupied 
 by the club were thrown into one, making an assembly 
 room much better adapted to our needs than any we had 
 had hitherto. To enable the club to meet the increased 
 rent without further increasing the dues, which had been 
 raised to fifteen dollars the year before, it was arranged 
 that The Fortnightly of Chicago, the ladies' literary club 
 that had been founded largely through the initiative of 
 Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, wife of William E. Doggett, 
 about a year before our club was organized, should have 
 the use of the rooms for their meetings. This was strenu- 
 ously opposed by Edward Mason who never could bear 
 the thought of anything but the exclusive use of the club 
 rooms by the club itself, and who maintained that this 
 was essential to the home feeling that was an important 
 factor in keeping the members' affection for the club 
 deep and strong. He was, however, outvoted and I do not 
 think the club suffered in consequence. Still we all must 
 
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 A Startling Innovation 
 
 sympathize with his feeling, though we may regard it as 
 somewhat ov-erwrought. 
 
 The new room was not ready for use until the end of 
 the season when on June 25, 1877, the annual dinner was 
 served in it, and Daniel L. Shorey,the presitient-elect for 
 the ensuing year, delivered his inaugural address. 
 
 When in October the meetings were resumed, it was 
 found that the committee on arrangements and exercises 
 of which Dr. Charles Oilman Smith was the chairman had 
 ventured upon the startling innovation of making Octo- 
 ber 29 of that year a ladies' night. Mason was in arms at 
 once, but there was no business meeting before October 
 22, and until then he could only fret and fume. When 
 October 22 arrived it was too late to prevent the holding 
 of the reception, but he made haste to offer this resolution : 
 
 Whereas, the constitution of The Chicago Literary 
 Club provides in Article VI, Section I, that no resident 
 of Chicago or vicinity shall be invited to attend a meet- 
 ing of said club; and 
 
 Whereas, it is understood that a large number of per- 
 sons who are residents of Chicago or vicinity have been 
 invited to attend such a meeting. 
 
 Resolved, that the members of the club here present 
 are of the opinion that any violation of the constitution is 
 to be deprecated, and that hereafter all of its provisions 
 should be strictly observed. 
 
 As this, after considerable discussion, did not meet 
 with favor, Mason withdrew it and offered as a substitute : 
 
 Resolved, that the members of the club here present 
 are not in favor of inviting ladies to attend the meetings 
 of the club. 
 
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 This resolution fared no better than the other. When 
 it was ordered laid upon the table, Alfred Bishop Mason 
 proposed an amendment to the constitution having the 
 same effect, but this also failed of adoption when it came 
 up at the next business meeting. And so the reception was 
 held and it proved to be very enjoyable. It was attended 
 by sixty-seven members and, in the words of Secretary 
 Furness in the club records, "by a brilliant assembly of 
 ladies, including a delegation of The Fortnightly Club, 
 making in all a meeting of some hundred and fifty." Thus 
 was inaugurated the custom of holding ladies' night meet- 
 ings. Notwithstanding the success of this meeting the 
 opposition of some of the members was so persistent that 
 Dr. Smith was in doubt as to what he should do about the 
 second ladies' night that was scheduled for the twenty- 
 ninth of April. Accordingly at the meeting held on March 
 25, 1878, he asked for instructions from the club. Abram 
 M. Pence, a member who stood high in the esteem of his 
 fellows, moved that no ladies be invited. Major Kirkland 
 moved to amend by striking out the word "no." This 
 amendment having been carried, and the motion carried, 
 each member was permitted to invite one lady guest to 
 attend the meeting on April 29. 
 
 To the ladies of The Fortnightly we were indebted for 
 sundry embellishments to the large room, among them 
 the plaster cast of the statue of Dante and the bust of 
 Homer that we have kept in all of our migrations until 
 they have become so much a part of our essential belong- 
 ings that without them the club rooms would hardly seem 
 to be our rooms. Shortly after these casts were presented 
 to us, a veil dropped by one of the ladies at a Fortnightly 
 
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 meeting was picked up by the janitor, and wishing to put 
 it where the owner would find it when she again visited the 
 rooms, he draped it over the head of Homer so as entirely 
 to conceal the face. There it remained when Monday eve- 
 ning came and our members filed across the hall from 
 the smoking room where they had gathered. Charles 
 Gregory espied it and when Alfred Mason's proposed 
 amendment to the constitution had been voted down, and 
 a special committee on the advisability of changing the 
 name of the club of which Alfred Mason was the chair- 
 man had reported against it, Gregory made a facetious 
 speech which caused much laughter. Having gravely 
 moved the appointment of a committee to unveil the 
 bust, he was promptly appointed a committee of one and 
 loudly applauded as with mock solemnity he proceeded 
 to perform the task. At the time this was more amusing 
 than it seems in a dry recital. It is mentioned to show 
 how ready the members were in the early days of the club 
 to seize upon every opportunity for wholesome fun. 
 
 One of the milestones in the club's history, its one 
 hundredth regular meeting, was held this season, on Jan- 
 uary 21, 1878. At the business meeting a week later a rule 
 was adopted forbidding smoking in the assembly room 
 where the papers were read, and requesting the president 
 to announce this at each meeting or whenever it should 
 appear to him necessary. And at this meeting two amend- 
 ments to the constitution were proposed, which were 
 adopted at the next business meeting. These were: 
 
 I . No announcement of the result of any election shall 
 be made until all the candidates to be presented the same 
 evening shall have been balloted for. 
 
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 2. All proceedings relative to either the proposal or the 
 election or non-election of candidates are to be regarded* 
 as strictly private and not to be mentioned except among 
 members of the club. 
 
 A few quotations from the reminiscences of Dr. Hyde, 
 Judge Brown, William French, and Major Huntington, 
 read at the meeting to celebrate the twenty-fifth anni- 
 versary of the founding of the club, will show the need 
 for these rules. 
 
 Dr. Hyde said : "The air was heavy at times with storm 
 and stress when we were engaged in barring out new 
 members by a process of general election that did not 
 elect. Even Mason's stock joke about copies of the Bryant 
 memorial being at hand for those desirous of securing 
 them, failed to pour oil on the troubled waters. There was 
 'blood on the moon' one night when we were all together, 
 each slaughtering every other fellow's candidate for mem- 
 bership because his own man had been rejected. It was 
 then that Judge Doolittle stalked into the middle of the 
 arena with a big stick in his hand and in portentous tones 
 read us a lecture." 
 
 Judge Brown's testimony runs thus: "When the con- 
 stitution making had been completed the real fun began. 
 It consisted in blackballing during the first year or two of 
 our existence, I should think on an average, about five out 
 of six of the persons proposed. In those days we were not 
 ruled by committees, and each member, upon the pres- 
 entation of a name, was presented with the fateful box 
 with its black and white symbols and allowed to express 
 secretly his choice. Three black balls were sufficient to 
 defeat a candidate, as I remember, and it seemed to be 
 
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 rarely the case that a man could not count upon at least 
 three enemies in our hody. The proposal was made in open 
 meeting, and proposing and seconding speeches were 
 made setting torth the qualifications of the candidate. 
 That particular class of literature which may now be dis- 
 tinctly recognized and differentiated from every other 
 and entitled nominating speeches, which the political 
 conventions of the country during the last quarter of a 
 century have developed, I sometimes think had its feeble 
 and insignificant beginning in our club. But the skillful 
 manner, however, in which the virtues of the candidate 
 are first depicted in glowing words and the climax reached 
 in the announcement of his name, was not known in our 
 early efforts, and a certain amount of sameness was ap- 
 parent too. The proposer would arise, announce the name 
 of his candidate for admission and proceed, in a great 
 majority of cases, to say that his qualifications consisted 
 in his being 'a cultivated man, a clubable man, and of 
 genial disposition.' The statement that he was 'a lawyer 
 and a graduate of Yale' was so frequently added that the 
 phrase became a byword among some of the younger and 
 more irreverent members of the club. Then the seconder 
 would say 'ditto to Mr. Burke' and the box would be 
 passed. I remember that on one occasion when it was 
 brought to the president, Mr. Collyer, for inspection and 
 opened, it having fallen to me on that occasion to carry 
 about the fateful urn, there appeared an almost unbroken 
 array of black balls. Violating for once the unwritten rule 
 that the presiding officer should only say whether the 
 candidate was elected or not elected, without further de- 
 tailing the result, Mr. Collyer remarked: 'Gentlemen, if 
 
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 the black balls elected, the candidate would become a 
 member.' That was pretty hard upon so 'genial and club- 
 able' a gentleman as the proposer and seconder asserted 
 the candidate to be; but it might be explained to some 
 extent by the fact that the seconder had previously spoken 
 to me and I suppose to other members of the club, in- 
 sisting that he had been actually dragooned into lending 
 his name to the application, and that he was extremely 
 anxious that two others at least should be found, who 
 with himself, should vote in the negative." 
 
 Mr. French said, "I do not remember that there was 
 such wholesale blackballing of candidates as indicated in 
 the remarks of Mr. Brown, but I do remember that there 
 were some very awkward situations. We never felt safe. 
 It is my recollection that, on the occasion alluded to when 
 a certain candidate was unanimously rejected, the presi- 
 dent, in announcing the result, said: 'Gentlemen, I think 
 you must have mistaken the black balls for white.' But 
 perhaps it was on another occasion." 
 
 Major Huntington's recollection of this incident, which 
 he regarded as the funniest in our history, differs from 
 both of the others. This is his account of it: "But the 
 lowest depth of humiliation was reserved for Candidate 
 C, who reached the last stage of electoral procedure. 
 Powers was in the chair, the club was in gracious mood, 
 and, without the casting of a single black ball, had elected 
 all the candidates but the last. Against him Powers knew 
 nothing, and having arranged the ballot-box, he said in 
 his hearty way: 'Come up, gentlemen, and elect Mr. C 
 When the balls had been deposited, the doctor smilingly 
 opened the box, gave a start of comic horror, and ex- 
 
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 claimed : 'Gentlemen, the decision is unanimous ^ Mr. C. is 
 not elected.' " 
 
 This episode happened before I was a member of the 
 club. I shall not attempt to reconcile the discrepancies 
 between the several narratives; but I have a clear recol- 
 lection that the blackballing of the other members' 
 candidates had become more rather than less frequent 
 at the time the amendments to the constitution proposed 
 by Mr. Herford were adopted. The members knew each 
 other so well that when a candidate was rejected, his 
 friends were able to guess with reasonable certainty by 
 whom the blackballs had been cast; and by deferring the 
 announcement of the result of the balloting until all the 
 candidates had been voted upon, it was thought that any 
 consideration other than the qualifications of the candi- 
 dates would be eliminated. Judged by the results of the 
 balloting I am of the opinion that there was not at any 
 time nearly so much spite voting as was commonly sup- 
 posed. Harry Huntington's tale of the deadly effect of 
 Judge Hibbard's commendation of a candidate as "a 
 learned man who always spoke in a dead language which 
 he murdered as he went along" was pure fiction evolved 
 to get off one of the bons mots with which he was wont to 
 delight us. And notwithstanding the fact that two of the 
 candidates who were unceremoniously turned down, were 
 later admitted to full membership and became presidents 
 of the club, from my familiarity with the proceedings and 
 my knowledge of the candidates who were proposed, I 
 cannot think that more than a very few of those who were 
 excluded were men whom we would have been glad to 
 have as members of our family circle. The method of 
 
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 election in open meeting was, however, both cumbersome 
 and faulty. One might have grave objection to a candi- 
 date, yet hesitate to hurt the feelings of his proposers by 
 making a speech against him. And because any suspicion 
 of faint praise on the part of the proposers was almost 
 certain to be fatal to a candidate, the stock phrases that 
 Judge Brown commented upon came into general use. 
 Moreover, it was awkward to pass a ballot-box around 
 when from fifty to seventy-five members were present, 
 and only a little less so was the plan adopted later for 
 members to form in line and march up to the secretary's 
 table to cast their votes. Not until i88i,when the last 
 general revision of the rules was made, was the respon- 
 sibility of passing upon the qualifications of candidates 
 entrusted to an electoral committee. 
 
 This chapter may be ended by the relation of a little 
 incident that will signify more to the older members of 
 the club than to those who are too young to remember 
 the reputation of Leonard Swett and Emory A. Storrs, 
 two of the best known lawyers in the city, both men 
 of brilliant intellect and highly gifted as orators. Neither 
 of them, it maybe said in passing, could by any possibility 
 have been elected to membership in the club. One eve- 
 ning, shortly after the writer was admitted to the fold, 
 a few of us who had arrived a little earlier than the others 
 were seated in a semi-circle about a blazing fire in the 
 grate in the smoking room, when Professor Swing joined 
 us. He was always a very jolly comrade, but that night he 
 was in high glee. "In the street car in which I came to 
 the meeting," he quietly remarked in the dry and delib- 
 erate manner that he made so effective, "Leonard Swett 
 
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 and Emory Storrs were seated opposite me. They were 
 eagerly discussing what constituted eloquence and both 
 oi them agreed that no man could be truly eloquent 
 unless he were a person of the highest moral character." 
 
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 A SIDE from the effort to keep the ckib rooms for the 
 / % exclusive use of its members and their non-resi- 
 JL jL. dent male guests, as related in the last chapter, 
 the season of 1 877-1 878 was marked by few incidents out 
 of the ordinary. The meetings were very well attended, 
 and, on those devoted to business, the discussions, which 
 were always good-natured, were made highly enjoyable 
 by the witty sallies for which they gave opportunities 
 that some of the members were ever quick to seize. In 
 particular Edward Mason and his brother Alfred, or Fred 
 as we familiarly called him, James Norton, Henry Hun- 
 tington, Brooke Herford, and Dr. Charles Oilman Smith 
 were always keenly alert, and their clever bons mots added 
 much gayety to sessions that might otherwise have been 
 somewhat dull and uninteresting, for in those days it 
 will be remembered, the fourth Monday evening of each 
 month was set aside for the business of the club, and the 
 eating of a collation — no literary exercises being sched- 
 uled. 
 
 On the other evenings the quality of the literary work 
 was in the main excellent, and some of it extremely good. 
 Even after the lapse of forty-six years, the writer still 
 retains a vivid recollection of the effect upon the audi- 
 ence of the exquisitely delightful phrasing and telling 
 comment that distinguished Major Huntington's essay 
 entitled "A Predecessor of Tennyson." Almost equally 
 electrifying was William Macdonell's paper on "Utilitari- 
 
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 anism." Macdonell was a young Englishman of marked 
 literary ability. His clear grip upon his subject and his 
 forceful and effective presentation of it and of its implica- 
 tions as they were then understood, made a most fav^orable 
 impression upon all those who heard him. 
 
 Another paper read during that season also made a 
 deep impression, though of another sort. In the memory 
 of those who listened to it — of whom, besides myself, 
 only Joseph Adams, Alfred Bishop Mason, and Clarence 
 Burley are now living — it seems almost as fantastic as 
 the preamble to the famous draft of the proposed con- 
 stitution that we cannot think of without mirth. "The 
 New Epic," however, for such was its title, was not 
 mirth provoking. It was merely a feeble attempt at fine 
 writing, and, unless my recollection is grievously at fault 
 it lacked both coherency and lucidity. When it was read 
 it aroused no sensation save weariness. The real sensa- 
 tion came a little later when the putative author was 
 sued by a young man — s. former clerk in his law office — 
 for his compensation for helping to write it! Whether he 
 won his suit I do not know, but the defendant was never 
 afterward asked to write another paper for the club. This 
 incident, it should be said, has no parallel in our history. 
 
 At the annual election on June lo, 1878, Edward Gay 
 Mason was chosen president for the ensuing season. His 
 inaugural address delivered at the annual dinner on the 
 24th of the same month is a masterpiece, from which, if 
 only to show the charm of his style and the appropriate- 
 ness of his subject matter, I cannot forbear somewhat 
 extended quotation. It ought, indeed, to be printed in full. 
 Premising that it might be suitable to the occasion to 
 
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 dwell for awhile upon the history of other literary clubs, 
 "about which cluster such memories as we would like our 
 own to be," he spoke first of reputed clubs of high antiq- 
 uity, then turned to the parent of all true literary clubs, 
 that which met at the Mermaid Tavern in the days of 
 good Queen Bess, a "goodlie companie" in which he said, 
 "the idea of an association of authors and men of literary 
 taste, of lovers of books and of good fellowship was per- 
 fected and left as an example for those who came after." 
 
 Then with a passing reference to the famous Kit Kat 
 Club where Addison and Dick Steele and Congreve, and 
 George the First's witty physician Sir Samuel Garth were 
 wont to disport themselves; and telling an entertaining 
 anecdote about the Beef Steak Club of the Georgian 
 era, he proceeded to give a more extended account of the 
 most celebrated of all literary clubs, the one founded in 
 1764 by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the original title of which 
 we have adopted with only the addition of the word 
 "Chicago." 
 
 "First known" — I now quote Mr. Mason's words — 
 "simply as 'The Club' or 'The Turk's Head Club,' from 
 the tavern in which it had its Monday evening meetings; 
 at David Garrick's funeral it took the name of 'The 
 Literary Club.' Goldsmith had not published his more 
 important works when he was admitted as the friend of 
 Johnson. He came unwillingly and felt that he had sacri- 
 ficed something for the sake of good company, because, 
 he said, it shut him out of several places where he used 
 to play the fool very agreeably. This diversion, however, 
 was still afforded him, as he soon came to entertain and 
 astonish the Literary Club with his favorite song about 
 
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 an old woman tossed in a blanket seventeen times higher 
 than the moon. It was of this club that Garrick briskly 
 said, 'I like it much, I think I shall be of you,' and John- 
 son growled in reply, 'He'll be of us! How does he know 
 we will /)t'rw/7 him?' and it was long before he would let 
 his little David in. Here too the old lexicographer coined 
 those useful words *clubable' and 'unclubable,' and de- 
 fined a club to be 'an assembly of good fellows meeting 
 under certain conditions.' The members were proficient 
 in the noble art of blackballing, which is another proof 
 o{ 0U7' kinship with it. At one session Lord Chancellor 
 Camden and the Bishop of Chester were both excluded. 
 The Bishop of St. x'\saph, who at the same time safely ran 
 the gauntlet, might well say that 'the honor of being 
 elected to this club is not inferior to that of being the 
 representative of Westminster or Surrey.' The unlucky 
 Goldsmith suggested an increase of their number be- 
 cause they had travelled over each others' minds, and 
 was promptly silenced by Johnson's 'Sir! You have not 
 travelled over my mind! I promise you!' How worthily 
 the list was afterward filled, witness such members as 
 Sir William Jones, Adam Smith, Sheridan, Canning, Hal- 
 lam, and Macaulay. And when, in 1864, its centennial was 
 celebrated, Dean Milman in the chair, there gathered to 
 do it honor, those who bore the noblest and best names 
 in England." 
 
 After quoting Macaulay's immortal description of the 
 club. Mason went on to say : "It was fitting that Johnson 
 should be in the front of this picture, for in that assem- 
 blage he overshadowed all the rest. And he is today the 
 central figure in literary club life. Fitting too was it, that 
 
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 at the hundredth anniversary of this famous association, 
 its ancient name should be exchanged for that of Johnson, 
 by which it is still known. In its long history we may find 
 much to admire and to imitate. In some matters we have 
 already followed its example, in its exclusiveness, in its 
 Monday evening meetings, in its first designation. And 
 perhaps the time may come when it shall seem good 
 to make it once more our exemplar — and change our 
 name." 
 
 The pertinency of much that Mason said in this sketch 
 of the club of which Samuel Johnson was the most salient 
 personality was due in part to the general recognition by 
 his hearers of the difficulty of gaining admission to our 
 club. The Bishop of St. Asaph's exclamation might well 
 have been paraphrased by many of our members, so 
 highly was the honor of being elected to it then regarded. 
 And Dr. Johnson's comment upon Garrick's utterance 
 brought to mind an incident that was still fresh in the 
 memory of most of Mason's audience. Not long before, a 
 gentleman who was well and favorably known to many 
 of our members, though his name had not been presented 
 as a candidate for admission, incautiously let it be known 
 that he "intended to join The Chicago Literary Club." It 
 is perhaps needless to add that he didn't. Indeed, it may 
 be doubted whether there was any man living so distin- 
 guished that he would have had any chance of being 
 admitted had he made such a statement before he had 
 been invited to join. And it was an unwritten rule that 
 no one who declined to become a member after having 
 been elected, should ever be given another opportunity. 
 
 During the season that came to an end with the annual 
 
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 dinner when Mr. Mason was inaugurated, only nine can- 
 didates successfully passed the ordeal of the ballot box. 
 All of the nine became valued members of the club. Who 
 among those that knew them can forget the dynamic per- 
 sonality of General William E. Strong; or the magnetic 
 charm of the gifted but constitutionally weak and irre- 
 sponsible yet altogether lovable Tom Grover; or the bril- 
 liant attainments and eminent clubableness of Melville 
 Weston Fuller — Mel. Fuller he was to us before he became 
 the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court? 
 Who does not recall the solid worth of Charles Hitch- 
 cock and Edwin Holmes Sheldon, of Selim H. Peabody 
 and Ephraim Allen Otis; the genial bearing of Lawrence 
 Earle, of William G. McMillan as he was during the 
 first years of his membership, and of Colonel Augustus 
 Jacobson? 
 
 During the next year, that of Mr. Mason's administra- 
 tion, sixteen were admitted. Some of them never became 
 closely identified with the club, but among those who did 
 there were several whose names evoke precious memories. 
 W'illiam Kelly Ackerman and W^illiam LeBaron Jenney, 
 both active members for many years, made the mis- 
 take of resigning when untoward circumstances prevented 
 them from coming to the meetings so frequently as had 
 been their habit; but Albert A. Sprague and Eliphalet 
 W. Blatchford, though they seldom found it possible to 
 attend, never fiagged in their devotion so long as they 
 lived. Equally faithful were Azel F. Hatch and the Rev. 
 Dr. Galusha Anderson, both familiar and welcome figures 
 at our Monday evening gatherings. So also, were Fred- 
 erick Wilcox Clarke and the Rev. Arthur Little, and 
 
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 sorry we were when they were called away to the East. 
 Neither one of them ever forgot the pleasant companion- 
 ship they found at our meetings. Often have I heard them, 
 and other non-resident members as well, say this was the 
 thing they most regretted and most deeply missed in 
 leaving our city. Without doubt it is this feeling that has 
 kept so many of our members loyal throughout the 
 passing years. 
 
 The season of 1 878-1 879 was not an eventful one. It 
 was chiefly notable for the excellence of the papers read at 
 the meetings, and for the steady growth of the club feel- 
 ing and of the spirit of fellowship among the members. 
 Toward the end of the year we were greatly grieved by 
 the death of William Macdonell which we all felt was a 
 great loss to the club. The annual dinner was to have 
 been held on the fourth Monday in June, but, as Dr. 
 William Frederick Poole, the president-elect, had, before 
 he was nominated for the office, engaged to deliver an 
 address in Boston on that date, his inaugural was post- 
 poned until the first meeting in the autumn. The advan- 
 tages of having it at the beginning instead of at the end 
 of the season were so obvious that once the change was 
 made it established a precedent from which we have not 
 since departed. 
 
 Dr. Poole had often urged that it is a great mistake to 
 read an address, since one can keep in touch with his audi- 
 ence much better if he merely talks without manuscript or 
 notes. His inaugural, when he was to speak of the club 
 itself to the members who formed a group of his closest 
 friends, seemed a fitting time to put his views to a prac- 
 tical test. But, knowing the difficulty of pleasing such 
 
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 a critical audience unless every word were carefully 
 weighed, every phrase neatly turned, and his thoughts 
 arranged in orderly sequence, he wrote his address and 
 committed it to memory. When the dinner was over and 
 he rose to deliver his message he felt well prepared. But he 
 had progressed only a little way when his mind suddenly 
 became a blank, and, after vainly trying during a few very 
 protracted and painful minutes to remember anything he 
 intended saying, he had to sit down. Fortunately he had 
 brought his manuscript with him, so the interruption was 
 not of long duration; but it greatly amused his fellow 
 members that this experience should come to such an 
 old campaigner as Dr. Poole. 
 
 In March, 1880, we were deeply grieved by the death 
 of a member who had won the affection of every one who 
 knew him. Among all of the young men who had come 
 to Chicago to make their homes in the city, few if any, 
 had attracted more favorable attention in a few years 
 than had Cecil Barnes. This was not because of promi- 
 nence in business, for he was not what is ordinarily known 
 as a business man. After a brilliant record in college he 
 came here and established a select school for boys at 
 Chicago Avenue and North State Street. He was a born 
 teacher and the community as well as the club suffered a 
 great loss when he was stricken down. His manly bearing 
 and the inflexible strength of his character, combined with 
 his unusually winning personality, highly cultivated 
 mind, and sensitive appreciation of all that is finest and 
 best in literature, art, and every form of human endeavor, 
 made a deep impression upon all who came in contact 
 with him. 
 
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 Perhaps the most memorable event during the year 
 of Dr. Poole's administration was the ladies' night on 
 March 30, 1880, when Edward Mason waived his objec- 
 tion to the feminine invasion of the sacred precincts of 
 the club rooms and read his now widely-known historical 
 paper on "Old Fort Chartres." The rooms were specially 
 dressed up for the occasion and upon the walls a loan 
 collection of paintings and engravings by distinguished 
 artists was hung. This meeting and the four succeed- 
 ing ones were held upon Tuesday evenings. The change 
 was made because of the great annoyance caused by the 
 marching and countermarching of the members of St. 
 Bernard Commandery A. F. & A. M. whose drill hall was 
 on the floor above us, directly over our rooms. Earlier in 
 our tenancy we had not been troubled, probably because 
 the drilling was not done on Monday evenings. But now 
 the drill corps was making a great effort to be so well 
 trained that it might capture the first prize in a forth- 
 coming contest with other commanderies. Except for the 
 ladies' night when seventy-five members and as many 
 guests were present, the change to Tuesday evenings for 
 our meetings did not prove a happy one. The attendance 
 dropped to less than a third of the usual number despite 
 the fact that the essayists were popular favorites. It was 
 decided therefore to change back to Monday evenings. As 
 our lease had already been renewed for another year it 
 was necessary to put up with the infliction during the next 
 season, but to bear with it longer than that was quite out 
 of the question. Accordingly, when the annual election 
 had been held, the new committee on rooms and finance, 
 of which Bryan Lathrop was made the chairman, was 
 
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 charged with the duty of finding more suitable quarters 
 for our occupancy a year later. At this election the Rev. 
 Brooke Herford was chosen to he the president, and the 
 writer of this chronicle was constituted the recording 
 secretary and treasurer. 
 
 The opening paragraphs of Mr. Herford's discourse 
 will serve in a way to put before the present-day members 
 one of the brightest and most entertaining men among all 
 the "goodlie companie" of those whose names fill our rolls. 
 Dr. Hyde's afl^ectionate tribute to him as "that prince of 
 all club-presidents, our well-beloved Brooke Herford," 
 was well deserved. 
 
 "Gentlemen of the Literary Club," he said, "I welcome 
 you back tonight to these classic halls, to our literary 
 pleasures, and to our simple repasts. I am proud that it 
 falls to me to give you this welcome. We gather here for 
 many pleasant hours when wit shall season wisdom. And 
 why not? The pilgrims to Canterbury beguiled the way 
 with jests and tales. The pilgrims to Jerusalem are said 
 to have 'boiled theirpeas.' And pilgrims to New England, 
 with a subtle historical parallelism, 'baked their beans'; 
 yet they never lost sight of life's serious end ; and so I take 
 it there is always an earnest purpose at the heart even of 
 our lightest moods." 
 
 His second paragraph gives a picture of the Chicago 
 of forty-four years ago as it appeared to a cultured En- 
 glishman. 
 
 "There is something peculiarly interesting in the work 
 of a literary club in a busy city like this. Leisure may 
 almost be said to be one of the 'lost arts' in America. If 
 it is ever to be recovered, it will not be by scolding at men's 
 
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 absorption in business but by interesting them in some- 
 thing higher. Everything which disciplines the intellect, 
 everything which quickens the imagination, everything 
 which deepens and widens men's interest in this great 
 world, is helping to mould into nobler caliber the ^coming 
 race' of the West. At present this life is raw and bare. 
 Newspapers diffuse a certain conventional readiness, but 
 with little actual culture. Said a friend to one of our Chi- 
 cago belles, just returned from Rome and talking glibly 
 about Italian art, 'Did you see anything of the old mas- 
 ters?' 'O yes,' was the reply, 'and I took lessons from one 
 of them!' " 
 
 This anecdote is not exactly new today, but it was then. 
 From the earliest days of the club it was an unwritten law 
 that whatever degree of sobriety should mark the papers 
 read at ordinary meetings, the annual and other dinners 
 should largely be given over to fun. The memorable 
 dinner, only four days later than the annual reunion when 
 Mr. Herford was inaugurated, was no exception, though, 
 as the occasion demanded, the addresses were not all 
 facetious. In the autumn of 1880, Thomas Hughes, 
 who was deeply interested in an English settlement at 
 Rugby, Tennessee, was making his second visit to the 
 United States. Learning that he would be in Chicago for a 
 few days, the club invited him to dine with its members at 
 the Grand Pacific Hotel on the evening of Monday, Octo- 
 ber 8, and the invitation was accepted. The dinner was one 
 of the notable events in the club's history. Seventy-seven 
 members gathered to do honor to the distinguished author. 
 President Herford made a short opening speech and was 
 followed by Edward Mason — but let me quote the ac-
 
 Dinner to Thomas Hughes 
 
 count of his speech given by Dr. Hytle in a paper he read 
 when we celebrated our twenty-fifth anniversary in 1899. 
 
 "I thought of one of our famous dinners year before 
 last when I stood in the quaint old church in Chester, 
 before the modest brass that commemorates the virtues of 
 Thomas Hughes. As I read the inscription my thoughts 
 reverted to the dinner we gave him when he was in our 
 city, and to Brooke Herford who presided on that occa- 
 sion with so much grace and dignity, and to Ned Mason 
 who made the address of welcome with his usual happy 
 effect. As the names of the boys who figure in 'Tom 
 Brown at Rugby' rolled from his tongue with surprising 
 glibness, one would have thought he had been playing 
 football with them during the week preceding, but many 
 of us believe he had been sitting up half the night before 
 and cramming on them. In fact their recital quite took 
 away Mr. Hughes' breath. 'Gentlemen,' he said when he 
 arose, his fresh English face beaming with pleasure, while 
 his hand played incessantly with the napkin on the table 
 before him, as if from it he would gather the strength to 
 overbear his modesty, 'Gentlemen, I confess to you that 
 I had quite forgotten the names that have been recalled 
 to me in the language of the gentleman who has just wel- 
 comed me to your hospitality.' " 
 
 At the October business meeting Mr. Lathrop reported 
 that arrangements had been made to lease rooms for the 
 club on the fourth floor of Portland Block, southeast cor- 
 ner of Dearborn and Washington streets, for a term of five 
 years from May 1,1881, and that with the consent of the 
 owners of the building, the rooms would be connected by 
 dumb waiter with Kinsley's restaurant in the building 
 
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 adjoining at the east. A more favorable location could not 
 have been selected. As the new quarters involved the pay- 
 ment of a two thousand dollars rental, orjust about double 
 the cost of occupying the rooms in the American Express 
 Company building, a sixty per cent increase in the dues 
 became necessary and they were accordingly raised from 
 fifteen dollars a year to twenty-four. But even after 
 the advance was made they cannot be said to have been 
 high. 
 
 As Dr. Hyde pointed out in the paper from which sev- 
 eral quotations have already been made, "Up to the time 
 when Mr. Herford became our president it had been a sort 
 of fad for members to write, not of what they knew most, 
 but rather of some surprising bit of work which they had 
 done in a quiet way outside of their daily vocations.The 
 ideal of those days, I am quite sure, was the dropping of 
 ^shop' when inside of the club walls. Thus a judge of one 
 of our courts wrote upon 'The Resurrection'; a clergy- 
 man who had never known much of bodily suffering wrote 
 about 'Physical Pain'; a nineteenth-century lawyer 
 wrote about 'American Antiquities,' and only Edward 
 Waters, who had impulses in that direction, wrote on 'The 
 Pottery of the Renaissance,' thereby securing for himself 
 the soubriquet of 'Dish-Waters.' Brooke Herford, how- 
 ever, gave the club a turn in quite another direction when 
 he asked every man to write on the work in which he was 
 most busily engaged. From that time on, members have 
 felt free to write on the subjects that chiefly interested 
 them." 
 
 Apropos of this, it is worthy of note that the good 
 doctor, though he took Mr. Herford's prescription once, 
 
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 Notable Papers 
 
 and brought forth a paper on "National Traits in Medi- 
 cine," always thereafter carefully avoided another dose. 
 That the club was a gainer can hardly be doubted, since 
 instead of the brilliant historical essays, distinguished 
 by imaginative insight, felicitous phrasing, and effective 
 presentation of facts, with which he so often delighted 
 us, it is conceivable that we might have been beguiled 
 into listening to a paper — ^I am tempted to say a super- 
 ficial paper but, having regard for the doctor's deservedly 
 high professional reputation, I refrain — appropriately 
 entitled "Hyde on the Skin." 
 
 As a veracious historian I must chronicle that despite 
 Mr. Herford's urging there was little shop-talk during his 
 administration. There was, however, an abundant literary 
 feast. Conspicuous among the papers read during the year 
 was one by Henry T, Steele entitled "The Deformed 
 Spelling," a witty and telling assault upon the departures 
 from orthodox English orthography that had then begun 
 to appear and obtain currency, which kept us laughing 
 and applauding from the opening sentence until the very 
 end. Had we then established the custom of printing club 
 papers it is highly probable that this would have been 
 one of those selected. 
 
 Other papers of this year that attracted much atten- 
 tion at the time they were read, were Judge Charles B. 
 Lawrence's essay on "Gouverneur Morris," and Alfred 
 Bishop Mason's "A Man and his Money; a Moral Novel- 
 ette." Encouraged by its reception in the club. Mason 
 offered his paper to "the squeamish Atlantic Monthly" 
 as Major Huntingdon called it. Mr. Howells who was then 
 the editor declined it with thanks. Happening to meet him 
 
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 not long after, Huntington asked how he happened to 
 refuse such a moral production. "It was too moral," was 
 the response. 
 
 As the spring of 1881 drew near the preparations for 
 the May moving kept Mr. Lathrop and his associates on 
 the rooms and finance committee very busy. To have the 
 new quarters ready for occupancy with as little delay as 
 possible after taking possession required careful planning. 
 Because of the large size of two of the rooms carpets for 
 them had to be woven to order and ordered a long while 
 in advance to get the color we wanted. Draperies for the 
 windows and some doorways also had to be in readiness 
 to put up when we moved in. For the reading room a large 
 round table was specially designed and built. It had a 
 circumvallation of triangular box-like receptacles just 
 beneath the top, to store back numbers of periodicals. 
 This table was a prominent feature in our rooms until 
 the year 1904. When the first of May came around it was 
 necessary to omit one meeting, but by the end of another 
 week the walls of the Portland Block rooms had been 
 tastefully papered, the carpets had been laid, the draper- 
 ies hung, and the furniture put in place, and on the eve- 
 ning of Monday, May 9, fifty-three members gathered to 
 survey our new home and to listen to a paper on "Army 
 Experiences" by General Martin D Hardin. 
 
 In these very pleasant, centrally located and com- 
 modious rooms the club remained for five years, until the 
 expiration of its lease, and it vacated them with regret, but 
 was obliged to leave as the building had been sold and 
 the new owner was waiting for us to "move out so that 
 he might remodel the story we occupied and add two 
 
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 more above it. The assembly room was at the east side 
 and extended through it from north to south. It was 
 lighted by a skylight and by two windows at the north 
 end. The platform was placed at the north end. Adjoining 
 this room to the west on the Washington Street side was an 
 ample coat room. Beyond that was a large supper room, 
 with storage closets and a pantry. Further along in the 
 northwest corner of the building was the large reading 
 room. This extended about half way down the Dearborn 
 Street front. Except for three small offices in the south- 
 west corner, we occupied the entire floor, including the 
 corridor along the central light shaft. 
 
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 THE influence of agreeable surroundings is not 
 negligible. To say that the club took on new life 
 when it moved into the rooms in Portland Block 
 would imply too much; but certain it is that it steadily 
 grew stronger and became more firmly intrenched in its 
 hold upon its members as long as it remained in those 
 quarters. 
 
 Perusal of the records of the five years calls up mem- 
 ories of many brilliant papers, so many indeed that it 
 would be difficult to pass over them without particular 
 mention did I not realize the impossibility of putting 
 these memories into concrete form. A few events, how- 
 ever, stand out so clearly as to be worth recounting. 
 
 For the season of 1 881-1882 Edwin Channing Earned 
 was chosen to be our president. He was a man whom we all 
 looked up to and loved and revered. No other citizen was 
 held in greater esteem in the community. In all that goes 
 to make a man he measured up to the highest standard, 
 and when in September, 1884, he left us forever it was 
 truly said of him that his life had been a benediction. 
 George Howland was our next president in 1882-1883. 
 He also had a deep hold upon our affections and upon 
 our admiration and respect. His unfailing good nature, 
 scholarly attainments, and unassuming manner endeared 
 him to us all. So clubable was he, and so much was he a 
 part of the club during its first eighteen years that it is 
 impossible to think of it as it was then without bringing 
 
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 Dinner to SEYiMouR Haden 
 
 him well in the foreground of the mental picture. He 
 signaled his term of office by attending every meeting 
 during the year. No previous incumbent of the presidency 
 had achieved this distinction; but he set an example that 
 most of his successors have endeavored to emulate. 
 
 One of the notable events of Mr. Rowland's adminis- 
 tration was a dinner and reception to Francis Seymour 
 Haden, on December 9, 1882. I remember that Mr. 
 Howland made a very gracious and effective address of 
 welcome to which Mr. Haden responded most happily. 
 Other speeches followed. Dr. Hyde who was one of the 
 speakers has set down his recollections of these. "Some of 
 us who were of Mr. Haden's profession were asked to say 
 a few words. Naturally Dr. Charlie Smith was among the 
 number. We felt a trifle of reserve in the presence of 
 the eminent etcher. But Smith was equal to the occasion. 
 He described in an airy way the progress and develop- 
 ment of the artistic ideal in the home of the Western man 
 from the period of the chromo first seen in the parlor, to 
 that of its gradual progression to the bedroom floor and 
 finally to the attic. It was brightly and cleverly done and 
 Mr. Haden laughed heartily at the doctor's hits." 
 
 Mr. Rowland's successor was Major Henry Alonzo 
 Huntington who was our president in 1 883-1 884. To pic- 
 ture Harry Huntington to those who have not had the 
 pleasure of knowing him would be an impossible task. 
 Among all of our members he alone at that time was a 
 gentleman of means and leisure. In the Civil War he had 
 distinguished himself by his bravery and his soldierly 
 qualities. When the war was over he remained for some 
 years in the army. Then he resigned his commission and 
 
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 turned to literary occupations, but, having a fortune suffi- 
 cient for his needs, which were not extravagant, he lacked 
 incentive to sustained effort and became a typical dilet- 
 tante. No man ever had keener enjoyment of neatly turned 
 phrases, and he was fond of juggling with words when he 
 felt disposed to make the effort. His strong sense of humor 
 and flashing wit made him a most agreeable companion, 
 though his inability to resist an opportunity to say a good 
 thing, let it hit wherever it might, sometimes alienated 
 those who failed to perceive that his witticisms were all 
 pure fun and quite free from any trace of malice. It must 
 be said that they did occasionally hurt. But, be it said, he 
 never minded a joke at his own expense and could enjoy 
 it quite as heartily as if another were the victim. His 
 greatestweakness was his pride in his own bons mots which 
 he relished so greatly that he could not resist retelling 
 them afterward. It is easy to forgive him, however, for 
 many of them were clever enough to be worth repeating. 
 And we were proud of him as a member and fond of him 
 as a friend. A few phrases extracted from his inaugural 
 address will perhaps serve to introduce him. Note care- 
 fully the sequence of ideas in the opening paragraphs. 
 This was the way he began. 
 
 "At the last meeting of the club, when I arose to make 
 a few remarks complimentary to my predecessor — and to 
 myself — I said, 'This is the supreme moment of my life.' 
 It was a mistake. This is the supreme moment. 
 
 "Nine years' service in the army left me thirty years 
 from a full majority. Nine years ago I enlisted in this club 
 and tonight I am the commander-in-chief. Four essays 
 and a dozen lesser contributions have done more for me 
 
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 Huntington's Inaugural 
 
 than as many pitched battles and skirmishes. 'Beneath 
 the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than 
 the sword.' 
 
 "The first essay to which, in the autumn oi i^74, 
 I listened as a member of this club, I afterward had the 
 pleasure to read in a. magazine of earlier date, tor I am 
 ever behind with the periodicals and always lisp in back 
 numbers. It was signed, I regret to say, with a name other 
 than that of the member whose gracekil periods had been 
 my envy and despair. From that time until the present 
 there has been no more constant attendant upon our meet- 
 ings than myself." 
 
 Despite the implication of the last sentence, it may 
 safely be said that the post hoc ergo propter hoc sugges- 
 tion does not really explain the frequency of his attend- 
 ance. But Huntington was not always flippant, and these 
 words which occur further along in his address are well 
 worthy of our attention: 
 
 "Hitherto it has been the custom for incoming presi- 
 dents to prophesy a golden future for the club; briefly to 
 describe its ideal library, to gaze in imagination upon 
 its admirable collection of pictures and statuary, and to 
 dream of the stately building which should contain all this 
 magnificence. The oracles have deceived us. Ten years 
 have brought none of these splendors. Be mine the task 
 to point out some of the advantages we already enjoy." 
 
 These he proceeded to set forth. His descriptions, 
 though diverting are too long to quote; but not the sum- 
 ming up: "For my part I am content with what we have. 
 The vision of a tall club-house where a thousand members 
 shall grow indifl^erent to each other has no charms tor 
 
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 me. Better the half Bohemian hfe we have thus far led 
 together, with its merry unconsciousness of Newton's law, 
 with its friendly emulation, its gentle companionships." 
 
 And what could be more beautiful than the tribute, 
 which in his closing words he paid to the memory of Judge 
 Lawrence, whose death a few months earlier had brought 
 grief to our hearts. "We begin," he said, "to have our 
 memories too. Of my nine predecessors two have carried 
 the banner of the club into Eastern lands." These were 
 Mr. CoUyer who had moved to New York several years 
 before, and Mr. Herford whose departure from Chicago in 
 June, 1882, caused such keen regret to his many friends 
 and admirers in the club that it found expression in a 
 resolution spread upon the records of the meeting at which 
 they bade him good bye. "And," Huntington went on to 
 say, "one has left us forever. Sweet to us all is the recol- 
 lection of perhaps the only man we knew whose dignity 
 was of that sort, serene and rare, which needed no asser- 
 tion because it rested on a noble life." 
 
 The season of 1 883-1 884 when Huntington was the 
 president, was one of the most enjoyable we have ever 
 had. It was marked by the large attendance at the meet- 
 ings, the excellence of the papers, and the enthusiasm 
 of the members, of whom there were two hundred and 
 thirty-five on the resident list at the end of the year. 
 It will always be a season memorable in the annals of 
 the club because of the dinner to Matthew Arnold on 
 January 19, 1884, and the famous newspaper hoax that 
 was its sequel. The dinner was attended by eighty-three 
 of our members, and was a delightful affair. President 
 Huntington made the address of welcome to which Mr. 
 
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 The Matthew Arnold Hoax 
 
 Arnold made a gracious response. Then Edward Mason 
 and Franklin Mac\'^eagh followed with speeches in their 
 happiest style. The hoax which was perpetrated in April, 
 after Mr. Arnoltl had returned to England, was conceived 
 and in large part executed by one of our members who is 
 still on the resident list. It was a brilliant performance 
 cleverly designed to trip up The Chicago Tribune, which, 
 for some time previously, had been suspected by jour- 
 nalists on the stafl'of The Chicago Daily News of appro- 
 priating without acknowledgment special dispatches 
 printed in the earliest edition of The New York Trib- 
 une. What purported to be an article contributed by Mr. 
 Arnold to The Pall Mall Gazette was concocted by our 
 member who displayed much ingenuity in imitating the 
 eminent English author's literary style. It is too long to 
 be reprinted here in full, but the following extracts have 
 such literary distinction as well as pertinency that they 
 should not be left out of a history of the club. 
 
 "That which most impressed me during my stay in 
 Chicago, as well as in other American cities of the larger 
 sort which I visited, was a certain assumption of culture, 
 which, upon close observation, I found to be very super- 
 ficially varnished over a very solid basis of Philistinism. 
 This affectation of concern for the things of the spirit, 
 which may very easily be seen to be nothing more than 
 an affectation, is chiefly observed in its aesthetic aspect. 
 Of ethical culture there is hardly any pretense. From 
 sheer stress of habit the members of the clergy dispense 
 from the pulpit their weekly modicum of diluted morali- 
 ties, and from sheer force of fashion the more respectable 
 classes of the population give apparent heed to what is 
 
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 said to them. But it would be safe to say that the con- 
 dition of the trade in tinned meats, or in pork, or in grain 
 has the largest share of their thoughts, even during the 
 hour of ostensible devotion. The inevitable curse of the 
 money-getting spirit is writ large, as it were, in the 
 action of this population of half a million souls. It is an 
 easy matter to know the heart of such a community as 
 this, when its actions are so open to the view of all men. 
 "During my stay in Chicago I attended a very pleas- 
 ant little reception given by the Literary Club of that 
 city. I call it the Literary Club because that is the name 
 by which it is known, and not in any way to imply that 
 in so large a city as Chicago there is but one society of 
 that character. I should judge, indeed, that there must 
 be many similar nuclei of persons who are sufficiently 
 released from the demands of the rushing business life of 
 the city to be thus drawn together by the bond of culture, 
 and as far as my recollection serves me the greater num- 
 ber of persons of literary pursuits whom I had the pleasure 
 of meeting were not included among the members of the 
 particular association of which I am speaking. This eve- 
 ning afforded me a curious illustration of that combina- 
 tion in the person of the individual of business ability 
 and cultured tastes which I so often had occasion to note 
 while in the States. A pleasant little paper on the subject 
 of 'Philistinism' was read, and, as the subject is one in 
 which I have taken some interest, I naturally gave it close 
 attention, for which I felt fully repaid. Wishing to learn 
 the profession of the gentleman who had so intelligently 
 handled the subject, I made inquiry of a friend, who 
 informed me that the essayist was the owner of a large 
 
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 grocery business. I learned also, upon making further 
 inquiry, that besides members of the clergy and of the 
 legal profession, whom I should naturally expect to find 
 in such a society as this, there was a very large element 
 consisting of successful tradesmen, such as mercers, iron- 
 mongers, and packers, which latter term is applied to 
 dealers in the class of food products derived from the hog. 
 "I was especially interested at Chicago, as I was 
 throughout my stay in America, in observing the various 
 religious bodies and in trying to get some insight into 
 their spiritual life. . . . I attended one Sunday morning 
 the chapel in which services are conducted by one of the 
 most popular of the dissenting ministers of Chicago." 
 This minister, it maybe remarked in passing, was David 
 Swing, who had entertained Mr. Arnold at a dinner party 
 when he was in Chicago. "The chapel was really nothing 
 else than the large hall in which most of the more impor- 
 tant concerts and lectures are given, and in which I had 
 myself lectured but a few nights before. The audience in 
 attendance upon this service seemed to be made up of a 
 well-to-do and intelligent class of people, and I afterward 
 learned that regular attendance here stands in Chicago as 
 a sign of cultured taste. So when afterward I tried to put 
 my recollections together in some sort ol order, I came 
 to the conclusion that from all I had heard I should be 
 justified in assuming the tone of the services to be fairly 
 typical of the ideal of culture prevailing in Chicago. I 
 heard so much of the language of culture in the higher 
 classes of Chicago society that I was almost prepared to 
 admit that I had been unjustly prejudiced in the state- 
 ments which I have made from time to time concerning 
 
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 America: but if the discourse to which I listened on the 
 morning of which I speak stands in any way as an expres- 
 sion of the Chicago ideal of culture, that ideal is, I regret 
 to say, a low one. I shall venture to say that it is chiefly 
 lacking in definition of aim, and yet, alas, I know how 
 little right I have to indulge in such a criticism, for have 
 I not been accused of being sadly to seek, myself, in *a 
 philosophy with coherent interdependent, subordinate, 
 and derivative principles?' There was something quite 
 pathetic to me in the thought that this discourse, with 
 its dreary waste of unctuous commonplace, its diluted 
 rhetoric, and its judgments, many of them so ludicrously 
 commonplace, should be to such an audience as I saw 
 about me, the embodiment of cultured thought, and from 
 time to time I could not help thinking that Philistinism 
 in its frank English expression was a less unpleasant 
 sight than was afforded by the thinly-disguised Philis- 
 tinism which was here imposing on itself and making 
 pretense of culture. 
 
 "Chicago society, I should say, although no one can be 
 more painfully aware than myself of how inadequate were 
 my opportunities for observation, has just reached the 
 stage of development at which the incompleteness of the 
 commercial ideal of life is beginning to make itself keenly 
 felt and is somewhat uncertainly groping in search of the 
 larger and finer things whose existence it dimly appre- 
 hends. But it has not yet reached the stage of clear dis- 
 cernment and is easily satisfied with the appearance of 
 culture, even if the substance be wanting. . . . The 
 prevailing attitude of Chicago society toward things of 
 culture has about it an air of patronage. It seems to say: 
 
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 MAJOR HENRY ALOXZO HUNTINGTON
 
 "The Tribune's Heavy Fall" 
 
 'These things are desirable, and we will make them the 
 fashion.' All that need be done is to build costly chapels, 
 to purchase expensive pictures, to make the concert and 
 the opera places ot fashionable resort. How different is 
 this from the humble attitude of the one who knows that 
 to be genuine it must grow up silently with the life. 'The 
 Kingdom of God cometh not with observation.' Nor, I 
 fear, will the sweetness and light of the cultured life come 
 to Chicago at the beck of the rich man." 
 
 It was arranged by the conspirators that this should 
 be printed in just one copy of the earliest edition of The 
 New York Tribune on Sunday, April 6, 1884, and that this 
 copy should get into the hands of the New York repre- 
 sentative of The Chicago Tribune. Naturally he lost no 
 time in telegraphing such a choice morsel to this city, 
 and it appeared in the next morning's paper adorned with 
 the headlines: 
 
 MATTHEW ARNOLD 
 
 England's incomparable egotist gives a few 
 
 OF HIS impressions OF CHICAGO 
 
 SURPRISE AND CHAGRIN 
 
 THAT COMMERCIAL MEN SHOULD INVADE 
 
 THE REALM OF CULTURE 
 
 The Statements made were so sensational that repor- 
 ters were sent out to interview many prominent citizens, 
 and among them several members of this club. Few of 
 them, alas, recognized the spurious character of the 
 
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 article. As Major Huntington wrote, fifteen years later, 
 "McClurg should have been the historian of this episode. 
 He alone in a trying moment faced the interviewer with- 
 out loss of self-command, and stood by the apostle of 
 sweetness and light whom Poole had bitterly denounced." 
 David Swing was among those whose comments were 
 printed the next morning. "I do not care to say much," 
 he answered the interviewer; but he did, and at the end 
 remarked: "The Pall Mall letter reminds one of that lim- 
 burger cheese which Mark Twain traveled with. Its won- 
 derful odor coming from a hidden cause led the brakeman 
 to remark: 'Not much heliotrope in the air.' All one can 
 say is that Matthew Arnold carries in his soul a limburger 
 cheese that does not resemble the heliotrope." Franklin 
 Head, who was not interviewed, detected the hoax as 
 soon as he read the article, and made a small bet with 
 Nathaniel K. Fairbank that it would turn out to be such. 
 At the meeting of the club held on the evening of the day 
 that the article appeared, Bishop Fallows expressed the 
 opinion that it was probably a hoax. Thereupon Slason 
 Thompson rose, and, without cracking a smile, called 
 attention to the fact that although The Tribune pre- 
 tended to have received the article from London, it was 
 not mentioned in any of the cable dispatches to other 
 newspapers, and that critical examination would reveal 
 many flaws in it. And he pointed out in particular that 
 Mr. Arnold could not be credited with such bad taste as 
 to criticize in harsh terms Professor Swing whose guest 
 he had been. The members present were not surprised 
 therefore, when on the next day The Daily News showed 
 up what was described as "The Tribune's Heavy Fall." 
 
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 Dr. Smith Elected President 
 
 For the presidency during the season of 1 884-1 885 
 David Swing was nominated but because of the preca- 
 rious state of his health he felt obliged to decline, and, 
 much to our regret he could never afterward be persuaded 
 to accept the office, always refusing for the same reason, 
 which, he said, made regular attendance at the meetings 
 quite impossible for him, though he always came when 
 he could and felt able. The choice then fell upon another 
 well-beloved member whom we were glad to honor— Dr. 
 Charles Oilman Smith. Commenting upon this Major 
 Huntington wrote in 1899: "Shortly before his election 
 appeared Gillam's striking caricature of the tattooed 
 man after Gerome's 'Phryne Before the Tribunal.' Of 
 this I was reminded when called upon for an informal 
 account of my stewardship. I vaguely remember saying 
 that the budget had been so adjusted that the burdens of 
 the poor had been borne by the rich and the burdens of 
 the rich had been borne by the poor, and boasting that 
 no candidate for membership had been blackballed be- 
 cause none had passed the committee, which I likened to 
 the landlord who exulted that no guest ever died in his 
 house for the excellent reason that he had always put the 
 sick out on the sidewalk. These remarks were perhaps 
 funnier at the moment than they seem in retrospect, but 
 if I did not deceive myself, the club was somewhat amused 
 when I said: 'Finally we have nominated for president a 
 man, who, if he be tattooed, is so punctuated with bons 
 mots and epigrams that it will always be a pleasure to 
 peruse his person.' " 
 
 One of the meetings during Dr. Smith's administration 
 stands out conspicuously in the club's history. On the 
 
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 evening of December 15, 1884, eighty members gathered 
 to take part in or to listen to the Conversation, never to 
 be forgotten by any one of them — eleven of the number 
 are still living — when James Norton juggled with the 
 question "What Was the Matter with Hamlet?" Charlie 
 Smith, as he was always affectionately called, was in the 
 chair, seated at Norton's right. Well do I remember how 
 Norton turned to Smith "with a face as guileless as one 
 of Raphael's cherubs and asked the chair as a medical 
 man, whether it was not possible that disorders of the liver 
 might be in some way the cause of mental derangement?" 
 We are indebted to Dr. Hyde's excellent memory for the 
 phraseology of this question and the reply of Dr. Smith 
 "who responded rather learnedly that he thought it pos- 
 sible that severe and continued hepatic derangement could 
 lay the foundation for a nervous disturbance which might 
 by accident be precipitated toward the insane state." 
 With imperturbable gravity and slowly measured speech, 
 Norton went on to say that, as the Commentaries of 
 Caesar, with which we are all familiar, declare that "all 
 Gaul is divided into three parts," and as Hamlet had 
 declared that he was "pigeon livered and destitute of 
 gall," he would like to ask the doctor whether, if Hamlet 
 had lost two parts of his gall, might not that explain his 
 insanity? The laugh that followed and that fairly shook 
 the room, was in part only due to Norton's ingenious pun ; 
 it was due in large measure to the stunned expression 
 upon Dr. Smith's face as he gradually grasped the situa- 
 tion and realized the dilemma into which Norton had so 
 dexterously decoyed him. 
 
 From the time when the question of the appropriate- 
 
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 DR. JAMES NEVINS HYDE
 
 A Standing Club )okh 
 
 ness of the name of the ckib was first raised the criticism 
 was often made that although it was called a literary club 
 it had among its members not a single man to whom the 
 designation "literary" could properly be applied. This 
 ignored the fact that the published work of our distin- 
 guished first president had won the admiration ot many 
 thousands of readers; that Major Huntington's only ac- 
 tivity was writing and that the literary quality of all that 
 he wrote insured him a ready market for it; that several 
 of our members earned their living as editorial writers on 
 the staffs of newspapers ; that others were authors of some 
 note, and among these one had written two books that 
 had a large circulation. As Dr. Hyde said some years 
 later: "In thatday the'ClubPapers' were still in embryo; 
 Head had not produced that striking series of historical 
 romances which have since made the name of this club 
 famous the world over; many of the later literary works 
 from the pens of our younger members had not been 
 printed, and the several treatises written chiefly for the 
 learned professions had not seen the light, among which 
 may be named as facile princeps and destined to survive 
 the most of its fellows, 'High on Receivers.' Our one 
 literary man was William Mathews, then the author of 
 'Getting on in the World,' later, of 'Monday Chats.' 
 Many of us remember him as one with a brain stuffed as 
 full as a sausage with miscellaneous odds and ends of 
 literary data and possessed of features that suggested that 
 they had survived a railway accident without attaining 
 that sort of composed expression which results chiefly 
 from a successful suit for damages. No one appreciated 
 more than he any chance reference to his lack of physical 
 
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 comeliness. He used to tell of himself that when barely 
 able to talk, he was one day lost in his native town, and 
 when a stranger asked him what he was called, he prompt- 
 ly responded: 'I am called the mos' boo'ful boy in Bos- 
 ton.'" Here it may be noted that in March, 1899, Mr. 
 Mathews, then in his eighty-first year, wrote the secretary 
 of the club: "I confess that when, in 1880, 1 was contem- 
 plating a removal from the Garden City to the 'Hub,' 
 the one thing which, more than any other, gave me pause 
 — which tugged hardest at my heartstrings — was the 
 thought that I must bid adieu to the Literary Club. Even 
 today, after nineteen years have passed, whenever I re- 
 ceive the Year-Book of the Club, or Memorials of its 
 members, I feel some 'compunctious visitings' regarding 
 the change, and a kind of homesickness unlike any other." 
 
 The saying that our club was a literary club without 
 a literary man in it, after it had been repeated a few times, 
 became a standing joke. Its effect upon an English uni- 
 versity member of parliament, who, on a journey around 
 the world, found himself in Chicago on a Monday even- 
 ing in the spring of 1885 and was brought to the club, 
 was well told by Judge Brown at the celebration of our 
 twenty-fifth anniversary in 1889. 
 
 "Those of you who were present, say fourteen years 
 ago, and heard the little speech made by 'the sitting mem- 
 ber from Cambridge,' will not, I think, fail to be amused 
 by being reminded of it, and I do not think you can have 
 entirely forgotten it. And those of you who are newer and 
 younger members of the club will see that in the 'consul- 
 ship of Plancus' we had things happen unpremeditatedly 
 almost as amusing as those which our admirable exercises 
 
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 Memorable Speech by a Guest 
 
 committee furnished a year or two ago in its carefully 
 prepared art exhibition. The meeting was one of those 
 informal affairs in which all the members were invited to 
 participate in a conversation upon a given topic, and 
 among others, our valued and beloved fellow member 
 Bishop Cheney had spoken admirably. Toward the end of 
 the evening our guest was invited to make a few remarks. 
 It is perhaps proper to say that he was an intense con- 
 servative. Why the liberal university had returned him 
 I do not know. He seemed to me a better representative 
 of Oxford with its extremely high church and tory con- 
 victions. In his opening remark he alluded to something 
 that Bishop Cheney had said, as having been 'spoken 
 upon very high, nay almost^ with very strong emphasis 
 upon almost^ 'episcopal authority.' Then he went on to 
 say, almost in these words: 'When I return to my native 
 country from the journey that I have just made around 
 the world, I shall then tell them that the most remarkable 
 sights I have seen are, I think, two cities which closely 
 resemble each other. One may be called the frontier out- 
 post of the civilization of Europe toward the East, the 
 other, so to speak, the frontier outpost of the civilization 
 of America toward the West, each stretching out as it 
 were, its hands to the other. I remark a most singular 
 resemblance between them in their inner life, and as it 
 were, in their spiritual, mental, and moral characteristics. 
 The other city of which I speak is Nishni Novgorod. 
 Nishni Novgorod and Chicago! These are the cities which 
 I shall describe to my friends and my family, when I 
 return, as the two most interesting and remarkable cities 
 which I visited. I have seen in Chicago many remarkable 
 
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 things. I have been to your stockyards. I have seen the 
 wonderful procession of slaughtered animals which leave 
 the abattoirs of that immense industrial organization to 
 feed the armies of the world. I have seen what you call 
 your parks and boulevards, but of all the things that I 
 have seen, as I shall tell my people when I return, the most 
 extraordinary and remarkable thing which has happened 
 to me in this most extraordinary and remarkable city is 
 that I have participated in the exercises of a literary club 
 in which there is not a single literary man.' " 
 
 James Norton was our president during the season of 
 1885-1886; Henry T. Steele and Dr. Nevins Hyde were 
 vice-presidents. Major Huntington relates: "It was my 
 privilege not only to propose James Norton for member- 
 ship in the club, but also to nominate him for its highest 
 office. The night of his election to the latter he turned to 
 me and asked, 'Is it really such a great honor to be presi- 
 dent with Steele and Hyde for c;/<:(?-presidents?' Merely to 
 mention Norton who, stricken with a mortal disease of 
 the large intestine could yet make jokes on his semi- 
 colon, is to evoke countless good things of his. Old mem- 
 bers will recall his clever distinction between performing 
 reformers and reforming performers, nor will they have 
 forgotten his paper on Hamlet's madness." 
 
 This is perhaps as good a place as any to insert the 
 only remaining items of Huntington's reminiscences that 
 have not already been quoted: 
 
 "The club 'Conversations' in my time were not the 
 most exhilarating of the exercises, but they were some- 
 times a source of inspiration. One particular paragraph 
 in a Dial article of mine is so directly traceable to a 
 
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 More Huntington Witticisms 
 
 conversation on 'Literary Men in Politics,' led hy Ezra 
 McCagg, that to quote it here will hardly seem imperti- 
 nent: 'On the third of October, 1849, dragged by election- 
 eering ruffians, Edgar Allen Poe was made to vote in 
 eleven different wards in the city of Baltimore. Four days 
 later he died in a hospital, the earliest victim to the 
 popular demand for the literary man in politics.' 
 
 ''Not long ago I was asked what was the object of a 
 certain society, and thoughtlessly answered: 'The same 
 object that every society has had since Cain founded his 
 — to exclude somebody.' I had for the moment forgotten 
 the Literary Club, which is founded on the principle of 
 inclusiveness, restricted only by its purposes and the 
 qualifications of character and culture exacted of those 
 desiring admission. Among our earliest companions was 
 a dealer in men's furnishing goods, the contrast between 
 whose social obscurity and intellectualdistinction spurred 
 me to the making of what passed for an epigram, 'He 
 knows everything and he knows nobody!' There is, how- 
 ever, a point where inclusiveness ceases to be a virtue 
 and becomes a peril. That such was the opinion of the 
 club in my time was shown by the cold reception ot kind 
 Mr. Cleveland's serious proposal to admit the public to 
 our meetings, which I supported with the ironic sugges- 
 tion that, as the public would doubtless find us dread- 
 ful bores, the revenues of the club might be increased 
 by demanding an exit fee from any outsider trying to 
 escape." 
 
 The major might have added had he not forgotten it, 
 that he then drew a picture of meetings open to the 
 public as degenerating into "forlorn assemblages of long- 
 
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 haired men and short-haired women," before going on to 
 say: 
 
 "This want of sympathy with mistaken philanthropy 
 is, I think, the only indication of exclusiveness that stains 
 the annals of the club. To its membership poverty has 
 been welcomed and wealth has been no bar. In an age 
 given over to the worship of the ignorant 'smart,' when 
 the wool sack is a seat of lesser honor than the coach-box, 
 and he that drives for women has almost eclipsed him 
 that died for men, too much stress cannot be laid upon 
 these facts in our history, that no man was ever turned 
 from our doors for any mean social reason, and that we 
 have always been rich in poor men." 
 
 For a graphic account of an amusing incident that 
 occurred not long after Norton was inaugurated, we are 
 indebted to Dr. Hyde. In November, 1885, Archdeacon 
 Frederick W. Farrar visited Chicago and the club ten- 
 dered him a reception which was held in our rooms late 
 on an evening after he had delivered a lecture in Central 
 Music Hall. "Of the fun enjoyed at the receptions given 
 by the club," said Dr. Hyde, "one may well doubt whether 
 any equals that which some of us shared when Walter 
 Larned afterward told us of his experiences as chairman of 
 the entertainment committee" at this reception. Having 
 escorted the distinguished guest to the club rooms, the 
 assembled members and guests were duly presented to 
 him. "Of the line of hand-shakers introduced to the arch- 
 deacon only a few attempted conversation. One of our 
 members ventured on the remark, 'Archdeacon Farrar, 
 I learned from one of your books the only Greek word I 
 know.' The witty woman on the speaker's arm instantly 
 
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 added: 'You can scarcely appreciate, Archdeacon Farrar, 
 what a great task you have accomplished in teaching my 
 friend a single word of anything in any langnageV 'Quite 
 so!' was INIr. Farrar's laconic response. 
 
 "Larned was on the spot as the last shaker had satis- 
 fied his conscience, and immediately escorted our guest 
 to the supper room where he had provided everything 
 with a view to English tastes and an English appetite. 
 Said he, 'Archdeacon Farrar, will you permit me to offer 
 you some Bass's ale right from the wood; or some sherry; 
 or some hock, or some champagne; or some Scotch whis- 
 key?' 'Excuse me,' returned the archdeacon, 'you know I 
 am a total abstainer, and came to America to lecture on 
 temperance as well as upon Browning.' But Earned was 
 not daunted. 'Well then,' he went on, 'let me offer you 
 some beef-steak pie, or some game pie, or some venison 
 pasty?' 'Thank you,' said our guest, after surveying the 
 entire table critically through his glasses, 'I think I will 
 take nothing.' 'Will you not at least,' urged our chairman, 
 'have some ice cream such as the ladies are enjoying?' 
 But the archdeacon would have naught. I saw him a little 
 later sitting at one end of the room, looking as though he 
 had lost his last friend. Finally an idea occurred to him 
 and he beckoned with a significant finger to Earned, who 
 hurried to his side. 'Would you,' said the archdeacon, 
 'mind fetching me a glass of ginger ale?' Earned ran to 
 one of the waiters and handed him a dollar. 'Cjo out,' said 
 he, 'and buy a bottle of ginger ale or die!' And so at last 
 the archdeacon secured his refreshment; but no one has 
 yet revealed who ate Earned 's beef-steak pies and veni- 
 son pasties at the midnight hour at the top of Portland 
 
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 Block." To those of us who did not overhear this by-play 
 the reception seemed a lamentably dull affair. Not for 
 many years afterward did we again venture to offer hospi- 
 tality to a distinguished man from overseas. 
 
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 Chapter VII 
 
 BESIDES the notuMe occurrences of the seasons 
 of 1 884-1 885, and 1 885-1 886, when we occupied 
 rooms on the fourth, then the top floor, of Port- 
 land Block, that were related in the last chapter, there 
 are a few others that should be here chronicled. One of 
 these is the striking effect of an impromptu speech made 
 by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch who was called upon to say a few 
 words after Dr. Charles Oilman Smith had delivered his 
 inaugural address as president on October 6, 1884. The 
 substance of the speech has not been recorded. No reporter 
 was present to take it down. I distinctly recall the im- 
 pression that it made upon the one hundred and three 
 members who were present and who listened in spell- 
 bound amazement and delight, to the clean-cut, polished 
 sentences, each one of which, spoken without the slightest 
 hesitation, was as perfect in form and diction as though 
 it had been carefully thought out and put into shape by 
 the expenditure of painstaking care in searching for just 
 the right words to express the speaker's thoughts, and 
 in selecting after many trials, the arrangement of the 
 phrases best calculated to secure their effective presen- 
 tation. Though Dr. Hirsch had been a member for nearly 
 three years, had edited and read an "Informal" — the 
 name used to designate a group of short papers by sev- 
 eral contributors — and had taken part from time to 
 time in "Conversations" on various subjects, this was the 
 first occasion on which his fellow members were made 
 
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 aware of his phenomenal gift of verbal expression. We 
 knew that he was a man of uncommonly brilliant intel- 
 lect and that he was in high repute as a speaker, but the 
 extraordinary literary facility that he displayed came to 
 most of us as a revelation. The favorable comments made 
 at the time were very many. Greatly to our regret Dr. 
 Hirsch resigned in March, 1913, having for some years 
 prior thereto found it difficult to attend the meetings as 
 his cares and responsibilities increased. 
 
 During the season of 1 884-1 885 two ladies' night meet- 
 ings were held. Both of these are memorable. The first 
 one was held on December i, 1884, and was attended by 
 ninety-eight members and about a hundred lady guests. 
 Undeterred by the sequel to the reception and dinner 
 given by the club to Matthew Arnold in the preceding 
 January, Franklin MacVeagh read a paper on the dis- 
 tinguished English poet and essayist, which was not only 
 an appreciative tribute to him as a man and as an author, 
 but, by inevitable inference, though not by direct expres- 
 sion, was meant to remove any possible taint that might, 
 however unjustly,be imputed to the club as a consequence 
 of the famous hoax related in the last chapter. An amus- 
 ing incident occurred when in this paper MacVeagh used 
 the phrase: "Nature, ever abundant, is never superflu- 
 ous." Edward Isham who was afflicted with a distress- 
 ingly large and heavy paunch, and was standing and 
 leaning on his chair as he listened, could not resist making 
 the forcible comment: "A damned lie!" These words 
 were uttered sotto voce but in such clear tones that they 
 were plainly heard by all the assembled members and 
 guests, much to their delight. 
 
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 Presentation of Portraits 
 
 At the second ladies' night, which was held on Mon- 
 day, March 23, 1885 — when the cluh was just ten days 
 more than eleven years old — a loan collection of paintings 
 by noted artists and unknown amateurs was hung upon 
 the walls of the club rooms. The exercises consisted of 
 presentation speeches on behalf of the donors of portraits 
 of two of our ex-presidents. Judge Charles Burrall Law- 
 rence, and Edwin Channing Larned. Both were painted 
 by Lawrenc-e Carmichael Earle. The portrait of Judge 
 Lawrence was given to us by the artist; that of Mr. 
 Larned, by the members of his family. Mr. Earle was for 
 many years the best-known painter resident in Chicago, 
 and was one of the few artists whose names appear upon 
 our membership rolls. He removed to New York about 
 1890 and lived there until about 1913. Thereafter until 
 his death in 1921, at the age of about seventy-five, he 
 made his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. To the last 
 he kept his interest in the club as frequent letters to the 
 secretary attested. 
 
 The club rooms in Portland Block were excellently 
 adapted to our needs and had only one marked disadvan- 
 tage — the invasion of smoke from neighboring chimneys 
 was so constant and in such volume that the struggle to 
 keep the furniture, carpets and draperies decently clean, 
 though never-ending, was quite hopeless. The location, 
 however, was so ideal that despite this drawback, it was 
 with regret that we faced the necessity of moving when 
 the owner of the building announced his intention to add 
 two stories to it, and declined to renew our lease. The 
 Art Institute was then contemplating the erection of the 
 building at the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and 
 
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 Van Buren Street that it occupied for six years, and 
 which, since 1893, has been the home of the Chicago 
 Club. i\s the plans designed by John Wellborn Root, who 
 was one of our early and well-beloved members, were for 
 a building somewhat larger than the immediate needs of 
 the Art Institute required, the trustees made the club an 
 offer to furnish us with quarters in the new building, if 
 and when it should be erected, provided we would take 
 a lease for ten years. At the meeting of the club held 
 on March 30, 1885, General Alexander C. McClurg, the 
 chairman of the committee on rooms and finance, pre- 
 sented a report in favor of accepting the offer, and was 
 by the club authorized to do so. The arrangements for 
 erecting the building were not completed until the fol- 
 lowing year, and not until March 15, 1886, did the com- 
 mittee of which Walter Cranston Larned was then the 
 chairman, lay before the club alternative plans for divid- 
 ing into rooms the space we were to occupy. 
 
 As our lease of the rooms in Portland Block ran only 
 until the end of April and the new rooms would not be 
 ready for our occupancy before the autumn of 1887, we 
 were much pleased when the Union League Club offered 
 us the hospitality of a room in its new building on Jackson 
 Boulevard for our meetings scheduled for May and June, 
 1886. It was found, however, that the large banquet 
 hall on the upper floor of Kinsley's restaurant on Adams 
 Street between Dearborn and Clark Streets was better 
 suited to our use than any room that the Union League 
 Club could furnish us. Therefore, as we faced the prospect 
 of being without a home, not merely for two months but 
 also for the entire season of 1 886-1 887, it was decided to 
 
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 GENERAL ALEXANDER CALDWELL McCLURC;
 
 A Regrettable Incident 
 
 hold the meetings at Kinsley's save on evenings when the 
 banquet hall would not be available, and to take advan- 
 tage ot the kindness of the Union League Club on such 
 occasions only. 
 
 An episode that occurred in the last year of our occupa- 
 tion of the Portland Block rooms is happily unique in the 
 club's history. Although the reading room was supplied 
 with an attractive lot ot periodicals, and all the rooms 
 were kept open to the members on week days from nine 
 o'clock in the morning until five in the evening, extensive 
 use of them was made by only one member, a lawyer 
 whose fortunes were at a very low ebb. When complaints 
 began to come in from other members that magazines they 
 wished to read had been taken from the rooms and were 
 not always returned and that some were mutilated by the 
 abstraction of illustrations, suspicion naturally fell upon 
 the member who made the most frequent use of the rooms. 
 Although it was not proved that he ever carried any of 
 them away, it was found that he was in the habit of using 
 the rooms as an office for the transaction of business with 
 non-members, and for this abuse of his privilege, the 
 chairman on rooms and finance "after due investigation," 
 so the record states, moved that his name be dropped 
 from the rolls. When this motion came up for action on 
 April 26, 1 886, at the last meeting held in Portland Block, 
 it was withdrawn by the proposer, and the resignation 
 of the offending member was presented and promptly 
 accepted, thus closing an incident that is regrettable from 
 every point of view. 
 
 After this meeting our lease still had four days to run. 
 This was ample for the orderly and careful removal of the 
 
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 club's belongings, and arrangements to have them taken 
 away on the following day had been duly made. As I was 
 then an officer of the Northwestern National Bank and 
 was not free during business hours, I dropped in at the 
 club rooms about eight-thirty o'clock the next morning 
 to give instructions to the janitor. My dismay as well as 
 my surprise may well be imagined, when I found that, 
 to oblige the owner of the building who wanted to com- 
 plete the addition at the earliest moment possible, Walter 
 Larned had given permission for the workmen to begin 
 the work of demolition immediately after we had vacated 
 our rooms the night before. It was a pretty sight that 
 greeted my eyes when I arrived upon the scene of destruc- 
 tion. Not only were the rooms dismantled, but our prop- 
 erty had been roughly handled; books, periodicals, table 
 ware, and all small articles had been thrust into open 
 barrels, carpets had been torn up, portieres and window 
 draperies had been taken down, and all had been thrown 
 in a pile on the floor without wrapping or other protection. 
 The plastering was Being torn from the walls and ceilings, 
 the air was thick with lime dust and a deep coating of it 
 lay over everything. With difficulty I managed to rescue 
 the archives, the record books, and most of the other 
 property that was in my especial charge. Some things, 
 however, including the remaining copies of early club 
 publications, could not be found and were doubtless 
 thrown out with the rubbish. 
 
 My duties at the bank made it necessary for me to hurry 
 away as soon as I could reclaim the effects of which I was 
 the custodian. Later in the day the men sent by Mr. 
 Larned to take away the furnishings and put them in 
 
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 Removal from Portland Block 
 
 storage until we should again have use tor them, extracted 
 all but the large round table that stootl In the reading 
 room. That they overlooked. How they managed to do 
 so Is an unfathomable mystery. Of all our possessions 
 it was the most imposing. And, though the mantle of 
 dust in the fast disappearing rooms was very thick, it 
 was not thick enough to hide an object so conspicuous. 
 Nevertheless the bulky table was not carried away. Then, 
 taking it for granted that the abandonment was inten- 
 tional, the owner of the building placed it in the hands 
 of a dealer In second-hand furniture, for sale. It remained 
 in his shop until, by a happy chance, as we were fitting 
 up the rooms in the Art Institute Building, one of our 
 members happened to see it as he was passing by. 
 Surprised and puzzled to find it there, he telephoned to 
 Bryan Lathrop, then the chairman of the committee on 
 rooms and finance, who made haste to retrieve it and had 
 it conveyed to the club's new quarters. When we took 
 possession of the rooms a month later, we found the table 
 placed at the eastern end of the reading room, where, as 
 it was a familiar belonging. It helped to Impart a home- 
 like aspect to the surroundings. 
 
 During the five years of our occupancy of the Portland 
 Block quarters, the names of many good fellows were 
 added to our membership roll. Of these thirteen were still 
 with us when we rounded out our fiftieth year, seven 
 on the resident and six on the non-resident list. In the 
 order in which they were enrolled these are, Cyrus H. 
 McCormick, December, 1 88 1; Henry S. Boutell, March, 
 1882; Rev. George Batchelor, and John J. Glessner, May, 
 1883; Dr. Charles G. Fuller, December, 1883; Lyman 
 
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 J. Gage, February, 1884; Paul Shorey, October, 1884; 
 Charles Lawrence Hutchinson, November, 1884; Dr. 
 Edward Parker Davis, January, 1885; William M. Salter, 
 March, 1885; Edward P. Bailey, and Thomas Dent, 
 March, 1886; and Rev. Dr Charles Frederick Bradley, 
 April, 1886. Of those who were enrolled during the five 
 years and have since passed away, several were so closely 
 identified with the club that we may fittingly interrupt 
 our narrative at this point, and recall them to memory. 
 
 First on the list in time of election we find the names 
 of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows and Charles Davisson 
 Hamill. During the ten years from 1881 to 1891 when 
 Bishop Fallows remained in the club he was often at the 
 meetings and was always ready with a contribution to 
 the literary exercises when called upon. When he dropped 
 out because the demands upon his time and strength 
 prevented him from availing himself of the privileges of 
 the club he did so with much regret. Mr. Hamill was a 
 devoted member, constant in his attendance for many 
 years until he was compelled by circumstances to resign. 
 He was distinctly a clubable man and had many close 
 friends among his fellow members. It is impossible to 
 think of the club as it was during the twenty years when 
 he was with us, without a vision of his cheery face and 
 genial manner, which made him ever welcome at our 
 gatherings. 
 
 Another of the old-timers who rarely missed a meeting 
 so long as he was a resident of Chicago, was George 
 Philip Welles. He was the principal of one of the city 
 high schools, a man of marked individuality, a pleasant 
 companion, and a clever writer who entertained and often 
 
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 amused us by his gentle cynicism. Two others who should 
 be mentioned are Porter P. Heywood who was elected 
 in 1 88 1, and Robert J. Hendricks who joined the club in 
 the following year. Both of them formed the habit of 
 coming to the meetings regularly, and during the next 
 decade there were few of our gatherings when at least 
 one of them was not present. 
 
 In January, 1882, Judge Henry W. Blodgett was made 
 a member of the club. None of those who were privileged 
 to know him well can ever forget the impression made by 
 his sterling integrity of mind, by the penetrating clarity 
 of his vision, by his judicial poise, and the extent of his 
 learning. Even more impossible is it to forget the impres- 
 sion made by the breadth of his human sympathy, the 
 depth of his understanding, and his capacity for enduring 
 friendship. To have the friendship of such a man was 
 indeed a high honor. Living in Waukegan he could not 
 come to our meetings nearly as often as he wished and as 
 we wished very much; but he was ever ready to take his 
 part in the literary exercises, and it was always a gala 
 night when he favored us with one of his thoughtful and 
 well-written papers. 
 
 Another jurist who was elected a few months later in 
 the same year (1882) was for thirty-four years one of our 
 most devoted members. As he was with us until 1916, 
 merely to mention the name of Judge Henry Varnum 
 Freeman is enough to bring him to mind. His place in 
 our affections must endure as long as memory lasts. Not 
 only did we hold him in high esteem for his many manly 
 qualities and for his unswerving uprightness in all the 
 relations of life, but we were deeply attached to him as a 
 
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 friend and comrade. In a very special sense he seems a 
 part of the club, as we look back upon it; and we felt that 
 as long ago as in 1 898-1 899 when we elected him as our 
 president for that season. 
 
 A few of us will recall William LeBaron Jenney who 
 was elected a member on January 27, 1882, but made 
 the mistake of resigning on October 26, 1896. Why he 
 dropped out we never knew. We liked him and apparently 
 he liked to meet with us, for he came to the Monday 
 evening gatherings with much regularity. As an archi- 
 tect his standing was very high. We were fond of him as 
 a man and proud of his professional attainments. For 
 nearly fifteen years we tried to let him see that we re- 
 garded him as "one of the elect." Doubtless he had a 
 good reason for resigning, but we were sorry to lose him 
 from our number. The name of James St. Clair Boal also 
 brings to mind the pleasing personality of one of our 
 members who was deeply attached to the club. He was 
 elected in March, 1882, and was greatly missed by his fel- 
 low members when he died five years later. 
 
 Five members who were admitted on March 2, 1883, 
 form a notable group. They were Charles Sumner Holt, 
 Rev. Simon J. McPherson, D.D., Lorenzo M. Johnson, 
 Rev. George Clement Noyes, and Judge Arba N. Water- 
 man. All of them were among the club's staunch adher- 
 ents and ardent supporters. Mr. Johnson was not as 
 actively identified with the club as were the others, for 
 the reason that his duties as president of the Mexican 
 National Railway Company took him away from the 
 city much of the time. Dr. McPherson also was not free 
 to come to the meetings regularly. Mr. Holt, however, 
 
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 always came when he could. As he lived until only six 
 years ago, most of us knew him well and will long cherish 
 his memory. He was one of the tried and true who ever 
 gave freely of time and strength and means to help his 
 fellow man and, if possible, to make the world a better 
 place to live in. Would there were more of his kind. Judge 
 Waterman, as nearly all of us know, was also a man of 
 marked individuality, so marked that to convey an ade- 
 quate impression of him in words for those who have 
 come into the club since his time, would be a difficult 
 undertaking. Suffice it here to say that we who knew him 
 well do not think of him as he was in his last years, when, 
 broken by senile decay, his faculties became clouded. 
 Instead, we recall the former soldier who had distin- 
 guished himself in the Civil War, the high-minded judge, 
 the keen student of human nature, nervously high-strung, 
 alert, interested in many different things, always most 
 companionable, whom we were glad to have as a fellow 
 member and glad to choose our president for the season 
 of 1 903 - 1 904. 
 
 What I have to say about Dr. Noyes, and also about 
 Samuel S. Greeley, Rev. Clinton Locke, and Frederic 
 W. Root, will appear in later chapters, so I merely mention 
 their names and pass to that of Frederick Greeley who 
 was elected on May 4, 1883, and for nearly thirty years 
 thereafter was one of our best beloved members. Few of 
 those who have been enrolled in all of the forty-nine years 
 since the club was formed have done as much as he did 
 to enliven our meetings. In a very special way he was 
 the very embodiment of wholesome fun. Where serious 
 things were concerned he could be serious, though not too 
 
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 serious. But in playtime he declined to look upon us as a 
 coterie of solemn seniors; and glad we were of the laugh- 
 ter that his clever sallies so often evoked. He was a good 
 fellow, in all that the phrase connotes, big bodied and 
 big hearted; and we were filled with sadness when he 
 broke down in health and passed away at the early age 
 of fifty-seven years. 
 
 Leslie Lewis and David Brainerd Lyman, who were 
 elected on November 30, 1883, were among the men of 
 solid worth whom we must always revere and honor. 
 Henry Baldwin Stone, who was elected at the same 
 meeting, and Henry Holmes Belfield and Joseph Lyman 
 Silsbee who were admitted on February 29, 1 8 84, were also 
 devoted members who by their presence and active par- 
 ticipation helped much to make our meetings enjoyable. 
 Mr. Silsbee, to our regret, was obliged for financial reasons 
 to give up his membership a few years before he died. 
 
 On November 29, 1884, three members were elected 
 whose names should have a conspicuous place in the 
 annals of the club. One of them, Charles L. Hutchinson, 
 was still enrolled on our resident list when we rounded out 
 our first fifty years. The other two were Franklin Harvey 
 Head and Frank Seward Johnson. Of Mr. Head I shall 
 have more to say in a later chapter. Dr. Frank Johnson's 
 death is so recent that many of us can hardly realize that 
 he has been taken away. It is not too much to say that 
 every one of the regular attendants at our meetings during 
 the thirty-five years that he was with us regarded him as 
 a personal friend. His capacity for friendship was one of 
 his most salient traits and was the outcome of kindly feel- 
 ing for and sympathetic understanding of all with whom 
 
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 More About Early Members 
 
 he came in contact. We loved Dr. Frank and miss him 
 sadly. And he missed us when failing health caused him 
 to give up his practice and to make his home in California 
 during the greater part of his last years. The club has 
 never had a more loyal member. Walter M. Howland and 
 the Rev. Louis S. Osborne, who were elected at the same 
 meeting, also had many friends in the club. As long as 
 they resided in Chicago they came to our meetings as often 
 as they could, and both kept their interest in our organ- 
 ization undiminished to the end ot their lives. 
 
 William Adam Montgomery who was elected in May, 
 1885, and Fletcher Stewart Bassett who was elected in 
 November of that year will also be well remembered by 
 some of our members, though both of them died in 1895. 
 So too, will William H. Ray, a highly esteemed member 
 who was elected in 1885 but lived only four years there- 
 after. There are on the roll the names of other men of note 
 in the community who might be mentioned, but it is the 
 history of the club that I am trying to tell, and it is only 
 the more active members whose forms fill out the picture 
 as the bygone days are brought to mind. 
 
 The banquet hall at Kinsley's was a very large room. 
 What its dimensions were I do not know, but it cannot 
 have been much less than fifty feet wide by sixty feet in 
 length. The first meeting that we held in it is notable in 
 the annals of the club. It was one never to be forgotten 
 by any of the fifty-two members — six of whom are still 
 living, though two of them are no longer members — who 
 gathered there on the evening of May 6, 1886, to listen 
 to a paper by Franklin Harvey Head. Mr. Head was then 
 a comparatively new member, having been elected on 
 
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 November 29, 1884. Though he had at once entered into 
 the spirit of the club and had become a constant attendant 
 at the meetings, and his attractive personal quahties had 
 quickly gained for him popularity and had endeared him 
 to his fellow members, his literary attainment was still an 
 unknown quantity when he began to read his exposition 
 of "Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof." 
 The paper opened with the statement that "the lack of 
 'tired Nature's sweet restorer' is rapidly becoming the 
 chronic terror of all men of active life who have passed 
 the age of thirty-five or forty years." Asserting that it 
 was the fashion to attribute this to the high pressure of 
 modern life, he said, "As the maxim 'there is nothing 
 new under the sun' is of general application, it may be of 
 interest to investigate if an exception occurs in the case 
 of sleeplessness; if it be true that among our ancestors, 
 before the days of working steam and electricity the glori- 
 ous sleep of youth was prolonged through all one's three 
 or four score years." Finding no answer to this question 
 in the medical books of three centuries ago, he turned to 
 Shakespeare's dramas for light upon it, as, he remarked, 
 "we would upon any other question" of the poet's time. 
 Then, having cited Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to prove 
 that "no man writes other than his own experience; that 
 consciously or otherwise an author describes himself in 
 the characters he draws," he went on to say that, as 
 Shakespeare's dramas are "the book of human life, . . . 
 if insomnia had prevailed in or before his time, in his pages 
 we shall find it duly set forth. If he had suffered, if the 
 'fringed curtains of his eyes were all the night withdrawn,' 
 we shall find his dreary experiences — his hours of pathetic 
 
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 Head's "Shakkspeark's Insomnia" 
 
 misery, his nights of desolation — voiced hy the tongues 
 of his men and women." Following up this thought he 
 proceeded to demonstrate hy copious quotations that 
 "no other author has written so feelingly, so apprc- 
 ciatingly as Shakespeare on the subject of sleep and its 
 loss," or has made it more plain that broken rest comes 
 more often from care and anxiety than from physical ail- 
 ment. The conclusion Mr. Head drew from this was that 
 Shakespeare wrote, "not 'as imagination bodies forth the 
 formes of things unknown,' but as one who, in words burn- 
 ing with indestructible life, lays open to us the sombre 
 record of what was experience before it was song." 
 
 In form this first third of the paper was that oi a 
 critical essay, not in any way suggesting that its import 
 was other than serious, despite the introduction of an 
 occasional fantastic phrase such as "words burning with 
 indestructible life" which I have just quoted. Nor was the 
 impression at once dispelled when the author gravely 
 said it had occurred to him that the Southampton Manu- 
 scripts in the British Museum, a series of papers recently 
 discovered and not yet published, might make it possible 
 to determine the causes of Shakespeare's suffering from 
 loss of sleep, notwithstanding the meagerness of the 
 information respecting his life and habits that had come 
 down to us. But, when he read what purported to be a 
 letter from the chief curator of the Department of Manu- 
 scripts in the British Museum, stating that none of the 
 papers in the Southampton Shakespeare Collection could 
 be loaned, as to let them go out of their charge would be 
 contrary to the regulations of the Museum, but copies 
 of the papers which were "principally letters written to 
 
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 Shakespeare by various people, and which after his death 
 in some way came into the possession of the Earl of 
 Southampton" could be had for £3-35, exclusive of pos- 
 tage, the real character of the missive began to dawn 
 upon his listeners. And, when the name of the signer, 
 "John Barnacle, loth Ass't Sub-Secretary," was read, 
 they began to titter, and then broke into open laughter 
 as it flashed upon their consciousness that they were 
 being regaled with an exceptionally clever literary skit. 
 The suddenness of the change from gravity to gayety 
 was one of the most sensational transitions that I can 
 recall. It made a deep impression upon every one present. 
 From that moment Mr. Head's reputation as a writer 
 was made so far as the club members were concerned. 
 The first part of the paper had commanded interested 
 attention. The remainder was received with abundant 
 evidence of keen appreciation and enjoyment. The ficti- 
 tious letters purporting to be from lawyers pressing the 
 bard for the payment of an overdue bill; from a pawn- 
 broker warning him that, unless certain pledged property 
 were redeemed forthwith the town crier would notify the 
 sale thereof; from a broker in regard to a loan against 
 stock of the Globe Theater which was rapidly declining 
 in market value; from one Mordecai Shylock notifying 
 him that other shares of Globe Theater stock pledged to 
 him as collateral had been sold but as the proceeds had 
 not sufficed to discharge the debt, he made demand for 
 the payment of the balance; from the business manager 
 of the theater reciting dissensions among the actors and 
 supes; from a clergyman from Stratford-upon-Avon; 
 from Coke and Dogberry, solicitors for Mistress Anne 
 
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 Head's "Shakespeare's Insomnia" 
 
 Page, threatening an action for breach of promise of 
 marriage; and from Sir Walter Raleigh — all couched in 
 the phraseology of the early seventeenth century — were 
 highly relished and their fame was soon spread abroad. 
 Although the sequel had nothing to do with the club, 
 the tale would not be complete without here recording 
 that in response to many requests for copies of the paper, 
 Mr. Head had it printed tor private distribution. The 
 recipients were so delighted with it that it soon became 
 widely known, and thus it was brought to the attention 
 of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., who persuaded Mr. 
 Head to let them publish it, which they did in 1887, in 
 association with the Chicago firm, S. A. Maxwell & Co, 
 issuing an edition of 1000 copies which, to quote from the 
 announcement circular, contained "an additional letter 
 bearing on a very important controversy, being from Lord 
 Bacon to Shakespeare, serving to throw light on the 
 relationship between these two great contemporaries and 
 the real author of the plays." Then the amazing thing 
 happened. Not only one, but many reviewers took the 
 little brochure to be a serious and important contribution 
 to Shakespearean literature. Few of them, if any, sus- 
 pected its true character; nor did literary men from all 
 over the world, some of them scholars of eminence who 
 were attracted to the book by the favorable reviews and 
 by Dr. O. W. Nixon's glowing editorial printed in The 
 Inter Ocean in which he expatiated on the strikes in the 
 theater. Greatly excited by the discovery of such treas- 
 ure-trove, many of them wrote Mr. Head most enthusi- 
 astic letters, congratulating him upon his remarkable find, 
 his acumen in making the discovery, and his charming 
 
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 presentation ot it. Incidentally most ot them pressed him 
 for further information. In the course ot time it is to be 
 presumed that the truth began to dawn upon them. Yet 
 such letters continued to reach Mr. Head for more than 
 two years after the book was first published. Once, in the 
 early nineties, when I called upon him at his office, he 
 oj>ened a large drawer in his desk and showed me some 
 hundreds of them. The drawer was literally crammed full. 
 "What do you suppose the writers of these letters think 
 of me?" he asked. Answering the question himself, he then 
 remarked: "I imagine they regard me as lacking in ordi- 
 nary courtesy. And vet, how could I answer any of 
 them?" 
 
 Besides the meeting when Mr. Head was the enter- 
 tainer, six more were held at Kinsley's before the season 
 of 1885— 1886 came to an end. At its close the resident 
 members numbered one hundred and ninety-eight. One 
 of these, Lieut. General Philip H. Sheridan, was an honor- 
 ary member, the others we then designated as "regulars." 
 
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 Chapter VIII 
 
 THE season of 1886-1887, when our meetings were 
 held at Kinsley's or at the Union League Club, 
 was marked by few noteworthy events. The honor 
 of the presidency for that season had been bestowed upon 
 General Alexander C. McClurg. The choice was a most 
 fitting one. Among all of our number there was no one 
 who better merited the distinction. In the best sense of 
 the phrase he was a polished gentleman. He was digni- 
 fied in his bearing, loyal, mod est, unassuming, and always 
 courteous in his manner; upright in thought, word, and 
 deed, loyal to his friends of whom he had a host, and 
 deeply attached to the club of which he was one of the 
 oldest members, having been elected at its first regular 
 meeting, on March 31, 1874. His military record in the 
 Civil War had been a brilliant one and had gained for 
 him the brevets of colonel for "efficient and meritorious 
 services" and of brigadier general "for gallant and 
 meritorious services during the war." Though small in 
 stature and never physically strong, he always "looked the 
 soldier," and Generals Sherman, Thomas, Mitchell and 
 Baird all advised him to make arms his profession. Dis- 
 regarding this, when the war was over he returned to 
 Chicago where he became the leading bookseller and 
 publisher, and as such was a prominent figure in the 
 intellectual life of the city. What the club meant to him 
 is well shown by a few paragraphs which I quote from 
 his inaugural address as president. 
 
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 After thanking the members for the honor that had 
 been conferred upon him he said: "Not easily could any 
 compliment come to me which I should appreciate more 
 highly. It is here in this club that my best thoughts and 
 sympathies are drawn out; and here my best and most 
 trusted friends are found. While our club is not yet, 
 perhaps, as no other club has ever been, the ideal club, 
 it is, I believe, heading fairly and strongly in the right 
 direction. 
 
 "In no age of the world and in no city have those who 
 loved books and letters, who had some desire to turn to 
 'plain living and thinking,' who would at least in some 
 degree 'live in the spirit' — -in no age and in no country 
 have these been in the majority; they have ever been the 
 remnant; and it is not, therefore, a special condemnation 
 of Chicago that most of our citizens are occupied with 
 other thoughts and pursue other ends. 
 
 "The falser lights of wealth, power, and display are 
 perhaps not more eagerly pursued here than they have 
 been elsewhere, but they are far too eagerly pursued, and 
 it is well for all of us that we have one organized band 
 whose object it is to foster the higher and better side of 
 our everyday life — one club which, without regard to 
 wealth, or so-called social standing, seeks for its member- 
 ship men of intellectual and moral culture — one place 
 where we are sure to meet others who sympathize with 
 our best impulses and our best aspirations; and where by 
 association and companionship these impulses and aspi- 
 rations may be cherished and strengthened." 
 
 The meetings held during General McClurg's term of 
 office were on the whole well attended, but the lack of 
 
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 Two Notable Mkktings 
 
 what I may call a home atmosphere was felt by us all, and 
 toward the end of the season the letting down in enthusi- 
 asm began to be quite apparent. Two only of the meet- 
 ings ot this season call for special mention in this chronicle. 
 On November 26, 1886, Frederic W. Root read a paper 
 entitled "An American Basis of Musical Criticism." This 
 was the first of his remarkable and exceptionally clever 
 expositions of musical expression and structure, enlivened 
 by deft touches ot humor and made clear by instrumental 
 and vocal illustration so simplified as to be readily grasped 
 by any ordinarily intelligent person however lacking in 
 knowledge of musical composition. The forty-seven mem- 
 bers who listened to the paper were greatly delighted by 
 it and were not backward in extolling it to others. Thence- 
 forward Mr. Root's popularity among us as an entertainer 
 was assured, and we were always happy when he could be 
 persuaded to take a place upon the programme. 
 
 At the ladies' night meeting, held on January 31, 
 1887, one hundred members accompanied by one hundred 
 and seventeen lady guests assembled to listen to a paper 
 by James Norton. The fame of his flashing wit made every 
 one of his auditors eagerly expectant and the title of his 
 paper, "The Rise and Fall of the Devil," suggested untold 
 possibilities of amusingly whimsical treatment. But Nor- 
 ton did not want to be known merely as a humorist. His 
 paper was a minute and careful study of the demon myth 
 in its various manifestations — a scholarly performance 
 entitled to serious consideration. Its merit was appre- 
 ciated. Nevertheless there was disappointment. Both 
 members and guests had expected to hear something 
 quite different. This was the only meeting which one ot 
 
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 our members who joined the club in 1876 ever attended 
 during the entire period of thirty-nine years when he 
 was on the resident list. I have sometimes wondered 
 whether he would have been tempted to favor us with 
 his presence at other meetings had Norton diverted us 
 on. this occasion with the pungent wit of which he was 
 so capable. 
 
 At the business meeting held on June 14, 1886, the 
 executive committee was instructed to take steps to have 
 the club incorporated under the laws of the State of 
 Illinois providing for the incorporation of societies not 
 for profit. This instruction was carried out with as little 
 delay as possible. The certificate of incorporation was 
 issued by the secretary of state on July 10, 1886, and 
 on August 3 it was duly recorded in the office of the 
 recorder of Cook County. At the meeting held on March 
 2,8, 1887, the corporate organization was completed by 
 the election of all the members of the several classes in 
 the voluntary association, to full membership in corre- 
 sponding classes in the corporation of the same name 
 and a code of by-laws was adopted. The annual dues 
 were raised to thirty dollars and it was provided that 
 new members should pay an entrance fee of twenty-five 
 dollars. Then, as Bryan Lathrop, the chairman of the 
 committee of rooms and finance, had reported that ap- 
 proxiiTiately five thousand dollars would be required to 
 pay for the furnishing and fitting up of the new rooms in 
 the Art Institute Building, the directors were author- 
 ized to borrow that sum upon bonds to be issued by the 
 club, to bear six per cent interest and to run for ten years, 
 but to be subject to call after one year. These bonds were 
 
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 Dr. Noyes Elected President 
 
 readily placed with members of the club and were all 
 redeemed or presented to the club by the holders before 
 their maturity. 
 
 The season ended with the meeting held on June 13, 
 1887, when the Rev. George Clement Noyes, D.I)., was 
 elected president for the ensuing year. Fifteen members 
 were admitted during the season, among them Arthur 
 Dana Wheeler and Pliny Bent Smith who for twenty-five 
 years thereafter belonged to the little coterie of faithful 
 ones who never missed a meeting if they could help it. 
 And greatly to our grief one of our earl y members, George 
 Clinton Clarke, was taken from us by death after a pro- 
 tracted illness. 
 
 During the summer of 1887 the rooms in the Art 
 Institute Building were made ready for occupancy and 
 the first meeting held in them was the annual reunion 
 and dinner, on October 10. The number of members, one 
 hundred and fifteen, who attended this meeting, is the 
 largest in the history of the club. It is to be regretted 
 that no copy of President Noyes' inaugural address has 
 been preserved, either in the club's archives or upon its 
 records. Few of the men whom we have admitted to our 
 circle have taken such firm hold upon the affection and 
 esteem of their fellow members in such a short time as 
 did Dr. Noyes. As I try to call him up before my retro- 
 spective vision, the salient traits that seem to stand forth 
 are his bigness of mind and heart, his freedom from bias 
 and from everything petty or mean, but above all his 
 magnetic personality, his unfailing good nature and the 
 quick and intelligent sympathy that enabled him to com- 
 prehend and enter into other people's point of view and to 
 
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 share their feelings. Such a man could not help making a 
 deep and abiding impression upon all who were privileged 
 to know him and to realize the truth and sincerity that 
 were the foundations of his character. 
 
 The season of 1887-1888 when Dr. Noyes presided at 
 our meetings is notable for the marked renewal of interest 
 in the club that was manifested. In point of the attend- 
 ance it was the banner year of the first fifty of the club's 
 history. The average number of members present at each 
 of the thirty-five meetings was sixty. As the number of 
 resident members on the roll at the close of the season 
 was two hundred and thirteen, and the rooms were in a 
 location far less conveniently accessible than it is today, 
 the average for meetings held as often as one every week 
 during eight months of the year is certainly remarkable. 
 Without doubt the attractiveness of the new rooms and 
 the fact that we had been without a home for seventeen 
 months did much to stimulate the attendance. A descrip- 
 tion of the rooms that was printed in one of our evening 
 newspapers on the day after we took possession will, I 
 think, be found entertaining. 
 
 "The Chicago Literary Society opened its new rooms 
 last night with a reception." This sentence, it will be 
 noted, contains two errors. *'The rooms are situated in 
 the third story of the Art Institute Building on the corner 
 of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street and are mar- 
 vels of beauty and tastefulness. They occupy the whole 
 of the third floor. At the right as one enters the hallway 
 is situated the dining room, and on the left the directors' 
 room. The dining room is a remarkably handsome one, 
 the decorations being terra-cotta hand-painted. The floor 
 
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 A Newspaper "Write— up" 
 
 is ot hardwood. At tlie end of the hall is the large recep- 
 tion room, elegantly furnished and finished, and ofFof that 
 opens the assembly room which is the largest of all and 
 was last night used as a banquet hall. The reception room 
 is light gray and is also hand-painted. About two hundred 
 persons were in attendance last evening and" (note this) 
 "//;(' principal feature of the program was the banquet." 
 
 The reporter who produced this masterpiece of mis- 
 statement must have written it after interviewing the 
 genial colored man who had been employed to take care 
 of the rooms, and who probably permitted him to make a 
 hasty inspection of the premises when no members were 
 present. Then as now the club used every possible effort 
 to keep out of the newspapers. As a rule it has been suc- 
 cessful, but some "write-ups" could not be avoided. The 
 mistakes in the notice from which the quotations have 
 been made are merely laughable. 
 
 Let me now tell what the rooms were really like. The 
 doorway through which the rooms were entered from the 
 elevator hall opened upon a corridor running north and 
 south. At the left was a coat room, and beyond that a 
 small committee room. At the right was the supper room. 
 This was situated on the Michigan Avenue front of the 
 building. Its axis was north and south. At the south end 
 a storage room and serving pantry were partitioned off, 
 and at the north end there was another storage closet, 
 and at its right, a doorway that led into the reading room, 
 a spacious apartment on the Van Buren Street front, 
 extending from the Michigan Avenue corner west to 
 where it opened through a wide portal into the commo- 
 dious assembly hall. The latter room extended across the 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 west end of the building, had a large stone fire-place in 
 the middle of the west wall, and at the south end of the 
 east wall a door opening into the committee room. The 
 reader's platform was usually placed against the south 
 wall. All of the rooms were lofty and were well ventilated. 
 They were very simply decorated. The walls of the din- 
 ing room were tinted a dull Venetian red, with a slight 
 stenciled border in a darker tone of the same. That was 
 what the reporter called "terra-cotta hand-painted." 
 
 At its north end the entrance corridor opened into the 
 reading room near its west end. The carpets and window 
 curtains in this room were dark red. The walls were 
 tinted a neutral gray. Besides the large round table 
 which was placed near the eastern end of the room and 
 covered with periodicals, there was a plentiful supply of 
 comfortable chairs and cushioned benches attached to 
 the north and west walls. The cushions for these benches 
 were covered with very dark green corduroy. The bench 
 on the north wall directly opposite the doorway from the 
 corridor was a favorite gathering place for a group of 
 the regular attendants. Of these George Rowland was 
 usually the first to arrive. As a rule he would soon be 
 joined by Henry T. Steele, Samuel Bliss, Philander Prud- 
 den, Pliny Smith, Homer N. Hibbard, George P. Welles, 
 and others until so many came that they separated into 
 several smaller groups. As I bring the scene before my 
 mind's eye, I seem to see Edward Mason saunter in. 
 Then Colonel Huntington W. Jackson comes into sight, 
 erect in bearing, quickly followed by vivacious Major 
 Joseph Kirkland and the tall spare figure of James L. 
 High. Before they have greeted the first comers I hear the 
 
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 A Distinguished Company 
 
 incisive tones of Dr. Nevins Hyde's pleasantly resonant 
 voice as he enters, talking to Bishop Cheney who walks 
 beside him. Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson and William K. 
 Ackerman are only a few feet behind them. Horatio Wait, 
 Dr. William F. Poole and Henry D. Lloyd are the next 
 comers; then General McClurg, Franklin MacVeagh, 
 Norman Williams, Franklin Head, Bryan Lathrop, David 
 Swing, James Norton, President Noyes, and James A. 
 Hunt arrive together. For a minute or two no one else 
 appears. Then the portly figure of John Crerar is seen as 
 he reaches the doorway and pauses for a moment, his 
 broad countenance overspread by a smile as he greets 
 the assembled members, and steps forward to drop into 
 a chair, giving the lapel of his coat as he does so a char- 
 acteristic flip that spreads it wide and throws it partly 
 across his left shoulder. In quick succession other well- 
 known figures now stream in. William Eliot Furness, Dr. 
 Charles Gordon Fuller, and Melville W. Fuller are in the 
 van. Then I see Dr. Clinton Locke and hear his hearty 
 laugh, then Frank Gilbert, Clarence Burley, Rev. Dr. 
 Arthur Little, Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Judge Brown, 
 Walter Larned, John W. Root, Frederick Greeley, Rev. 
 J. Coleman Adams, Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Lewis H. and 
 Henry Sherman Boutell, William H. Ray, Charles L. 
 Hutchinson and Charles S. Holt. A few minutes later 
 Elbridge Keith, Moses Scudder, Daniel Goodwin, Nor- 
 man Fay and Dr. Charles Gilman Smith come, followed 
 by others whom I fail to note, for the president is pound- 
 ing his gavel as a signal for us to file into the assembly 
 room where a literary feast awaits us, for tonight we are 
 to have the pleasure of listening to a delectable paper 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 by Professor Swing read as only he can read, quietly, 
 slowly, and with such carefully modulated cadence that 
 the beauty of every word and every incisive phrase will 
 be fully brought out. 
 
 Although many excellent papers were read during this 
 season, only a few of the meetings need be singled out for 
 special mention. Three ladies' night meetings were held. 
 At the first of them David Swing read a paper on "The 
 Greek Literature"; at the second Edward G. Mason dis- 
 coursed upon "Two Men of Letters: Edmund Spenser 
 and Sir Walter Raleigh"; at the third one hundred and 
 six members and about a hundred and fifty guests listened 
 to a brilliant paper on "Jack Cade" by Melville W. Fuller, 
 which James Norton facetiously referred to afterward 
 as "one of our little compositions." Besides these papers 
 several others attracted so much attention when they 
 were read that it may not be amiss to recall them to 
 memory. James Norton's "Some Proposed Rules for the 
 Regulation of Story-tellers" scored such a hit that it is 
 regrettable that it was not included in the memorial vol- 
 ume of his "Addresses and Fragments in Prose and 
 Verse" published shortly after his death in 1896. Those 
 of us who heard "The Philosophy of Fashion" as ex- 
 pounded by Dr. Emil Hirsch, or "A Business View of 
 Classical Studies" by Franklin MacVeagh, "Broad Art 
 Criticism" by John W. Root, or Dr. Hyde's "Some Conse- 
 quences of Eating Historical Strawberries" will readily 
 recall the reception they received. 
 
 In connection with a paper on "The Old Masters of 
 Japan" read on January 16, 1888, by the writer of this 
 history, an exhibition of paintings by eminent Japanese 
 
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 Another "Write-up" 
 
 artists of the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, 
 and nineteenth centuries was made in the club rooms 
 and was the first exhibition of such paintings ever held 
 in America. Through the courtesy of the well-known 
 connoisseur Tadamasa Hayashi, then a resident of Paris, 
 who was fortuitously in Chicago at the time, the showing 
 was a notable one. He attended the meeting as the writer's 
 guest and kindly lent for the exhibition pictures by 
 Sesshu, Kano Masanobu, Kano Motonobu, KanoEitoku, 
 and other renowned masters. But, as he arrived in the 
 city only two days before the meeting, descriptions of 
 these could not be included in the catalogue which had 
 already been printed. 
 
 At the meeting held on the following Monday Murry 
 Nelson led a Conversation on "The Gangs in Politics." 
 The next morning the members were greatly surprised to 
 find in one of the columns of The Tribune the heading 
 "Murry Nelson on 'Gangs in Politics,' " and the sub- 
 heading, "A Discussion of the Subject by the Chicago 
 Literary Club." This was followed by a fairly good sum- 
 mary of Mr. Nelson's remarks, which it was said "were 
 chiefly confined to the Republican party as he said he 
 knew more about Republican gangs than he did of those 
 in the Democratic party." And the article closed with the 
 statement that "the subject was fully discussed by mem- 
 bers present who seemed to agree generally with Mr. 
 Nelson's presentment of the case." As no reporter had 
 attended the meeting, this notice caused much speculation 
 and adverse comment in the club, and at the next meeting 
 a resolution proposed by Henry D. Lloyd, then or recently 
 one of the editors of I'he Tribune, was adopted, stating 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 "that it is the sense of the club that the members be 
 cautioned not to communicate its proceedings to the 
 press." For a time, however, the city editors of several 
 newspapers made attempts to have our proceedings 
 reported, and we frequently had to turn from our doors 
 reporters who had been detailed to attend our meetings. 
 
 A few months later David Swing contributed an 
 article on "Literary Clubs" to one of our dailies. In it he 
 said there were "probably fifty of these societies" in 
 Chicago, and he described several of them, but his refer- 
 ence to our organization was very brief — only this: "In 
 importance and dignity the Chicago Literary Club and 
 the Fortnightly stand at the head of the invisible pro- 
 cession — the latter being a woman's society." The author 
 of the article on the "Chicago Literary Club: an Institu- 
 tion that Enrolls a Large Number of Brilliant Writers," 
 that was printed in The Chicago Evening Journal on Sat- 
 urday, October 27, 1888, was not named, but it is generally 
 understood that it was written by Miss Caroline Kirkland. 
 Much of the information given in the two and a quarter 
 columns that it filled must have been supplied by some of 
 our members. It was quite free from anything objection- 
 able, and was one of a series of articles on prominent 
 Chicago clubs. 
 
 In November, 1887, we were saddened by the death 
 of James St. Clair Boal; and in January, 1888, by that of 
 General John Leverett Thompson. Both of them were 
 prominent members, and men of the highest type, per- 
 sonally and professionally. By his agreeable manner and 
 sincerity Boal has won many warm friendships among 
 his fellow members. Thompson's law practice was too 
 
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 engrossing to permit him to come to our meetings as often 
 as he wished, but he was fond of the club and he came 
 when he could. He was an eminent lawyer and a man of 
 fine literary taste. In the Civil War he had distinguished 
 himself and won merited honor. I cannot let this mention 
 of him pass without recounting a remarkable incident of 
 his military career in which he displayed intrepid bravery 
 and resourcefulness. Wishing to gain a better view of the 
 enemy's line he ventured into a little outlying wood and 
 came upon a group of four confederate soldiers, two of 
 whom were mounted. The mounted men called upon him 
 to surrender and asked him to hand over the handsome 
 revolvers that he carried. Apparently complying, he drew 
 both weapons, one in each hand, fired as he did so, drop- 
 ping both men from their horses, then turning quickly he 
 shot one of the infantry men, while the other fled. 
 
 Before the end of the season twenty names had been 
 aeided to our membership. Of these new members six 
 only, Rev. Dr. John H. Barrows, Edward I. Galvin, Rev. 
 Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, George H. Holt, David B. 
 Jones, and Rev. Theodore P. Prudden, ever became 
 active participants in the club life. Viewed in retrospect 
 our first season in the rooms in the Art Institute stands 
 out as one of the most successful in our history. The 
 revival of the club spirit was marked. It was a contagious 
 enthusiasm that spread throughout our ranks; and, when 
 in June adjournment was had until the autumn, there 
 were few of our members who did not feel with greater 
 intensity than before that nothing the city had to offer 
 was more uplifting or better worth while than the fel- 
 lowship of the Chicago Literary Club. There were then 
 
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 two hundred thirteen names on the resident list. And at 
 the annual election held on June i8, James Lambert 
 High was chosen president for the ensuing year. 
 
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 Chapter IX 
 
 THKsecontl season in the rooms in the Art Institute 
 Building opened propitiously on October i, 1888, 
 with the annual reunion and dinner. One hun- 
 dred and two members were served at tables spreatl in 
 the assembly room, the supper room which was not large 
 enough to accommodate so many being appropriated for 
 the use of the caterer. President High's inaugural address 
 was an entertaining one, and, as was then customary, it 
 was chiefly given over to club affairs and reminiscences. 
 As the early custom of furnishing copies of presidential 
 addresses to be recorded or placed in the archives of the 
 club had already become obsolete, no excerpts from it can 
 here be given. Few of our members have inspired deeper 
 aflection than did James Lambert High. It is difficult so 
 to picture him in words as to call up the image that must 
 forever remain impressed upon the minds of those who 
 knew and loved him. His tall thin figure, his bearded 
 face with its always gracious yet dignified expression, his 
 gentle bearing and unfailing courtesy were the outward 
 manifestations of the inner man. After his death, Mrs. 
 Ellen K. Hooker in whose school in a little village near 
 Madison, Wisconsin, he was prepared for college, wrote 
 these words which well sum up the qualities that gained 
 for him the respect and warm regard of all who came in 
 contact with him: 
 
 "That the manly boy who thus early sought instruc- 
 tion in studies far beyond his years should have become 
 
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 the critical scholar, the eminent jurist and the success- 
 ful man of affairs, is no matter of surprise to me. . . . 
 Earnest, impetuous, persistent, often self-confident, his 
 daily mastery of himself was occasion for frequent remark 
 among those who knew him best. Never have I seen one 
 more prompt to acknowledge and correct a fault when 
 he believed it to be his own. . . . Gentleness, courtesy, 
 conformity to law, reverence for truth, all combined in 
 him to form such a character as man may covet and God 
 approve." 
 
 Mr. High's professional attainments as a lawyer are 
 set forth in the memorial biography printed by the club 
 and need not be recited here. But, as is well said in that 
 biography: 
 
 "James L. High, the man, was greater far than James 
 L. High, the lawyer. . . . What he was but few were 
 privileged to know. What he did is a common possession. 
 His activities found expression in a great contribution to 
 the literature of his profession and in an active career 
 that will remain a cherished tradition of the Chicago bar. 
 All this, however, is apart from what he was. The mem- 
 ory of his rare personality and noble character is the 
 precious possession of his family and friends." 
 
 To this it may be added that it is also a precious pos- 
 session of the Chicago Literary Club to which he was 
 strongly attached and of which he was intimately a part 
 so long as he lived. 
 
 The year of Mr. High's administration was not marked 
 by any notable occurrences. The literary feast was an ex- 
 cellent one, and there were two ladies' nights when papers 
 were read by Dr. Frank H. Gunsaulus and Franklin H. 
 
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 A Tribute to Dr. Noyks 
 
 Head. And in response to the suggestion of Horatio L. 
 Wait, a beginning was made in forming a collection of 
 books and pamphlets written by memi^ers of the club. 
 Among the fifteen members elected during the year were 
 several who became actively identified with our organi- 
 zation. Three are still with us, Dr. William T. Belheld, 
 Irving K. Pond, and Denton J. Snider. Others who should 
 be mentioned are Lewis H. Boutell and George Driggs; 
 and, although to our regret they terminated their mem- 
 bership by resigning some years later, so also should 
 George K. Dauchy, Dr. Nathan S. Davis Jr., Allen B. 
 Pond, Lorado Taft, and Abram Van Epps Young. 
 
 In January, 1889, the club suffered a severe bereave- 
 ment in the death of Rev. Dr. George C. Noyes, which was 
 deeply felt by our members. He had been elected less than 
 six years before, but in that time had made an enviable 
 place for himself in their affectionate regard. As was said 
 by Dr. William F. Poole in the memorial spread upon the 
 records of the club : 
 
 ^'Perhaps no member ever more keenly enjoyed the 
 privilege of social intercourse with its members and of 
 contributing to its literary exercises. He never missed a 
 meeting when it was possible for him to be present. His 
 broad catholic spirit, his genial manners and joyous warm 
 sensibilities made him a universal favorite in the club. In 
 whatever circle he was, there were happy faces, animated 
 conversation, the humorous assault, the sharp repartee, 
 and much sportive laughter. Every one felt that he was 
 a true friend and a safe counselor. He enjoyed humor, he 
 loved music, painting and sculpture, he loved his friends 
 and would go far out of his way to serve them." 
 
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 For the next club year, that of 1889-1890, Dr. James 
 Nevins Hyde, the ever genial comrade of whom every 
 member was fond, was elected president. It is especially 
 regrettable that his inaugural address which abounded 
 in witty sallies has not been preserved. He was a firm 
 believer in the importance of injecting the element of 
 wholesome fun into the literary work of the year, always 
 provided that it should be of a high order. In recognition 
 of this, his address contained much that his hearers found 
 highly entertaining. Alas, not even its title, if it had one, 
 has been preserved. But the theme v^as The Club and 
 cognate matters. At the annual reunion and dinner one 
 hundred and one members were present, and one guest, 
 Mr. Frederick Cope Whitehouse of London. When Dr. 
 Hyde asked Mr. Whitehouse who, as a son of Bishop 
 Whitehouse, had spent his boyhood in Chicago, to say a 
 few words, he responded with an after-dinner speech 
 which he said he had prepared for another occasion but 
 had not delivered. Strange as it may seem it was not only 
 felicitous in expression but as well suited to the time and 
 place as though it had been designed for it instead of 
 for a gathering in London, and it was accordingly given 
 much applause. 
 
 One familiar face was sadly missed at this dinner, that 
 of John Crerar. At the next meeting the announcement 
 of his death brought sadness to the hearts of all. Reali- 
 zation was very keen that without his cheery presence 
 our meetings could never be quite the same. At the ladies' 
 night held a month later, when Frederic Root read a 
 paper entitled "A Study of Musical Taste," a memorial 
 of Mr. Crerar was read by Edward G. Mason. It expresses 
 
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 In Mkmory of )ohn Crkrar 
 
 so feelingly the relation of Mr. Crerar to the club and 
 the regard of the members for him that, as it has not 
 heretofore been printed, it is fitting that it should find a 
 place here. 
 
 "In many ways respect antl esteem hav^e been shown 
 for the man whose name is upon every tongue and in 
 every heart. John Crerar, the leading merchant, the direc- 
 tor in great corporations, the philanthropist, the strong 
 pillar of the church, the good citizen, has been most 
 appropriately honored by all who knew him in these re- 
 lations. But it is our John Crerar, our own good friend 
 and brother of whom his fellow members in the Chicago 
 Literary Club wish to say a loving word tonight. For he 
 belonged to our organization from an early day, he is 
 associated with each of its places of assembly, and to its 
 meetings which he attended so faithfully and enjoyed 
 so much, he ever brought good fellow^ship and sunshine. 
 His dignified bearing, urbane manner, and strong indi- 
 viduality always made his presence conspicuous there. 
 Those who used to meet him in our former apartment 
 in Portland Block will well remember the familiar figure 
 in that seat in the audience room which he so regularly 
 occupied. And how readily we recall him as he used to 
 enter these rooms, throwing back his coat with that char- 
 acteristic gesture as he came forward to greet you. We 
 see his kindly face lit up with a pleasant smile, the gleam 
 of his honest blue eyes, and his courtly bow. We feel the 
 warm grasp of his hand, we hear his hearty laugh, and 
 we repeat the cordial welcome which was always his. 
 
 "He joined our club in the second year of its existence 
 and from that time on his influence has been telt in its 
 
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 affairs, his aid and counsel have never been wanting. He 
 advocated the change to better quarters which was the 
 turning point in its history, and he was one of those whose 
 assistance enabled it to remove to its present home. As 
 chairman of our committee on officers and members he 
 was the first vice-president of our club in 1877 and 1878, 
 and more than once was spoken of for its presidency, but 
 modestly declined to be a candidate. His name appears 
 upon our Scheme of Exercises in March, 1876, in May, 
 1879, and in February, 1881, and few more interesting 
 papers have been presented at our meetings than that 
 which contained his reminiscences of Thackeray. He 
 made the acquaintance of the great author in connec- 
 tion with the latter's course of lectures delivered in this 
 country under the auspices of the Mercantile Library 
 Association of New York, of which Crerar was a member. 
 How much service he was able to render their English 
 visitor and what a warm friendship ensued this letter from 
 Thackeray reveals. 
 
 26 Onslow Square, Bromptont. 
 London, May 9th, 1856. 
 My Dear Crerar: 
 
 I ran away in such a hurry from New York that I forgot to shake 
 your hand — perhaps purposely forgot — for it's a weary task, that 
 taking leave of good fellows. And now I write you a word of thanks 
 and farewell from my own house which looks just as if I'd never left 
 it, and, but that the leaves are bright green wh. were yellow yester- 
 day, I might fancy that I had dreamed the last 7 months. Before I 
 came off I told Tiffany's people to send a pencil case for you to M. 
 L. iMercantile Library] and pray you to keep it as a memento of a 
 friend whom you have very much obliged and who will always re- 
 member the great kindness wh. you & Felt have shown him. When 
 you come to England mind & keep my address in your recollection. 
 I shall never be able to do for you what you have done for me, but 
 
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 In Memory of John Crerar 
 
 I and the girls whose future life you have helped to make comfort- 
 able, propose to remember for many a long day the cordial welcome 
 and aid you gave me. 
 Believe me 
 
 Yours, dear Crerar, always sincerely, 
 
 W. M.Thackeray 
 
 "This letter and the pencil case which it mentions were 
 among our friend's most cherished treasures. Another 
 letter which he highly prized shows how opportunely his 
 warm heart and ready pen came to the aid of this com- 
 munity at its time of greatest need. It read as follows: 
 
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 
 INSTITUTED A.D. 1868 
 
 New York, October 25th, 187I. 
 Mr. John Crerar, 
 
 Chicago. 
 My Dear Sir: 
 
 At a meeting of the Executive Committee held this day at the 
 Chamber of Commerce, I read your letter of October 1 5th, and was 
 especially instructed as follows: "On motion of Jonathan Sturges, 
 seconded by A. A. Low, the secretary of this meeting be requested 
 to address a letter to Mr. John Crerar expressing their thanks for the 
 very important, graphic, and touching letter which Mr. Crerar had 
 addressed to this body, and to respectfully request him to further 
 oblige the Committee by continuing to write them on the condition 
 of matters in Chicago." Please accept my congratulations and 
 assurances of respect. Frank E. Howe, Sec. 
 
 "Accompanying this letter is the official document 
 making John Crerar the accredited representative of the 
 committee appointed by the Chamber ol Commerce of 
 the State of New York for the relief of the sufferers by 
 the conflagration in Chicago. And in that capacity he 
 was of inestimable benefit to this city in those days of 
 sorrow and suffering. 
 
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 "With another institution in his native City of New 
 York his name is likewise honorably connected. On the 
 day of John Crerar's funeral the flag hung at half-mast 
 above the hall of the Mercantile Library Association of 
 New York in memory of his connection with it as 
 director, vice-president, and president, more than thirty 
 years ago. And one of its officers has expressed the hope 
 that it was his early association with that library, and the 
 ideas then inculcated that were instrumental in influenc- 
 ing him to perform the act of munificence for the benefit 
 of the people of Chicago whereby his name will be vener- 
 ated for all time. We who knew with what pride and pleas- 
 ure he was wont to refer to his early connection with that 
 institution may well believe this to be true, in part, at 
 least. And perhaps we may claim some share in the shap- 
 ing of his purpose, for the associations and influences of 
 our own organization which he has honored by the selec- 
 tion of so many of its members as directors of the great 
 library he has founded. 
 
 "He has honored us too by the mention of our club in 
 his immortal will. And that gracious farewell gift to us we 
 receive in the spirit in which it was given. We do not need 
 his legacy to remind us of John Crerar, nor did he for any 
 such reason bestow it. But it is a token of his aff"ection 
 for the club and of his recognition of the many happy 
 hours he passed here, which as such we reverently accept. 
 And it will not only be the best memento of him but that 
 which he would most desire, to so apply it as to extend 
 the influence and increase the usefulness of this associa- 
 tion in the line of the objects for which it was founded. 
 
 "There is no reason why this occasion should be one 
 
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 JOHN C R K R A R
 
 |oHN Crkrar's Legacy 
 
 of gloom. Our sorrow for the loss of such a man is mingled 
 with a solemn joy that he has left so glorious a name and 
 memory. We do not even say farewell, since his spirit and 
 his works are to abide with us. But in tender remem- 
 brance of a rare companionship which his death has 
 ended, in high appreciation of the splendid qualities which 
 made us proud and glad to have known him, and in 
 affectionate acknowledgment of his generous bequest 
 to us, we inscribe this memorial to John Crerar on the 
 records of the Chicago Literary Club." 
 
 Mr. Crerar's legacy to the club was the sum of ten 
 thousand dollars. Litigation over the will prevented the 
 executors from carrying out the bequest until December, 
 1893, when payment was made with accrued interest. 
 
 For the ladies' night meeting in April, 1890, Robert 
 Collyer came from New York and delighted the assembled 
 members and guests with a paper on "Friend Jacob 
 Bright and his son John." This was only one of many 
 excellent papers that were read during the year, x^t the 
 last meeting of the season the portrait of Dr. Noyes that 
 now hangs upon our walls was presented to the club by 
 his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Orr. Earlier in the year the 
 large carbon photographs of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona 
 Lisa" and Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Russian Noble- 
 man" had been given to the club by Henry Field, to whom 
 we were already indebted for the gift of the large engrav- 
 ing of Paul Delaroche's painting "The Hemacycle of the 
 Beaux Arts" that has so long been a familiar adornment 
 of the club rooms. 
 
 Although there was no slackening in the devotion ot the 
 members during this season or the next when Franklin 
 
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 H. Head was our president, there was a marked falling 
 off in the attendance, clearly attributable to the location 
 of the club rooms. For the members who lived on the 
 south side of the city it was ideal. But many more were 
 residents of the north side or of the suburbs, and they 
 did not find it so easy to get to the corner of Michigan 
 Avenue and Van Buren Street, especially when, as often 
 happened, the weather was inclement. In those days the 
 North State Street cars ran only to Lake Street, and taxi- 
 cabs were unknown. Consequently, when in the spring of 
 1 891 it became apparent that the Art Institute would 
 need to sell its building to provide a part of the funds to 
 erect the building it now occupies, and had begun tenta- 
 tive negotiation for the cancellation of the club's lease, 
 the committee on rooms and finance was instructed that, 
 in the event of our removal, quarters nearer the center of 
 the city should be selected for our use. 
 
 At the meeting held on December 8, 1890, General 
 McClurg read a paper entitled "An American Soldier — 
 Minor Milliken." A recital of the names of the forty-five 
 members who listened to the paper affords such a vision 
 of the meeting as nothing else could bring to mind. 
 Named in the order in which they appear upon the record 
 these were: Franklin Head, Fletcher S. Bassett, Henry 
 H. Belfield, Clarence Burley, Thomas Dent, Henry Field, 
 Dr. Charles Fuller, Charles W. Fullerton, Edward I. 
 Galvin, Frank Gilbert, Daniel Goodwin, Frederick W. 
 Gookin, Frederick Greeley, Samuel S. Greeley, Robert J. 
 Hendricks, Porter Heywood, Homer N. Hibbard, Charles 
 S. Holt, George Howland, Walter M. Howland, William 
 H. Hubbard, James A. Hunt, Dr. James Nevins Hyde, 
 
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 A iMemorable Fish Story 
 
 Elbridge Keith, Walter Larned, Bryan Lathrop, William 
 McAndrew, Edward Mason, Henry Mason, Roswell H. 
 Mason, James Norton, Ephraim Otis, Dr. William F. 
 Poole, Rev. Theodore Prudden, Moses L. Scudder, Edwin 
 Burritt Smith, David Swing, Eorado Taft, Charles H. 
 Taylor, James J. Wait, Aldace F. Walker, Judge Water- 
 man, Arthur B. Wells, Arthur D. Wheeler, and the Rev. 
 Edward F. Williams. Truly it was a gathering of the 
 faithful and what men they were! x^lmost without ex- 
 ception they were regular attendants at our meetings. 
 Myself alone excepted, they seem to rise up before me 
 as I write their names. 
 
 After the paper adjournment was had to the supper 
 room where they grouped about the small tables in 
 friendly intercourse. One of the groups made up, as I 
 recall it, with Norton, Dr. Fuller, Ned Mason, Fred 
 Greeley, Fletcher Bassett, and General McClurg as its 
 nucleus, soon attracted many others until a large circle 
 was formed of eager listeners to amazing fish stories. 
 Norton, Fuller, and Mason, all three lovers of the Lake 
 Superior and the Nipigon regions, vied with each other 
 in relating their piscatorial adventures and achievements. 
 Others joined in the recitals and the merriment was 
 contagious. When the laughter evoked by one astound- 
 ing tale after another had subsided and there was a 
 moment's stillness, then it was that Thomas Dent told his 
 famous fish story; his small voice was heard as he said 
 very softly and slowly: "/ went fishing once! I had a 
 willow rod and a bent pin for a hook. I didn't catch 
 anything!" 
 
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 Chapter X 
 
 A N unwritten law of the club which has been obeyed 
 /— k without infraction from the earliest days down to 
 ■^ J^ the present time is that the term of office of its 
 presidents should be one year only, the brief first season of 
 organization alone being excepted, or not counted. For 
 the season of 1 891-1892 Rev. Dr. Clinton Locke was 
 elected its presiding officer. At the annual dinner in 
 October, 1890, when Mr. Head delivered his inaugural 
 address, Dr. Locke was one of the members called upon 
 to make an after-dinner speech. He responded with a 
 short address abounding in characteristic pleasantries 
 none of which was intended to have any significance 
 other than pure fun, but in the course of it he remarked 
 that the Chicago Literary Club was the one place in 
 Chicago where one could go and not hear the question 
 asked: "How is beesness?" "These words," Sigmund 
 Zeisler says, and his report of the occurrence is confirmed 
 by Dr. Dudley and others, "were spoken with an into- 
 nation and accompanied by a gesture supposed to be 
 characteristic of Jews. Emil G. Hirsch, deeply offended 
 and aching for a chance to reply but loath to volunteer, 
 got Julius Rosenthal to rise and propose that Dr. Hirsch 
 be called upon for a speech. This having been done by 
 the president, Dr. Hirsch, made an impassioned speech 
 in which he resented what seemed to him Dr. Locke's 
 assumption that sordid materialism was peculiar to or 
 characteristic of the Jewish race. In a burst of eloquence 
 
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 REVEREND CLINTON LOCKE
 
 A Memorable Sally 
 
 he traced the contribution of the Jews to the cultural 
 possessions of mankind — to literature, art, science, philos- 
 ophy, etc. — from the earliest times down to the present." 
 Dr. Dudley says: ''The speech of Dr. Hirsch was one of 
 the most forceful and impassioned pieces of oratory I 
 have ever heard. His eloquence was almost superhuman. 
 Like Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg it was received in 
 silence for the moment and was then followed by an out- 
 burst of prolonged applause. At this point there was no 
 doubt where the sympathy of the club rested." 
 
 The sequel came a year later when Dr. Locke rose to 
 deliver his inaugural address as president. "I hesitate to 
 begin," were his opening words, "and I must be careful 
 about what I say, bearing in mind how a year ago I got 
 into trouble with my unfortunate little jeu (pronounced 
 Jew) d'esprit." The laughter with which this witty neu- 
 tralization of his faux pas was greeted fairly shook the 
 room. *'Dr. Locke's sally," says Rev. Charles F. Bradley, 
 who was one of the members present, "had the form of 
 an apology and the appearance of a new affront. But in 
 effect it was like the plea of an irrepressible but thor- 
 oughly good-hearted and good-humored boy; as if he had 
 said: 'You ought to have known me better than to have 
 thought I meant anything offensive. It was a bit of rol- 
 licking fun. I am made that way. I can't help it and here 
 I go again.' " That Dr. Locke's words were taken in that 
 spirit by all his hearers the writer can testify, having 
 in mind the broad smile by which his face was over- 
 spread as he uttered them. His extraordinarily keen sense 
 of humor and the quickness of wit that accompanied it 
 were perhaps his most salient characteristics. One thinks 
 
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 of him as in many respects unlike any one else, yet as pre- 
 ordained by nature to be a clergyman. He was devoted 
 to his church work, was an effective preacher, was zeal- 
 ous in the performance of his parochial duties, and was 
 beloved by his parishioners. But the spirit of fun for 
 which there was no outlet in the pulpit had to find expres- 
 sion elsewhere. He was a jolly companion, uncommonly 
 fond of making jokes and swapping merry tales, and if 
 they chanced to be a bit salacious that did not dull his 
 enjoyment of them provided they were really amusing. 
 The subject of his inaugural address was "The Making, 
 Giving, and Receiving of Taffy." To assert that he wrote 
 whereof he had intimate knowledge is not intended to 
 imply any derogation, but should be taken as a recogni- 
 tion of the innate and unfailing tact with which he soft- 
 ened some of the asperities of intercourse with those 
 with whom he came in contact. 
 
 Early in Dr. Locke's administration the question of 
 whether the club should arrange to move from the Art 
 Institute Building became so acute that the business 
 meeting on November 23, 1891, was entirely given over 
 to its consideration. Arthur D. Wheeler as chairman re- 
 ported that the only rooms at all suited to the purposes 
 of the club which the committee on rooms and finance 
 had been able to find were in two office buildings then in 
 process of erection, and were held at higher rentals than 
 the club was then paying. Plans for the arrangement of 
 the available space in both buildings were submitted, 
 but the committee made no recommendation, not regard- 
 ing the quarters obtainable in either building as satisfac- 
 tory. In the general discussion that followed the relations 
 
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 Concerning Club Rooms 
 
 of the club to the Art Institute came up for consideration 
 as it appeared that a sale of the Art Institute Building 
 to the Chicago Club had practically been completed with- 
 out any arrangement having been made for th» cancella- 
 tion of the lease held by the Chicago Literary Club, which 
 would not expire until April ^o, 1897, '^^^^ ^" motion by 
 James L. High it was "Resolved that it is the sense of 
 this club that we are willing to surrender our present 
 lease provided satisfactory quarters can be substituted 
 for our present rooms upon such terms as to save this 
 club substantially harmless from any loss during the re- 
 maining term of our lease." 
 
 During the remainder of the season the rooms question 
 was frequently under discussion. Several meetings were 
 devoted to its consideration and the rooms and finance 
 committee made diligent efforts to solve it without suc- 
 cess. The city was growing with great rapidity and in 
 anticipation of the Columbian Exposition there was an 
 active demand for all unoccupied space in well-located 
 buildings in the central business district. As the end of 
 the season drew near and the need of the Art Institute 
 to have the question settled was urgent, finally on June 
 6, 1892, the board of directors of the club was authorized 
 to surrender the lease to the Art Institute for the sum of 
 ten thousand dollars, it being apparent that no smaller 
 amount would save the club from loss, and the directors 
 were given full authority to arrange for temporary or 
 permanent quarters for the use of the club during the 
 ensuing season. There was some feeling at the time that 
 the club had not been quite fair to such a worthy institu- 
 tion as the Art Institute and had insisted upon needlessly 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 hard terms, but the experience of subsequent years has 
 plainly shown that without the income derived from the 
 investment of the proceeds of the lease and of the Crerar 
 bequest, mounting rentals and other expenses would have 
 necessitated raising the dues to a figure beyond the 
 ability of some of our most desirable members to pay. 
 
 Gifts made to the club in the course of this season 
 were a plaster cast from Jules Gelert's excellent bust of 
 John Wellborn Root presented by Charles C. Curtiss, 
 and a framed photograph of James Russell Lowell given 
 by George A. Armour. On March 28 an amendment to 
 the by-laws was adopted making the term of office of the 
 members of the committee on arrangements and exercises 
 begin immediately on the adjournment of the meeting at 
 which they are elected. The literary feast provided at the 
 meetings was fully up to the high standard set in pre- 
 vious years, but it would unduly expand this history to 
 describe the papers in detail. One, however, because of 
 its unique character cannot be passed without mention 
 — the story entitled "Mr. Jones' Experiment" read by 
 James Norton on May 2, 1892. The experiment consisted 
 in always telling the plain unvarnished truth on all occa- 
 sions and never resorting to even the whitest of white lies 
 whatever might be the consequences of "letting the cat 
 out of -the bag," or of exposing sentiments that are ordi- 
 narily concealed. One day's experience proved enough to 
 convince Mr. Jones that "the man who gives way to his 
 sincerity as a regular habit is marked for destruction." 
 This paper was printed in the memorial volume of "Ad- 
 dresses and Fragments in Prose and Verse," a copy of 
 which is in the club library. 
 
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 Concerning Belovkd Members 
 
 Among the thirty-three members admitted during the 
 last two years of our tenancy of the Art Institute Building 
 Walter L. Fisher, Martin A. Ryerson, George E. Dawson, 
 Ingolf K. Boyesen, Julian S. Mack, Dr. Charles J. Little, 
 and William Rainey Harper became most closely identi- 
 fied with our organization. Ten of our members died 
 within the two years. Of these the Rev. John C. Bur- 
 roughs was one of the founders. Samuel Bliss and Henry 
 T. Steele were among those who never missed a meeting 
 that they were able to attend, and Steele's last thoughts 
 were of his friends in the club he loved so well. George 
 Driggs, though he had been a member during less than 
 four years, had made an enduring impress upon the hearts 
 of all of his fellows. John W. Root also, and Edwin H. Shel- 
 don, Henry Field, Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson, and General 
 William Emerson Strong, all men of mark and staunch 
 supporters of the club, were good comrades and dear 
 friends whom we grieved to lose. Doctor Johnson in espe- 
 cial had endeared himself to us, and those of us who were 
 privileged to know him can never forget what manner of 
 man he was, high-minded, clear-sighted, broadly sympa- 
 thetic, dignified in bearing yet always affable; it was 
 impossible to withhold respect for his mental attainments 
 or to resist the attraction of his winning personality. 
 General Strong had also made a warm place for himself 
 in our hearts. As was well said by Colonel Jackson in the 
 memorial biography written for the club, "He was a 
 unique character: a noble type of the American citizen" 
 and "the beau ideal of a soldier." In the Civil War his 
 record was "gallant and captivating." In the club his 
 magnetic personality was always inspiring: his jovial 
 
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 good nature was of the contagious sort: his deeper inter- 
 ests were in literature, art, and music. Many of his fellow 
 members deeply mourned his early death at the age of not 
 quite fifty-one years. Not less keenly did the friends of 
 John Wellborn Root feel when he died at the age of 
 forty-one. It was not only that he was a man of rare 
 attainments, an architect of unusual ability who had 
 achieved wide fame and whose career gave promise of still 
 greater things in the future: it was the man himself who 
 was missed, the delightful companion to whom we were 
 attached by the bonds of esteem and affection. 
 
 The opening of the season of 1 892-1 893 found the club 
 without a home, and it is difficult to say where the meet- 
 ings could have been held had not the directors of the 
 University Club come to our rescue and offered us the use 
 of the large dining room on the sixth floor of the building 
 at 116-118 Dearborn Street, between Washington and 
 Madison Streets which was then its club house. This cour- 
 tesy was greatly appreciated and gladly accepted. At the 
 time the offer was made negotiations were begun looking 
 toward a more permanent arrangement. This could not 
 be brought about unless the University Club were enabled 
 to make some extensive changes in the building. Fortu- 
 nately the Chicago Literary Club was in a position to 
 assist, and on January 23, 1 893, Lewis H. Boutell who was 
 then the president of our club announced that the boards 
 of directors of the two clubs had reached an agreement. 
 To help the University Club to make the necessary altera- 
 tions the Literary Club would lend it $14,000 for ten years 
 at six per cent interest, the loan to be secured by the mort- 
 gage bonds of the University Club, and would be given a 
 
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 A Tribute to George Howlaxd 
 
 ten years' lease of either the second or the third floor as 
 it might elect, which would be divided into rooms in such 
 manner as would best meet its needs, suitable provision 
 being made for the termination of the lease and the pay- 
 ment of the loan in the event that the University Club 
 should sell the building. As the changes in the building 
 could not be made until May after the expiration of the 
 leases held by tenants who occupied the second floor, 
 the covenants were not finally ratified until April. Then 
 the loan was made, and the fitting up and decorating of 
 the new rooms were placed in charge of the writer of this 
 history. Later, when the club received the Crerar legacy 
 the loan to the University Club was increased to $20,000. 
 It was repaid in 1906 when the sale of the building 
 again compelled us to seek other quarters. 
 
 At one of the first meetings of this season it was the 
 painful duty of President Boutell to announce the death 
 of George Howland. From the beginning Rowland had 
 been the most familiar figure at our meetings. Besides 
 the sense of personal loss felt by each one of us his pass- 
 ing away meant that without him the club could never 
 be quite the same. Well did the authors of the memorial 
 biography printed by the club say of him: "Perhaps no 
 member of the Literary Club more appreciated its pur- 
 poses and privileges, and more identified himself with all 
 its interests than did our lamented friend George How- 
 land. He was one of the founders of the club, and for 
 nearly twenty years was the member most constant in 
 attendance at its meetings, and ever ready to participate 
 in the literary exercises. He had the affectionate regard 
 of all the members who were drawn to him by his refined 
 
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 and gentle nature, his charming social qualities and his 
 wide and generous scholarship. The club bestowed on 
 him its highest office. He was a man of rare accomplish- 
 ments: and, by his life-work as educator, he secured a 
 local and national reputation which reflects honor upon 
 his associates in the club which he loved and with which 
 he was closely identified." 
 
 Despite theconvenient location of the University Club 
 there was a further falling-off in the attendance at the 
 meetings in the season of 1 892-1 893. As many of us were 
 members of both clubs the absence of the home feeling 
 that is so important was not marked. But in one way or 
 another most of us were affected by the preparations for 
 the Columbian Exposition and the many distractions 
 incident thereto. As the University Club Building had to 
 beclosed while the alterations were being made, the sea- 
 son was ended with the meeting held on May 8, 1893, 
 when Paul Shorey read a paper on "Dion Chrysostom" 
 and Horatio Loomis Wait was elected president for the 
 ensuing year. 
 
 During the season two more names were added to the 
 roll of members deceased, those of Thomas F. Withrow 
 and the Rev. John H. Worcester Jr. Both of these men 
 were valued members who were deeply attached to the 
 club. In the months between October i, 1892, and May 
 I, 1893, only ten members were admitted, but among 
 them were Edgar Addison Bancroft, Rev. William 
 Horace Day, Frank O. Lowden, Sigmund Zeisler, and 
 the Rev. Dr. William W. Fenn, all of whom became ac- 
 tively identified with the club and have contributed to its 
 welfare in many ways. 
 
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 While the proof sheets of this book were being read, 
 word came from Karuizawa, Japan, telling of the death 
 of Mr. Bancroft. Although the date of this sad event does 
 not fall within the period of the club's first fifty years, 
 this history would not be properly rounded out unless a 
 record of it and a tribute to the memory of Bancroft were 
 included, for he was not only dearly loved and highly 
 esteemed by his fellow members, but he was one of those 
 with whom they must always feel proud to have been as- 
 sociated. He was elected a member of the club on No- 
 vember 28, i892,just eight days later than his thirty-fifth 
 birthday and only a short time after he had come to Chi- 
 cago from Galesburg, Illinois, where he was born and 
 where, after his graduation from Knox College in 1878 
 and from Columbia University Law School in 1880, he had 
 attained an enviable reputation as a lawyer and as an 
 accomplished and effective public speaker. Alert, affable, 
 vivacious, and having a keen sense of humor, he quickly 
 made a place for himself in the club, and during several 
 seasons he was a regular and most welcome attendant 
 at our meetings. Gradually, however, as the years went 
 on, the pressure of professional duties and absence from 
 the city made his attendance less and less frequent, 
 greatly to his regret and ours; but the thoughtful papers 
 with which he favored us from time to time, as well as 
 words spoken by him to the writer, testified to his interest 
 in and his attachment to the club which continued to 
 the end of his life. 
 
 The high honors that came to Edgar Bancroft in his 
 later years were richly deserved. His career as a lawyer 
 was a distinguished one and brought him national fame. 
 
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 To whatever he undertook he gave the best that was in 
 him; close study, penetrating insight, unremitting care. 
 Mental integrity, steadfastness, and sympathetic under- 
 standing of his fellows, were among his most salient 
 characteristics. And, while tenaciously adhering to opin- 
 ions that he believed to be well grounded, he always 
 strove to preserve an open mind, free from petty prejudice 
 and misjudgment. These qualities inspired confidence in 
 all with whom he came in contact; and his magnetic per- 
 sonality and courteous bearing won for him many close 
 friendships with men of the highest type. 
 
 In selecting Mr. Bancroft to be the Ambassador from 
 the United States to Japan, President Coolidgemade an 
 exceptionally wise choice. No man could have been better 
 fitted for the post than he: none could have acquitted 
 himself with more credit or greater honor to his country 
 than he did in the all too brief period that he held it be- 
 fore his life was cut short by an ailment from which he 
 had long been a sufferer. His death called forth many 
 expressions of grief from the people to whom he had been 
 accredited. The Premier, Viscount Kato, spoke of it as 
 "a staggering blow." The Foreign Minister, Baron Shide- 
 hara, said it "could not be described as anything but 
 tragic," and he added: "During his services here he not 
 only endeared himself to all with whom he came in con- 
 tact, by his sympathy, enthusiasm, and readiness to 
 accept other points of view than his own, but he won 
 universal respect by the clearness of his mind and the 
 steadiness of his purpose." In the tributes the Japanese 
 paid to his memory all precedents were broken. The 
 funeral services in St. Andrews Pro-Cathedral were at- 
 
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 tended by the Imperial Princes, the Premier and Cabinet 
 Ministers, and many others. When the casket containing 
 his body was taken to the Tokyo railway station to be 
 transported to Yokohama and thence to America, arrayed 
 along the line of march were the regiments forming 
 the entire division of the Imperial body-guard, save the 
 lancers who led the cortege as an escort of honor, and the 
 casket was carried into the station through the entrance 
 reserved for members of the Imperial family. And as the 
 cruiser bearing it sailed away, "a series of clear notes" 
 by an unseen bugler, "the Japanese military salute to 
 one who has died in the service of his country, echoed 
 across Tokyo Bay." 
 
 Of all the words that have been writen about Bancroft 
 since his death, none are more touching than those penned 
 by a writer in the New York Times, who must have 
 known him well. They are also so apt that the present 
 writer feels that they should have a place here, and they 
 are therefore, quoted in extenso. 
 
 The body of Bancroft is today being borne on a catafalque high 
 above the waves on a Japanese cruiser across the Pacific. Bancroft 
 was of the highest intellectual ability and of the deepest human 
 sympathy. In his prize oration on "The Loneliness of Genius," he 
 used the figure of the eagle soaring alone. He had a genius that 
 would have given him a lofty loneliness had he chosen to live apart 
 in the realm of a purely intellectual life, but he was a great human- 
 ist at heart; he loved the comradeship of men and was ready to 
 give himself even beyond the limit of his strength for tiie public 
 good. He never sought office for himself, but he was a fearless fighter 
 for the causes in which he believed. 
 
 He is being borne by the Japanese to whom he went on his high 
 mission, as was King Arthur upon the "dusky barge," not, however, 
 to the island valley of Avalon, 
 
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 Where falls not hail or rain or any snow 
 Nor ever winds blow loudly, 
 but back to that windy, rain and snow-swept valley lying in the 
 heart of his own country. To it his death has bound the little island 
 empire whose people he made his friends, and so the friends of the 
 United States. It is a moving answer that the Japanese have made 
 to the America that sent its squadron to knock at the closed door 
 of Japan seventy-three year ago. More effective for the peace of the 
 world than all the visitations of friendly war fleets is the voyage of 
 this lonely cruiser with its one home-bound passenger. 
 
 Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" has given the lines with which 
 best to describe his home-coming: 
 
 And all the people cried 
 "Arthur is come again: he cannot die." 
 Then those that stood upon the hills behind 
 Repeat, "Come again, and thrice as far," 
 And, further inland, voices echo'd — "Come 
 With all good things and war shall be no more." 
 
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 WHEN the season of 1 893-1 894 opened with 
 the annual reunion and dinner on October 2, 
 1893, f'">^ "^^v club rooms on the second floor 
 of the University Club Building were ready tor occupancy. 
 The dinner was served in the large room on the Dearborn 
 Street front. This room which was nearly square had win- 
 dows on its east and south sides, and in the center of the 
 north wall there was a large fireplace with an elaborate 
 yellow birch mantel designed for us by Joseph L. Silsbee, 
 which with its paneled chimney-breast covering extended 
 to the ceiling. Ordinarily this room was the assembly and 
 reading room, and the great round table, described in 
 an earlier chapter, was placed near its center and was 
 covered with periodicals. The audience room which was 
 of not much more than half the size of the other, extended 
 across the building at the rear, and by a dumb-waiter in 
 the northwest corner, was connected with the University 
 Club kitchen. Opening from the corridor that connected 
 these rooms were, at the south, a small committee room 
 and a commodious coat room, and, at the north, the 
 elevator and staircase entrances. 
 
 In these rooms we were comfortably housed for thir- 
 teen years. Only toward the end of our tenancy did they, 
 for special reasons, become no longer desirable. To recite 
 in detail all the occurrences of these years would fill a 
 large volume. Some of them, however, call for specific 
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 Major Wait was our president, was the "short-story 
 night" in charge of Major Joseph Kirkland when he de- 
 lighted us with a tale entitled "The World's Congress of 
 Cripples," Dr. Emilius Dudley gave an account of "A 
 Historical Gambling Debt," and Professor Swing read 
 "A True Love-Story": others were the meetings when 
 Henry Sherman Boutell read his paper entitled "A De- 
 serted Village," and when Ingolf K. Boyesen talked about 
 "Some Norwegian Story-tellers." At the latter, the plan 
 for selecting and printing papers read before the club, 
 which has since been followed, was presented. Then on 
 March 19, 1894, the club celebrated its twentieth anni- 
 versary. Several members gave reminiscences of early 
 happenings and Edward Mason read a short paper, nearly 
 all of which by free quotation has been incorporated in 
 this history. Two poems v/ere written for the occasion. 
 One by Charles Norman Fay was entitled: 
 
 THOU ART TWENTY YEARS OF AGE, 
 MY LADY LITERARY 
 
 INVOCATION 
 
 And thou art twenty years of age, 
 
 My Lady Literary, 
 And didst thy slaves turn down the page. 
 
 And fall to making merry? 
 Well, so we will. Have thou thy way — 
 
 Give me a glass of wine 
 And let my fancy backward stray 
 
 My reveries divine. 
 
 QUESTION 
 
 How trips the light fantastic toe 
 Of twenty years away! 
 
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 How green the summers come and go, 
 
 While men grow old and gray! 
 Dost thou not mind those good old days 
 
 When Huntington was here — 
 Those early Masons and MacVeaghs, 
 
 Whom once thou heldst so dear? 
 Art not ashamed, thou lissome lass, 
 
 Whose twenties come to-night, 
 To look so boldly in thy glass 
 
 And blush with such delight 
 To see thyself still young and fair, 
 
 Still full of joy untold. 
 Nor feel one pang, nor own one care, 
 
 For lovers growing old. 
 For lovers dead, for lovers gone. 
 
 For lovers all forgot? 
 Canst thou not make one little moan 
 
 For friend remembered not? 
 
 ANSWER 
 
 Full well I mind those ancient flirts 
 
 Who tried to toy with me, 
 And gave a hundredth of their hearts — 
 
 ('Tis much the same with thee.) 
 I never was their only love 
 
 In all this flaunting town, 
 Nor were they mine, by heavens above. 
 
 So cease that jealous frown. 
 The Greeks, thou knowest, had their "Lit" 
 
 Two thousand years ago. 
 They're dead and gone, and what of it! 
 
 Their rhythmic measures flow 
 Through lips and minds of many men, 
 
 Therewith they woo me still, 
 And sing their love songs o'er again, 
 
 Just as they ever will. 
 I'm not a woman, tho' my heart 
 
 Hath room for millions more; 
 I am not owned by this small part 
 
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 Of earth, within this door; 
 No walls shall be my narrow bound, 
 
 No century my age; 
 But while the wheel of heaven goes 'round, 
 
 And all the world's a stage, 
 Till from the scene of time and sense 
 
 All actors pass away, 
 I am the eternal Audience 
 
 For whom you puppets play. 
 And still men worship at my shrine. 
 
 Still am I young and fair. 
 Still do they hail me as divine 
 
 Or curse me in despair. 
 Changeful perhaps from day to day, 
 
 Unchanging in the end, 
 Wouldst thou be actor in the play 
 
 Then hear me, fretful friend. 
 
 When thro' long years I've marked thee well. 
 
 And thou a loved thing art. 
 Not all the gates of heaven and hell 
 
 Can bar thee from my heart. 
 So doubt no more. Reel off thy rhymes. 
 
 And when years hence, some say 
 These are not like the good old times 
 
 Of Mason and MacVeagh, 
 When Macdonell was here and Swing 
 
 And Harry Huntington, 
 Tell them it's quite the same old thing. 
 
 And even better done. 
 The literature will be no worse. 
 
 The fun will be as good. 
 The chap that furnishes the verse 
 
 Must then, as now, saw wood. 
 That portraits of your honest selves 
 
 Will terrify the hall, 
 And even books surprise the shelves 
 
 That patient line the wail. 
 That Gookin still will come to mind 
 
 In script, vignette, or text, 
 
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 That, lost in this worki, ye shall find 
 
 Your Furness in the next. 
 That Dante's dead, and Sophocles, 
 
 And no one makes ado, 
 That what befell such swells as these 
 
 Is good enough for you. 
 And last, to sum my sermon's sense, 
 
 And give all comfort, say 
 That where there is an Audience 
 
 There'll always be a play. 
 
 REVERIE 
 
 Ah gentle lady, sayst thou so. 
 
 Good night then; All the same 
 It does me wondrous good to know — 
 
 Thou'rt such an ancient dame. 
 And yet thou look'st so very fair 
 
 And seem'st so very young — 
 But I have talked too much, I swear. 
 
 Give me a drink that's strong. 
 
 The poem by Dr. James Nevins Hyde should also have 
 a place in this chronicle. 
 
 A SPRIG OF ROSEMARY 
 
 "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance!" 
 
 At evening, in the mart of the great town, 
 
 Where the Lake meets the land, 
 My newest friend, the Year, with me sat down; 
 
 I held him by the hand. 
 
 "Go not" I cried, "for all the rest have passed — 
 
 Twenty were they, all told — 
 How swiftly from me sped! till at the last 
 
 Only this hand to hold!" 
 
 "Defer for but a space thy speedy flight! — 
 Pause on the murmurous stream 
 
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 Which bore the others toward perpetual night — 
 Give me an hour to dream — " 
 
 "To bring again in dreams these that were mine, 
 
 The friends each twelvemonth told; 
 Some read; some sang; some brought from forth the mine, 
 
 Ore finer than fine gold!" 
 
 "And some — but now, the voices of the dead 
 
 Spoke to me in their wise! 
 But now, I gathered truth of what they said! — 
 
 Asked of their answering eyes! — " 
 
 "Drank, ate at the same board, here in this place — 
 
 Shared in their hopes and fears — " 
 Speech failed me further; and from my wet face 
 
 My comrade wiped the tears! 
 
 He led me forth and straightway for me found 
 
 What friends the others knew; 
 Some read; some sang; they sate the board around; 
 
 They digged the mine anew! 
 
 Passed then a queen with visage fair and meek; 
 
 Beneath his casque, the face 
 Shewed of a knight; in Sparta a proud Greek 
 
 Harangued the populace! 
 
 Jurists wrote law; and there were fought again 
 
 Battles on land and sea; 
 Ophelia with a tender face of pain 
 
 Offered her rosemary! 
 
 The twenty lived; and to the lettered page 
 
 Of books my steps they led. 
 With a charmed company of every age; — 
 
 And I was comforted! 
 
 No less than thirty-two members were admitted dur- 
 ing this season, a record equaled only in the earliest 
 years. And for the only time in our history the number 
 
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 on the resident list reached the full quota of two hundred 
 and fifty. This was not long maintained, for, before the 
 season ended we had lost hy death five dearly beloved 
 members: Thomas W. Grover, Fletcher S. Bassett, Dr. 
 William F. Poole, Dr. Charles Oilman Smith, and Major 
 Kirkland. Even after the lapse of thirty years we cannot 
 think of these men without a pang that they were called 
 from us so soon. The club owes much to them, and espe- 
 cially to Dr. Poole, for his influence in shaping its original 
 policy. As Edward Mason said of him in the memorial 
 biography printed by the club: 
 
 "If he was a man to be admired for his attainments, 
 still more was he to be loved for his character, which was 
 formed for friendship. Impatient of shallow and trifling 
 natures, it was not easy for all to approach him on familiar 
 terms, but those once admitted to his friendship he held 
 in a life-long intimacy. His personality still seems to 
 pervade this place and all the places where he was best 
 known, so that one thinks of him as of a friend absent 
 on a journey. When death shall have extinguished these 
 personal memories and associations he will continue to 
 be known as he rightfully expected finally to be known, 
 by the writings which he published." 
 
 To those of us who knew the club while these men were 
 living this will not seem an overstatement. And with 
 memories of Dr. Poole there will come to mind equally 
 vivid recollections of Dr. Charles Smith and Major 
 Kirkland. Both were men of unforgettable individuality. 
 As unlike as possible in personal appearance, bearing, 
 and manner of speech, as well as in vocation, they were 
 yet alike in that both were distinguished by innate force 
 
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 of character, gentleness of spirit, and remarkable freedom 
 from rancor. Both also were endowed with a keen sense 
 of humor and capacity for strong friendship. They were 
 indeed good comrades, tried and true, whom their many 
 friends in the club missed sadly when they were taken 
 away. 
 
 Lieutenant Bassett was also a man of fine character 
 and social charm but his connection with the club was 
 too short for the formation of the deep ties that doubt- 
 less would have bound him to many had his life been 
 spared a little longer. Of Tom Grover, the writer can 
 only say that no words could possibly put him before 
 those who never knew him, and that his memory is en- 
 shrined in the hearts of those who did know him. 
 
 In May, 1894, William Eliot Furness was elected presi- 
 dent. A few days before the meetings were resumed after 
 the summer recess, death took from the club another of 
 its most loved and honored members. Professor David 
 Swing. The story of his life is briefly told in the memorial 
 biography printed by the club. In it the authors while 
 expressing the admiration we all had for his rare intel- 
 lectual endowment, for "the breadth of view, the pro- 
 found scholarship, the exquisite mastery of language, the 
 literary touch, the dainty wit and sarcasm and the sov- 
 ereign poetic fancy which irradiated all" of his writings, 
 well said that to his many friends "it was his heart that 
 was greatest. These knew most the breadth of his love 
 and charity, the purity of his thought and life. They saw 
 most of the genial wit and sarcasm, exquisite and unique 
 as that of Charles Lamb, but ever without sting or bit- 
 terness. For them a great light has gone out, and the 
 
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 world which has been enriched and made beautiful by 
 this benignant presence can to them be nevermore the 
 same." Well may we be proud that his name is inscribed 
 upon our membership roll, that he valued the association 
 with congenial spirits which this club gave him as among 
 the greatest joys that he knew, and that for the club 
 much of his finest literary work was done. 
 
 The only notable thing about the season of 1 894-1 895 
 was a marked increase in the attendance. For the first 
 five months of the next season Rev. Dr. John H. Barrows 
 was our president, but at the end of February, 1 896, hav- 
 ing decided to make a trip around the world he resigned 
 and Ephraim A. Otis was elected to fill the vacancy for 
 the remainder of the year. The most striking feature of 
 what was a most successful season was a series of sym- 
 posiums by business men, lawyers, architects, clergymen, 
 physicians, journalists, teachers, and gentlemen of lei- 
 sure, one on each of the eight months of the club year, an 
 innovation that gave much appreciated variety to the 
 literary exercises. 
 
 In 1 896-1 897 General George W. Smith was our pre- 
 siding ofiicer. It was a season that passed smoothly and 
 without any occurrences out of the ordinary. Mention 
 must be made, however, of the meeting held in March, 
 1897, in memory of James Sager Norton who had died on 
 the 17th of the preceding September after a long illness 
 attended by great suffering. At this meeting many trib- 
 utes were made to his noble qualities of mind and heart 
 and many of his brilliant and witty sayings were recalled. 
 This it was felt was in keeping with what he would 
 have wished, for even while racked by agonizing pain his 
 
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 humor and sparkling wit did not desert him, and "to the 
 end he retained his clear intellectual faculties and his 
 interest in his friends and their affairs." It was not only 
 the brilliance of his intellect that made us so fond and so 
 proud of him. To quote the language of the memorial 
 biography printed by the club: "Beyond his quaint 
 humor, keen wit, and good fellowship, his sound judg- 
 ment, absolute integrity and the justness of his views 
 endeared him to all those who knew him well." The 
 club will always be under deep obligation to him for his 
 part in its continued success and the maintenance of its 
 high literary standard. 
 
 Under the presidency of General Joseph B. Leake the 
 club had another highly enjoyable season in 1897 -1898. ^ 
 paper by Frederic W. Root entitled "The Real American 
 Music" gave so much pleasure when he read it in October 
 that by special request he repeated it at the ladies' night 
 meeting a month later. On November i our first president 
 Rev. Robert Collyer made us another visit, gave a few 
 recollections of the founding of the club and presented 
 to us the portrait of himself which has ever since hung 
 upon our walls. It was painted by Percival de Luce and 
 is a replica of another that he painted in 1882 and there- 
 fore represents Mr. Collyer as he was at the age of fifty- 
 nine. 
 
 In arranging the Scheme of Exercises for this season 
 it was thought that it would be well to enliven the pro- 
 gramme by injecting a little fun into it. Accordingly one 
 evening in November was devoted to the telling of "Fish 
 Stories," in which seventeen members took part. For this 
 meeting, instead of the usual post-card announcing the 
 
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 exercises, a special card of larger size was mailed to the 
 members. It was printed on pink cardboard and bore a 
 sketch by Irving K. Pond, of a whale swimming in a sea 
 of lies, and, standing on the beach in the foreground, a 
 modern Jonah shouting the tale of his deliverance. This 
 shocked the sensibilities of a few of our members who 
 regarded it as sacrilegious; but by most of our number 
 it was rightly looked upon and enjoyed as only a bit of 
 pure fun. 
 
 On February 28, i898,"EinSchmierer-kunst-bildfest" 
 was held. This took the form of an exhibition of more or 
 less comic "Expressionist pictures" drawn or painted, 
 with only a few exceptions, by members of the club. After 
 listening to three whimsical papers on "The Entire His- 
 tory of Art," "Some Local Discoveries and Applications of 
 Art," and "The Last Expression of Art,"the members and 
 their guests adjourned to the assembly room to view 
 the pictures which were displayed upon screens that had 
 been erected around three sides of the room. A catalogue 
 called an "Expose of Exceptional Expressionism" had 
 been printed and copies were given to all present. In it 
 the pictures "not to be spoken of elsewhere lest the dig- 
 nity of the club be derogated," were all attributed to 
 members who had nothing to do with their making, and 
 thedescriptions were accompanied by facetious comments 
 with the names of members who did not write them ap- 
 pended thereto. To give a little idea of their character 
 one of these descriptions is here reprinted. It is regrettable 
 that with it a reproduction of the picture cannot also be 
 given. It was a standing figure of a gorgeously dressed 
 woman. 
 
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 POND, IRVING KANE 
 
 Pupil of Angelo and Wrenn (now dead) : has been known to speak well of the 
 worksofthese gentlemen and of Ictinus (who also is dead). Eleve du Gymnase 
 Y. M. C. A., where he received a black eye and other decorations at the 
 January Salon, 1898, 
 
 30 An Elizabeth— Ann Manshun. 
 
 "This is the principal expose of one of our most notorious painter 
 architects. While as a picture it may be a work of art, as an archi- 
 tectural composition it is a flat failure. The fenestration is frivolous 
 and the massing mountainous. The pattern in the frieze is too warm 
 in tone and besides it is misplaced. It would be more appropriate 
 under a bay window or just above the underpinning. Manshun! 
 Why shun? Why not 'pity, then embrace?' That is the attitude of 
 the public toward architecture — not pity, but embrace — swallow 
 with relish any truck, however tasteless. Elizabeth-Ann! Wherein 
 lies the appropriateness? Why not, rather, Yvette-Susanne? Pooh, 
 Pooh, Pah! 
 
 — Clarence A. Bur ley." 
 
 This exhibition was so successful and caused so much 
 merriment that it was kept in place for a fortnight and 
 was visited daily during that period by many of the mem- 
 bers and their friends. 
 
 The outstanding feature of the next season, that of 
 1 898-1 899 when Judge Henry V. Freeman was the presi- 
 dent, was the meeting on March 13, 1899, when ninety- 
 five members and two guests gathered to celebrate the 
 twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the club. 
 Personal recollections of the members and happenings 
 in the bygone days were given in papers by Dr. James 
 Nevins Hyde and Judge Edward O. Brown, in addresses 
 by William M. R. French and Franklin H. Head, and in 
 an amusing letter from Major Henry A. Huntington. All 
 of these have been utilized in the preparation of this his- 
 tory and whenever possible the writers' and speakers' 
 
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 words have been quoted. Alas, neither Edward G. Mason, 
 James L. High, General George W. Smith, Lewis H. 
 Boutell, nor Daniel L. Shorey were present at this meet- 
 ing, all of them having died earlier in the month or in the 
 preceding October and January. The death of Ned Mason 
 did not come to us as a surprise for he had been broken in 
 health for some time, but it sorely grieved his many friends 
 in the club which he had such a large part in founding and 
 which beloved so dearly. Mason was pre-eminently a club- 
 able man. He was truly a prince of good fellows, intellec- 
 tually alert, keen, quick witted, widely read, scholarly in 
 his tastes, deeply appreciative of the niceties of literature, 
 and not lacking in sense of humor. He was always ready to 
 do his full share in writing papers for the club and in mak- 
 ing addresses when occasion required, and this he never 
 failed todo in a way thatshed luster upon the club and upon 
 himself. His interest in the history of Illinois led him to 
 undertake most thorough and careful investigation of 
 imperfectly known early periods and happenings, and it 
 is much to be regretted that business cares and respon- 
 sibilities left him insufficient leisure to carry these in- 
 vestigations further and to make possible the complete 
 history of the state he was so well fitted to write. But 
 when he passed away it was not because of the unfinished 
 tasks that we mourned; it was because the tender ties that 
 bound us to one that we loved and esteemed had been 
 severed, and we should never again be cheered by his 
 kindly presence at our Monday evening gatherings. 
 
 In what regard the members of the club held Mr. High 
 has already been related. General Smith, Mr. Boutell, and 
 Mr. Shorey were also men whom we revered and had 
 
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 honored with the highest office in our gift. Their sterling 
 qualities and genial presence bound us to them by the 
 strongest ties. This can be said also of Colonel Charles 
 Wilder Davis whose name with theirs had to be trans- 
 ferred to the roll of members deceased in the same year. 
 And he too had many warm friends in the club which he 
 had joined only the year before. To Daniel Lewis Shorey 
 the club owes much. He was one of the earliest and 
 always one of the most faithful and devoted members. 
 From the beginning he strove to hold the club to the 
 highest standard, and in his own life he exemplified the 
 value of the things of the spirit, of worthy and inspiring 
 thought, and of the joys that the best literature holds for 
 those who have learned to appreciate it. 
 
 During the next seven seasons the club pursued "the 
 even tenor of its way," giving great pleasure to all who 
 were connected with it. Many brilliant papers were read 
 and there was no flagging in the rare good fellowship that 
 has ever been its charm. But of events that should be 
 specially mentioned there were very few. Of the season 
 of 1 899-1900 it may be noted that toward its end an 
 amendment to the by-laws was adopted shortening the 
 club season by doing away with the June meetings. And 
 at the meeting held on October 9, 1899, the streets ad- 
 jacent to the University Club were so blocked by crowds 
 of people waiting to see a procession that only twenty- 
 one members succeeded in getting to the club rooms. 
 Many others failed in their attempts, and the essayist, 
 Henry Sherman Boutell, reported that he made several 
 futile efforts before he finally managed, with a police- 
 man's assistance, to reach the alley at the rear of the 
 
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 building and then with some difficulty crawled through a 
 small window into the coal cellar from which after paus- 
 ing at one of the lavatories he made his way upstairs. 
 
 In this year when Major George Laban Paddock was 
 the president, we lost by death only one member, Norman 
 Williams, but he was another of the good fellows and 
 cherished comrades of the early years. In the succeeding 
 year we were saddened by the death of five choice spirits 
 to whom we were deeply attached: General Alexander 
 C. McClurg, Colonel Huntington \V. Jackson, Charles 
 W. Fullerton, Aldace F. Walker, and Samuel H. Wright. 
 Better friends than were these men we never had. Fuller- 
 ton's love for the club found expression in a bequest to 
 buy books for our library. McClurg and Jackson were 
 first-year members who were ever eager in their efforts 
 to promote the welfare of the club in all ways that they 
 could. Until they were incapacitated by mortal illness 
 they were most constant in their attendance. To come 
 to the meetings whenever possible was recognized by 
 them as an obligation that every member owes to his fel- 
 lows. And it was because they and others of their kind did 
 come, that the meetings were so delightful. The five whose 
 names have just been mentioned were all rare men. It 
 is regrettable that of Colonel Jackson alone, a memorial 
 biography was printed. The omission does not signify 
 failure to appreciate the worth of the others nor any lack 
 of affection for them, but only this, that after the tribute 
 to Jackson had been printed it was found necessary for 
 financial reasons to give up the custom of printing these 
 biographies. At that time no one had thought that they 
 might without much expense be printed in the year books. 
 
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 In what regard General McClurg was held has been 
 related in a previous chapter. Colonel Jackson also was 
 greatly beloved. His manly qualities, courtly yet modest 
 bearing, inflexible integrity, and gracious manner could 
 not fail to impress all who were brought in contact with 
 him. In the Civil War he had served with distinction. As 
 a lawyer he attained high standing. The reason why his 
 name does not appear in the list of presidents of the club 
 is that he always declined to accept the nominations that 
 were tendered him again and again. 
 
 In 1 900-1 901, Samuel Sewall Greeley, another of our 
 early members, a man of noble character, who by his 
 sturdy independence, simple dignity, and unfailing cour- 
 tesy won the hearts of many friends and held their alle- 
 giance through the exceptionally long span of his life, was 
 president of the club. The winter of 1900-1901 was a 
 severe one. In February a great accumulation of ice was 
 piled high by the waves along the west shore of Lake 
 Michigan. The fantastic shapes of some of the ice mounds 
 afforded enterprising photographers an unusual oppor- 
 tunity, and some of our members will recall with pleasure 
 the "Report on Recent Explorations in the Sub-Polar 
 Regions of Cook County, with Ethnographic Notes upon 
 the Tribes Inhabiting the Mountainous Portions There- 
 of," illustrated with views, maps, and specimens, by 
 Frederick Greeley and Dr. Charles Gordon Fuller, which 
 was presented at the meeting held on April 22, 1 901. The 
 next meeting was a ladies' night when Clarence Burley 
 read "An Essay in ^Esthetic Culture," illustrated with 
 lantern slides from pictures drawn by two members of 
 the club caricaturing the titles of all the papers read or 
 
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 still to be read during the season. An illustrated catalogue 
 was printed and the pictures were exhibited in the club 
 rooms, but the exhibition was not as successful as the 
 one held in 1898. 
 
 Until 1 901 the club library which had been started in 
 1888 at the instance of Dr. William F. Poole when we 
 moved into the rooms in the Art Institute Building, con- 
 sisted chiefly of works of reference and bound volumes 
 of periodicals, with a few books by members of the club 
 presented by their authors. When, in December 1900, 
 Charles W. Fullerton who had been a faithful member 
 for nearly twenty years, passed away, it was learned that 
 by his will he had given the club a legacy of five hundred 
 dollars "to buy books for the library." This led to the 
 purchase from time to time of desirable works, and a little 
 later, to the making of an efl^ort to form a collection, as 
 complete as possible, of books and pamphlets written by 
 our members. This collection, though far from complete, 
 has now grown to quite respectable proportions and 
 is rightly regarded as a treasured possession. It should 
 be added to whenever books by our members, of which 
 we do not have copies, can be acquired. 
 
 Edwin Burritt Smith was president ofthe club in 1901- 
 1902. His inaugural address entitled "The Confused 
 West: a Literary Forecast" was printed in the memo- 
 rial volume of his "Essays and Addresses" published by 
 A. C. McClurg & Co. in 1909. No very notable events 
 occurred during that season or the following when Clar- 
 ence Burley was the presiding oflicer. In 1903-1904 Judge 
 Arba Nelson Waterman was our president. An innova- 
 tion that proved highly successful was a series of four 
 
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 informal dinners in as many months. These were served 
 in what had heretofore been the audience room but had 
 then been turned into a supper room, the large assembly 
 room being used for the literary exercises notwithstand- 
 ing the annoyance of street noises which were much in 
 evidence. In that front room twenty-nine members were 
 assembled on the evening of April 25, 1904, and William 
 Morton Payne was reading a paper on "Literary Criti- 
 cism in the United States" when fire broke out in the 
 shaft of the dumb-waiter in the rear room. The blaze was 
 a threatening one but fortunately it was extinguished 
 before much damage was done. In the few minutes before 
 the firemen arrived, and when it appeared that the build- 
 ing was doomed, an effort was made to save some of the 
 club property. George C. Rowland carried to the Tribune 
 Building for safety the large portrait of his uncle George 
 Rowland, which had been given to the club by him and 
 his uncle Walter M. Rowland in 1894. The portraits of 
 ex-presidents Collyer and Larned were by Morton Rull 
 and Irving Pond carried across Dearborn Street to a 
 saloon where they were bestowed for the night. So far as 
 the Literary Club was concerned, the damage caused by 
 the fire and the firemen was confined to the rear room. 
 The decorations were ruined, the carpet was badly soiled 
 and wet, and various small articles were lost or injured. 
 Chief among the things lost was the historic gavel made 
 from a piece of the keel of the U. S. ship "Kearsarge" 
 which was given to the club by Lieutenant Fletcher S. 
 Basett and had been used at our meetings for fifteen 
 years or more. 
 
 Among the members taken from the club by death 
 
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 In Memory of Hknry Lloyd 
 
 during 1903 and 1904 were two ex-presldents, Clinton 
 Locke and Brooke Herford, who had removed from Chi- 
 cago in 1882, first to Boston and thence, in 1892, to Lon- 
 don. And in September, 1903, we had suffered another 
 grievous loss in the death of Henry Demarest Lloyd, 
 who had been a member since June, 1B74. Lloyd was a 
 man who was animated by high aims which he pursued 
 with unflinching devotion and to which he gave his life. 
 His heart went out in deepest sympathy to those of his 
 fellows whom he looked upon not as sufferers from their 
 own shortcomings but as the victims of a wrong social 
 system; and he felt it his mission to plead their cause 
 with all his might. He was an earnest student, a close 
 thinker, and an effective writer and speaker. His style was 
 vigorous and incisive and he was a master of telling 
 phrase. These qualities alone were enough to gain for him 
 a wide audience. His fame, indeed, was world-wide. In the 
 club he had many warm friends and admirers. All of the 
 members respected his integrity of mind and purpose so 
 highly that whether the remedies for social ills that he 
 advocated seemed to them worthy of consideration or 
 hopelessly futile, they were always willing to listen to him 
 attentively. His absorption in a serious purpose did not 
 prevent him from being a delightful companion but it 
 did undermine his health and caused him to pass away 
 when he should have been just in his prime. 
 
 The season of 1904— 1905, when Frederic W. Root was 
 president, was a brilliant one. At the ladies' night on 
 October 31, 1904, Hiromichi Shugio, the Japanese Com- 
 missioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held 
 that year in St. Louis, was our guest and read a paper 
 
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 on "The Japanese Exhibits" at that exposition. Another 
 ladies' night meeting was held on January 30, 1 905, when 
 William Rainey Harper read a paper entitled "Semitic 
 Legal Literature as Illustrated by the Code of Hammu- 
 rabi." The informal dinners of the preceding season had 
 given so much satisfaction that the custom was continued 
 during this season and the next. At one of them, on No- 
 vember 7, 1904, a silver loving cup was presented to the 
 club by George H.Holt. The next dinner, on December 
 5, was made memorable by the symposium on "Religious 
 Views" which followed it: President Root made an intro- 
 ductory address; Edward O. Brown read "A Catholic's 
 Contribution"; L. Wilbur Messer set forth "Funda- 
 mental Religious Truths as Applied in Life"; Louis F. 
 Post gave "A Non-ecclesiastical Confession of Religious 
 Faith"; and Joseph Stolz offered "The Message of Juda- 
 ism to the Twentieth Century." These papers attracted 
 so much attention that in April they were printed by the 
 club. In May we were saddened by the death of Julius 
 Rosenthal, a member whom we all held in the highest 
 regard and affection. He was a man of the purest char- 
 acter. His devotion to the higher things of the spirit was 
 constant throughout his life and was an inspiration to all 
 with whom he came in contact. No one who was privileged 
 to know him can ever forget his gentle manner and person- 
 al charm, nor the quiet dignity that was the outward ex- 
 pression of the inner man, and which always commanded 
 both admiration and respect. 
 
 The last meeting of the season was devoted to con- 
 sideration of the affairs of the club and its policy past 
 and present. The movement then on foot for a new build- 
 
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 ing for the University Club had progressed so far as to 
 make it probable that before long it would become neces- 
 sary to seek other quarters for the Literary Club. In 
 the discussion of club customs and policy one member 
 aroused a storm of protest by advocating a radical change 
 which should take the form of more active participation 
 in public affairs, and Sigmund Zeisler was warmly ap- 
 plauded when he expressed the sentiment of almost all 
 who were present, that "the greatest charm and value 
 of the club is that it does not stand for any idea or prop- 
 aganda whatsoever." 
 
 The season of 1905-1906 was, like many others, nota- 
 ble for the variety and interest of the papers that were 
 read. And the annual reunion and dinner on October 
 9, 1905, when George H. Holt delivered his inaugural 
 address as president, was made memorable by the pres- 
 ence of Rev. Robert CoUyer who had come from New 
 York by special invitation to attend the meeting. "With 
 all his old time pathos and fervor" he addressed us "mak- 
 ing us feel that we were still the comrades and friends of 
 the bygone days" of which he gave delightful reminis- 
 cences. He was then nearly eighty-three, but mentally 
 and physically vigorous, and his stalwart figure, rugged 
 features, engaging smile and contagious enthusiasm made 
 the same impression upon his hearers that they always 
 did when he was with us. As it turned out this was his last 
 visit to Chicago though he lived for seven years there- 
 after. 
 
 At the informal dinner on November 6, 1905, Presi- 
 dent Holt announced that the speakers would be limited 
 to exactly five minutes each and he introduced what he 
 
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 called "the automatic chairman" a clock which could be 
 set at the beginning of a speech and would ring an alarm 
 bell when five minutes had elapsed. This helped to make 
 the discussions lively. By this time the University Club 
 Building project was well under way and our commit- 
 tee on rooms and finance was seeking other quarters 
 for us. At the business meeting in November, Frederick 
 Greeley, the chairman, reported that it had not suc- 
 ceeded in finding any that would serve. On the evening 
 of March 12, however, when Bishop Cheney read his 
 paper on "The Second Norman Conquest of England," 
 President Holt announced that the space (about 2200 
 square feet) on the sixth floor of the Orchestra Building 
 on Michigan Avenue, occupied during the past year by 
 the McCormick estate, had been leased by the club at a 
 rental of $2,900 a year for four years. He also announced 
 that negotiations were pending for the exchange of this 
 space for other space on the eighth floor of the building. 
 The last meeting of our thirteen years' occupancy of 
 the rooms in the old University Club Building was the 
 ladies' night, April 30, 1906, when Paul Shorey read a 
 paper entitled "Some Modernisms of the Ancients." On 
 account of our removal to the new quarters, the meeting 
 scheduled for May 7 had to be omitted; but a week later 
 thirty-five members gathered in the rooms in the Orches- 
 tra Building which were not yet in order, and President 
 Holt announced that negotiations with the agents of the 
 building looking toward an exchange of the space on 
 the sixth floor for equal space on the eighth floor and the 
 construction during the summer of an assembly hall for 
 the joint use of the Chicago Literary Club and the Cax- 
 
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 ton Club had progressed so far that most of the details 
 had been arranged. He then made the sad announcement 
 of the death of Edwin Burritt Smith and stated that a 
 memorial meeting in his honor would be held on Sunday 
 May 20, at the University Congregational Church. 
 
 To many of our members the death of Mr. Smith 
 brought poignant sorrow. Their relations with him had 
 been unusually close and the friendship thus engendered 
 was founded upon deep affection and esteem. The club 
 had been glad to honor him with its highest office. He 
 was a singularly self-sacrificing, courageous, and public- 
 spirited man. The best that was in him he gave freely 
 and fully to the service of the community ; his early death 
 was a public misfortune as well as a severe blow to those 
 privileged to know him intimately. His firm grip upon 
 abiding principles gave enduring value to the papers and 
 addresses upon municipal and national afl^airs which he 
 wrote, and the volume in which they were published in 
 1909 deserves to be widely known. A copy of it is in the 
 club library. 
 
 On May 28, 1906, by invitation of President Holt, the 
 meeting which was the last of the season was held at 
 the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, where seventy-four 
 members were his guests at dinner. At this meeting 
 Franklin MacVeagh was elected president for the ensuing 
 year; Eugene E. Prussing read "Some Personal Remi- 
 niscences of Edwin Burritt Smith" and Horace Martin 
 read a paper on "American Literary Criticism." 
 
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 THE rooms in the Orchestra Building had been 
 chosen not because they were what we wanted 
 but because the rooms committee had failed to 
 find an entirely suitable suite elsewhere in a location 
 that would meet all requirements and at a rental within 
 our means. During the latter years of the club's occu- 
 pancy of the rooms in the University Club Building there 
 was much open expression of dissatisfaction with them, 
 admirably suited to our purposes as they were in many 
 respects. This dissatisfaction was frequently alleged as a 
 reason for not attending the meetings, and finally became 
 so marked that our migration took place a year or more 
 earlier than was necessary. The expectation when the 
 quarters in the Orchestra Building weie taken, that an 
 arrangement could be consummated for an exchange for 
 space on the eighth floor adapted for the joint use of the 
 Literary Club and the Caxton Club proved to be a vain 
 one, as the agents of the building refused to make terms 
 that the clubs could accept. Not until August were the 
 negotiations terminated. Then it became necessary to see 
 what could be done to fit up the space we held under 
 lease. At first glance it seemed impossible to make it 
 available for our use. The problems it presented were 
 many, but happily Irving Pond who was engaged to 
 wrestle with them succeeded in solving them all, and, 
 after a lot of hard work they were ready for occupancy 
 when the season opened. The rooms could not be made 
 
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 entirely satisfactory, but unlike those from which we had 
 moved, which had become hopelessly dirty, they were 
 clean, and with a competent woman as housekeeper and 
 custodian they were well kept. Here it may be recorded 
 that Mrs. Mary Green who was then engaged and has 
 been continuously employed by the club ever since has 
 been and still is a most faithful and efficient servant. 
 
 It was not possible to hold the annual reunions and 
 dinners in these rooms. Therefore these meetings, at 
 which the inaugural addresses of President Mac^'eagh, 
 and of his successors in the following years, Charles L. 
 Hutchinson and Bishop Charles Edward Cheney, were 
 delivered, were held in the dining room of the University 
 Club. And the meeting on October 9, 1909, when Presi- 
 dent Edward O. Brown delivered his inaugural address, 
 was held at the Cliff Dwellers. 
 
 The four years ot our occupancy of the quarters in the 
 Orchestra Building were pleasant despite the obvious 
 fact that the rooms were not satisfactory. Of the meet- 
 ings the only one decidedly out of the ordinary was that 
 on December 13, 1909, when George H.Holt read a paper 
 entitled "Painting by Sunlight," and was followed by 
 his and the club's guest F. E. Iv^es, the inventor of the 
 three-color process, who told the story of color-photog- 
 raphy and with the aid of several lanterns exhibited its 
 results. Mr. Holt's paper, however, was only one of many 
 notable ones that weie read during these years. William 
 Morton Payne's "A Quarter Century of English Litera- 
 ture" was printed by the club. Others, equally worthy 
 of that distinction, written by members, whom happily 
 we still have with us, will readily be recalled by those 
 
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 who heard them read. One of the things that stand out 
 most conspicuously when we think of the evenings spent 
 in those rooms was the part played by Pliny Smith in 
 making the meetings enjoyable. Always first to hasten 
 to the supper room when the literary exercises were 
 over and to take an accustomed place at a round table 
 in one corner, he contrived to draw about him a con- 
 genial company and so to stimulate the spirit of good 
 fellowship as to make seats at the table eagerly coveted. 
 And many for whom there were not enough seats were 
 wont to stand close by and take part in the merriment. 
 
 In 1907 and 1908 several names were added to the roll 
 of members deceased. Two of these were the names of 
 early. members who were greatly missed by all of us who 
 knew them well. Major Henry Alonzo Huntington, whose 
 last years had been saddened by a tragedy in his family, 
 died in July, 1907, in his home in Versailles, France. 
 Almost a year later John G. Shortall passed away. Mr. 
 Shortall was possessed of marked personal magnetism. 
 This, together with his unfailing good humor, his bluff, 
 hearty manner, spirit of comradeship, and intellectual 
 acumen, made him a general favorite. Until failing health 
 and absence from the city prevented he was constant in 
 his attendance at our meetings, and was always ready to 
 take part in the literary exercises. The papers he read 
 before the club were well written and were listened to 
 with deep interest. 
 
 Early in the season of 1909 -i 910 the committe on 
 rooms and finance of which Charles C. Curtiss was the 
 chairman, was instructed to find other quarters for the 
 club. Various buildings were examined for their suita- 
 
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 bility and a proposition was made by the Cliff Dwellers 
 looking toward letting our meetings be held in their 
 rooms. Finally Mr. Curtiss was able to announce at a 
 meeting held on January lo, 1910, that it was possible 
 to arrange for quarters in The Fine Arts Building to be 
 jointly occupied by the Literary Club and the Caxton 
 Club upon terms and conditions mutually advantageous 
 to both organizations. This was most gratifying and the 
 officers of the club were duly authorized and instructed 
 to execute leases for the proposed rooms for a term of 
 years. That being done the work of remodeling and 
 fitting the rooms for the joint occupancy of the two clubs 
 was taken in hand, and on x^pril 25, 1910, the moving of 
 our effects having been accomplished in the preceding 
 week, the Chicago Literary Club held its first meeting in 
 the quarters it has occupied ever since and which have 
 proved most admirably adapted to its requirements. A 
 few years earlier the location would not have been suit- 
 able. It had in fact proved a deterrent to attendance 
 which steadily decreased in the years from 1888 to 1892 
 when the club rooms were in the building on the corner 
 of Van Buren Street only a few feet distant. 
 
 When the season of 1910-1911 opened in the follow- 
 ing October it was possible for the club again to have the 
 annual reunion and dinner in its own rooms after an in- 
 terval of nineteen years. Merritt Starr had been elected 
 president and seventy-one members and fifteen guests 
 listened to his inaugural address and to other addresses 
 and songs by the Imperial Quartet which followed it. 
 Three weeks later, on the evening of October 31, 1910, 
 the club celebrated its occupancy of the new quarters by 
 
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 holding a ladies' night reception to which the members 
 of the Caxton Club and their ladies were invited. It was 
 a very enjoyable occasion. The attendance was large and 
 Paul Shorey read a paper entitled "Athens Fin de Siecle." 
 
 Among the most ardent advocates of the removal to 
 the Fine Arts Building was Dr. James Nevins Hyde, but, 
 alas, he never saw the club there installed. Though he 
 was one of our earliest members, he was, we supposed, 
 still in rugged health when, on September 6, 1910, his life 
 came to a sudden end at his summer home at Prout's 
 Neck, Maine. To the members of the Chicago Literary 
 Club, all of whom without exception were his friends, the 
 news of his death brought infinite sadness. Few, if any, 
 of the gifted men whose names are inscribed upon our 
 rolls have had a firmer hold upon the affection of their 
 fellow members: few have been more loyally devoted to 
 the club or have done more to make it what it has been 
 for fifty years. His personality was notably dynamic; his 
 genial good humor was unfailing. His presence in the club 
 rooms was always enlivening. The papers he read at our 
 meetings were among the best to which we were privi- 
 leged to listen; many of them were historical studies 
 made graphic by his penetrative vision, and entertaining 
 by his witty comments and happy choice of words. His 
 professional standing was an enviable one, as also was 
 his record as a medical ofhcer in the Civil War; but for 
 us it was the man himself that counted, and to lose him 
 was hard, very hard indeed. 
 
 Two other early members were also reft from us in 
 the summer of 1910; Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller 
 who died in Washington, D. C, on July 4, and Major 
 
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 A Memorable Meeting 
 
 George Laban Paddock who passed away on Septem- 
 ber II. Mr. Fuller's attachment to the club was not 
 dimmed by more than twenty years' absence from Chi- 
 cago, but was held to the end of his life. Major Paddock 
 was always one of the faithful. Of seemingly frail phy- 
 sique, extremely quiet and gentle manner, and never self 
 assertive, he was yet a determined fighter for the causes 
 that he believed to be worthy, and he always had the 
 courage of his convictions. He was a calm-minded, clear 
 and logical thinker, a good lawyer, a lover of art and 
 literature and a comrade whom we valued highly. 
 
 One of the early meetings in the new rooms is memo- 
 rable, though not for the part that the writer of this 
 chronicle took in leading a conversation upon the topic 
 "Does Civilization Change Human Nature ?" He did not 
 attempt to answer the question; he merely stated it so as 
 to set tongues wagging. And wag they did with great 
 eagerness, not only throughout the meeting but around 
 the tables in the supper room after the adjournment, and 
 even, so it was reported, in the family circles of many 
 of the members where the discussion was continued 
 during several succeeding days. For this meeting, at the 
 suggestion of the writer, the committee on exercises for- 
 mulated and promulgated the following "Conversation 
 Regulations," hoping thus to aid in reviving an almost 
 obsolete form of "literary exercise" which was much in 
 vogue in earlier days. 
 
 1. If the leader's opening speech is entertaining he may talk just 
 
 five minutes, provided he is not interrupted. 
 
 2. After theopeninganyonechattering continuously for longer than 
 
 sixty consecutive seconds, or thereabouts, will be cut short by 
 the chairman. 
 
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 3. Every one present is expected to say something. 
 
 4. No restriction is placed upon the number of times any person 
 
 may chip in if he can get a chance. 
 
 5. If any one exhibits a disposition to keep his thoughts to himself 
 
 the chairman will courteously but firmly invite him to come 
 out of his shell. 
 
 6. No member shall be at liberty to make himself conspicuous by 
 
 standing while he converses. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the chairman to call any member to order 
 
 who expresses an opinion about anything he understands. 
 
 8. It is not necessary to stick to the subject. (N. B. — As no one 
 
 was ever known to do so, here or elsewhere, this regulation is 
 probably superfluous.) 
 
 The wisdom of moving to the delightful quarters that 
 the club now occupied was shown by a marked revival 
 in the club spirit and an increase of eighteen per cent in 
 the attendance during the first season of our occupancy. 
 Toward the end of the season two more valued members 
 were taken from us by death, Frederick Ullmann and 
 Rev. Charles Joseph Little, D.D., president of the Garret 
 Biblical Institute of the Northwestern University. Both 
 were men of noble character. Mr. Ullmann, much to the 
 regret of his fellow members who greatly respected and 
 admired him was not a frequent attendant at the meet- 
 ings of the club. Dr. Little always came when he could, 
 and his winning personality, marked by quiet natural 
 dignity and gracious manner, made him especially wel- 
 come. He was a man of distinguished attainments and was 
 widely known and beloved. For the club, during the nine 
 years when he was a member, he wrote six papers, all 
 of them attractive and bearing the impress of his wide 
 scholarship, keen appreciation of literary values, and mas- 
 tery of style. 
 
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 For the season of 1911-1912 William Morton Payne 
 was our president. His inaugural address entitled "Peter 
 and the Primrose" will be remembered with pleasure by 
 all who heard him read it. Mr. Payne was, in the best 
 sense of the phrase, a literary man, and had distinguished 
 ability as a writer. From literature he derived his greatest 
 pleasure. To it he devoted his talents with unflagging 
 zeal, giving to it virtually all the time that was not taken 
 up by his duties as a teacher in one of the Chicago public 
 schools or by foreign travel in his summer vacations. 
 Much of his finest work was done for The Dial, with which 
 he was connected for many years as an edi torial writer and 
 a book reviewer. His books were valuable contributions 
 to the literature of the subjects that he treated, but were 
 not of a kind to yield him much in the way of a financial 
 reward. Copies of all, or nearly all of them, given by him 
 to the club are in our library. Mr. Payne was deeply at- 
 tached to the club and for it he wrote many delightful 
 papers. He was greatly missed when his health gave way 
 and, in 1919, he died after a lingering illness. 
 
 In January, 191 2, we were saddened by the death of 
 Frederick Greeley, and in April by that of Pliny Smith 
 who had been nominated for the presidency a fortnight 
 earlier. In his stead William M. R. French was chosen, 
 and his inaugural address on "Sympathetic Imagination 
 as an Instrument of Criticism Literary and Artistic" was 
 a notable one, as we had reason to expect. The principal 
 events of the season of 1912-1913, when Mr. French was 
 our president, were the dinner on November 25, 191 2, to 
 Laurence Binyon of the British Museum, widely known 
 as a poet and author ot books on the fine arts; and the 
 
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 dinner on February 24, 1913, to John W. Alexander who 
 was then the president of the National Academy of 
 Design. 
 
 The death of our first president Rev. Robert Collyer 
 must, however, be recorded. It occurred on December i, 
 1 91 2, when he had almost attained the ripe age of ninety 
 years. Mr. Collyer was a man of unforgettable personal- 
 ity. He was big of frame and big of mind. Instead of 
 hardening him, the hardships of his early years in the 
 little village of Keighley, in the West Riding of York- 
 shire, England, where from his eighth until his fourteenth 
 year he tended a loom in a linen mill thirteen hours a 
 day, six days in the week, only broadened and deepened 
 the sympathy for his fellows, which, throughout his life, 
 was one of his most salient characteristics. His bluff, 
 hearty manner, simple directness of speech, and trans- 
 parent sincerity, were most engaging and not only brought 
 him many friends, but were important factors in the help- 
 ful influence which he exerted upon the members of his 
 congregations. His appreciation of the spiritual uplift to 
 be derived from acquaintance with the best literature is 
 well shown in the extracts from his address at our first 
 annual dinner, which are given in the second chapter of 
 this chronicle. In the twenty years of his residence in 
 Chicago, from May, 1859, until the autumn of 1879, Mr. 
 Collyer was one of the prominent figures in our city, 
 widely known and respected. When, feeling that his work 
 here was done, he removed to New York to become the 
 pastor of the Church of the Messiah, he was greatly 
 missed by the members of this club. At our meetings 
 his cheery presence was in the nature of an inspiration: 
 
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 Our Fortieth Anniversary 
 
 and to the end of his life he remained a fast friend and 
 supporter of our organization which he liad helped to 
 found. 
 
 Walter Lowrie Fisher was president in 1913-1914 and 
 chose "The Literature of Alaska" as the subject of his 
 inaugural address. Meetings during his administration 
 that call for special mention are three held in March, 
 1 914. At one of these Judge Brown read his delightful 
 paper "De Senectute" which has been printed by the 
 club; at another, a ladies' night, William J. Calhoun, then 
 recently returned from Peking where he had been the 
 United States Minister for four years, read a paper on 
 "China in Transition." The third meeting was that of 
 March 16, when the fortieth anniversary of the founding 
 of the club was celebrated at a dinner, following which 
 memories of the early meetings and of members who had 
 passed away were given by Judge Brown, William M. R. 
 French, and the writer. It was at this meeting that we 
 began to realize that while the club was yet young and 
 vigorous many of its members were not and could not 
 be expected to be with us many years longer. 
 
 The list of seventeen names added to the roll of mem- 
 bers deceased in 1912-1913 and 1913-1914 is an im- 
 pressive one. First upon it appear those of Rev. Robert 
 Collyer, Francis Fisher Browne and Rev. Leander T. 
 Chamberlain. Then come those of Henry H. Belfield, 
 Daniel H. Burnham, Arthur D. Wheeler, Rev. William 
 J. Petrie, Dr. Henry P. Merriman, Rev. Louis S. Osborne, 
 Eliphalet W. Blatchford, John C. Grant, John W. Mac- 
 Geagh, General Joseph B. Leake, David B. Lyman, 
 Josiah L. Pickard, Albert G. Farr, and William Eliot 
 
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 Furness, all but two well on in years, and all but two of 
 them young men when they joined the club. Most of them 
 will be remembered by many of those who are now mem- 
 bers; some of them have been mentioned more than once 
 in this history, and biographies of others were printed in 
 the year books. 
 
 Francis Fisher Browne deserves a chapter to himself 
 though he never attended more than one meeting of the 
 club. His part in founding it and the unfortunate circum- 
 stances that resulted in leaving him outside the fold dur- 
 ing the first twenty-five years have already been related. 
 When reparation was made and his name was restored 
 to the roll, his health was so precarious that he was forced 
 to stay closely at homein the evenings. It was impossible, 
 therefore, for him to come to our meetings. He was, how- 
 ever, well known to many of the members and this history 
 would not be complete without some mention of his rare 
 worth. A more sensitively organized man never lived, or 
 one more intensely animated by the highest and purest 
 motives. His frail physique prevented him from taking 
 an active part in social and political life for which indeed 
 he was not otherwise well fitted. But in ministering to 
 the spiritual uplifting of his fellows he found his mission 
 and his whole life was given over to that end. In the 
 firm belief that this could best be accomplished through 
 the cultivation of the i^sthetic sense he strove to aid the 
 cause of literature and art by writing and getting others 
 to write for the journal of appreciation and critical ex- 
 amination that he founded and continued to publish as 
 long as he lived. Under his capable editorship The Dial 
 maintained an enviable rank among literary journals and 
 
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 More Devoted Members 
 
 had reatiers in many lands. As a companion Mr. Browne 
 was most delightful. His deep interest in all really impor- 
 tant things, his wide knowledge and power of impartial 
 analysis, his eager desire to know and do whatever was 
 right, and his unfailing sense of humor and appreciation 
 of merit could not fail both to stimulate and entertain. 
 It is greatly to be regretted that his connection with 
 the club could not have been close and intimate. 
 
 Mr. Belfield was one of the most devoted members the 
 club has ever had. He was most regular in his attendance 
 during almost twenty-eight years, and was a general 
 favorite with his fellows, more especially with a congenial 
 group of those who, like himself, had been officers in 
 the Union Army in the Civil War. In that war and in later 
 years as an educator he had won merited distinction. 
 But it was the man himself and not his attainments that 
 endeared him to us. He was simple, straightforward, ear- 
 nest, high-minded, and eager to do his best. Such a man 
 must always be an inspiration to those with whom he 
 comes in close contact. 
 
 Major Furness and General Leake were also veterans 
 of the Civil War. Furness was one of the founders of the 
 club and from the beginning he was active in promoting 
 its welfare. His charming personality won him a host of 
 friends and many of these were admitted to the club as 
 a result of his initiative. Perhaps no other member ever 
 proposed so many desirable candidates for membership. 
 He will be long remembered for himself and for his attach- 
 ment to the club of which he was the secretary from 1876 
 to 1880 and the president for the season of 1894 1895. 
 General Leake was also a member whose solid worth 
 
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 endeared him to his fellows during many years of close 
 companionship, and whom they were glad to choose as 
 their president for the season of 1 897-1 898. 
 
 John Cowles Grant was another of the faithful. From 
 January, 1888, until he was incapacitated by the illness 
 that caused his death in March, 1914, his figure was one 
 of the most familiar at our meetings. For his life work as 
 a teacher he had a natural gift. The many pupils whom 
 he taught at Lake Forest Academy, at the x'\llen Acad- 
 emy in Chicago, and at the famous Harvard School of 
 which he was one of the proprietors and principals from 
 1 88 1 until his death, always spoke of him with affection 
 and gratitude. One of these pupils said of him in the 
 biographical sketch printed in the club Year Book for 
 1914— 1915: "Mr, Grant was deeply interested in all 
 things that make for righteousness: he was an elder in 
 the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, a trustee of 
 th^ Tuskegee Institute, and was long active in the work 
 of the Young Men's Christian Association. His high so- 
 cial gifts, his keen and gentle wit and large capacity for 
 friendship, his unusual intellectual power, and his deep 
 moral earnestness greatly endeared him to his fellow 
 members." What the club meant to him was gracefully 
 shown by a bequest of one thousand dollars to it, made 
 in his will. 
 
 Before the season of 1914-1915 the great war had cast 
 its shadow over the world. Dr. Charles Bert Reed, than 
 whom the club has never had a more devoted member, 
 was our president during that season. His inaugural 
 address, which had the club for its theme, was afterward 
 printed by the club. Memorable among the meetings ot 
 
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 EDWARD OSGOOD BROWN
 
 Events OF 1914-1916 
 
 the year was the dinner to George Macaulay Trevelyan 
 on May 3, 191 5, when he addressed the ckih and Paul 
 Shorey read a paper entitled "An Exchange Professor 
 in Germany." Another meeting not readily forgotten 
 by those present was held just a week later. At it our 
 lamented friend Dr. Harold IMoyer delighted us with an 
 exposition ot "The Freudian Doctrine and its Limita- 
 tions." Ten more of our older members died in this club 
 year: Franklin H. Head, William M. R. French, Hart well 
 Osborn, Albert A. Sprague, Walter C. Larned, Rev. 
 Charles S. Lester, and Rev. Arthur Little; and in the next 
 year Samuel S. Greeley, Bryan Lathrop, John J. Herrick, 
 Rev. Theodore P. Prudden and Raymond S. Perrin 
 passed away. 
 
 The season of 1915-1916, when Payson Sibley Wild 
 was president, was a most enjoyable one and was marked 
 by good attendance except on the ladies' nights when 
 various circumstances prevented many from coming to 
 the rooms. The most notable literary offerings of the 
 season were Dr. Moyer's paper on "Dreams," and the 
 president's inaugural address entitled "An Early Liter- 
 ary Club," which was printed by the club. 
 
 No events that stand out conspicuously occurred dur- 
 ing the next three seasons when the office of president was 
 held successively by James Westfall Thompson, Clement 
 Walker Andrews, and George Packard. After our first 
 lease of the present club rooms expired in 1913 it had 
 been renewed from year to year, but in 191 5 the increase 
 in taxes and operating expenses had made it necessary 
 for the owners of the building to increase the rental. 
 To meet this without increasing the dues paid by the 
 
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 members of the two clubs the manager of the building was 
 authorized to sublet the rooms to other organizations 
 that might desire them for meetings that would not con- 
 flict with our meetings or those of the Caxton Club. This 
 arrangement proved satisfactory so far as the Literary 
 Club was concerned, but in 191 8 the Caxton Club decided 
 to remove to the Art Institute. This made it uncertain 
 whether we should be able to continue to remain, but 
 fortunately an arrangement was effected by which this 
 club could have the use of its rooms on Monday eve- 
 nings and the building should have the right to rent them 
 to other tenants for use at all other times, and as our 
 furnishings were to be kept in place the rental was fixed 
 at a sum which was within our means and regarded by 
 our finance committee as reasonable. This arrangement 
 has since been renewed from year to year and still con- 
 tinues. 
 
 During the season of 1916-1917 two valued members, 
 William J. Calhoun and Judge Arba N. Waterman, were 
 reft from us by death; and in 1917-1918 the names of two 
 staunch supporters of the club from almost its earliest 
 days, George Everett Adams and Moses L. Scudder, were 
 added to the roll of members deceased. The resignation 
 of Dr. Joseph Zeisler, on October 1,1917, was also looked 
 upon as a great loss to the club. For more than twenty- 
 two years he had been constant in his attendance at our 
 meetings, where by his unfailing geniality and interest 
 in whatever interested his fellow members he had won 
 their hearts, and it was with deep regret that they learned 
 that he had dropped out. 
 
 At the close of the forty-fifth season in May, 191 8, the 
 
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 A Message to Posterity 
 
 writer said in his annual report: "When we read the 
 accounts of wars, religious persecutions, and political 
 upheavals that formerly were accepted as adequate his- 
 torical showings, we wondered, if we thought about the 
 matter at all, how people managed to live and provide 
 for their necessities under such impossible conditions. 
 When we read the lives of eminent scholars, teachers, 
 and artists who lived amid the turmoil of such troublous 
 times, the wars and upheavals recede so far into the 
 background that we may and often do lose sight of them 
 altogether. When, a thousand years hence, the members 
 of the Chicago Literary Club read its early history, 
 proud to belong to such an ancient and honorable organ- 
 ization, but puzzled to know what sort of men upheld it 
 in its infancy, they will very likely wonder how it man- 
 aged to exist through the stress and strain of the great 
 world war. If this report is still in the club's archives it 
 will assure them that, despite the trials, anxieties, heart- 
 wrenches and other grievous burdens that in common 
 with all other good men the members of this club had 
 to bear, the club's forty-fifth season was rounded out 
 as peacefully, as serenely as any of the forty-four that 
 preceded it and its meetings were not less enjoyable and 
 stimulating than those held in former years." 
 
 The number of resident members at the end of that 
 season was one hundred and forty-three, of whom sixty 
 were more than sixty years old, and only fifteen were 
 aged less than forty years. An active campaign to enlist 
 younger members having attainments in keeping with 
 the traditions of the club had, however, been started, and 
 has since had excellent results. 
 
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 The year bookscontainmemorial biographies of twenty 
 members who died during the forty-third, forty-fourth, 
 and forty-fifth seasons. All were men we could not afford 
 to lose, but especially dear to us from their close and 
 active connection with the club, were Bishop Charles 
 Edward Cheney, Judge Henry V. Freeman, Frederic 
 W. Root, Horatio L. Wait, Henry E. Legler, Rev. Dr. 
 Galusha Anderson, and Charles Sumner Holt. Of one of 
 these I said in a biography, printed in the year book for 
 1917-1918, words that I wish to repeat here: "To the 
 members of this club the mention of the name of Bishop 
 Cheney will always bring to mind a personality of singu- 
 lar beauty and refinement. The memory of his noble 
 character, his dignified yet always gracious and friendly 
 bearing, his breadth of sympathy, his intellectual alert- 
 ness, and his keen interest in all higher things, must 
 ever have for us all the force of a benediction. . . . Few 
 men have had greater capacity for inspiring affection or 
 have been more widely beloved. In the club we miss him 
 as one whom we all loved and admired and were proud 
 to have as our fellow member." 
 
 In another biography printed in the same year book I 
 said : "Among the men who have given the Chicago Liter- 
 ary Club the deep hold it has ever had upon the affec- 
 tion of its members, Frederic Woodman Root will always 
 occupy a prominent place. He was elected a member on 
 October 31, 1884, and from that time forward, until fail- 
 ing health prevented him from coming to the club, he 
 was ever a frequent attendant at the meetings where his 
 cheery manner, his unfailing geniality, and his graceful 
 wit added much to the enjoyment of all who were pres- 
 
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 FREDERICK WILLIAM GOOKIN
 
 Two Devoted Members 
 
 ent. . . . Devoted as he was to music Mr. Root did 
 not neglect to store his mind with other knowledge. His 
 reading covered a wide range, and he had a genuine love 
 of study. His papers read before the club, most of them 
 accompanied by musical illustrations, were exceptionally 
 instructive and entertaining and they always attracted 
 large audiences." 
 
 Of Horatio Loomis Wait it should be said again that: 
 "His winning personality and gentle manner drew to him 
 all who were privileged to know him well and his memory 
 will long be cherished by his fellow members in the club." 
 His genial presence was long a feature at our meetings, 
 for during the entire period of thirty-nine years when 
 his name was upon the roll he never missed a meeting 
 that it was possible for him to attend. And in all those 
 years no other member was more ready to contribute to 
 the literary exercises or to serve the club in any way. 
 
 For the forty-seventh season, that of 1919-1920, Ed- 
 win Herbert Lewis was president of the club. At the end of 
 that season the writer of this history retired from the 
 office of secretary and treasurer which he had held for 
 forty years; and on May 24, 1920, the club gave a dinner 
 in his honor. This tribute of regard from his fellow mem- 
 bers touched him so deeply that he could not then and 
 cannot now express more than faintly what it meant to 
 him to have such a testimonial. At the meeting held a 
 fortnight earlier Payson Sibley Wild was elected as his 
 successor. That this was a most happy choice the writer 
 feels sure that all of the members of the club will heartily 
 agree. 
 
 In 1920-1921 Albert Harris Tolman was the club's 
 
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 president. For the season of 1 921 -1922 the high honor of 
 that office was conferred upon the writer; in 1922- 1923 
 Irving Kane Pond was its recipient; and in 1923-1924 the 
 club rounds out its first half century and its filty-first 
 season under the presidency of Victor Yarros. In one 
 sense uneventful, these last four seasons have been among 
 the best we have ever enjoyed, and in looking back upon 
 them, the distinguished quality of the papers read, and 
 the spirit of good fellowship that has pervaded the meet- 
 ings are the things that come most insistently to mind. 
 Alas, none of the four seasons has been without its burden 
 of sorrow. In April, 1922, Dr. Frank Johnson died in Cali- 
 fornia whither he had removed when failing health com- 
 pelled him togive up the practice of his profession; and in 
 the following month Adolphus C. Bartlett, another of our 
 early members, passed away. Leslie Lewis, who died in 
 October, 1922, had been a loyal member for nearly forty 
 years. Henry Frederick Cope, whose sudden death in 
 August, 1923, brought a shock of grief to many of our 
 members, was enrolled in 1907. During the sixteen years 
 that he was with us he made a deep impression upon 
 his fellows. Remarkably broad-minded and a clear and 
 cogent writer, he strove to keep free from bias, to view 
 controverted questions in all their aspects, and not to 
 withhold sympathy from those with whom he could not 
 agree. These qualities of mind made him exceptionally 
 well fitted to carry on the work of religious education to 
 which his latter years were devoted. Together with his 
 open sincerity, cheery manner, and strong sense ot humor, 
 they gained for him many warm friends. In the club to 
 which he was ardently attached we miss him sadly. 
 
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 Others for Whom We Grieve 
 
 Among the loyal members who were taken from us 
 in 1923 and 1924, the names of George H. Holt, General 
 Martin D Hardin, Dr. Harold N. Moyer, and Judge 
 Edward O. Brown come first to mind. In recent years 
 neither Mr. Holt who was broken in health, nor General 
 Hardin who was of advanced age and spent the cold 
 months ot the year in Florida, was able to visit the club 
 save at long intervals. Both, however, were active in 
 earlier years, and both remained constant in their attach- 
 ment to the last. ' 
 
 General Hardin who was in the regular army and was 
 stationed in Oregon before the Civil War, and was placed 
 on the retired list when he was grievously wounded and 
 lostoneof his arms at the second battle of Bull Run where 
 he distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry, was 
 compelled to live an inactive life thereafter, but he was 
 a man of keen intelligence and was always deeply inter- 
 ested in current social and economic questions. He will 
 be recalled by the members who knew him, for his mili- 
 tary bearing, affability, and sturdy independence of mind. 
 
 George Holt was a man of such marked individuality 
 that he will not readily be forgotten by those who knew 
 him. For those who did not know him a mere enumer- 
 ation of his salient characteristics can convey no realistic 
 picture of his personality. To say that he was a good 
 fellow, with a keen appreciation of humor and with a 
 talent for witty dialect recitation; that he was a suc- 
 cessful business man and as such accustomed to impose 
 his will upon others; and that he was interested in 
 many things besides his business, is not enough. It was 
 not for these qualities that he was chosen president 
 
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 of the club for the season of 1 905-1 906, but for the in- 
 definable something more that drew us to him and drew 
 him to us. 
 
 Our hearts bleed when we think of Dr. Moyer, as we 
 shall long continue to do, for he was a constant attendant 
 at the meetings during a good many of the recent years 
 and all the more active members knew him well. He will 
 be remembered not alone for his brilliant papers, notable 
 for the thoughtful and trenchant analysis of the subjects 
 he took up, and brimming with pungent witticisms that 
 were irresistibly mirth-provoking. Even more will he be 
 remembered for the good fellowship he so actively pro- 
 moted and of which he was the enlivening spirit while 
 in his accustomed place in the circle about one of the 
 tables in the supper room after the close of the literary 
 exercises. 
 
 Judge Brown too we miss most keenly. For some years 
 past he and Franklin MacVeagh were the only resident 
 members still living who joined the club in its first year. 
 In a very special sense each one of the members had come 
 to regard him as a personal friend. Through almost the 
 entire period of his membership, only a few months less 
 than fifty years, he was a constant attendant at the meet- 
 ings. He loved the club and it was a large factor in his 
 life. To the calls it made upon him he always responded 
 with cheerful alacrity, and the papers he wrote for us 
 were of distinguished quality. As a lawyer and a jurist he 
 held an enviable place in the community, but our mem- 
 ories of him will be of the gracious presence of the man 
 himself as he was among his chosen associates at our 
 Monday evening gatherings. 
 
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 Others for Whom We Grieve 
 
 Two other members who passed away in 1923, Rev. 
 John Coleman Adams and Dr. Horace M. Starkey, will 
 be pleasantly recalled by those of us who knew them, for 
 both were great favorites with their fellows. They loved 
 the club dearly and, during the years when they lived in 
 Chicago, they did much for it and were constant in their 
 attendance at the meetings. Often after their removal 
 from the city expressions of regret came from them that 
 they could- no longer be with us except in spirit. 
 
 There are some men so eminently companionable that 
 they make a deep and lasting impression upon all who 
 come in contact with them. Dr. Charles Adams was 
 one of that kind. When he joined the club in January, 
 1876, he was a young man, but he had already achieved 
 distinguished professional standing. As his reputation as 
 a surgeon widened he found it increasingly difficult to 
 attend the meetings, wherefore in January, 1895, '"^^ ^'^- 
 signed. Some years later, however, realizing his mistake, 
 he asked to be reinstated, and in January, 1902, he was 
 gladly taken back into the fold. Thenceforth he was a 
 familiar figure at our meetings where he was ever wel- 
 come and where his presence added much to the enjoy- 
 ment ot all who were in attendance. It was with much 
 regret that we bade him "Good bye" when, having re- 
 tired from the practice of his profession, he left Chicago 
 to spend his remaining days in Honolulu. Dr. Adams' 
 personality is unforgettable. His military bearing, the 
 outcome of his long and active connection with the 
 Illinois National Guard, his genial manner, his deep in- 
 terest in all the things that make for culture, and above 
 all, his sympathetic understanding and keen sense of 
 
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 humor, were salient characteristics that stand out con- 
 spicuously as we recall him to memory. For us who knew 
 him well it was a sad day when word came that he had 
 passed away, and we miss him greatly. 
 
 There would be a lamentable gap in this history did 
 it not include further mention of another member who 
 died only a few months after the club had rounded out 
 its first fifty years. Charles Lawrence Hutchinson was 
 one of the outstanding men in the community. Through- 
 out his life he was deeply interested in all that contrib- 
 uted to the uplift of his fellows; even during his earlier 
 years when he was the president and manager of the 
 Corn Exchange Bank, he was actively connected with 
 many public works. No other citizen had the welfare of 
 all of the people more constantly at heart. The Art Insti- 
 tute of Chicago, which he founded, and of which he was 
 the president as long as he lived, stands as a monument 
 to his love for the fine arts and his belief that in no way 
 could he confer lasting benefit upon others more surely 
 than by putting within their reach abundant opportu- 
 nity to develop and cultivate their aesthetic sense. How 
 much time and painstaking effort he put into the up- 
 building of that great institution, of which Chicago may 
 well be proud, only those who were closely associated 
 with him in the work can fully comprehend. It was a 
 labor of love in which he never let himself be discouraged. 
 Instead he pushed ahead steadily, year in and year out, 
 and never failed to inspire his associates by his quiet 
 confidence and enthusiasm. 
 
 To the University of Chicago he also gave much, and 
 was not only its treasurer, but one of the most valued 
 
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 In Memory of Charles Hutchinson 
 
 members of its Board of Trustees. A list of all the public 
 institutions and enterprises with which he was connected 
 in one way or another is beyond the scope of this history. 
 It will suffice to say that few that were worthy lacked 
 such aid as he could give. Here in this club it was his rare 
 personality that endeared him to us. We thought of him 
 not so much for what he was in the world at large as 
 for what he was to us in the precincts of the club — the 
 friend to whom we were deeply attached, to whom we 
 always listened with close attention when, as was often 
 the case, he delighted us with his thoughtful and well- 
 written papers, and whom we were happy to elect as our 
 president for the season of 1 907-1 908. Mr. Hutchinson 
 was devoted to the club and we were devoted to him: 
 he will long be enshrined in our memory now that, alas, 
 he has been taken away. 
 
 In ending this chronicle of the first fifty years of the 
 club, the writer is impelled to repeat with only slight 
 changes, the words with which he closed his inaugural 
 address as president. 
 
 As we of the older generations look backward over the 
 years that have gone, three things besides the excellence 
 of the papers read stand out conspicuously. First among 
 these is the remarkable strength of the attachment of 
 the members to the club, which has persisted from its 
 earliest beginning until now and is undiminished today. 
 Another is the large element of fun that made the early 
 meetings so enjoyable. The third is the memory of the 
 old familiar faces and figures of the fellow members we 
 knew and loved. Strongly do I share the sentiment that 
 Major Huntington expressed so beautifully when in his 
 
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 inaugural address as president, he uttered the words that 
 each one of us may well echo: "That gallery, invisible 
 to others, which like every man of feeling, I have built 
 within myself, is illuminated tonight and the portraits 
 painted by memory are looking down upon me." 
 
 But visions of the faces and of the days that can never 
 return should not occupy too much of our attention nor 
 keep our minds from the joys that are to come. What 
 hes ahead of us I shall not attempt to prophesy. A Japa- 
 nese proverb says: "When we talk of tomorrow the rat 
 in the ceiling will laugh." But the future of the club will 
 be largely what we make it. As we sow, so shall we reap. 
 The destiny of the club is in the hands of its younger 
 members. It is for them to carry on its traditions, to up- 
 hold its high standard, to make it the cherished meeting 
 place where the best and most cultured men in the city 
 will foregather. To do this, great care must be taken that 
 no one is admitted who does not strengthen the club. 
 Otherwise it will cease to be attractive to those whose 
 names will add to its luster and whose presence at the 
 meetings will be an inspiration to all. And each member 
 in the future as in the past will need to have a keen sense 
 of personal responsibihty and be willing to give the club 
 of his very best. If the members do not fail in this, and 
 it is inconceivable that they will, then at the expiration 
 of another fifty years the club should still be a lusty 
 infant. 
 
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 APPENDICES
 
 App endix a 
 
 WHERE THE MEETINGS OF 
 
 THE CLUB 
 
 HAVE BEEN HELD 
 
 In the Club Room of the Sherman House, from March 13, 
 1874, to November 15, 1875. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the fourth floor of the Ameri- 
 can Express Company's building on Monroe Street 
 between State and Dearborn Streets, from November 
 22, 1875, to April 25, 1881. 
 
 At the Grand Pacific Hotel on October 8, 1880; dinner 
 to Thomas Hughes. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the fourth floor of Portland 
 Block, corner of Washington and Dearborn Streets, 
 from May 9, 188 1, to April 26, 1886. 
 
 At Kinsley's restaurant, 105-107 Adams Street, between 
 Dearborn and Clark Streets, in the banquet room on 
 the fifth floor, from May 3, 1886, to January 10, 1887. 
 
 At the Union League Club, on January 17, February 7 
 
 and 14, 1887. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the third floor of the building 
 of the Art Institute, southwest corner ot Michigan 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Avenue and Van Buren Street, from October lo, 1887, 
 to June 13, 1892. 
 
 At the University Club, 116-118 Dearborn Street, from 
 October 3, 1892, to May 8, 1893. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the second floor of the Uni- 
 versity Club, 116-118 Dearborn Street, from October 
 2, 1893, to April 30, 1906. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the sixth floor of the Or- 
 chestra Building, 168 Michigan Avenue, from May 14, 
 1906, to April 18, 1910, except for the five meetings 
 listed below. 
 
 At the Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, on May 28, 1906, 
 when the members attending the meeting were the 
 guests of President George H. Holt. 
 
 At the University Club, 1 16-1 1 8 Dearborn Street, for the 
 annual reunions and dinners on October i, 1906, Oc- 
 tober 7, 1907, and October 5, 1908. 
 
 At the Art Institute,on March 9, 1908; "Ladies' Night." 
 
 At the CliflF Dwellers rooms in the Orchestra Building 
 for the annual reunion and dinner on October 4, 1909. 
 
 In the rooms of the club on the tenth floor of the Fine 
 Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Avenue, from April 
 25, 1 910, onward to the present time, except on 
 December 21, 1914, when the meeting was held at 
 the University Club, Monroe Street and Michigan 
 Avenue. 
 
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 Appendix B 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE CLUB 
 
 1874-1924 
 
 PRESIDENTS 
 
 Robert CoUyer . . . 
 Charles B. Lawrence 
 Hosmer A. Johnson 
 Daniel L. Shorey . 
 Edward G. Mason 
 William F. Poole . 
 Brooke Herford 
 Edwin C. Earned . 
 George Howland . 
 Henry A. Huntington 
 Charles Gilman Smith 
 James S. Norton . . 
 Alexander C. McClurg 
 George C. Noyes . 
 James L. High . . 
 James Nevins Hyde 
 Franklin H. Head 
 Clinton Locke . . 
 Lewis H. Boutell . 
 Horatio L. Wait . 
 William Eliot Furness 
 John Henry Barrows 
 Ephraim A. Otis . . 
 George W. Smith . . 
 Joseph B. Leake . . 
 
 Victor 
 
 1874-75 Henry V. Freeman . . . 1898-99 
 
 1875-76 George L. Paddock . . 1899-1900 
 
 1876-77 Samuel S. Greeley . . . 1900-01 
 
 1877-78 Edwin Burritt Smith . . 1901-02 
 
 1878-79 Clarence A. Burley . . . 1902-03 
 
 1879-80 Arba N. Waterman . . . 1903-04 
 
 1880-81 Frederic W. Root . . . . 1904-05 
 
 1881-82 George H. Holt .... 1905-06 
 
 1882-83 Franklin MacVeagh . . 1906-07 
 
 1883-84 Charles L. Hutchinson . 1907-08 
 
 1884-85 Charles Edward Cheney . 1908-09 
 
 1885-86 Edward Osgood Brown . 1909-10 
 
 1886-87 Merritt Starr 1910-11 
 
 1887-88 William Morton Payne . 1911-12 
 
 1888-89 William M. R. French . 1912-13 
 
 1889-90 Walter Lowrie Fisher . . 19 13-14 
 
 1890-91 Charles Bert Reed . . . 1914-15 
 
 1891-92 Payson Sibley Wild . . . 1915-16 
 
 1892-93 James Westfall Thompson 1916-17 
 
 1893-94 Clement W. Andrews . . 1917-18 
 
 1894-95 George Packard .... 1918-19 
 
 1895-96 Edwin Herbert Lewis . . 1919-20 
 
 1896 Albert Harris Tolman . . 1920-21 
 
 1896-97 Frederick William Gookin 1921-22 
 
 1897-98 Irving Kane Pond . . . 1922-23 
 
 S. Yarros .... 1923-24 
 
 [ 205 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AND CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 
 
 John A. Jameson . 
 Henry Booth . , 
 Edward G. Mason 
 John Crerar . . 
 William F. Poole 
 Benjamin D. Magruder 
 Henry A. Huntington 
 James S. Norton . . 
 Alfred Bishop Mason 
 William Eliot Furness 
 Samuel P. McConnell 
 Henry T. Steele 
 James L. High . 
 Elbridge G. Keith 
 Ephraim A. Otis 
 Edgar Madden . 
 Huntington W. Jackson 
 Lewis H. Boutell . 
 Joseph B. Leake . 
 George W. Smith . 
 Abram M. Pence . 
 Frank H. Scott . 
 David B. Jones 
 George L. Paddock 
 Huntington W. Jackson 
 
 874-75 
 875-76 
 
 876-77 
 
 877-78 
 
 878-79 
 
 879-80 
 
 880-81 
 
 881-82 
 
 882-83 
 
 883-84 
 
 884-85 
 
 885-86 
 
 886-87 
 
 889-90 
 890-91 
 891-92 
 892-93 
 893-94 
 
 894-95 
 895-96 
 896-97 
 897-98 
 898-99 
 
 George Packard . . 
 Walter M. Howland. 
 Charles S. Holt . . 
 Charles Gordon Fuller 
 Clement W. Andrews 
 William W. Case . . 
 James J. Wait . . . 
 Emilius C. Dudley . 
 John J. Glessner . . 
 Charles Gordon Fuller 
 James J. Wait . . . 
 Walter L. Fisher . . 
 Louis James Block . 
 George Noble Carman 
 Louis Freeland Post. 
 Clarence A. Burley . 
 Clement W. Andrews 
 Frank S. Johnson . . 
 Albert Harris Tolman 
 James Clarke Jeffery 
 Roy Clifton Osgood . 
 Henry Milton Wolf . 
 DeWitt Cosgrove Wing 
 Herbert John Campbell 
 Carl B. Roden . . . . 
 
 9-1900 
 900-01 
 901-02 
 902-03 
 903^4 
 904-05 
 905-06 
 906-07 
 907-08 
 908-09 
 909-10 
 910-11 
 911-12 
 912-13 
 
 913-14 
 914-15 
 915-16 
 916-17 
 917-18 
 918-19 
 919-20 
 920-21 
 921-22 
 922-23 
 923-24 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AND CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 ARRANGEMENTS AND EXERCISES 
 
 David Swing . . . 
 W'illiam F. Poole . . 
 Charles Gilman Smith 
 Thomas F. Withrow 
 Henry H. Babcock . 
 George C. Clarke . . 
 
 • • 1874-75 
 
 George Howland . . . 
 
 . 1881-82 
 
 • • 1875-77 
 
 Henry A. Huntington . 
 
 . 1882-83 
 
 ■ • 1877-78 
 
 Joseph Kirkland . . . 
 
 . 1883-84 
 
 • ■ 1878-79 
 
 Walter C. Earned. . . 
 
 . 1884-85 
 
 . . 1879-80 
 
 James Nevins Hyde. . 
 
 . 1885-86 
 
 . , 1880-81 
 
 George C. Noyes . . . 
 
 . 1886-87 
 
 [ 206
 
 Officers of the Club 
 
 Franklin H. Head 
 Horatio L. Wait . . 
 Daniel Goodwin . . 
 Henry B. Mason . . 
 Clarence A. Burley . 
 Slason Thompson 
 William Eliot Furness 
 Frank Gilbert 
 Henry S. Boutell 
 Edward O. Brown 
 Walter L. Fisher 
 Horace S. Oakley 
 William P. Sidley 
 Irving K. Pond 
 Clarence A. Burley 
 George Packard 
 Frederic W. Root 
 George H. Holt . 
 
 1887-88 Merritt Starr . . . . 
 
 1888-89 James W. Thompson . 
 
 1889-90 Frederick A. Smith . . 
 
 1890-91 William Morton Payne 
 
 1891-92 Charles Bert Reed . . 
 
 1892-93 Payson S. Wild . . . . 
 
 1893-94 William N. C. Carlton 
 
 1894-95 Winfield Scott Harpole 
 
 1895-96 Frank Seward Johnson 
 
 1896-97 Victor Yarros .... 
 
 1897-98 William E. Dodd . . . 
 
 1898-99 DeWitt Cosgrove Wing 
 
 899-1900 George Packard . . . 
 
 1900-01 Henry P'rederick Cope. 
 
 1901-02 Theodore Jessup . . . 
 
 1902-03 Paul Vincent Harper . 
 
 1903-04 Albert Harris Tolman . 
 
 1904-05 Charles P. Megan . . 
 
 Beveridge H. Moore 
 
 1905-06 
 1 906-07 
 I 907-08 
 1908-09 
 1909-10 
 1910-11 
 1911-12 
 1912-13 
 
 1913-14 
 1914-15 
 1915-16 
 1916-17 
 1917-18 
 1918-19 
 1 9 1 9-20 
 1920-21 
 1921-22 
 1922-23 
 
 1923-24 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS 
 
 AXD CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 ROOMS AND FINANCE 
 
 James R. Doolittle . . 
 Daniel L. Shorey . . . 
 James L. High .... 
 Huntington W'. Jackson 
 John G. Shortall . . . 
 Bryan Lathrop .... 
 Henry D. Lloyd . . . 
 Walter C. Earned . . . 
 George L. Paddock . . 
 Alexander C. McClurg 
 W'alter C. Earned . . . 
 Bryan Lathrop .... 
 John NL Clark .... 
 Clarence A. Burley . . 
 John G. Shortall . . . 
 Arthur D. Wheeler . . 
 George K. Dauchy . . 
 Aldace F. Walker . . . 
 
 1874 
 
 874-77 
 877-78 
 878-79 
 879-80 
 880-81 
 881-82 
 882-83 
 883-84 
 884-85 
 885-86 
 
 889-90 
 890-91 
 891-92 
 892-93 
 893-94 
 
 John J. Glessner . . 
 James A. Hunt . . . 
 Henry V. Freeman . 
 Edwin Burritt Smith 
 Edward P. Bailey. . 
 Edward O. Brown 
 Frederic W. Root . . 
 Mason Bross .... 
 John L. Shortall . . 
 James J. W^ait . . . 
 Frederick Greeley. . 
 Walter L. Fisher . . 
 Mason Bross .... 
 Edward P. Bailey. . 
 Charles Chauncey Cu 
 John Daniel Wild . . 
 Sigmund Zeisler . . 
 Arthur John Mason . 
 
 1894-95 
 1895-96 
 1896-97 
 1897-98 
 1898-99 
 1899-1900 
 1900-01 
 1901-02 
 1 902-04 
 1904-05 
 1905-06 
 1 906-07 
 I 907-08 
 1908-09 
 rtiss 1909-14 
 1914-15 
 1915-17 
 1917-18 
 
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 Charles Bert Reed 
 Arthur John Mason 
 
 1918-19 Irving Kane Pond . . . 1921-22 
 1919-21 Edwin Lyman Lobdell . 1922-24 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES 
 
 Horatio N. Powers . . 
 
 1874-76 
 
 Charles F. Bradley . . . 
 
 1898-99 
 
 Leander T. Chamberlain 
 
 1876-77 
 
 Mason Bross 1 899-1900 
 
 James Nevins Hyde . . 
 
 1877-78 
 
 William Morton Payne . 
 
 [900-01 
 
 Brooke Herford . . . 
 
 1878-79 
 
 Louis J. Block 
 
 [901-02 
 
 George Howland . . . 
 
 1879-80 
 
 William M. Salter . . . 
 
 [902-03 
 
 Arthur Little 
 
 1880-81 
 
 Frederick I. Carpenter . 
 
 [903-04 
 
 Henry B. Mason . . . 
 
 1881-82 
 
 Horace H. Martin . . . 
 
 [ 904-05 
 
 Henry W. Raymond 
 
 1882-83 
 
 Azel F. Hatch 
 
 [905-06 
 
 Charles Norman Fay . 
 
 1883-84 
 
 Merritt Starr ] 
 
 906-07 
 
 Cyrus H. McCormick . 
 
 1884-85 
 
 Frank H. Montgomery . 
 
 907-08 
 
 Charles Edward Cheney 
 
 1885-86 
 
 John C. Grant 
 
 908-10 
 
 Clinton Locke .... 
 
 1886-87 
 
 Frederic A. Delano . . . 
 
 [910-11 
 
 David N. Utter. . . . 
 
 1887-88 
 
 Payson S. Wild 1 
 
 91 1-12 
 
 Arthur Little 
 
 1888-89 
 
 John Ward Amberg . . . 
 
 912-13 
 
 John Coleman Adams . 
 
 1889-90 
 
 Frederic Schiller Hebard 
 
 [913-14 
 
 Thomas C. Hall . . . 
 
 1890-91 
 
 Charles H. Taylor . . . 
 
 [914-15 
 
 Edward I. Galvin . . . 
 
 1891-92 
 
 Henry E. Legler .... 
 
 [915-16 
 
 Herrick Johnson . . . 
 
 1892-93 
 
 Andrew C. McLaughlin . 
 
 [916-17 
 
 Theodore P. Prudden . 
 
 1893-94 
 
 Theodore Jessup .... 
 
 [917-19 
 
 John H. Barrows . . . 
 
 1894-95 
 
 George Linnasus Marsh . 
 
 [919-20 
 
 Daniel Goodwin . . . 
 
 1895-96 
 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore 
 
 [920-21 
 
 Emil G. Hirsch .... 
 
 1896-97 
 
 Henri C. E. David . . . 
 
 [921-22 
 
 William W. Fenn . . . 
 
 1897-98 
 
 Leroy Truman Goble . . 
 
 [922-23 
 
 Georg 
 
 ; Ellis Dawson . . 1923-24 
 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARIES 
 
 Edward G. Mason . 
 William Eliot Furness 
 
 1874-76 Frederick W. Gookin . 1 880-1920 
 1876-80 Payson S. Wild 1920-24 
 
 William F. Coolbaugh 
 Franklin MacVeagh. 
 Edward G. Mason . 
 
 TREASURERS 
 
 1874 William Eliot Furness . . 1876-80 
 
 . 1874-75 Frederick W. Gookin . 1880-1920 
 
 . 1875-76 Payson S. Wild. . . . . 1920-24 
 
 [ 208
 
 Officers of the Club 
 
 CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
 PUBLICATIONS 
 
 Lewis H. Boutell . 
 Allen B. Pond . . 
 James Nevins Hyde 
 William Morton Payne 
 Clement W. Andrews 
 Louis J. Block . . . 
 Merritt Starr . . . 
 William P. Sidley . . 
 Thomas E. Donnelley 
 William Morton Payne 
 James W. Thompson 
 
 1895-97 
 1897-99 
 899-1901 
 1901-02 
 1 902-03 
 1903-04 
 I 904-05 
 1905-06 
 1 906-07 
 1907-08 
 iqo8-10 
 
 George Linnasus 
 
 George E. Dawson . 
 Albert H. Tolman . 
 Clement W. Andrews 
 Payson Sibley Wild . 
 James W. Thompson 
 Herbert J. Campbell 
 Clarence A. Burley . 
 Louis Martin Sears . 
 Carl Bismarck Roden 
 Leroy Truman Goble 
 Charles Bert Reed. . 
 Marsh . 1923-24 
 
 910-11 
 911-12 
 912-14 
 914-15 
 915-16 
 916-17 
 917-19 
 919-20 
 920-21 
 921-22 
 922-23 
 
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 Appendix C 
 
 ROLL OF MEMBERS 
 
 From March 13, 1874, to 
 September 30, 1925 
 
 RESIDENCE in Chicago or vicinity is to be under- 
 stood when no place is named. All of the Nonresi- 
 ^dent Members except the Associates and a few of 
 the Honorary Members were Resident Members when 
 they were elected. The addresses appended to their names 
 are their last known places of residence, or, if not living, 
 the places where they resided at the time of their decease. 
 An * indicates honorary membership; a f associate mem- 
 bership. 
 
 Members 
 
 Gordon Crowell Abbott 
 Nathan Abbott 
 
 Katonah, New York 
 Alonzo Abernathy 
 William Keli.y Ackerman 
 Charles Adams 
 
 Honolulu, Hawaii 
 Charles True Adams 
 George Everett Adams 
 John Coleman Adams 
 
 Hartford, Connecticut 
 Joseph Adams 
 Samuel Adams 
 Sidney Adler 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 December i8, 1922 
 January 16, 1893 
 
 February 26, 1877 
 November 25, 1878 
 January 3, 1876 
 
 October 18, 1875 
 April 22, 1876 
 May 25, 1885 
 
 January 3, 1876 
 February 7, 1921 
 January 28, 1918 
 
 [211 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 June 19, 1878 
 
 Resigned, January 14, 1895 
 
 Died, May 6, 1924 
 
 Died, February 28, 1877 
 Died, October 5, 1917 
 Died, June 22, 1923 
 
 Resigned, October 19, 1925
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Victor Clifton Alderson 
 
 Golden, Colorado 
 Owen Franklin Alois 
 
 Paris, France 
 Charles Henry Aldrich 
 Charles Linn^us Allen 
 Rudolph Altrocchi 
 John Ward Amberg 
 Edward Scribner Ames 
 Galusha Anderson 
 
 Newtonville, Massachusetts 
 Norman Kellogg Anderson 
 Samuel Worcester Andrew 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Clement Walker Andrews 
 Edmund Andrews 
 Edmund Andrews, 2d. 
 Edward Wyllys Andrews 
 Frank Taylor Andrews 
 John Wallingford Andrews 
 Samuel Appleton 
 Alan Vasey Arragon 
 
 Paris, France 
 George Allison Armour 
 
 Princeton, New Jersey 
 Trevor Arnett 
 Francis Marion Arnold 
 Isaac Newton Arnold 
 Edward Gowan Asay 
 Edward Everett Ayer 
 Benjamin Franklin Ayer 
 Henry Homes Babcock 
 Henry Martyn Bacon 
 Wilson Marvin Backus 
 Paul Valentine Bacon 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Edward Payson Bailey 
 Alfred Landon Baker 
 Jesse Albigense Baldwin 
 Edgar Addison Bancroft 
 Henry Clay Bannard 
 Lewellys Franklin Barker 
 Cecil Barnes 
 Cecil Barnes, Jr. 
 John Peter Barnes 
 William Henry Barnum 
 
 Date of Election 
 October 21, 1901 
 
 March 25, 1876 
 
 January 15, 1894 
 April 25, 1887 
 November 7, 1921 
 March 5, 1900 
 April 26, 191 5 
 November 25, 1878 
 
 March 16, 1903 
 December 20, 1875 
 
 December 23, 1895 
 April 21, 1874 
 April 6, 1925 
 January 9, 1888 
 February 2, 1891 
 November 16, 1874 
 April 22, 1876 
 November 3, 1919 
 
 February 23, 1880 
 
 October 22, 1917 
 April 30, 1917 
 March 31, 1874 
 March 13, 1874 
 December 3, 1888 
 April 21, 1874 
 December 6, 1875 
 November 26, 1894 
 October 21, 1901 
 December 13, 1909 
 
 March i, 1886 
 October 21, 1901 
 December 4, 1905 
 November 28, 1892 
 December 21, 1874 
 April 1 4, 1902 
 December 20, 1875 
 November 11, 1907 
 May 10, 1920 
 October 18, 1875 
 
 [ 212 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, August 5, 1925 
 
 February 28, 1911 
 Resigned, June 17, i8( 
 
 Died, July 21, 1918 
 
 June I, 1909 
 
 Resigned, October 20, 191 1 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1897 
 
 February 20, 1895 
 May 22, 1907 
 Died, May 8, 1880 
 June II, 1883 
 
 Resigned, May 26, 1919 
 
 Died, April 24, 1884 
 August 31, 1885 
 Resigned, September 22, 1893 
 Died, April 6, 1903 
 Died, November 7, 1881 
 Resigned, August i, 1905 
 Resigned, January 6, 1905 
 
 Died, March 28, 1925 
 Resigned, April 3, 1907 
 Resigned, September 29, 1909 
 Died, July 28, 1925 
 Resigned, March 25, 1878 
 Resigned, September 30, 1903 
 Died, March 19, 1880 
 Resigned, May 16, 1912 
 Resigned, October i, 1922 
 Resigned, September 30, 1899
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Elwvn Alfred Barrom 
 John Henry Barrows 
 
 Oherlin, Ohio 
 Adolphus Clay Bartlett 
 Frederic Clay Bartlett 
 William Alvin Bartlett 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 George Preston Barton 
 Alfred Bartow 
 John Foster Bass 
 Robert Perkins Bass 
 
 Peterboro, New Hampshire 
 Fletcher Stewart Bassett 
 Edson Sunderland Bastin 
 George Batchelor 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Henry Moore Bates 
 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan 
 Robert Peck Bates 
 Jens Christian Bay 
 William Gerrish Beale 
 Alfred Beck 
 Henry Holmes Belfield 
 William Thomas Belfield 
 Cyrus Bentley 
 Frank Billings 
 John Milton Binckley 
 Henry Walker Bishop 
 Richard Mervin Bissell 
 Timothy Beach Blackstone 
 Edward Tyler Blair 
 Edward William Blatchford 
 
 London, England 
 Eliphalet Huntington 
 
 Blatchford 
 Eliphalet Wickes 
 
 Blatchford 
 Frank Wickes Blatchford 
 Orville Justus Bliss 
 Samuel Bliss 
 Louis James Block 
 Henry Williams Blodgett 
 James St. Clair Boal 
 Charles Carroll Bonney 
 Henry Booth 
 John Borden 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 May 4, 1891 
 January 9, 1888 
 
 February 28, 1881 
 October 28, 1901 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 April 17, 1905 
 February 23, 1880 
 May 18, 1903 
 May 18, 1903 
 
 November 16, 1885 
 March 6, 1922 
 May 4, 1883 
 
 April 6, 1896 
 
 January 23, 1899 
 May 26, 191 6 
 January 9, 1888 
 May 26, 1919 
 February 29, 1884 
 December 3, 1888 
 October 19, 1883 
 February 6, 1888 
 March 13, 1874 
 May 4, 1874 
 January 16, 1893 
 January 29, 1877 
 April 28, 1882 
 January 23, 191 i 
 
 March 27, 1905 
 
 December 23, 1878 
 January 15, 1905 
 December 21, 1874 
 March 25, 1876 
 May 21, 1894 
 January 27, 1882 
 March 24, 1882 
 March 17, 1874 
 March 13, 1874 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 April 17, 1894 
 Died, June 2, 1902 
 
 Died, May 30, 1922 
 Resigned, October i, 1903 
 Died, January 16, 1917 
 
 Resigned, September 25, 1908 
 August 31, 1885 
 Resigned, January 31, 1911 
 
 Died, October 19, 1895 
 Resigned September 12, 1925 
 Died, June 21, 1923 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1909 
 
 February i, 1923 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1894 
 
 Died, January 5, 1912 
 
 Resigned, August 14, 1896 
 Resigned, September 28, 1909 
 January 29, 1876 
 Resigned, June 11, 1891 
 Resigned, October 23, 1897 
 Resigned, May 24, 1886 
 Resigned, July 15, 1897 
 Died, January 25, 1914 
 
 Died, December 23, 1905 
 
 Died, January 25, 1914 
 May 22, 1908 
 Died, April 9, 1875 
 Died, March 18, 1891 
 
 Died, February 9, 1905 
 Died, October 30, 1887 
 Resigned, February 4, 1884 
 September 1 1, 1885 
 January 29, 1876 
 
 [ 213 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Henry Sherman Boutell 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Lewis Henry Boutell 
 George Kenney Bowden 
 Ingolf Krog Boyesen 
 William Brace 
 William Brackett 
 Charles Frederick Bradley 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 William Harrison Bradley 
 
 Ridgefield, Connecticut 
 William Henry Bradley 
 Melvin Amos Brannon f 
 
 Helena, Montana 
 Frank Chapin Bray 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Norman Bridge 
 Horace James Bridges 
 Charles Hughes Brittan 
 James Andrew Brixton 
 Arthur Brooks 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Mason Bross 
 Edward Osgood Brown 
 George William Brown 
 Hubert Sanford Brown 
 
 Beaulieu siir Mer, France 
 Francis Fisher Browne* 
 
 Santa Barbara, California 
 Francis Granger Browne 
 Benjamin Franklin Buck 
 Benjamin Reynolds Bulkeley 
 
 Concord, Massachusetts 
 FoLLETT Wilkinson Bull 
 Clarence Augustus Burley 
 Daniel Hudson Burnham 
 John Curtis Burroughs 
 Leonard Asbury Busby 
 Francis Read Butler 
 George Frank Butler 
 
 Attica, Indiana 
 Henry Turman Byford 
 James Christopher Cahill 
 Walter John Cahill 
 William James Calhoun 
 George Cook Campbell 
 
 Date of Election 
 March 24, 1882 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 December 3, 1888 Died, January 16, i 
 
 February 4, 1924 
 
 March 7, 1892 
 
 May 6, 1919 
 
 February 21, iSy^ 
 
 April 19, 1886 
 
 Resigned, July i, 1902 
 February i, 1922 
 Died, June 14, 1888 
 
 March 28, 1881 
 
 November i, 1886 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 January 15, 1905 
 
 December 15, 1919 
 March 13, 191 6 
 January 3, 1885 
 November 7, 1921 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 September 29, 1897 
 March 17, 1874 
 November 26, 1894 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 March 13, 1874 
 
 October 28, 1901 
 May 26, 19 19 
 December 23, 1895 
 
 November 9, 1903 
 April 23, 1877 
 May 16, 1892 
 March 13, 1874 
 May 15, 1899 
 May 26, 1879 
 April 21, 1913 
 
 November 30, 1908 
 November 5, 1923 
 November 8, 1920 
 March 12, 1906 
 October 5, 1874 
 
 [ 214 ] 
 
 Died, March i, 1892 
 
 Died, January 10, 1925 
 
 February i, 1895 
 
 Died, July 10, 1895 
 
 Resigned, May 23, 1912 
 Died, December 8, 1923 
 
 Died, April 7, 1917 
 
 Died, May 11, 1913 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1904 
 
 May 22, 1907 
 
 Died, June i, 1912 
 Died, April 21, 1892 
 Resigned, September 11, 1905 
 Resigned, February 19, 1883 
 Died, June 22, 1921 
 
 Resigned, January 20, 1919 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1924 
 Died, September 19, 1916 
 Died, May 12, 1885
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 John McRae Cameron 
 Herbert John Campbell 
 Andrew Jackson Canfield 
 
 Brooklyn, Sew York 
 Charles Guy Carleton 
 William Newnham Chathn 
 
 Carleton 
 George Noble Carman 
 Frederick. Ives Carpenter 
 James Gray Carr 
 Leslie Carter 
 Laurence Arthur Carton 
 William Warren Case 
 George Willis Cass 
 Edwin Henry Cass els 
 Robert Carl Scott 
 
 Catherwood 
 Leander Trowbridge 
 
 Chamberlain 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Buckingham Chandler 
 Henry Porter Chandler 
 William Henry Chappell 
 Thomas Septimus Chard 
 Charles Meigs Charnley 
 James Charnley 
 Charles Wells Chase 
 Hobart Chatfield-Taylor 
 William Ludlow Chenery 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Charles Edward Cheney 
 Frank Spooner Churchill 
 Clement Long Clapp 
 Alexander Beattie Clark 
 
 Brooklyn, New York 
 Jacob Wendell Clark 
 John Marshall Clark 
 Eliot Channing Clarke 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Frederick Wilcox Clarke 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 George Clinton Clarke 
 William Hull Clarke 
 Horace William Shaler 
 
 Cleveland 
 John Wills Cloud 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 November 5, 1923 
 January 4, 191 5 
 March 13, 1893 
 
 December 21, 1883 
 
 November 8, 1909 
 December 23, 1895 
 January 23, 1899 
 NLiy 15, 1922 
 May 26, 1879 
 February i, 1909 
 November 11, 1889 
 May 4, 1891 
 November 8, 1909 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, August 23, 1908 
 
 Died, August 28, 1887 
 
 Resigned, June 19, 1915 
 
 Resigned, June 3, 1909 
 
 Resigned, September 7, 1893 
 Resigned, February i, 1923 
 Resigned, September 28, 1908 
 October i, 1901 
 
 November 26, 1900 Resigned, January 1^, ic 
 
 April 21, 1874 
 
 April 26, 1915 
 December 17, 1917 
 January 27, 1882 
 March 31, 1874 
 December 30, 1881 
 February 28, 1881 
 March 5, 1900 
 March 7, 1892 
 May 24, 1915 
 
 November 22, 1880 
 December 23, 1895 
 November 14, 1910 
 May 26, 1919 
 
 November 10, 1924 
 January 29, 1877 
 October 5, 1874 
 
 April 28, 1879 
 
 October 18, 1875 
 May 4, 1874 
 
 April 21, 1874 
 December 23, 1895 
 
 Died, May 9, 1913 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1917 
 
 Resigned, February 9, 1886 
 Resigned, January, 31 1893 
 Resigned, September 29, 1884 
 Resigned, May 14, 1895 
 September 15, 1903 
 Resigned, September 30, 1897 
 
 Died, November 15, 1916 
 Resigned, September 19, 1902 
 Resigned, October i, 191 8 
 
 Resigned, December 29, 1894 
 Died, May 14, 1921 
 
 Died, June i, 191 8 
 
 Died, April 5, 1887 
 Died, August 6, 1878 
 
 Resigned, November 18, 1878 
 Resigned, October i, 1897 
 
 [ 215 1
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Henry Ives Cobb 
 John Adams Cole 
 
 ROSSETTER GlEASON CoLE 
 
 Algernon Coleman 
 Robert Collyer 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Wells Morrison Cook 
 William Finley Coolbaugh 
 Edwin Gilbert Cooley 
 
 Stoughton Cooley 
 Frederick Shurtleff 
 
 coolidge 
 Robert Warren Conant 
 Avery Coonley 
 Henry Frederick Cope 
 Frederick Kent Copeland 
 David Timothy Corbin 
 John Murry Corse 
 John Merle Coulter 
 Frederick Courtney 
 
 Neiv York, N. Y. 
 Max Henry Cowen 
 Arthur Joseph Cramp 
 Frank Philip Crandon 
 Charles Richard Crane 
 John George Crawford 
 John Crerar 
 Alfred Careno Croftan 
 Lester Curtis 
 Charles Chauncey Curtiss 
 Charles Sidney Cutting 
 George Kellogg Dauchy 
 Samuel Dauchy 
 Henri Charles Edouard 
 
 David 
 Bradley Moore Davis 
 
 Ann Arbor, Michigan 
 Charles Wilder Davis 
 Edward Parker Davis 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Nathan Smith Davis, Jr. 
 Chester Mitchell Dawes 
 George Ellis Dawson 
 Albert Morgan Day 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 February i, 1891 
 December 23, 1895 
 December 11, 1903 
 April 30, 1 91 7 
 March 13, 1874 
 
 May 21, 1918 
 March 13, 1874 
 February 4, 1901 
 
 and 
 November 3, 1919 
 February 2, 1903 
 
 February 26, 1894 
 November 9, 1891 
 April 3, 1899 
 January 14, 1907 
 November 11, 1901 
 November 16, 1885 
 February i, 1875 
 December 23, 1895 
 December 27, 1880 
 
 December 6, 1920 
 April 6, 1925 
 November 21, 1904 
 February 4, 1901 
 February 19, 1906 
 December 6, 1875 
 February 7, X921 
 January I4, 1907 
 December 6, 1886 
 November 22, 1909 
 November 12, 1888 
 May 21, 1923 
 
 November i, 1915 
 February 20, 1899 
 
 October 25, 1897 
 January 3, 1885 
 
 November 12, 1888 
 October 25, 1880 
 June I, 1891 
 January 29, 1877 
 
 [ 216 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, December 8, 1894 
 Resigned, May 29, 1917 
 Resigned, February i, 1910 
 Resigned, September 27, 1919 
 Died, December i, 1912 
 
 June 10, 1876 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1907 
 
 Died, September 28, 1923 
 Resigned, September 22, 1907 
 
 Resigned, September 24, 1896 
 Resigned, October i, 1893 
 Resigned, February 7, 1916 
 Died, August 3, 1923 
 Resigned, February i, 1907 
 February 5, 1895 
 June 10, 1876 
 Resigned, October 13, 1895 
 Died, December 29, 1918 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 1913 
 Resigned, May i, 1912 
 Resigned, October i, 1906 
 Died, October 19, 1889 
 
 Resigned, September 15, 1902 
 
 Died, December 15, li 
 
 Resigned, May 17, 1901 
 August 31, 1885 
 
 Resigned, July 20, 1893
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 William Horace Day 
 
 Bridgeport, Connecticut 
 Charles William Deering 
 Joseph Holton Defrees 
 Thomas Francis Delaney 
 Frederic Adrian Delano 
 
 If-'ashington, D. C. 
 Franklin Denison 
 Thomas Dent 
 
 Hevliger Adams deWindt 
 
 Wirt Dexter 
 
 Jacob McGavock Dickinson 
 
 James Spencer Dickinson 
 Fletcher Dobvns 
 William Edward Dodd 
 Edmund James Doering 
 William Elkanah Doggett 
 Thomas Elliott Donnelley 
 James Rood Doolittle 
 James Rood Doolittle, Jr. 
 George Amos Dorsey 
 George Driggs 
 Garrett Droppers 
 
 IVilliamstown, Massachusetts 
 Emilius Clark Dudley 
 
 Samuel John Duncan-Clark 
 Charles Analdo Dupee 
 Eugene Dupee 
 Henry Rogers Durkee 
 Louis Dyer 
 
 Oxford, England 
 Arthur Dyren forth 
 Lawrence Carmichael Earle 
 
 Grand Rapids, Michigan 
 Sidney Corning Eastman 
 
 James Heron Eckels 
 
 Date of Election 
 February 13, 1893 
 
 April 16, 1888 
 April 26, 1915 
 October 23, 191 1 
 February i, 1897 
 
 November 16, 1874 
 NLirch I, 1886 
 
 and 
 ♦October 10, 1910 
 March 2, 1891 
 
 and 
 December 19, 1898 
 April 19, 1886 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 and 
 February 15, 1915 
 May I, 1916 
 March 9, 1914 
 March 11, 191 2 
 May 24, 1915 
 April 21, 1874 
 December 2, 1901 
 March 17, 1874 
 December 7, 1874 
 April 28, 1914 
 December 3, 1888 
 March u, 1907 
 
 March 28, 1881 
 
 and 
 April 21, 1919 
 November 5, 1923 
 March 15, 1875 
 November 10, 1902 
 April 8, 1890 
 April 23, 1877 
 
 NLiy 13, 1918 
 January 28, 1878 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 
 and 
 January 28, 1918 
 NLirch'28, 1898 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, June 18, I892 
 Resigned, October i, 1916 
 
 Resigned, May 1, 1901 
 Resigned, September 30, 1908 
 
 Died, December 25, 1924 
 Resigned, September 26, 1893 
 
 Resigned, September 26, 1902 
 Died, May 17, 1890 
 Resigned, September 16, 1904 
 
 Resigned, February 7, 1916 
 Resigned, January 3, 1919 
 Resigned, October, i 1925 
 
 Resigned, February 29, 1916 
 Died, April 3, 1876 
 
 June II, 1877 
 June II, 1877 
 Resigned, October i, 1915 
 Died, March 19, 1892 
 
 Resigned, February 4, 1916 
 
 Resigned, September 29, 1900 
 Resigned, October i, 1904 
 Resigned, January 15, 1895 
 Died, July 20, 1908 
 
 Died, June 14, 1920 
 Died, November 21, 1921 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1898 
 
 Resigned, March 26, 1904 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Marquis Eaton 
 Arthur Robin Edwards 
 Charles Raymond Ege 
 George William Eggers 
 Francis Howard Eldridge 
 Frank Macager Elliot 
 James William Ellsworth 
 Joseph Washington Errant 
 Lynden Evans 
 Godfrey John Eyler 
 Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbanr 
 David Fales 
 Samuel Fallows 
 Albert George Farr 
 Marvin Andrus Farr 
 John Villiers Farwell, Jr. 
 Henry Baird Favill 
 William Lyman Fawcett 
 Charles Norman Fay 
 Edwin Stanton Fechheimer 
 Bernhard Felsenthal 
 William Wallace Fenn 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Robert Collyer Fergus 
 Charles Newton Fessenden 
 Henry Field 
 Walter Taylor Field 
 Morris Fishbein 
 George Purnell Fisher 
 Walter Lowrie Fisher 
 George Foster Fiske 
 Robert Hall Fleming 
 George Alanson Follansbee 
 Trowbridge Brigham Forbush 
 James Berwick Forgan 
 Theobald Forstall 
 James William Forsyth 
 Robert Forsyth 
 Richard Norman Foster 
 Charles Henry Fowler 
 Jerome New Frank 
 Henry Brewster Freeman 
 Henry Varnum Freeman 
 Charles Wallace French 
 William Merchant 
 
 Richardson French 
 
 Date oj Election 
 
 December 6, 1920 
 December 2, 1895 
 October 30, 1922 
 May 18, 1908 
 December 22, 1924 
 February 26, 1894 
 November 26, 1894 
 February 15, 1904 
 February 15, 191 5 
 March 3, 1924 
 March 24, 1882 
 June 7, 1875 
 May 23, 1881 
 February 4, 1901 
 June 4, 1894 
 February 29, 1884 
 May 20, 1895 
 May 3, 1875 
 December 23, 1878 
 November 11, 1901 
 April 21, 1874 
 March 13 1893 
 
 November 12, 1917 
 November 25, 1878 
 April 25, 1887 
 May 26, 1919 
 May 8, 1922 
 March II, 1907 
 March 2, 1891 
 March 13, 1893 
 December 6, 1886 
 December 23, 1895 
 January 29, 1877 
 January 8, 1900 
 May 4, 1883 
 April 22, 1876 
 December 27, 1880 
 April 21, 1874 
 March 13, 1874 
 December 15, 1919 
 December 18, 1916 
 December 29, 1882 
 December 19, 1898 
 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 [ 218 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, September 19, 1897 
 Resigned, October i, 1925 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1915 
 
 Resigned, January 27, 1902 
 Resigned, June 10, 1898 
 Resigned, June 9, 1909 
 Resigned, October i, 1921 
 
 Died, March 29, 1903 
 Resigned, September 30, 1905 
 September 17, 1891 
 Died, December 22, 1913 
 Resigned, June 12, 1900 
 Resigned, January 31, 1903 
 Resigned, September 30, 1915 
 June I, 1877 
 Resigned, July 1 1 1903 
 Resigned, February i, 1904 
 Resigned, November 28, 1874 
 
 Resigned, September 29, i? 
 Died, December 22, 1890 
 Resigned, October i, 1922 
 
 Resigned, April 17, 191 7 
 
 Resigned, September 27, 1898 
 Resigned, September 29, 1909 
 Resigned, October 13, 1890 
 Resigned, October i, 1901 
 Resigned, September 5, 1889 
 Resigned, September 5, 1884 
 Resigned, September 7, 1893 
 Resigned, May 26, 1877 
 November i, 1875 
 
 Died, September 5, 1916 
 Resigned, January 31, 1913 
 
 Died, June 3, 1914
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Herbert Jacob Friedman- 
 Charles Gordon Fuller 
 
 Benton Harbor, Michigan 
 Melville Weston Fuller 
 
 IVashington, D. C. 
 Charles William Fullerton 
 Henry Jewett Furber, Jr. 
 William Eliot Furness 
 
 Fredrik. Herman Gade 
 Lyman Judson Gage 
 
 Point Loma, California 
 Edward Ilsley Galvin 
 
 Berkeley, California 
 Edward James Gardiner 
 George Gardner 
 Victor Garwood 
 Frank. Gilbert 
 Simeon Gilbert 
 Harry Orrin Gillet 
 Thomas Lewis Gilmer 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth 
 John George McBeth 
 
 Glessner 
 John Jacob Glessner 
 Leroy Truman Goble 
 John Paul Goode 
 Daniel Goodwin 
 Frederick William Gookin 
 John Cowles Grant 
 Frederick. Greeley 
 Samuel Sewall Greeley 
 
 Oliver Bourne Green 
 Charles Augustus Gregory 
 Stephen Strong Gregory 
 Otto Gresham 
 Walter Quintin Gresham 
 Henry Foster Grierson 
 
 Lxindon, England 
 Thomas Williams Grover 
 Hans Ernst Gronow 
 Mark Emmet Guerin 
 
 tVashington, D. C. 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 November 8, 1909 
 December ai, 1883 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, January 24, 1917 
 
 February 28, 1878 Died, July 4, 1910 
 
 February 28, 1881 
 February 26, 1894 
 NLirch 13, 1874 
 
 and 
 *April 27, 1908 
 April 3, 1899 
 February 29, 1884 
 
 January 9, 1888 
 
 November 29, 1884 
 November 28, 1881 
 November 24, 1902 
 December 22, 1879 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 8, 1920 
 November 21, 1904 
 April 8, 1918 
 
 January 8, 1900 
 May 4, 1883 
 November 3, 1919 
 January 22, 1917 
 November 22, 1880 
 February 26, 1877 
 January 9, 1888 
 May 4, 1883 
 May 4, 1874 
 
 and 
 * April 27, 1908 
 June I, 1891 
 January 18, 1875 
 February 6, 1888 
 November 9, 1903 
 March 9, 1885 
 May 6, 1895 
 
 January 28, 1878 
 February 14, 1916 
 May 13, 1918 
 
 [ ^19 ] 
 
 Died, December 6, 1900 
 Resigned, January 28, 1907 
 Resigned, January 31, 1908 
 
 Died, July 19, 1913 
 Resigned, October i, 1903 
 
 Died, in 1908 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1902 
 Resigned, January 28, 1886 
 Resigned, May 14, 1908 
 Resigned, October i, 1896 
 Resigned, June 13, 1876 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1919 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 1902 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 191J 
 Resigned, September 30, li 
 
 Died, March 21, 1914 
 Died, January 21, 1912 
 
 Died, March 8, 1916 
 Resigned, October i, 1906 
 November i, 1897 
 Resigned, September 23, 1895 
 Resigned, February i, 1910 
 Resigned, April 4, 1887 
 Died, June 20, 1923 
 
 Died, November 17, 1893 
 Resigned, September 30, 1917
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Frank Wakely Gunsaulus 
 
 Karleton Hackett 
 
 Sir Francis Seymour Haden* 
 
 IVoodcote, Hampshire, England 
 Edwin Moses Hale 
 John Philetus Hale 
 William Browne Hale 
 Eugene Judson Hale 
 Thomas Cuming Hall 
 John Julius Halsey 
 Alfred Ernest Hamill 
 Charles Davison Hamill 
 Edgar Lockwood Hamilton 
 Arthur Little Hamilton 
 
 Lawrence, Massachusetts 
 John Henry Hamline 
 John Leonard Hancock 
 Norman Hapgood 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Martin D Hardin 
 Edward John Harding 
 
 Seattle, Washington 
 George Franklin Harding 
 Charles Sumner Harmon 
 Paul Vincent Harper 
 William Rainey Harper 
 Winfield Scott Harpole 
 Edward Avery Harriman 
 Karl Edwin Harriman 
 Abram Winegardner Harris 
 Samuel Smith Harris 
 Pliny Nelson Haskell 
 
 Idaho Springs, Colorado 
 Azel Farnsworth Hatch 
 Edward Howard Hatton 
 Joseph Haven 
 Fred Varmillia Hawley 
 Franklin Harvey Head 
 George Peter Alexander 
 
 Healey 
 Frederick Schiller Hebard 
 
 Mobile, Alabama 
 Charles Downs Helmer 
 Charles Mather Henderson 
 Robert Jeremiah Hendricks 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 January 9, 1888 
 February 4, 1901 
 March 2, 1883 
 
 March 13, 1874 
 April 4, 1892 
 December 18, 1905 
 March 31, 1874 
 February 6, 1888 
 November i, 1886 
 April 25, 1921 
 May 23, i88x 
 March 6, 1922 
 February 25, 191 8 
 
 May 4, 1891 
 February 4, 1924 
 January 15, 1894 
 
 January 29, 1877 
 November 9, 1891 
 
 January 3, 1876 
 May 16, 1892 
 December 18, 1916 
 June 7, 1892 
 May 6, 1907 
 January 7, 1895 
 November 3, 1919 
 January 14, 1907 
 January 6, 1875 
 May 3, 1875 
 
 October 28, 1878 
 May 19, 1924 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 21, 1904 
 November 29, 1884 
 
 November 15, 1875 
 October 25, 1897 
 
 March 24, 1874 
 October 31, 1881 
 April 28, 1882 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, October 21, 1889 
 Resigned, May 2, 1908 
 Died, June i, 1910 
 
 June II, 1877 
 
 Resigned, September 10, i8c 
 Resigned, June 10, 1914 
 January 29, 1876 
 Resigned, February i, 1897 
 Resigned, February i, 1888 
 
 Resigned, January 23, 1902 
 
 Died, February 14, 1904 
 
 Died, December 13, 1923 
 
 June 6, 1896 
 February i, 1914 
 
 Died, January 10, 1906 
 
 Resigned, September 21, 1900 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1907 
 Died, August 21, 1888 
 Died, July 26, 1884 
 
 Died, November 28, 1906 
 
 Died, May 23, 1874 
 Resigned, October i, 1912 
 Died, June 28, 1914 
 
 Died, June 24, 1894 
 Died, November 16, 1920 
 
 Died, April 28, 1879 
 Resigned, October 2, 1885 
 Resigned, January 6, 1897 
 
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 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Brooke Herford 
 
 London, England 
 Rudolph Hering 
 
 Montclair, Xew Jersey 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 John Jacob Herrick 
 Robert Hervey 
 Porter Puffer Heywood 
 Homer Nash Hibbard 
 James Lambert High 
 Frederick Henry Hild 
 Neweli, Dwight Hillis 
 Henry Horr Hilton 
 Joseph Watson Hiner 
 Emil Gustav Hirsch 
 Charles Hitchcock 
 Max Hjortsberg 
 Jesse Holdom 
 John Francis Holland 
 Robert Afton Holland 
 
 St. Louis, Missouri 
 Charles Sumner Holt 
 George Hubbard Holt 
 McPherson Holt 
 Henry Leonard Hollis 
 Charles Butler Holmes 
 Henry Hooper 
 John Lamar Hopkins 
 Henry Horner 
 Charles Horowitz 
 Oliver Harvey Horton 
 Edward Downer Hosmer 
 Clarence Augustus Hough 
 James Lawrence Houghteling 
 Henry Wright Howes 
 George Howland 
 George Carter Howland 
 Walter Morton Howland 
 
 Amherst, Massachusetts 
 Thomas Hoyne 
 James Jauncey Hoyt 
 
 Katonah, New York 
 Joseph Derwin Hubbard 
 William Hammond Hubbard 
 Thomas Hughes* 
 
 Brighton, England 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 April 22, 1876 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, December 21, 1903 
 
 December 6, 1886 Died, May 30, 1923 
 
 May 31, 1909 
 February 21, 1876 
 March 31, 1874 
 February 28, 1881 
 April 21, 1874 
 April 21, 1874 
 November 12, 1888 
 February i, 1897 
 January 6, 1902 
 April 3, 1899 
 December 30, 1881 
 November 26, 1877 
 November 27, 1876 
 March 11, 1907 
 February i, 1909 
 January 27, 1882 
 
 March 2, 1883 
 June 9, 1888 
 January 16, 1922 
 April 3, 1899 
 February 6, 1888 
 February 26, 1877 
 December 9, 191 8 
 October 30, 1922 
 May 10, 1920 
 February 24, 1879 
 February 26, 1877 
 February 9, 1925 
 November 28, 1881 
 April 25, 1921 
 April 21, 1874 
 December 23, 1895 
 November 29, 1884 
 
 January 4, 1875 
 February 15, 1875 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 June 9, 1890 
 March 2, 1883 
 
 [ 221 ] 
 
 Died, January 29, 1916 
 June 24, 1878 
 Died, April 28, 1896 
 Resigned, October i, 1897 
 Died, October 3, 1898 
 Resigned, February i, 1902 
 Resigned, February i, 1898 
 Resigned, August 8, 1904 
 Resigned, January 9, 1907 
 Resigned, March 28, 1913 
 Died, May 6, 1881 
 Died, May 16, 1880 
 Resigned, January 31, 1912 
 Died, March 5, 191 2 
 Died, December 30, 1909 
 
 Died, December 13, 191 8 
 Died, February 9, 1924 
 
 Resigned, January 11, 1907 
 February i, 19 14 
 Resigned, January 8, 1878 
 
 Resigned, February i, 192^ 
 Resigned, April 26. 1902 
 February 20, 1895 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1898 
 Resigned, October 24, 1925 
 Died, October 22, 1892 
 Resigned, September 30, 1914 
 Died, October 22, 1911 
 
 Resigned, June 14, 1882 
 Died, May 29, 1924 
 
 Resigned, May 29, 1902 
 Died, June i, 1908 
 Died, March 23, 1896
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Chari.es Henry Hulburd 
 Morton Denison Hull 
 James Anthony Hunt 
 George Leland Hunter 
 Henry Alonzo Huntington 
 
 Paris, France 
 Charles Lawrence 
 
 Hutchinson 
 Charles Cheney Hyde 
 James Nevins Hyde 
 James Thomas Hyde 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman 
 Edward Swift Isham 
 Huntington Wolcott Jackson 
 Jonathan Worth Jackson 
 Henry Downing Jacobs 
 
 Last known address: 
 
 Springfield, Massachusetts 
 Augustus Jacobson 
 Edmund Janes James 
 
 Covina, California 
 John Alexander Jameson 
 James Walker Janney 
 James Clarke Jeffery 
 Frank LeBaron Jenney 
 William LeBaron Jenney 
 Theodore Jessup 
 James Stewart Jewell 
 John Nelson Jewett 
 David Sumner Johnson 
 
 Springfield, Illinois 
 Frank Seward Johnson 
 
 Los Angeles, California 
 Herrick Johnson 
 Hosmer Allen Johnson 
 James Gibson Johnson 
 
 Farmington, Connecticut 
 Lorenzo M Johnson 
 David Benton Jones 
 Henry Webster Jones 
 Llewellyn Jones 
 Samuel Minot Jones 
 Thomas Davies Jones 
 Walter Clyde Jones 
 Edwin Oakes Jordan 
 Harry Pratt Judson 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 March 7, 1892 
 November 11, 1901 
 December 6, 1875 
 November 13, 1893 
 November 16, 1874 
 
 November 29, 1884 
 May 7, 1900 
 January 18, 1875 
 June I, 1874 
 April 21, 1913 
 November 16, 1874 
 November 16, 1874 
 January 14, 1907 
 November 14, 1910 
 
 November 26, 1877 
 February 7, 1898 
 
 March 17, 1874 
 March 26, 1906 
 January 12, 1914 
 January 23, 191 1 
 November 25, 1878 
 January 8, 1900 
 February 3, 1876 
 February 21, 1876 
 November 27, 1876 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, September 26, 1912 
 Resigned, February i, 1914 
 Resigned, April 22, 1897 
 February i, 1900 
 Died, July 29, 1907 
 
 Died, October 7, 1924 
 Resigned, May i, 1906 
 Died, September 6, 19 10 
 Resigned, June 12, 1876 
 
 Died, February 17, 1902 
 Died, January 3, 1901 
 Resigned, September 18, 1913 
 
 Resigned, April 12, 1895 
 Died, June 17, 1925 
 
 Resigned, January 17, 1877 
 Resigned, January 31, 1908 
 Died, December 5, 1924 
 
 Resigned, October 27, 1896 
 
 Resigned, January 28, 1882 
 Resigned, February 23, 1893 
 Died, April 17, 1903 
 
 November 29, 1884 Died, April 23, 1922 
 
 February 28, 1881 
 March 31, 1874 
 January 18, 1892 
 
 March 2, 1883 
 January 9, 1888 
 January 3, 1876 
 January 4, 191 5 
 January 3, 1885 
 January 26, 1880 
 May 28, 1906 
 December 18, 1905 
 January I4, 1907 
 
 [ 222 ] 
 
 Resigned, February i, 189 
 Died, February 26, 1891 
 Died, March 23, 1905 
 
 Died, November 28, 1904 
 Died, August 22, 1923 
 September 10, 1883 
 
 Resigned, June 14, 1897 
 
 Resigned, January 20, 1909 
 Resigned, February i, 1923
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Alberi Martin Kales 
 John Davis Kales 
 
 EUWIN ROULEITE KeEDY 
 
 Philadelphia^ Pennsylvania 
 Chalncey Keep 
 William Bristol Keep 
 Edson Keith, Jr. 
 Elbridce Gerry Keith 
 James Peacock Kelly 
 Arthur Isaac Kendall 
 
 St. Louis, Missouri 
 Henry Herbert Kennedy 
 William Kent 
 
 Kentfielii, California 
 Samuel Humes Kerfoot, Jr. 
 Henry William King 
 Willard Leroy King 
 William Henry King 
 Joseph Kirkland 
 .Abraham Samuel Kissel 
 John Harris Knowles 
 Karl Konrad Kessler 
 Kaufman Kohler 
 Howard Kretschmar 
 Sidney Kuh 
 
 Alvin Wilford LaForge 
 John Joseph Lalor 
 Edwin Channing Earned 
 Sherwood Johnston Earned 
 Walter Cranston Earned 
 Bryan Eathrop 
 Urban Augustine Eavery 
 Charles Burrall Lawrence 
 William Mangam Lawrence 
 Albert Lazenby 
 Joseph Bloomfield Leake 
 Blewett Lee 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Edward Tho.vias Lee 
 John Thomas Lee 
 Henry Eduard Legler 
 Harvey Brace Lemon 
 John V'alcoulon LeMoyne 
 Charles Stanley Lester 
 tVashington, D. C. 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 January 6, 1902 
 February 2, 1891 
 March 10, 1913 
 
 December 10, 1906 
 January 11, 1886 
 June I, 1891 
 November 27, 1876 
 November 22, 1880 
 November 7, 1921 
 
 April 21, 1913 
 March 5, 1900 
 
 January 27, 1882 
 June 9, 1882 
 December 18, 1922 
 April 21, 1874 
 March 24, 1874 
 December 21, 1874 
 December 27, 1880 
 April 26, 1915 
 NIarch 31, 1874 
 March 9, 1885 
 ' February 15, 191 5 
 May 26, 1919 
 February 15, 1875 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 21, 1904 
 November 15, 1875 
 January 3, 1876 
 December 15, 1919 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 16, 1885 
 November 5, 1900 
 October 5, 1874 
 April 16, 1894 
 
 and 
 February 15, 1915 
 January 4, 191 5 
 November 3, 19 19 
 January 17, 1910 
 March 6, 1922 
 March 31, 1874 
 October 27, 1879 
 
 [ 223 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 November 15, 1907 
 Resigned, January 17, 1899 
 
 June 6, 1896 
 Resigned, May 31, 1906 
 Died, May 17, 1905 
 Died, December 13, 1888 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1924 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 1898 
 Resigned, October 26, 1894 
 
 Resigned, November 22, i8i 
 Died, .April 29, 1894 
 Resigned, June 10, 1876 
 Resigned, January 26, 1882 
 Resigned, February 28, 1918 
 Resigned, June 2, 1876 
 September 21, 1886 
 
 June I, 1882 
 
 Died, September 18, 1884 
 Resigned, September 25, 1911 
 Died, June 19, 1914 
 Died, May 13, 1916 
 
 Died, April 9, 1883 
 Resigned, October i, 1887 
 September 15, 1903 
 Died, June i, 1913 
 Resigned, January 27, 1902 
 
 Died, September 13, 1917 
 
 May 8, 1877 
 Died, in 191 2
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Edwin Herbert Lewis 
 Leslie Lewis 
 Joseph Liberman 
 Walter Lichtenstein 
 Robert Todd Lincoln 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Charles Augustus Lippincott 
 
 South Bend, Indiana 
 Arthur Little 
 
 Dorchester, Massachusetts 
 Charles Joseph Little 
 Henry Demarest Lloyd 
 Edwin Lyman Lobdell 
 Clinton Locke 
 Joseph Ezekiel Lockwood 
 Max Loeb 
 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 
 John Avery Lomax 
 
 Austin, Texas 
 James Henry Long 
 Daniel Miner Lord 
 Herbert Ivory Lord 
 
 Detroit, Michigan 
 Frederick Homan Loveridge 
 Frank Orren Lowden 
 
 Oregon, Illinois 
 Charles Doak Lowry 
 Reuben Ludlam 
 David Brainerd Lyman 
 Francis Ogden Lyman 
 Henry Munson Lyman 
 Frank Worthington Lynch 
 
 San Francisco, California 
 Samuel Adams Lynde 
 Nathan William MacChesney 
 William Macdonell 
 John Williams MacGeagh 
 Julian William Mack 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Franklin MacVeagh 
 Edgar Madden 
 Benjamin Drake Magruder 
 George Manierre 
 Edward Manley 
 William Henry Manss 
 Leroy Delos Mansfield 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 November 13, 191 1 
 November 30, 1883 
 March 25, 1876 
 November 6, 19 16 
 February 21, 1876 
 
 January 10, 1898 
 
 November 25, 1878 
 
 December i, 1891 
 June I, 1874 
 November 18, 1912 
 February 29, 1884 
 May 4, 1874 
 May 19, 1924 
 February i, 1909 
 March 25, 1918 
 
 January 22, 1894 
 October 28, 1901 
 May 15, 1905 
 
 January I4, 1907 
 March 13, 1893 
 
 September 23, 1904 
 March 31, 1874 
 November 30, 1883 
 October 23, 1876 
 February 29, 1884 
 January 4, 1915 
 
 January 11, 1886 
 May 28, 1906 
 February 15, 1875 
 May 15, 191 1 
 April 4, 1892 
 
 March 31, 1874 
 October 19, 1883 
 April 22, 1876 
 January 30, 1885 
 October 22, 191 7 
 December 12, 1921 
 January 3, 1876 
 
 Date Meynbership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, October 3, 1922 
 February i, 1878 
 Resigned, October 20, 1924 
 
 Died, April 11, 1915 
 
 Died, March 11, 191 1 
 Died, September 28, 1903 
 
 Died, February 12, 1904 
 Died, November 20, 1878 
 
 Resigned, November 28, 1903 
 Resigned, May 18, 1908 
 
 Resigned, September 28, 1908 
 
 June 14, 1882 
 Died, April 8, 1914 
 Resigned, January 30, li 
 Resigned, August 25, 18! 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 190 
 
 Died, May 12, 1879 
 Died, November 12, 1913 
 
 April 17, 1894 
 Resigned, May 29, 1890 
 Resigned, January 31, 1895 
 
 June 19, \\ 
 
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 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 George Linn.«ls Marsh 
 Thomas Brunton Marston 
 Franklin Martin 
 Horace Hawes Martin 
 Alfred Bishop Mason 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Arthur John Mason 
 Edward Gay Mason 
 Francis Payne Mason 
 Henry Burrall Mason 
 Roswell Henry Mason 
 Edgar Lee Masters 
 Robert Elden Mathews 
 
 Columbus, Ohio 
 William Mathews 
 
 Boston, Massachusetts 
 Herman Lewis Matz 
 Rldolph Matz 
 William Andrew McAndrew 
 George Martin McBean 
 Hlgh Johnston McBirney 
 Ezra Butler McCagg 
 James Gove King McClure 
 Alexander Caldwell 
 
 McClurg 
 James Lukens McCoNAUGHYf 
 
 Gales burg, Illinois 
 Samuel Parsons McConnell 
 Alfred Edward McCordic 
 Alexander Agnew McCormick 
 Cyrus Hall McCormick. 
 Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. 
 James Edward McDade 
 Parmalee John McFadden 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 William Brown McIlvaine 
 Kenneth McKenzieI 
 
 Urbana, Illinois 
 William Edward McLaren 
 Andrew Cunningham 
 
 McLaughlin 
 BuELL McKeever 
 William Gordon McMillan 
 Simon John McPherson 
 
 Lawrenceville, New Jersey 
 George Herbert Mead 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 December 17, 191 7 
 February 12, 1894 
 November 26, 1923 
 February 26, 1894 
 November 16, 1874 
 
 January 23, 191 1 
 March 13, 1874 
 I'ebruary 4, 1901 
 November 16, 1874 
 February 15, 1875 
 February 13, 191 1 
 December 12, 1921 
 
 March 24, 1874 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 March 2, 1891 
 April 8, 1890 
 March 19, 191 7 
 December 23, 1895 
 February 15, 1875 
 October 22, 1886 
 
 March 31, 1874 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 October 23, 1876 
 February 7, 1898 
 February 2, 1891 
 December 30, 188 1 
 October 23, 1916 
 May 19, 1924 
 April 6, 1896 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 March 22, 1880 
 
 May 24, 191 5 
 March 21, 1904 
 June 24, 1878 
 March 2, 1883 
 
 November 7, 1921 
 
 [ 225 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, I'\bruary i, 1899 
 
 Died, October 19, 1925 
 
 Died, December 18, 1898 
 Resigned, February i, 1908 
 August 15, 1902 
 January 25, 1898 
 January 31, 191 6 
 
 Died, February I4, 1909 
 
 Died, March 15, 1917 
 
 Resigned, October 12, 1924 
 Resigned, January 25, 1898 
 February i, 1897 
 Resigned, October i, 1908 
 
 Died, April 15, 1901 
 Resigned, April i, 1925 
 
 June 6, 1896 
 
 Resigned, September 18, 1899 
 
 Resigned, October 16, 1903 
 
 Resigned, October 7, 191 9 
 
 Died, February 9, 191 1 
 
 Resigned, January 30, 1897 
 
 Resigned, January 28, 1881 
 
 Resigned, October 25, 1917 
 August 31, 1885 
 Died, January 9, 1919
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 John Collier Mechem 
 George Walker Meeker 
 Charles Patrick Megan 
 Lewis Pyle Mercer 
 Louis Joseph Mercier 
 Henry Payson Merriman 
 
 Santa Barbara, California 
 LoRiNG Wilbur Messer 
 Edwin Lillie Miller 
 
 Detroit, Michigan 
 Henry Giles Miller 
 James Alexander Miller 
 John Stocker Miller 
 John Stocker Miller, Jr. 
 George Crichton Miln 
 Thomas George Milsted 
 Charles Wellington Minard 
 Clifford Mitchell 
 Louis Celestin Monin 
 Frank Hugh Montgomery 
 William Adam Montgomery 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore 
 Samuel McClelland Moore 
 Victor Morawetz 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 David Percy Morgan 
 Henry Crittenden Morris 
 James William Morrisson 
 Charles James Morse 
 Jared Kirtland Morse 
 Lemuel Moss 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Harold Nicholas Moyer 
 Harrison Musgrave 
 Charles Alexander Nelson 
 
 Mount Vernon, New York 
 Murry Nelson 
 Murry Nelson, Jr. 
 Clarence Adolph Neymann 
 George Perry Nichols 
 William Wilson Kirchofer 
 
 Nixon 
 Charles Dyer Norton 
 James Sager Norton 
 George Clement Noyes 
 John Thomas Noyes 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 February 28, 1921 
 February 29, 1884 
 January 17, 1921 
 February 28, 1881 
 December 21, 1908 
 January 22, 1894 
 
 January 22, 1894 
 November 27, 1899 
 
 February 29, 1884 
 June 4, 1894 
 February 25, 1895 
 January 22, 1917 
 October 31, 1881 
 November i, 1886 
 December 7, 1903 
 May 10, 1920 
 November 26, 1900 
 January 29, 1900 
 May 25, 1885 
 November 6, 1916 
 March 15, 1875 
 November 24, 1879 
 
 November 11, 1889 
 November 21, 1904 
 February 17, 1902 
 November 4, 1895 
 December 12, 1921 
 November 2, 1874 
 
 January 17, 1910 
 April 18, 1898 
 November 9, 1891 
 
 October 18, 1875 
 October 18, 1893 
 May 26, 1919 
 February 9, 1925 
 
 March 18, 1889 
 April 8, 1 901 
 April 22, 1876 
 March 2, 1883 
 March 24, 1879 
 
 [ 226 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, September 17, 18S 
 
 June 14, 1882 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1910 
 
 Died, October 18, 1911 
 
 Resigned, October 22, 1917 
 
 October 29, 1896 
 February 28, 1911 
 Died, February 16, 1922 
 
 June II, 1883 
 
 Resigned, December 9, 1889 
 
 Resigned, September 29, 1909 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1921 
 
 Resigned, June 3, 1908 
 
 Died, July 14, 1908 
 
 Died, August 21, 1895 
 
 June 2, 1884 
 
 Resigned, April 25, 1891 
 Resigned, January 29, 1916 
 Resigned, October 17, 1917 
 Resigned, May 7, 1900 
 
 Died, July 12, 1904 
 
 Died, December 14, 1923 
 Resigned, December 26, 189 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 1902 
 Resigned, August 17, 1903 
 
 Resigned, September 29, 1900 
 Resigned, April 12, 1902 
 Died, September 17, 1896 
 Died, January 14, 1889 
 Resigned, January 31, 1895
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 LaVerne Noyes 
 Horace Sweeny Oakley 
 John O'Connor 
 Holmes Onderdonk 
 William Sigmind Oppenheim 
 Hugh Robert Orr 
 Hartwell Osborn 
 Louis Shreve Osborne 
 
 Newark, Xew 'Jersey 
 Roy Clifton Osgood 
 Ephraim Allen Otis 
 John Nash Ott 
 Jesse Myron Owen 
 George Packard 
 Charles Evart Paddock 
 George Laban Paddock 
 
 Benjamin Eldridge Page 
 
 Herman Page 
 
 Alonzo Winslow Paige 
 
 Schenectady, Xew York 
 Alonzo Ketcham Parker 
 Francis Warner Parker 
 Francis Wayland Parker 
 Robert Henry Parkinson 
 Newton Augustus Partridge 
 John Clorey Patterson 
 Perry Smith Patterson 
 Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr 
 Hugh Talbot Patrick 
 John Barton Payne 
 William Morton Payne 
 Augustus Stephen Peabody 
 Francis Bolles Peabody 
 Selim Hobart Peabody 
 Charles William Pearson 
 James Carr Peasley 
 Bronson Peck, Jr. 
 George Record Peck 
 Emerson William Peet 
 James Harvey Peirce 
 Abram Morris Pence 
 DwIght Heald Perkins 
 Herbert Farrington 
 
 Perkins 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 December 17, 191 7 
 February 12, 1894 
 November 13, 191 2 
 January 16, 1921 
 April 16, 1894 
 January 17, 1921 
 February 19, 1906 
 November 29, 1884 
 
 April 26, 191 5 
 April 22', 1878 
 March 8, 191 5 
 December 22, 1924 
 November 26, 1894 
 January 4, 191 5 
 December 20, 1875 
 
 and 
 *May 31, 1909 
 May 24, 1920 
 December 4, 1905 
 March 22, 1880 
 
 January 8, 1900 
 May 16, 191 2 
 May 26, 1884 
 May 24, 1897 
 March 28, 1898 
 October 5, 1874 
 December 17, 1923 
 April 19, 1875 
 March 28, 1898 
 January 15, 1894 
 February i, 1897 
 October 27, 1908 
 December 29, 1882 
 May 28, 1877 
 November 7, 1887 
 November 7, 1887 
 January 3, 1876 
 April 6, 1896 
 November 27, 1876 
 May 4, 1883 
 November 16, 1874 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 December 18, 1893 
 
 [ ^^7 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, July 24, 1919 
 Resigned, July 16, 1903 
 Resigned, April 20, 191 5 
 
 Resigned, January 16, 1905 
 
 Died, November 13, 1914 
 Died, January 27, 1912 
 
 Resigned, January 28, 1904 
 Resigned, February i, 1924 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1921 
 
 Died, September 1 1, 1910 
 Resigned, January 23, 1909 
 
 Resigned, February 23, 1904 
 Died, October 9, 1922 
 September 21, 1886 
 Resigned, September 29, 1909 
 Resigned, February i, 1921 
 February 6, 1877 
 Resigned, October i, 1925 
 Resigned, August 7, 1888 
 Resigned, May 22, 1899 
 Resigned, September 23, 1897 
 Died, July 11, 1919 
 Resigned, May i, 191 1 
 Resigned, November 28, 1894 
 Resigned, November 22, 1898 
 Resigned, February i, 1889 
 Resigned, NLny 24, 1 890 
 Died, September I4, 1895 
 Resigned, January 15, 1903 
 Died, April 17, 1902 
 Resigned, January 15, 1913 
 Died, September 5, 1905 
 Resigned, October i, 1906 
 
 Resigned, February 1, 1904
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Norman Carolan Perkins 
 
 Detroit, Michigan 
 Raymond St. James Perrin 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 William Ferdinand Petersen 
 William Jacob Petrie 
 
 San Antonio, Texas 
 
 HoLMAN Dean Pettibone 
 George Benjamin Phelps, Jr. 
 Myron Henry Phelps 
 
 Last known address: 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 George Levis Phillips 
 Josiah Little Pickard 
 
 Cupertino, Calijornia 
 Charles Churchill Pickett 
 Clement Knowles Pittman 
 
 Los Angeles, Calijornia 
 Allen Bartlit Pond 
 Irving Kane Pond 
 Charles Clarence Poole 
 William Frederick Poole 
 Robert Percevil Porter 
 
 Oxford, England 
 Louis Freeland Post 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 Edward Clement Potter 
 RoscoE Pound 
 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts 
 Henry Alfred Poveleite 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 
 Horatio Nelson Powers 
 
 Bridgeport, Connecticut 
 Robert Bruce Preble 
 Sartell Prentice 
 Keith Preston 
 
 Theodore Philander Prudden 
 Eugene Ernst Prussing 
 Ernst Wilfrid Puttkammer 
 James Edward Quan 
 Edward Chittenden Ray 
 William Henry Ray 
 Henry Warren Raymond 
 
 Germantown, Pennsylvania 
 Charles Francis Read 
 
 Date of Election 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 May 26, 1884 
 
 October 30, 1922 
 June I, 1874 
 
 and 
 November 12, 188 
 May 21, 1923 
 March 2, 1891 
 December 6, 1886 
 
 December 3, 1888 
 March 31, 1874 
 
 June 9, 1890 
 November 22, 1909 
 
 November 12, 1888 
 November 12, 1888 
 December 18, 1893 
 March 31, 1874 
 January 26, 1880 
 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 January 8, 1900 
 March 14, 1910 
 
 April 3, 191 1 
 
 March 13, 1874 
 
 February 7, 1921 
 April 28, 1882 
 February 26, 1923 
 November 7, 1887 
 November 4, 1899 
 March 12, 1923 
 December 10, 1906 
 February 21, 1887 
 March 9, 1885 
 January 29, 1877 
 
 March 3, 1924 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, March 20, 1895 
 
 Died, August 30, 1915 
 
 Resigned, December 20, 1887 
 Died, February i, 1913 
 Resigned, September 29, 1896 
 
 Died, January 29, 1889 
 Died, March 27, 1914 
 
 June I, 1909 
 Died, April 17, 1921 
 
 Resigned, May 28, 1909 
 
 Resigned, September 27, 1907 
 Died, March i, 1894 
 Died, February 28, 1917 
 
 Resigned, May 11, 1903 
 
 Died, September 6, 1890 
 
 Died, September 2, 1901; 
 Resigned, February i, 1924 
 Died, November 9, 1915 
 Resigned, January 26, 1916 
 
 Resigned, September 2, 1908 
 Resigned, January 31, 1893 
 Died, July 30, 1889 
 Died, February 18, 1925 
 
 Resigned, January 12, 1925 
 
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 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Edward Rector 
 Charles Bert Reed 
 Clark. Scammon Reed 
 Dudley Billings Reed 
 Earl Howell Reed, Jr. 
 Frank Freemont Reed 
 Curtis Williford Reese 
 Alexander Frederick. 
 
 Reichmann 
 William Morton Reynolds 
 Charles Spencer 
 
 RiCHARDSOX 
 
 New Haven, Connecticut 
 William Lee Richardson 
 John Ridlon 
 Samuel Mayo Rinaker 
 Jacob Ringer 
 George Evan Roberts 
 
 Ossining, Xexv York 
 William Charles Roberts 
 John Roy Robertson 
 Harry Franklin Robinson 
 Carl Bismarck Roden 
 George Mills Rogers 
 John Gorin Rogers 
 Joseph Martin Rogers 
 
 Traverse City, Michigan 
 Frederick Woodman Root 
 John Wellborn Root 
 John Wellborn Root, Jr. 
 Julius Rosenthal 
 Lessing Rosenthal 
 Cyrus Dustin Roys 
 John Sumner Runnels 
 James Bover Runnion 
 
 Kansas City, Missouri 
 William Henry Ryder 
 Edward Earned Ryerson 
 Edwin Warner Ryerson 
 Martin Antoine Ryerson 
 William Godfrey Sage 
 William McIntire Salter 
 
 Silver Lake, New Hampshire 
 Osborne Sampson 
 
 Andrew, Iowa 
 Victor Channing Sanborn 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 December 18, 1905 
 December 10, 1906 
 April 21, 1919 
 May 10, 1920 
 April 5, 191 5 
 November 27, 1916 
 November 26, 1923 
 
 January 20, 1913 
 April 21 1874 
 
 January 14, 1907 
 
 December 6, 1920 
 February i, 1897 
 December 12, 1921 
 May 26, 191 9 
 April 18, 1910 
 
 April 25, 1887 
 March 31, 1874 
 May 19, 1924 
 December 17, 1917 
 December 27, 1880 
 May 4, 1874 
 November 30, 1883 
 
 October 31, 1884 
 February 3, 1876 
 March 8, 1915 
 March 31, 1874 
 January 10, 1898 
 January 7, 1890 
 February 2, 1891 
 April 21, 1874 
 
 April 19, 1875 
 November 11, 1907 
 November 7, 1921 
 March 2, 1891 
 December 13, 1909 
 March 9, 1885 
 
 November 30, 1883 
 
 December 21, 1963 
 
 [ 229 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Resigned, July 28, 1910 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1921 
 Resigned, September 30, 1917 
 Resigned, October l, 1917 
 
 March 6, 1876 
 
 Resigned, December 31, i! 
 Died, September 9, 1922 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1892 
 October i, 1875 
 
 Resigned, September 20, 1888 
 Resigned, September 30, 1886 
 Died, September 28, 1923 
 
 Died, November 8, 1916 
 Died, January 15, 1891 
 May 29, 1916 
 Died, May 14, 1905 
 
 Resigned, May 14, 1896 
 Resigned, January 31, 191 5 
 Died, May 6, 1897 
 
 Resigned, June 10, 1878 
 Resigned, January 31, 1911 
 
 Died, December, 1920 
 Died, January 13, 1921
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Edward Henry Sanford 
 MiNOT JuDsoN Savage 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio 
 Henry James Sawe 
 Carlos Pomeroy Sawyer 
 Joseph Schaffner 
 Joseph Halle Schaffner 
 Elmer Schlesinger 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Otto Leopold Schmidt 
 Francis Phillip Schmitt 
 George Schneider 
 John James Schobinger 
 Charles Sumner Schoenmann 
 John McAllister Schofield 
 Arthur Pearson Scott 
 Frank Hamline Scott 
 Harry Fletcher Scott 
 
 Athens, Ohio 
 Moses Lewis Scudder 
 
 Huntington, L. I., New York 
 Lewis Martin Sears 
 
 West Lafayette, Indiana 
 Louis Augustus Seeberger 
 Frank Harrold Sellers 
 James Washington Sheahan 
 Edwin Holmes Sheldon 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Theodore Sheldon 
 Robert Dickinson 
 
 Sheppard 
 Philip Henry Sheridan* 
 
 Nonquit, Massachusetts 
 Daniel Lewis Shorey 
 Paul Shorey 
 John George Shortall 
 John Louis Shortall 
 Philip Raymond Shumway 
 William Pratt Sidley 
 George Cushing Sikes 
 Joseph Lyman Silsbee 
 Howard Lyle Simmons 
 James Persons Simonds 
 William Edward Simonds f 
 
 Galesburg, Illinois 
 Ernest Sylvester Simpson 
 
 T)ate of Election 
 
 May 29, 191 1 
 March 17, 1874 
 
 February 2, 1903 
 February 15, 1904 
 March 14, 1910 
 November 5, 1923 
 January 17, 1910 
 
 November 12, 1909 
 May 24, 1886 
 December 20, 1875 
 December 6, 1875 
 April 14, 1902 
 February 29, 1884 
 February 28, 1921 
 May 4, 1 891 
 January 17, 1921 
 
 May 4, 1874 
 
 May 15, 1916 
 
 December 10, 1906 
 January 23, 1899 
 March 31, 1874 
 March 25, 1878 
 
 May 25, 1885 
 
 February 28, 1881 
 March 2, 1883 
 
 March 31, 1874 
 October 31, 1884 
 November 15, 1875 
 February 26, 1894 
 March 5, 1900 
 December 23, 1895 
 January 6, 1902 
 February 29, 1884 
 March 6, 1922 
 March 12, 1923 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 February 26, 1923 
 [ ^30 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Tertninated 
 Resigned, May 5, 1917 
 Died, May 29, I918 
 
 Died, April 2, 1904 
 
 Died, April 19, 1918 
 
 Resigned, January 28, 1890 
 Died, September 16, 1905 
 Resigned, October i, 1904 
 Resigned, January 20, 1908 
 Resigned, February i, 1885 
 
 Died, October 29, 1917 
 
 Resigned, January 30, 1909 
 Resigned, February i, 1901 
 January 29, 1876 
 Died, December 18, 1890 
 
 Resigned, January 6, 1889 
 
 May 22, 1907 
 Died, August 5, 1888 
 
 Died, March 4, 1899 
 
 Died, July 23, 1908 
 Resigned, March 10, 1919 
 Resigned, January 31, 1903 
 Resigned, January 29, 1909 
 Resigned, August 31, 1903 
 Resigned, September 30, 185
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 Mark Skinner 
 Orrin Sktnner 
 Arthur Wakefield Si.aten 
 Edward Alonzo Small 
 Archibald Whittier Smalley 
 Charles Oilman Smith 
 Dun LAP Smith 
 Edwin BuRRirr Smith 
 Frederick Augustus Smith 
 Frederick Belcher Smith 
 George Baldwin Smith* 
 
 Madison, IVisconsin 
 George Washington Smith 
 Henry Justin Smith 
 Howard Leslie Smith 
 
 Madison, Wisconsin 
 Humphrey Russell Smith 
 Perry Hiram Smith 
 Pliny Bent Smith 
 William Henry Smith 
 Isaac Alonzo Smothers 
 Denton Jaques Snider 
 
 St. Louis, Missouri 
 Franklyn Bliss Snyder 
 Keith Spalding 
 Albert Arnold Sprague 
 Otho Sylvester Arnold 
 
 Sprague 
 
 Pasadena, California 
 Samuel Cecil Stanton 
 Horace Mann Starkey 
 
 Rockford, Illinois 
 Merritt Starr 
 Lewis Abyram Stebbins 
 Frederick Morgan Steele 
 Henry Thornton Steele 
 Otto Albert Steller 
 Edward Swan Stickney 
 John Carolus Stirling 
 William Robert Stirling 
 Joseph Stolz 
 George Frederick Stone 
 Henry Baldwin Stone 
 James Samuel Stone 
 Henry Strong 
 William Emerson Strong 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 December 21, 1874 
 October 18, 1875 
 May 21, 1923 
 October 18, 1875 
 March 2, 1925 
 March 31, 1874 
 February 25, 1895 
 March 18, 1889 
 February 4, 1901 
 NLirch 31, 1874 
 January 18, 1875 
 
 October 18, 1875 
 May 19, 1924 
 December 19, 1898 
 
 December 9, 1907 
 June 9, 1888 
 April 25, 1887 
 February 26, 1894 
 December 17, 1923 
 December 3, 1888 
 
 December 18, 1916 
 December 18, 1905 
 May 26, 1879 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 Died, September 16, 1887 
 June 9, 1879 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1924 
 Died, January 13, 1882 
 
 Died, January 10, 1894 
 Resigned, September 29, i8(; 
 Died, May 9, 1906 
 Died, January 31, 1919 
 Resigned, October 19, 1917 
 Died, September 18, 1879 
 
 Died, September 1 6, 1 898 
 
 Resigned, July 8, 1910 
 Resigned, January 5, 1897 
 Died, April 24, 1912 
 Died, July 27, 1896 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1925 
 Resigned, January 31, 1910 
 Died, January 10, 1915 
 
 November 22, 1880 Died, February 20, 1909 
 
 May 26, 1919 
 December 19, 1898 
 
 April 16, 1894 
 October 22, 1917 
 October 25, 1897 
 April 21, 1874 
 ^LTy 8, 1922 
 December 6, 1875 
 May 26, 1884 
 November 23, 1882 
 December 15, 1902 
 February 26, 1894 
 November 30, 1883 
 February 25, 1895 
 April 23, 1877 
 November 26, 1877 
 
 [ 231 ] 
 
 Died, June 22, 1923 
 
 Resigned, January 27, 1903 
 Died, November 10, 1890 
 
 Died, March 20, 1880 
 Resigned, January 31, 1895 
 Resigned, September 30, 1914 
 
 Resigned, February 31, 1902 
 Died, July 5, 1897 
 Resigned, September 29, 1900 
 Died, October 21, 191 1 
 Died, April 10, 1891
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 
 Melancthon Woolsey 
 
 Stryker 
 Charles Inches Sturgis 
 Louis Henry Sullivan 
 George Warner Swain 
 Harold Higgins Swift 
 David Swing 
 LoRADO Taft 
 William Charles Tanner 
 Last known address: 
 Riverside, California 
 Charles Henry Taylor 
 
 Fitzhugh Taylor 
 Graham Taylor 
 Thomas Taylor, Jr. 
 Horace Kent Tenney 
 Alfred Howe Terry 
 Schuyler Baldwin Terry 
 John Marshall Thacher 
 Alfred Addison Thomas 
 Frank Wright Thomas 
 Hiram Washington Thomas 
 James Westfall Thompson 
 John Leverett Thompson 
 Leverett Thompson 
 Slason Thompson 
 William McIi.wain Thompson 
 Arthur James Todd 
 Albert Harris Tolman 
 Henry Leland Tolman 
 Floyd Williams TomkinSj, Jr. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Arnold Tompkins 
 Melvin Alvah Traylor 
 Lambert Tree 
 Charles Henderson True 
 Lyman Trumbull 
 Murray Floyd Tuley 
 Frederick Ullmann 
 Frederic Ullmann, Jr. 
 Arthur Waring Underwood 
 Thomas Ingle Underwood. 
 George Putnam Upton 
 George Burwell Utley 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 May 25, 1885 
 June 7, 1892 
 January 11, 1886 
 May 15, 1922 
 November 3, 191 9 
 March 24, 1874 
 March 18, 1899 
 February 6, 1905 
 
 December 21, 1883 
 
 and 
 April 8, 1901 
 November 6, 1905 
 February 12, 1894 
 January 15, 1894 
 October 28, 1901 
 November i, 1886 
 February 28, 1921 
 April 28, 1882 
 February 26, 1894 
 March 6, 1922 
 October 5, 1874 
 February 20, 1899 
 June 7, 1875 
 February 26, 1894 
 December 27, 1880 
 February i, 1909 
 January 16, 1922 
 February i, 1909 
 November 25, 1878 
 December 21, 1891 
 
 November 24, 1902 
 April 21, 1919 
 March 31, 1874 
 February \1, 1923 
 March 31, 1874 
 January 26, 1880 
 February 25, 1895 
 January 28, 1918 
 March 16, I923 
 April 6, 1925 
 March 31, 1874 
 April 6, 1925 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Resigned, October 2, 1885 
 Resigned, October i, 1894 
 Resigned, October i, 1901 
 
 Died, October 3, 1894 
 Resigned, September 29, 1900 
 
 Resigned, October 16, 1894 
 
 Resigned, July 19, 1915 
 Resigned, January 31, 1915 
 Resigned, September 24, 1896 
 Resigned, February i, 1904 
 Resigned, June 26, 1906 
 Resigned, April 21, 1887 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1895 
 Resigned, May 16, 1900 
 
 Resigned, February 12, 1878 
 
 Died, January 31, 1888 
 Resigned, September 7, 1905 
 
 Resigned, January 21, 1882 
 
 Died, August 14, 1905 
 
 June 19, 1878 
 
 June II, 1886 
 
 June 20, 1897 
 
 Died, March 29, 191 1 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1925 
 
 Resigned, May 9, 1905 
 
 October i, 1875 
 
 [ 232 ]
 
 Roll of Members 
 
 Members 
 
 David Newton Utter 
 Joseph Loring V'alentine 
 John Frederick Voigt 
 Leonard Wblls Volk 
 Henry Heii.eman Wait 
 Horatio Loomis Wait 
 James Joseph Wait 
 Aldace Freeman Walker 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 George Richard Walker 
 James Monroe Walker 
 Wirt Dexter Walker 
 Seymour Walton 
 Frank Gibson Ward 
 Henry Arthir Ware 
 Arba Nelson Waterman 
 Edward Stanley Waters 
 
 Salem, Massachusetts 
 William Otis Waters 
 Charles Ripley Webster 
 George Washington Webster 
 John Clarence Webster 
 Joseph Dana Webster 
 David Spencer Wegg 
 George Philip Welles 
 Arthur Brattle Wells 
 Charles William Wendt£ 
 
 Berkeley, California 
 Arthur Dana Wheeler 
 David Hinton Wheeler 
 Samuel Hickox Wheeler 
 Charles Crawford Whinery 
 Horace White 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 Russell Whitman 
 Herbert Clarkson Whitehead 
 George Francis Whitsett 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 Peter Bonnett Wight 
 John Henry Wigmore 
 John Daniel Wild 
 Payson Sibley Wild 
 Robert Hall Wiles 
 Dudley Phelps Wilkinson 
 John Wilkinson 
 James Rowland Willett 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 November 30, 1883 
 January 7, 1921 
 November 14, 1910 
 March 31, 1874 
 December 23, 1895 
 January 29, 1877 
 January 7, 1890 
 November 11, 1889 
 
 November 4, 1899 
 January 29, 1877 
 April 16, 1888 
 February 6, 1888 
 May I, 1916 
 March 28, 1898 
 March 2, 1883 
 June I, 1874 
 
 September 23, 1904 
 January 29, 1900 
 March 5, 1900 
 December 10, 1906 
 February i, 1875 
 April 4, 1892 
 November 28, 1881 
 January 7, 1890 
 December 21, 1874 
 
 March 7, 1887 
 March 31, 1874 
 February 26, 1877 
 December 6, 1920 
 March 24, 1874 
 
 April 8, 1890 
 May 4, 1925 
 May 19, 1924 
 
 June 7, 1875 
 October 25, 1897 
 November 14, 1910 
 December 15, 1902 
 NLay 18, 1903 
 November 27, 1876 
 March 17, 1874 
 June 9, 1888 
 
 [ '^33 ] 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 June 5, 1891 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1922 
 June 19, 1878 
 Resigned, April 29, 1907 
 Died, July 15, 1916 
 Died, January 11, 1925 
 Died, April 12, 1901 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1901 
 Died, January 22, 1881 
 Died, April 24, 1899 
 April 17. 1894 
 
 Resigned, September 14, 1900 
 Died, March 16, 1917 
 Died, April 7, 1916 
 
 Resigned, September 24, 1909 
 Resigned, January 31, 1902 
 Resigned, September 30, 1914 
 Resigned, October i, 1916 
 Died, March 12, 1876 
 Resigned, November 16, 1916 
 Died, January 21, 1912 
 Resigned, August 9, 1909 
 
 Died, August 29, 1912 
 October i, 1875 
 Resigned, March 26, 1 883 
 
 Died, September 16, 1916 
 
 Resigned, September 29, 1894 
 
 Resigned, October i, 1896 
 Resigned, August 29, 1898 
 
 Died, March 30, 1907 
 Resigned, January 31, 1898 
 Died, September 9, 1904 
 Resigned, January 30, 1893
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Members 
 Edward Franklin Williams 
 
 Henry Percy Williams 
 Norman Williams 
 Robert Williams 
 Stalham Leon Williams, Jr. 
 Charles Henry Wilmerding 
 Benjamin Mairs Wilson 
 John P Wilson 
 Arthur Wellesley Windett 
 DeWitt Cosgrove Wing 
 William Herman Winslow 
 Frederick Seymour Winston 
 Albrecht Wirth 
 Thomas Foster Withrow 
 Albert Henry Wolf 
 Henry Milton Wolf 
 Benjamin Wolhaupter 
 Walter Mabie Wood 
 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
 RoLLiN Turner Woodyatt 
 John Hopkins Worcester, Jr. 
 Samuel Henry Wright 
 Victor S. Yarros 
 Charles Yeomans 
 Abram VanF.ps Young 
 Kimball Young 
 John Maxcy Zane 
 Joseph Zeisler 
 Sigmund Zeisler 
 William Carbys Zimmerman 
 
 Date of Election 
 
 November 27, 1876 
 
 and 
 *April 24, 1916 
 November i, 19 15 
 October 18, 1875 
 November 28, 1881 
 November 4, 1899 
 February 3, 1890 
 November 27, 1876 
 December 23, 1878 
 March 31, 1874 
 March 24, 1913 
 February 7, 1898 
 June 21, 1880 
 January 7, 1895 
 January 29, 1877 
 January 12, 1914 
 May 28, 1906 
 December 23, 1895 
 October 28, 1901 
 
 November 22, 1915 
 November 11, 1889 
 November 4, 1895 
 December 7, 1903 
 November 3, 1919 
 March 18, 1889 
 February 13, 1893 
 December 4, 1905 
 January 7, 1895 
 March 13, 1893 
 October 19, 1903 
 
 Date Membership 
 Terminated 
 
 Died, May 26, 1919 
 
 Died, June 19, 1899 
 Resigned, September i, 1884 
 Resigned, September 18, 1907 
 Resigned, September 30, 1895 
 September 17, 1892 
 Died, October 3, 1922 
 Resigned, April 26, 1886 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1905 
 Resigned, June 12, 1893 
 Resigned, May 24, 1914 
 Died, February 3, 1893 
 Died, March 13, 1921 
 
 Resigned, September 30, 1899 
 
 Died, February 6, 1893 
 Died, July 16, 1900 
 
 Resigned, February i, 1907 
 Resigned, January 13, 1908 
 Resigned, December 29, 1913 
 Resigned, October x, 1917 
 
 Resigned, January 31, 1908 
 
 [ 234 ]
 
 
 Appendix D 
 
 PAPERS READ 
 BEFORE THE CLUB 
 
 THE lists include both written papers and ad- 
 dresses. Where "Conversation" or "Symposium" 
 appears in parenthesis following a title it indicates 
 that a Conversation or a Symposium, as the case may be, 
 was led by the member whose name heads the list. 
 
 William Kelly Ackerman 
 
 Early Attempts at Railroad Building in Illinois 
 Notes on Railway Management in the United States 
 Some Things about Railway Managers 
 Lights and Shadows of a Railroad King 
 
 Charles Adams 
 
 The Evolution of the Military Rifle (Illustrated) 
 
 Cuernavaca (Illustrated) 
 
 Dialect Readings 
 
 A Trip in Java (Illustrated) 
 
 George Everett Adams 
 
 Ideals in Education (Conversation) 
 
 The Rules of the House (Conversation) 
 
 Washington's Idea of "Uncle Sam" 
 
 The Sixteenth Century Englishman and the Twentieth 
 
 Century American 
 Color in Certain Poets 
 On Certain Changes in Language 
 Tros Tyriusque 
 
 December 4, i88a 
 November 10, 1884 
 November i, 1886 
 January 7, 1889 
 
 April 10, 1905 
 April 20, 1908 
 March 27, 191 1 
 March 17, 1919 
 
 June 6, 1881 
 October 21, 1889 
 November 18, 1895 
 
 January 30, 1 899 
 January 16, 1905 
 February 3, 1908 
 November 3, 1913 
 
 [ 235 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 John Coleman Adams 
 
 The Reaction from Realism 
 
 The Historic Place of Abraham Lincoln 
 
 Certain Intellectual Relations of Art 
 
 Sidney Adler 
 
 Looking at Caesar 
 
 Victor Clifton Alderson 
 
 Technical Education; an Economic Necessity 
 
 Owen Franklin Alois 
 
 Louis Napoleon 
 A Letter to Jefferson Davis 
 State Rights — North and South 
 A Day in Maya Land 
 
 Rudolph Altrocchi 
 
 Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet of Beauty and Decadence 
 Roberto Bracco, and the Drama of the Subconscious 
 
 John Ward Amberg 
 
 A Potpourri of Travel 
 
 A Glimpse at Our Northern Iron Ranges 
 
 Edward Scribner Ames 
 Schopenhauer 
 
 The Psychology of Religion 
 Modern Tendencies in Religion 
 The Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 Behaviorism 
 
 Clement Walker Andrews 
 
 Some Details of Library Administration 
 
 The Means of Making Printed Matter Available 
 
 Books as Merchandise 
 
 Recent Progress in Chemistry 
 
 A Footnote to History in 3-Point 
 
 An Uncritical Sketch of an Adventurous Life — that of 
 
 Commodore Joshua Barney, U.S.N. 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 The Economics of Library Architecture 
 An Adventurous Life 
 
 Edmund Andrews 
 
 The Mound Builders (Conversation) 
 The Ancient American Elephants 
 Incidents of Travel 
 
 November 7, il 
 April 22, 1889 
 June 10, 1889 
 
 January 27, 1919 
 October 20, 1902 
 
 June 17, 1878 
 June 5, 1882 
 June 4, 1883 
 May 30, 1892 
 
 November 6, 1922 
 February 25, 1924 
 
 December i, 1901 
 April 22, 1912 
 
 October 25, 1915 
 January 15, 1918 
 January 26, 1920 
 May I, 1922 
 February 18, 1924 
 
 December 20, 1897 
 May 14, 1900 
 February 6, 1905 
 December 4, 1905 
 April 3, 191 1 
 
 April 12, 1915 
 October 8, 191 7 
 April 19, 1920 
 March 17, 1924 
 
 March 10, 1879 
 November 15, 1886 
 October 19, 1896 
 
 [ 236 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Edward Wyllys Andrews 
 
 The Sword of Fire 
 
 Galusha Axderson 
 
 The Data of Ethics (Conversation) 
 
 Chrysostom the Preacher 
 
 Passages from Rev. Timothy Titmouth's "Story of a 
 
 Country Neighborhood" 
 How Missouri was Kept in the Union 
 Reminiscences of a Border City in the Civil War 
 
 Norman Kellogg Anderson 
 The Ice Age in Wisconsin 
 
 Samuel Appleton 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Francis Marion Arnold 
 
 The Relation of Music to Literature 
 
 Musical Selections 
 
 New Freedom in the Construction of Music 
 
 Some Modern Nature Music (with Piano Illustrations) 
 
 Isaac Newton Arnold 
 
 James Fenimore Cooper 
 
 Personal Reminiscences ot Scotland and Anecdotes of 
 
 Scott 
 Reminiscences of Congress during the Rebellion 
 
 Edward Go wan As ay 
 The Bibliopole 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Ayer 
 
 Lake Front Questions 
 
 Henry Homes Babcock 
 
 Plant Culture 
 
 What Should Be the Limits of Free Education Fur 
 nished by the State? (Conversation) 
 
 Wilson Marvin Backus 
 The Italy of Today 
 
 Paul Valentine Bacon 
 
 Leonardo da Vinci, the Great Dilettante 
 
 [ ^37 ] 
 
 November 4, 1889 
 
 February 9, 1880 
 October 23, 1893 
 
 May 13, 1895 
 May 15, 1899 
 April 7, 1902 
 
 February 19, 1906 
 
 October 15, 1877 
 December 20, 1880 
 
 November 25, 191 8 
 October 27, 1919 
 November 24, 1919 
 February 21, 1921 
 
 December 20, 1875 
 
 June 2, 1879 
 March 21, 188 1 
 
 May 7, 1877 
 
 May 28, 1888 
 
 April 29, 1876 
 October I4, 1878 
 
 October 13, 1902 
 
 January 30, 191 1
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Edward Payson Bailey 
 
 The Young Men's Christian Association November 28, 1904 
 
 Edgar Addison Bancroft 
 
 The Religion of Shelley May 21, i S94 
 
 Our New Foreign Policy February i, 1904 
 
 Franklin as a Statesman January 8, 1906 
 
 Preparedness March 6, 1916 
 The Present-Day Business Man Cannot Dispense with 
 
 the Present-Day Lawyer December 4, 1912 
 
 Lewellys Franklin Barker 
 
 The Plague as It Appears in Literature November 3, 1902 
 
 Cecil Barnes 
 
 The French Constitution November 17, 1879 
 
 William Henry Barnum 
 
 Trial by Jury (Conversation) May 12, 1879 
 
 Chief Justice John Marshall the Expounder of the Con- 
 stitution May 12, 1884 
 
 Elwyn Alfred Barron 
 
 Namur April 3, 1893 
 
 John Henry Barrows 
 
 Rembrandt, the Shakespeare of Art December 3, 1 888 
 The Moral and Religious World of Shakespeare October 1 6, 1 893 
 Inaugural Address as President October 8, 1 895 
 Recollections, Serious and Not Serious, of a World Pil- 
 grimage October 1 8, 1 897 
 
 Adolphus Clay Bartlett 
 
 Trade vs. Profession October 15, 18S8 
 
 The Humor of the Wild West October 8, 1 895 
 
 Business Men in the Present October 28, 1895 
 
 Hysteria in Reform October 27, 191 3 
 
 George Preston Barton 
 
 The Influence of the Smaller States in Determining Our 
 
 Form of Government March 30, 1908 
 
 John Foster Bass 
 
 Russia in Manchuria (Illustrated) March 6, 1905 
 
 Fletcher Stewart Bassett 
 
 Pleasures and Perils of a Sea Yoyage December 19, 1887 
 
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 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Choson: A Cruise in Forbidden Seas November i6, 1891 
 
 A Nautical View of the Fleet of Columbus and the Sea 
 
 Life of the Period March 27, 1 893 
 
 Edsox Suxderlaxd Basti.v 
 
 Mineral Resources and Their Influences on Every-day 
 
 Life March 26, 1923 
 
 George Batchelor 
 
 Salem • Octoberi3, 1884 
 
 Hexry Moore Bates 
 
 The Irish Question Historically Considered April 12, 1897 
 
 The Diplomacy of William H. Seward May 5, 1902 
 
 Our Constitutional Development as Affected by the War December 16, 191 8 
 
 William Gerrish Beale 
 
 Public School Education (Conversation) January 27, 1890 
 
 Hexry Holmes Belfield 
 
 Certain Features in Education in Europe November 5, 1894 
 
 Improvements in Educational Methods April 27, 1896 
 
 Buckle and His Book May 20, 1901 
 
 New Year's Resolutions January 2, 1905 
 
 Major General George H. Thomas March 25, 1907 
 
 Industrial Education May 6, 1907 
 President Buchanan and the Forts in Charleston Harbor May 31, 1909 
 
 John Calvin October 1 1, 1909 
 
 William Thomas Belfield 
 
 The Value of Mental Impressions in the Treatment of 
 
 Disease February 24, 1 896 
 The Psychology of Sex April 11, 1904 
 Recent Progress in Medicine December 4, 1905 
 The Venereal Peril February 24, 1908 
 Minnesota's and Indiana's Efforts to Prevent the Propa- 
 gation of the Unfit March 23, 1908 
 The Church Today from the Pomt of View of the Inno- 
 cent Bystander April 24, 191 1 
 
 Cyrus Bextley 
 
 The Third Estate December 3, 1883 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" March 30, 1885 
 
 Frenchman and Russian March 26, 1888 
 
 War and Liberty April 6,1891 
 
 Fraxk Billixgs 
 
 Micro-organisms in Disease June 9, 1890 
 
 Parasites April 8, 1901 
 
 [ ^39 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Edward Tyler Blair 
 
 Men and Manners at the Close of the Eighteenth Cen- 
 
 tury 
 The Private Character of Napoleon Bonaparte 
 The First Grenadier of France 
 
 Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford 
 
 The World's Three Libraries 
 
 Samuel Bliss 
 Character 
 
 Louis James Block 
 
 The Fascination of Pessimism 
 
 Improvements in Educational Methods 
 
 The Significance of the Realistic Movement in Art and 
 
 Literature 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 Bismarck and Gladstone 
 An Imitation of Stephen C. Foster (Verses) 
 The Ways of Providence (Story) 
 The Life and Work of Maxim Gorky 
 A Shakespearean Soliloquy 
 Edgar Allan Poe 
 The Learned Professions 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 The Gospel of Limitation; a Review of George Eliot's 
 
 Poetry 
 The Technique of the Drama 
 The Principles and Methods of Criticism 
 Poems 
 Five One-act Plays 
 
 Henry Williams Blodgett 
 
 Early Mormonism in Illinois 
 The Bering Sea Controversy 
 Slavery in Illinois 
 
 James St. Clair Boal 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Charles Carroll Bonney 
 
 American Antiquities 
 
 Henry Booth 
 
 Evidences of the Resurrection Examined 
 
 November 8, i8^ 
 May 14, 1888 
 November 30, i i 
 
 June 7, 1897 
 
 October 16, 1 88a 
 
 January 7, 1895 
 April 27, 1896 
 
 October 12, 1896 
 December 18, 1899 
 December 17, 1900 
 December 22, 1902 
 November 30, 1903 
 March 5, 1906 
 April 23, 1906 
 January 18, 1909 
 January 29, 1912 
 December 16, 191 2 
 
 November 17, 191 3 
 December 7, 191 4 
 May 24, 191 5 
 December 17, 191 7 
 November 20, 1922 
 
 March 17, 1884 
 April 2, 1894 
 January 28, 1895 
 
 April 27, 1885 
 February 15, 1875 
 May 17, 1875 
 
 [ 240 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Henry Sherman Boutell 
 
 Chaucer 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Roll of Battle Abbey ami the Chicago Public Li- 
 brary 
 
 A Deserted Village 
 
 The Marvelous Success of Our City Government and 
 the Reasons Therefor (Conversation) 
 
 The Life and Services of Johan Boiler 
 
 Cioethe and His Epoch 
 
 Is the Rush-Bagot Convention Immortal? 
 
 February 19, 1883 
 October 22, 1883 
 
 June 2, ii>(jo 
 December 1 1, 1893 
 
 May 1 8, 1 896 
 June 8, 1896 
 October 9, 1899 
 October I4, 1901 
 
 Lewis Henry Boutell 
 
 •Alexander Hamilton, the Constructive Statesman April 7, 1890 
 
 Inaugural Address as President October 3, 1 892 
 
 America's Indebtedness to Edmund Burke May 20, 1895 
 
 A Chapter from a "Life of Roger Sherman" April 20, 1896 
 
 Ingolf Krogh Boyesen 
 
 The Norwegian Realists 
 Some Norwegian Story Tellers 
 Jonas Lie and His Work 
 
 The New Woman as Authoress and Heroine in Scandi- 
 navian Literature 
 
 Charles Frederick Bradley 
 
 The Caricature of Socrates 
 Erasmus 
 
 Norman Bridge 
 
 The History of Oil 
 
 Horace James Bridges 
 
 Samuel Butler's Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited 
 
 On a Certain Condescension in Americans 
 
 George Eliot — A Centenary Tribute 
 
 Modern Tendencies in Religion 
 
 The Tyranny of Books 
 
 Are We Wiser or Better than Our Fathers? 
 
 January 30, 1893 
 January 22, 1894 
 January 18, 1897 
 
 January 7, 1901 
 
 April 28, 1890 
 February 3, 18 
 
 November 8, 1920 
 
 April 23, 191 7 
 May 6, 1 91 8 
 October 13, 1919 
 January 26, 1920 
 January 23, 1922 
 December 11, 1922 
 
 Mason Bross 
 
 Some Sea Folk-Lore 
 
 Some Verses by the Ghost of Thackeray 
 
 A Bit of Old Lyme 
 
 [ 24> ] 
 
 January I4, 1901 
 December 22, 1902 
 February 13, 1905
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Edward Osgood Brown 
 
 The Modern Idea of Progress: Is It Fallacious? (Con- 
 versation) 
 The Catholics of England in the Seventeenth Century 
 The Records of the Mission at Michilimackinac 
 Taxation (Conversation) 
 
 Personal Recollections of the Early Days of the Club 
 George Borrow 
 
 A Catholic's Contribution — to "Some Religious Views" 
 Stephen A. Douglas 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Old News 
 
 Ten Minutes (Address) 
 De Senectute 
 
 Reminiscences of Early Days of the Club 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 Poems 
 
 A Salem Sailor Who Became a Chinese God 
 Vignettes 
 
 George William Brown 
 
 Old Concord 
 
 Starved Rock 
 
 Margaret Fuller's Visit to Oregon 
 
 Two War Poets 
 
 The History of an Indian Title 
 
 Benjamin Reynolds Bulkeley 
 
 The Influence of Poetry 
 Clarence Augustus Burley 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Evolution 
 
 Utopia 
 
 A Confab on Climbing (in Co-operation with Frederick 
 
 Wilcox Clarke) 
 The Punishment of Crime 
 Art from the Point of View of a PhiKstine 
 An Essay m Aesthetic Culture (Illustrated) 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 In the Desert 
 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 Utopia; a Retrospect 
 
 October 1 8, 1880 
 May 21, 18B3 
 March 4, 1889 
 December 17, 1894 
 March 13, 1899 
 January 5, 1903 
 December 5, 1904 
 October 21, 1907 ' 
 October 4, 1909 
 March 20, 191 1 
 October 2, rgii 
 March 9, 1914 
 March 16, 1914 
 December 14, 191 4 
 December 17, 191 7 
 January 20, 1919 
 February 12, 1923 
 
 May 25, 1903 
 April 20, 1914 
 March 8, 191 5 
 October 22, 1917 
 March 22, 1920 
 
 November 16, 1 5 
 
 January 20, 1879 
 March 9, 1885 
 March 5, 1888 
 
 November 24, 1 890 
 March 7, 1898 
 April 2, 1900 
 April 29, 1 901 
 October 6, 1902 
 May 25, 1903 
 December 3, 1906 
 February 10, 1908 
 December 21, 1908 
 December 20, 1909 
 November 21, 19 10 
 
 [ 24^ 1
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 On Talking Away from the Subject 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 The European War 
 Lost Ideals 
 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 To Smoke or to Be Smoked 
 Poems 
 
 How It Happened 
 Stories 
 
 Books uf the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Three Stories: Captain Mack, Williams, and a Man 
 Whom Nobody Could See 
 
 Daniel Hudson Burnham 
 
 The Uses of Expositions 
 
 The Lake Front 
 
 The City of the Future ' 
 
 John Curtis Burroughs 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Public School Education — Practical or Nothing 
 
 Leonard Asbury Busby 
 
 A Chapter in the History of Science 
 
 George Frank Butler 
 
 The Origin, Development, and Use of the English 
 Language 
 
 Henry Turman Byford 
 
 Some Characteristics of the Later Work of O. Henry 
 The Relation of Sugar to the Public Health 
 Some Characteristics of Bernard Shaw's Dramas 
 
 William James Calhoun 
 
 The Development of Our National Life 
 China in Transition 
 The European War 
 The Monroe Doctrine 
 
 Herbert John Campbell 
 George Moore 
 Mind-forged Manacles 
 
 William Newnham Chattin Carlton 
 The Icelandic Sagas; Their Origin and Character 
 
 December i8, 191 1 
 May 27, 191 2 
 December 22, 1913 
 October 19, 1914 
 February 15, 191 5 
 May 8, 1916 
 May 28, 1917 
 December 17, 191 7 
 March 10, 1919 
 November 8, 1920 
 March 19, 1923 
 
 March 3, 1924 
 
 April 15, 1895 
 December 14, 1896 
 February 6, 191 1 
 
 June 3, 1876 
 June 3, 1889 
 
 February 17, 1902 
 
 October 26, 1914 
 
 January 10, 1910 
 January 15, 191 2 
 April 8, 1917 
 
 April 13, 1908 
 March 30, 191 4 
 October 19, 1914 
 April 3, 1916 
 
 December 10, 1917 
 May 12, 1924 
 
 December 12, 1910 
 
 [ 243 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 The Decline and Fall of Literary Ambition in The 
 
 Chicago Literary Club (After-dinner speech) October 2, 191 1 
 
 Books in Manuscript in the Middle Ages May 15, 1913 
 
 Amalie Alvor Skram May 18, 1914 
 
 George Noble Carman 
 
 The Public High School 
 
 Technological Education, Public and Private 
 
 Industrial Education 
 
 The Industrial Republic 
 
 Democracy and Education 
 
 Frederick Ives Carpenter 
 
 The Elizabethan Literature of Travel and Adventure 
 Four Essays in One 
 
 Laurence Arthur Carton 
 The River Plate 
 
 William Warren Case 
 
 The Divining Rod: A Study of Opinions 
 
 /Eon on i 
 
 The Modern Newspaper 
 
 The Ethics of Patriotism 
 
 Verses by the Shade of Robert Herrick 
 
 Helen of Troy 
 
 George Willis Cass 
 
 The Island of Mackinac 
 
 Edwin Henry Cassels 
 
 The Skokie in October 
 Robert Burns, Democrat 
 
 Robert Karl Scott Catherwood 
 The Great Company of Jesus 
 
 Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain 
 
 Physical Pain; its Nature and the Law of Its Dis- 
 tribution 
 
 Henry Porter Chandler 
 
 Open Diplomacy 
 Presidential Government 
 Beauty and the Law 
 
 May I, 1899 
 April 3, 1905 
 May 6, 1907 
 October 19, 1908 
 October 23, 1916 
 
 May 6, 1901 
 March 23, 1903 
 
 October 15, 1917 
 
 February 23, 1891 
 April II, 1892 
 December 9, 1895 
 May 7, 1900 
 December 22, 1902 
 October 16, 1905 
 
 December 5, i' 
 
 February 26, 191 2 
 February 18, 191 8 
 
 March 9, 1903 
 
 May 18, 1874 
 
 November 18, 191! 
 February 28, 1921 
 March 27, 1922 
 
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 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Thomas Septimus Chard 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Our Social Relations with the Unfortunate 
 
 HoBART Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor 
 
 If at First You Don't Succeed (Story) 
 The King's Justice 
 
 William Ludlow Chenery 
 
 The Industrial Relations Commission 
 The Woman Movement 
 Post Belium Reconstruction 
 
 Charles Edward Cheney 
 
 Priest and Soldier 
 
 The Best Fruit of the New South 
 
 Rienzi in History and in Fiction 
 
 A King of France Unnamed in History 
 
 The Second Norman Conquest of England 
 
 A Question of Disputed Authorship. Inaugural Address 
 
 as President 
 The Barefoot Maid at the Fountain Inn 
 A Belated Plantagenet 
 
 Frank Spooner Churchill 
 Some Aspects of Heredity 
 
 Frederick Wilcox Clarke 
 
 Labor Organizations, and Their Relations to Govern- 
 ment (Conversation) 
 
 A Confab on Climbiriig (in Co-operation with Clarence 
 Augustus Burley) 
 
 George Clinton Clarke 
 
 The Machine in Politics (Conversation) 
 
 William Hull Clarke 
 
 Recollections of Some Literary Women Who Have 
 Visited Chicago 
 
 January 22, 1877 
 November 18, 1878 
 February 7, 1881 
 
 April 29, 1895 
 November 15, 1897 
 
 February 7, 1916 
 December 11, 1916 
 May 13, 1 91 8 
 
 June 2, 1884 
 February 20, 1888 
 February 15, 1892 
 March 3, 1902 
 March 12, 1906 
 
 October 5, 1908 
 November 13, 191 1 
 F'ebruary 3, 1913 
 
 February i, 1897 
 
 October 19, 1885 
 November 24, 1890 
 
 May 10, 1880 
 April 29, 1878 
 
 Horace William Shaler Cleveland 
 
 The Artistic Decoration and Improvement of Our Streets November 16, 1874 
 Literary Culture in a Business Community June 4, 1877 
 
 [ 245 1
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Robert Collyer 
 
 Literature and Great Cities 
 The Compliments of the Season 
 An Episode in the Life of Edward Fairfax 
 Friend Jacob Bright and His Son John 
 Informal Address 
 Informal Address 
 The Early Days of the Club 
 
 Memories of Early Days and Early Members of the 
 Club 
 
 ROSSETTER GlEASON ColE 
 
 Musical Inspirations from Longfellow 
 The Melodrama as a Modern Music Form 
 
 June 15,1874 
 
 December 18, 1876 
 
 April I, 1879 
 
 April 14, 1890 
 April 27, 1896 
 November 1, 1897 
 April 30, 1900 
 
 October 9, 1905 
 
 December 19, 1904 
 February 4,1907, and 
 April I, 1907 
 
 John Adams Cole 
 
 A Civic Hero: a Sketch of Ellis S. Chesbrough's Chi- 
 cago Service 
 The English in India 
 
 Algernon Coleman 
 
 Gustave Flaubert as a Letter Writer 
 
 Wells Morrison Cook 
 
 The Morals Court — Its Tragedies and Comedies 
 
 Edwin Gilbert Cooley 
 
 The Public Schools 
 
 Public School Education and Morals 
 
 "Breathes There the Man . . . ? " 
 
 Stoughton Cooley 
 
 'Twixt the Devil and the Deep Sea 
 
 Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge 
 
 The Value of Mental Impressions in the Treatment of 
 Disease 
 
 Avery Coonley 
 
 Seen and Heard in England 
 
 Experiences in the Jury Room 
 
 Past History and Present Problems 
 
 Miss Addams' Book and the Social Settlement 
 
 The Subjugation of Emma Town 
 
 May 15, 1905 
 April 25, 1910 
 
 May 12, 1919 
 October 20, 1919 
 
 February i, 1904 
 April 3, 1905 
 April 2, 1923 
 
 November 7, 1904 
 
 February 24, i! 
 
 February 3, 1902 
 December 7, 1903 
 April 29, 1907 
 May 16, 1910 
 March 4, 191 2 
 
 [ 246 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Henry Frederick Cope 
 
 William Humfrey, Craftsman, 1568 
 Some Tendencies and Ideals in Education, with Espe- 
 cial Reference to Elementary Education 
 The House with the Green Dog (Story) 
 The Education of Anab 
 Cockney Characteristics 
 Poems 
 
 English as She is Taught 
 Modern Tendencies in Religion 
 Trapper Creek 
 More Tales of Trapper Creek 
 
 David Timothy Corbi.v 
 
 Reconstruction Reconstructed 
 
 John Merle Coulter 
 
 An Eccentric Naturalist (Rafinesque) 
 
 Frederick Courtney 
 
 Symbolism 
 
 Charles Ryerson Crane 
 Russia 
 
 John Crerar 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an 'Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Lester Curtis 
 
 Charle:> Robert Darwin 
 
 Simplicius Simplicissimus 
 
 A German Scholar on Autocracy 
 
 Charles Sidney Cutting 
 
 The Constitution and the Mule (After-dinner speech) 
 A Forgotten Incident of the Great Rebellion 
 Fishing (After-dinner speech) 
 The Forty-fifth Parallel 
 
 George Kellogg Dauchy 
 
 Reminiscences of an Argonaut of '49 
 The Battle of Ream's Station 
 
 I 247 1 
 
 March 6, 1098 
 
 January 25, 1909 
 February 19, 191 2 
 February 2, 1914 
 January 10, 191 6 
 March 5, 1917 
 April I, 1918 
 January 26, 1920 
 November 15, 1920 
 February 6, 1922 
 
 February 14, i! 
 
 November 23, 1896 
 
 January 16, 1882 
 
 March 6, 1905 
 
 March 19, 1877 
 April 15, 1878 
 April 21, 1879 
 February 21, 18 81 
 
 February 8, 1909 
 April 21, 1913 
 January 21, 1918 
 
 October 10, 1910 
 F-'ebruary 24, 19 13 
 October 6, 1913 
 October 29, 1917 
 
 December 12, 189a 
 November 14, 1898
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Henri Charles Edouard David 
 
 A Chinese Tale by Theophile Gautier 
 
 Contrasts in English and French Romanticism 
 
 The Real Roger Bontemps 
 
 Poems 
 
 The Successors of Moliere 
 
 Flaubert and Georges Sand 
 
 Bradley Moore Davis 
 
 Some Evolutionary Factors Influencing Society 
 Some Impressions of Egypt (Illustrated) 
 
 Edward Parker Davis 
 
 Wagner's Parsifal 
 
 Nathan Smith Davis, Jr. 
 
 Laymen as Medical Educators 
 Senate Bill 1063 
 
 Chester Mitchell Dawes 
 
 The Yellowstone Park 
 
 George Ellis Dawson 
 
 The Integral Phalanx (the Fourrier Experiment in Illinois) 
 The Holland Land Company 
 Amiel et son Journal Intime 
 The Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson 
 Professor John Bickerstadt Dickinson Mayor 
 Mary VVollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman 
 The Story of a Very Great Writer — W. H. Hudson 
 Are Lawyers Leaders or Followers in the Improve- 
 ment of Society? 
 
 Charles William Deering 
 
 A Defenceless Coast 
 
 Franklin Denison 
 The New Epic 
 
 Frederic Adrian Delano 
 
 American Railways 
 
 An Analysis of Human Character 
 
 Authority and Responsibility 
 
 Some of the Underlying Causes of Unrest 
 
 January 24, 1916 
 May 14, 1917 
 February 3, 1919 
 November 3, 191 9 
 March 20, 1922 
 January 14, 1924 
 
 April 15, 1 901 
 April 17, 1905 
 
 May 16, 1887 
 
 January 19, 1891 
 March 21, 1898 
 
 January 28, li 
 
 November 6, 1893 
 January 16, 1899 
 March 16, 1903 
 May 4, 1908 
 May 13, 1912 
 April 6, 1914 
 April 2, 1917 
 
 February 23, 1920 
 
 December 9, i! 
 
 December 3, 1877 
 
 May 13, 1901 
 April 24, 1905 
 January 31, 1909 
 March 2, 1914 
 
 [ 248 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Thomas Dent 
 
 The Plummet Applied Anon 
 
 Sir Thomas More 
 
 Law Reports as Memorials of History and Biography 
 
 Some Glimpses of Legal History and Progress 
 
 Fletcher Dobyns 
 
 Justice Holmes and the Fourteenth Amendment 
 
 William Edward Dodd 
 
 Robert James Walker, Imperialist 
 
 Henry Clay, Insurgent, 1 817-1825 
 
 American History (Review of Current Literature) 
 
 The Mind of Woodrow Wilson 
 
 Wood row Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 
 
 A Chapter from the History of the Old South 
 
 Thomas Elliott Donnelley 
 
 The Labor Question 
 Franklin as a Printer 
 Industrial Education 
 
 Some Thoughts on the Practical Aspects of Trade Edu- 
 cation 
 The War in Retrospect 
 Some Aspects of the Building Situation 
 
 James Rood Doolittle, Jr. 
 
 Chaucer 
 
 Emilius Clark Dudley 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 As Others See Us 
 
 A Historic Gambling Debt 
 
 The Life and Services of Johan Boiler (Address) 
 
 The Outlook for the Professional Man 
 
 The Heroine of American Liberty 
 
 Louyse Bourgeoise, Midwife: Her Account of the Ac- 
 couchement of Marie de Medici, Wife of Henry IV 
 
 The Progress of Medicine from a Remote Past to Mod- 
 ern Times 
 
 A Glimpse or Two in China, and a Thing or Two on the 
 Way 
 
 Charles Analdo Dupee 
 
 The Dissolution of the Whig Party 
 
 February 18, 1889 
 March 26, 1894 
 February 22, 1904 
 November 18, 1907 
 
 March 11, 191 8 
 
 October 28, 1912 
 March 13, 1916 
 January 15, 1917 
 March 31, 191 9 
 February 16, 1920 
 May 7, 1923 
 
 November 2, 1903 
 January 8, 1906 
 May 6, 1907 
 
 January 23, 191 1 
 May 17, 1920 
 November 13, 1922 
 
 November 15, 1875 
 
 October 24, 1881 
 December 17, 1883 
 November 16, 1885 
 November 13, 1893 
 June 8, 1896 
 March 26, 1900 
 March 27, 1905 
 
 May 6, 191 2 
 
 January 12, 1920 
 
 April 28, 1924 
 
 January 19, 1880 
 
 [ 249 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Sidney Corning Eastman 
 
 Cabot, the Discoverer of North America 
 Eight Years in the British Consulate, by Zebina East- 
 man 
 More's Utopia with Modern Illustrations 
 
 Marquis Eaton 
 
 Too Many Cooks 
 
 James Herron Eckels 
 
 Pamphlets and Pamphleteers of the Cromwellian Period 
 
 Charles Raymond Ege 
 
 A Look Across the Border 
 
 George William Eggers 
 
 Some Modern Developments of Industrial Education, 
 Particularly as Related to General Education 
 
 Charles William Eliot 
 
 The Qualities and Resources of Harvard University 
 
 Frank Macager Elliot 
 
 A Political Episode in 1856 
 
 Joseph Washington Errant 
 
 The Public Service 
 
 Lynden Evans 
 
 Congressional Films (Story) 
 The Interparliamentary Union 
 Some Limitations of Democracy 
 
 Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank 
 
 Fish (Conversation) 
 
 Samuel Fallows 
 
 New Dictionaries and the Common People 
 Irrational Metaphysics 
 
 Albert George Farr 
 
 Mountains and Some Early Writers on Mountaineering 
 
 Marvin Andrus Farr 
 
 The Perverted Dogma of Equality 
 
 [ 250 ] 
 
 January 11, 1897 
 
 March 3, 1919 
 March 14, 1921 
 
 February 13, 1922 
 February 12, 1900 
 December 17, 1923 
 
 May 30, 1910 
 February 9, 1891 
 March 15, 1897 
 April 2, 1906 
 
 November 27, 1916 
 January 8, 1917 
 December 3, 1917 
 
 March 8, 1886 
 
 April 7, 1884 
 April 25, 1887 
 
 November 7, 1904 
 December 2, 1895
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 John Villiers Farwell, Jr. 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Henry Baird Favill 
 
 The Relations of Diet to Modern Therapeutics 
 College Athletics; a Hindrance to General Physical 
 Education 
 
 William Lyman Fawcett 
 
 The Press: Its Function and Influence (Conversation) 
 
 Charles Norman Fay 
 
 The Telephone and Kindred Inventions 
 
 A Day at Sea 
 
 The Bitter Cry of the Outcast Corporation 
 
 A Wyoming Horse Ranch 
 
 Thou Art Twenty Years of Age, My Lady Literary 
 
 Twenty Minutes of Verse 
 
 Personal Experiences with Boodlers 
 
 Love Scene from the Third Act 
 
 William Wallace Fenn 
 
 A Literary Study of the Book of Job 
 
 What Is the Elssential Element in Religion? 
 
 The Humor of the Bible ' 
 
 Sir David Lyndsay 
 
 The Clouds of Aristophanes 
 
 Robert Collyer Fergus 
 
 The Bays of Apollo 
 
 Walter Taylor Field 
 Types of American Fiction 
 
 Morris Fishbein 
 
 Medicine in the Novel and the Press 
 
 George Purxell Fisher, Jr. 
 
 The Trail to Health 
 Walter Lowrie Fisher 
 
 Can Democracy Exist under Party Government? 
 The Ethics of Present-day Finance 
 The Literature of Alaska. Inaugural .Address as Presi- 
 dent 
 The World War and the Monroe Doctrine 
 
 October 27, 1884 
 January 10, 1887 
 
 May II, 1896 
 
 April 15, 1907 
 
 April 8, 1876 
 
 December 5, 1881 
 December 29, 1884 
 December 13, 1886 
 November 19, 1888 
 March 19, 1894 
 October 29, 1894 
 November 20, 1899 
 January 27, 1902 
 
 April 23, 1894 
 January 27, 1896 
 January 4, 1897 
 February 13, 1899 
 December 10, 1900 
 
 January 6, 1919 
 May 8, 1922 
 October 29, 1923 
 April 26, 1909 
 
 February i, 1904 
 January 16, 191 i 
 
 October 6, 1913 
 December 6, 191 5 
 
 [ 251 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 George Foster Fiske 
 
 Experiences in Mountain Climbing 
 
 George Alanson Follansbee 
 
 The Outlook for the Professional Man 
 A Man of Courage: John Fox Potter 
 
 Trowbridge Brigham Forbush 
 
 The Cause and Cure of Pauperism (Conversation) 
 Education and Crime 
 
 Henry Brewster Freeman 
 
 A Shipmaster's Journal 
 
 Henry Varnum Freeman 
 
 The Feasibility of a Sustained Policy of Tariff Reform 
 
 in the United States (Conversation) 
 General George H. Thomas 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 A New England Viking 
 Glimpses of Old Colony Life 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Lincoln and Douglas at Freeport 
 The Spirit of Longfellow's Poetry as an Exponent of 
 
 New England Life , 
 
 An Old New England Parish 
 The Ethics of Present-day Finance 
 
 Charles Wallace French 
 
 Democracy and the Public Shools 
 
 Sicily and Its Passion Play 
 
 Doctor John Brown and His Edinburgh 
 
 Ugo Bassi 
 
 Parthenope 
 
 William Merchant Richardson French 
 
 Chalk versus Talk, with Illustrations 
 
 Graphic Art; with Illustrations 
 
 The Styles of Michael Angelo and Phidias Compared 
 and Illustrated 
 
 The Elements of Expression in Ideal and Decora- 
 tive Art 
 
 Observations and Illustrations touching the Treatment 
 of Light-and-Shade and Color in Pictures and 
 Decoration 
 
 The Innocency of Vision 
 
 February i8, 1901 
 
 March 16, 1900 
 January 26, 1903 
 
 January 14, i8' 
 March 3, 1879 
 
 November 14, 1921 
 
 January 12, 1885 
 May 24, 1886 
 May II, 1891 
 February 26, 1894 
 April 25, 1898 
 October 3, 1898 
 February 9, 1903 
 
 February 27, 1905 
 March 11, 1907 
 January 16, 1911 
 
 November 19, 1900 
 January 9, 1905 
 February 11, 1907 
 May 24, 1909 
 April 18, 1910 
 
 May 27, 1876 
 October 30, 1876 
 
 January 31, 1881 
 
 June I, 1885 
 
 October 22, 1888 
 November 30, 1891 
 
 [ 252 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 The Conventional Element in Pictures and Decoration 
 The Artistic Qualities of the Modern Caricaturists, 
 
 especially certain Old English Caricaturists 
 Personal Recollections of the Early Days of the Club 
 Reminiscences of Old Concord, containing some things 
 
 not in the books 
 The Practical Education of an Artist 
 Letters from a Correspondence between 1826 and 1870 
 Sympathetic Imagination as an Instrument of Criticism, 
 
 Literary and Artistic. Inaugural Address as President 
 The Value of a Line 
 Memories of the Early Days of the Club 
 
 Charles Gordon Fuller 
 
 Photography in its Application to Scientific 
 Research 
 
 Report on Recent Explorations in the Sub-Polar Re- 
 gions of Cook County (in co-operation with Frederick 
 Greeley) 
 
 Melville Weston Fuller 
 
 Thomas Jefferson (Conversation) 
 Gladstone (Conversation) 
 The President's Vetoes 
 Jack Cade 
 
 Henry Jewett Furber, Jr. 
 
 Money as a Popular Ideal 
 
 Americans at the Universities of France 
 
 Social Equilibrium 
 
 William Eliot Furness 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Was Thomas Paine in Advance of His Time? 
 The Negro Soldier during the War of the Rebellion 
 Edited and read an "Informal" (Five Papers on Har- 
 vard University) 
 An Elective Judiciary 
 Memories of Early Members of the Club 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Remarkable Professional Experiences 
 A Militia Company in 1863 
 A Glimpse of Manx Land 
 Rothenburg 
 The Battle of Olustee, February 20, 1864 
 
 October 31, 1892 
 
 December 21, 1896 
 March 13, 1899 
 
 March 30, 1903 
 December 2, 1907 
 April 15, 1912 
 
 October 7, 1912 
 May 19, 1913 
 March 16, 1914 
 
 April 2, 1888 
 April 22, 1901 
 
 April 13, 1880 
 December 12, li 
 May 9, 1887 
 June II, 1888 
 
 November 13, 1899 
 November 5, 1900 
 May 22, 1905 
 
 February 3, 1876 
 March 26, 1883 
 April 5, 1886 
 Aprils, 1889 
 
 February 9, 1891 
 January 9, 1893 
 March 19, 1894 
 October 8, 1894 
 November 25, 1895 
 April 3, 1899 
 March 18, 1 901 
 December 8, 1902 
 May I, 1905 
 
 [ ^S3 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Fredrik Herman Gade 
 Bjornsterne Bjornsen 
 
 Lyman Judson Gage 
 
 Gold and Silver as Money 
 
 An Episode in a Banker's Experience 
 
 Edward Ilsley Galvin 
 The Humorist as a Benefactor 
 
 Edwin James Gardiner 
 
 The Nature of and the Perception of Color 
 How It Is Done in Spain 
 Cosas de Espaiia 
 
 Victor Garwood 
 Doctor Burney 
 
 Frank Gilbert 
 
 Competitive Transportation (Conversation) 
 American Financial Innovation 
 The Robert Eismere Craze 
 The Census (Conversation) 
 
 Different Views of the Same Subject: The Daily News- 
 paper 
 
 Simeon Gilbert 
 The Newspaper 
 
 Thomas Lewis Gilmer 
 Motor Boats 
 
 Irwin Thoburn Gilruth 
 
 Vigilante Days 
 
 Campaigns and Their Shibboleths 
 
 John Jacob Glessner 
 
 Two Noted Diarists 
 
 Potatoes 
 
 And Thereby Hangs a Tail 
 
 Farming 
 
 An October Sunday in Massachusetts 
 
 Graveyard Literature 
 
 Leroy Truman Goble 
 
 Cockaigne 
 
 The Abode of Silence 
 
 Suppressed Books, or the Changing Face of Censorship 
 
 April 21, 190a 
 
 October 17, 18S 
 March 9, 1896 
 
 January 13, 1890 
 
 February 22, 1886 
 March 28, 1892 
 November 7, 1898 
 
 February 18, 1907 
 
 October 17, 1881 
 March 24, 1884 
 May 13, 1889 
 June 8, 1891 
 
 March 23, 1896 
 January 18, 1875 
 March 18, 1907 
 
 January 19, 1920 
 February 19, 1923 
 
 December 7, 1885 
 November 9, 1908 
 December 15, 191 3 
 December 13, 1915 
 November 6, 1916 
 December 12, 1921 
 
 February 7, 1921 
 December 18, 1922 
 November 19, 1923 
 
 [ 254 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Daniel Goodwin 
 
 The Dearborns 
 A Pantheon Day in Rome 
 Our Supreme Eulogist 
 
 A Memorial Essay on Thomas Hughes, with some 
 account ot his visits to Chicago in 1870 and 1881 
 
 October 15, 1883 
 May 30, 1887 
 November 26, 188 
 
 June 8, 1896 
 
 Frederick William Gookin 
 
 The Old Masters of Japan 
 
 Gold Shipments and the Practical Aspect of the Silver 
 Question (Conversation) 
 
 The Degradation of the Press and Its Influence on the 
 American People (Conversation) 
 
 The Aesthetic Value of Japanese Art 
 
 Have Serious Defects in Our System of Government 
 Developed, and If So, What Is the Remedy? 
 
 The Spirit and Tendencies of the Times (Conversation) 
 
 A Chapter from a History of the Club 
 
 Our Defective American Banking System: a Diagnosis 
 and a Prescription 
 
 Does Civilization Change Human Nature? (Conversa- 
 tion) 
 
 What Is Art? 
 
 Extracts from a History of the Club 
 
 The European War 
 
 Essential Qualities in Works of Art 
 
 The Theatre in Japan 
 
 The War Debts and the Wage Workers of the World 
 
 Chapters from a History of the Club 
 
 Chapters Three and Four from a History of the Club 
 
 The Chicago Literary Club: more chapters from its 
 early history. Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Still more Chapters of Club History 
 
 Rosemary for Remembrance: Fifty Years of Club His- 
 tory 
 
 January 16, 1888 
 
 April 24, 189J 
 
 October 15, 1894 
 February 17, 1896 
 
 February 5, 1900 
 November 24, 1902 
 January 25, 1904 
 
 November 2, 1908 
 
 November 7, 191c 
 December 1, 191 3 
 March 16, 1914 
 October 19, 1914 
 November 15, 191 5 
 May 7, 191 7 
 March 24, 191 8 
 May 26, 19 1 9 
 May 24, 1920 
 
 October 10, 1921 
 January 15, 1922 
 
 March 24, 1924 
 
 John Cowles Grant 
 
 The Rights of Children 
 
 The Weapons of Tyranny 
 
 The Law's Delays 
 
 The Purely Commercial Aspect of the Tuskegee Move- 
 ment 
 
 A Sunday at Tuskegee 
 
 The Civil War as It Appeared to a Boy; with Some 
 Account of Two Weeks at the Front 
 
 The Menace of the Theatre 
 
 February 8, 1892 
 February 22, 1897 
 December 21, 1903 
 
 March 20, 1905 
 January 13, 1908 
 
 October 17, 1910 
 October 14, 1912 
 
 ^S5
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Frederick Greeley 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 As Others See Us 
 
 Charles Babbage 
 
 The Need of the Hour (Potpourri) 
 
 The Issues of the Late Campaign (Conversation) 
 
 An Experiment in Revenue Reform in North Carolina 
 
 Personal Reminiscences Connected with Social Life in 
 New England 
 
 The Fairy Tale of the Magical Hatchet 
 
 Report on Recent Explorations in the Sub-Polar Regions 
 of Cook County; with Ethnographic Notes upon the 
 Tribes Inhabiting the Mountainous Portions Thereof. 
 Illustrated with maps, views, and specimens (in col- 
 laboration with Charles Gordon Fuller) 
 
 Appeared as a Twentieth-Century Santa Claus in a 
 Christmas Tree Celebration 
 
 Historical and Biographical Notes of Lake Forest, 
 Illinois 
 
 Samuel Sewall Greeley 
 
 Measures Not Men 
 
 The Need of the Hour 
 
 From Throne to Scaffold 
 
 International Units: a Metrical Essay 
 
 Personal Reminiscences Connected with Social Life in 
 
 New England 
 Cherchez la femme 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 The Burning of Cities 
 
 Charles Augustus Gregory 
 
 The History of It (Marcus TuUius Cicero) 
 
 Concerning the Militia 
 
 The Great American Desert: the Arid Region and the 
 
 Means of Its Reclamation 
 A Vision and a Dream 
 
 Otto Gresham 
 
 Lamartine 
 
 Hans Ernst Gronow 
 
 The Influence of Nietzsche upon Germany 
 
 Thomas Williams Grover 
 The New American 
 
 February 9, i88< 
 November 16, i{ 
 June 4, 1888 
 April 18, 1892 
 June II, 1894 
 March 25, 1895 
 
 March 28, 1898 
 April I, 1 90 1 
 
 April 22, 1901 
 December 22, 1902 
 November i, 1909 
 
 May 18, 1885 
 April 18, 1892 
 April 10, 1893 
 March i, 1897 
 
 March 28, 1898 
 December 19, 189 
 October i, 1900 
 October 12, 1903 
 
 December 17, 1877 
 November 3, 1879 
 
 November 18, 1889 
 March 4, 1895 
 
 February 12, 1906 
 October 16, 1916 
 June 16, 1897 
 
 [ 2J6 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Frank Wakely Gunsaulus 
 
 Robert Browning and the New Theology 
 
 Karleton Hackett 
 
 Music in the Social Life of Our New England Ancestors 
 William Billings, the First American Musician 
 
 William Brown Hale 
 
 Arthur Young's Travels in France 
 
 Thomas Cuming Hall 
 
 American Credulity and the Fallacies of Irish Home 
 
 Rule 
 The Vulgar Life of Berlin 
 Wagner as Poet and Critic 
 
 John Julius Halsey 
 The Arthurian Romance 
 
 Charles Davisson Hamill 
 
 A Talk about Engravings (Conversation) 
 
 Arthur Little Hamilton 
 Alaska 
 
 John Henry Hamline 
 
 Municipal Reform (Conversation) 
 A Night in the House of Commons 
 
 Norman Hapgood 
 
 The Art of Henry James 
 Martin D Hardin 
 
 Army Experiences 
 
 The Defense of Washington against Early's Attack in 
 
 July, 1864 
 Military Life in Oregon before the War 
 Malaria Cured without Drugs 
 The Reformation of City Government 
 Political and Social Life in Illinois in the Thirties" 
 The Failure of the American System of Education and 
 
 Its Causes 
 The Labor Question 
 
 Edward John Harding 
 
 Selections from a Poetical Translation of "Le Roi 
 s'Amuse" 
 
 October 29, 1888 / 
 
 May 18, 1903 
 January 27, 1908 
 
 December 6, 1909 
 
 December 23, 1889 
 October 17, 1892 
 November 20, 1893 
 
 March 21. li 
 
 January 9, 1882 
 
 January 9, 1922 
 
 January 21, 1895 
 March 11, 1895 
 
 November 12,1^94 
 
 May 9, 1 88 1 
 
 May 17, 1886 
 October 26, 189I 
 October 22, 1894 
 April 4, 1904 
 October 14, 1907 
 
 October 23, 191 1 
 October 20, 19 13 
 
 January 23, 1893 
 
 [ 257 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 George Franklin Harding 
 
 Civil Service Reform 
 
 Charles James Fox 
 
 How to Guess What Is on the Other Side of the Hill 
 
 Paul Vincent Harper 
 
 Personal Experiences while learning Arabic in Jerusalem 
 and Syria 
 
 William Rainev Harper 
 
 Art among the Hebrews 
 
 Semitic Literature as Illustrated by the Code of Ham- 
 murabi 
 
 Winfield Scott Harpole 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes 
 
 Hannah More and Her Times 
 
 Sir Thomas Browne 
 
 A War-time Magazine 
 
 A Successful Suicide (Story) 
 
 The Golden Age 
 
 Hygiene for the Middle Aged 
 
 Edward Avery Harriman 
 
 James Boswell 
 
 The Right to Govern 
 
 Karl Edwin Harriman 
 An Editor Confesses 
 The Education of an Editor 
 
 Samuel Smith Harris 
 
 European Races in America (Conversation) 
 
 Pliny Nelson Haskell 
 The English Land Problem 
 
 Azel Farnsworth Hatch 
 
 The Lawyer's Conscience 
 
 Is the Influence of Newspaper Opinion Declining? 
 
 Social Dreamers 
 
 The Right of Search 
 
 Fred Vermillia Hawley 
 Fellowship 
 
 A Study of Religion as the Outgrowth of Industry 
 The Great Illusion 
 
 November 7, i? 
 October 8, 188 j 
 April 19,1886 
 
 November 10, 191 9 
 
 May 16, 1898 
 January 30, 1905 
 
 May 17, 1909 
 November 14, 1 910 
 November 24, 1913 
 November 23, 1914 
 November 27, 191 6 
 January 13, 1919 
 April 25, 1921 
 
 June I, 1896 
 March 19, 1900 
 
 May 14, 1923 
 March 31, 1924 
 
 December 10, 1877 
 
 March i, 1880 
 
 February 15, 18: 
 May 28, 1894 
 April 14, 1902 
 March 21, 1904 
 
 November 6, 1905 
 March 7, 1910 
 March 11, 1912 
 
 258 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Franklin Harvey Head 
 
 Shakespeare's Insomnia 
 
 Browning's "Ivan Ivanovitch" 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Inaugural Address as Presiilent 
 
 Legends of Jckyl Island 
 
 The Humor of the Pulpit 
 
 A Notable Lawsuit 
 
 The Boodling of Dante and Its Influence on His Work 
 
 Recollections of the Early Days of the Club 
 
 Trades Unionism 
 
 John Fiske 
 
 The History of the Bacon Folly 
 
 Charles Dowxs Helmer 
 
 The Ring 
 
 Brooke Herford 
 
 The Need of More Rest in American Life 
 
 Labor Troubles, Recent and to Come (Conversation) 
 
 The Sunday Question (Conversation) 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 The Land Question in Ireland (Conversation) 
 
 The Greek Play at Harvard (Conversation) 
 
 Aristocracy in America 
 
 An Old English Town 
 
 James Bryan Herrick 
 
 William Lilly, a Seventeenth Century Astrologer and 
 
 Quack 
 My Summers in a Garden 
 The Passing of the Family Doctor 
 Why I Read Chaucer at Sixty 
 
 JoHX Jacob Herrick 
 
 The Justice and Expediency of Usury Statutes 
 
 Robert Hervev 
 
 The Genius and Character of Walter Scott 
 
 Homer Nash Hibbard 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Reform of English Spelling (Conversation) 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 May •}, 1886 
 June 1 8, 1888 
 April 29, 1889 
 October 13, 1890 
 December 5, 1892 
 October 8, 1895 
 January 13, 1896 
 April 8, 1898 
 March 13, 1899 
 March 12, 1900 
 March 31, 1902 
 April 23, 1906 
 
 December 21, 1874 
 
 October 16, 1876 
 October 8, 1877 
 January 13, 1879 
 October 4, 1880 
 December 6,1880 
 May 30, 1 88 1 
 February 6, 1882 
 February 22, 1892 
 
 January 17, 1916 
 March 28, 1921 
 April 10, 1922 
 January 28, 1924 
 
 May 4, 1885 
 
 January 4, 1875 
 
 May 21, 1877 
 November 10, 1879 
 January 11, 1886 
 January 26, 1891 
 
 [ 259 J
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 James Lambert High 
 
 A Great Chancellor (Lord Eldon) 
 
 What Shall We Do with the Murderers? (Conversation) 
 
 On Certain Tendencies in the Legal Profession 
 
 The Evolution of the Mugwump 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 My Hero 
 
 My Most Remarkable Professional Experience 
 
 Newell Dwight Hillis 
 John Ruskin 
 
 Joseph Watson Hiner 
 
 Cranks: An Appreciation 
 
 Tolstoi's Rank as a Philosopher (Conversation) 
 
 The Message of Shelley to the Twentieth Century 
 
 Emil Gustav Hirsch 
 
 Reform Judaism (Conversation) 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Philosophy of Fashion 
 
 The Koran 
 
 The New Bible 
 
 Patriotism, Its Danger and Its Duties (Conversation) 
 
 Woman in Recent Fiction 
 
 Elements and Tests of Civilization 
 
 Heine and Germany 
 
 An Old Book— The Talmud 
 
 Fairy Tales and Myths 
 
 Jesse Holdom 
 Andreas Hofer 
 
 Charles Sumner Holt 
 
 The Future of American Literature (Conversation) 
 
 Sumner and Slavery 
 
 The Last Roman Republic; 1849 
 
 A Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem 
 
 At the Court of the Great Mogul 
 
 The Church and the Modern Man 
 
 George Hubbard Holt 
 
 Gold-Washers, Indians, and Big Game 
 Some Local Discoveries and Applications of Art 
 A Poem by the Ghost of Cervantes 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 [ 260 ] 
 
 June 3, 1878 
 February 13, 1882 
 March 10, 1884 
 February 13, 1888 
 October i, 1888 
 December 11, 1893 
 November 25, 1895 
 
 November 8, 1897 
 
 October 8, 1900 
 October 27, 1902 
 April 9, 1906 
 
 November 13, 1882 
 March 31, 1884 
 October 24, 1887 
 February 29, 1892 
 October 10, 1892 
 March 16, 1896 
 April 26,1897 
 October 28, 1901 
 December 12, 1904 
 October 30, 1905 
 January 4, 1909 
 
 February 17, 1908 
 
 December 8, 1884 
 March 12, 1894 
 February 20, 1899 
 December 22, 1902 
 May 4, 1903 
 April 17, 191 1 
 
 February 4, 1895 
 February 28, 1898 
 December 22, 1902 
 October 9, 1905
 
 Papers Rkad Before the Club 
 
 Painting by Sunlight (IlliistratccI by an exposition of 
 
 the processes of colt)r-photography) 
 A German's Description of the Fitzsimmons-Corbett 
 
 Pri;:e Kit^ht (Recitation) 
 The Welfare of the Club 
 
 Oliver Harvey Horton 
 
 Crime and Its Punishment (Conversation) 
 
 James Lawrence Houghteling 
 
 An Orthodox Scientist 
 
 Some Problems in Benevolence; with Examples (Con- 
 versation) 
 
 George Howland 
 
 The American College (Conversation) 
 
 A Metrical Translation 
 
 The Vice-Presidency (Conversation) 
 
 What Shall We Teach Our Boys? 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 What Was the Matter with Hamlet? 
 
 Patriotism vs. Philanthropy 
 
 The Purpose of the Public Schools 
 
 George Carter Rowland 
 
 San Marino, the Oldest Republic in the World 
 
 Machiavelli 
 
 Some Memories of the Spanish Stage 
 
 Dante 
 
 A Review of Longfellow's Life and Work 
 
 Gabriele D'Annunzio 
 
 Luigi Settembrini 
 
 Frederic Mistral 
 
 Arnold Bennett 
 
 A Legend of Imperial Toledo 
 
 Walter Morton Howland 
 A Trip through the Berkshires 
 
 William Hammond Hubbard 
 
 Alaskan Experiences 
 
 Reminiscences of Alexander Graham Bell and the Tele- 
 phone in 1875-76 
 
 Morton Denison Hull 
 
 Charles Sumner 
 
 December 13, 1909 
 
 May 29, 191 1 
 October 6, 191 3 
 
 Octobers, 188J 
 
 June 8, 1885 
 March 7, 1887 
 
 March 12, 1877 
 November 15, 1880 
 November 14, 1881 
 May 8, 1882 
 October 2, 1882 
 December 15, 1884 
 February 16, 1885 
 May 4, 1891 
 
 May 4, 1896 
 February 8, 1897 
 January 8, 1900 
 December 2, 1901 
 February 27, 1905 
 November 13, 1905 
 March 2, 1908 
 November 8, 1909 
 May 20, 1 91 2 
 January 19, 1914 
 
 December 1 8, 1 899 
 
 February 27, 1899 
 April 16, 1906 
 
 March 14, 1904 
 
 [ 261 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 James Anthony Hunt 
 The English In India 
 Incidents of Travel 
 
 Henry Alonzo Huntington 
 
 A Neglected Author 
 
 A Predecessor of Tennyson 
 
 A Royal Cook's Wife (Mrs. Centlivre) 
 
 Actor, Soldier, and Poet 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Demetrios Bikelas 
 
 Personal Recollections of the Early Days of the Club 
 
 Charles Lawrence Hutchinson 
 
 Art: Its Excellence and Influence in Modern Times 
 
 Ecco Roma 
 
 The So-called Moro and Loto Portraits of Columbus 
 
 The Land of Yesterday and Tomorrow 
 
 The Business Man of the Future 
 
 India 
 
 Stray Thoughts about Russia 
 
 Notes of a Traveler in Italy 
 
 An Automobile Tour in France 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 The Ethics of Present-day Finance 
 
 Payne and Shorey: the Two Antipholi (Verses) 
 
 Art and Democracy 
 
 The Progress of the Fine Arts in the West 
 
 The War in Retrospect 
 
 The Development of Art Museums in the United States 
 
 After Nature, Art 
 
 James Nevins Hyde 
 
 The African Republic 
 
 National Traits in Medicine 
 
 The Two Stonewalls 
 
 One Night: a Sketch 
 
 Some of the Consequences of Eating Historical Straw- 
 berries 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Glimpses of a Twice-fought Field; with incidental refer- 
 ence to a disused weapon ot war 
 
 A Cruise to Carrickfergus 
 
 Leisler 
 
 A Sprig of Rosemary (Verses) 
 
 Lore of the Coin 
 
 Mortui Salutamus (Poem) 
 
 December 2, 187c 
 October 19, 1896 
 
 December 4, 1876 
 November 5, 1877 
 May 5, 1879 
 October 11, 1880 
 October i, 1883 
 February 22, 1892 
 March 13, 1899 
 
 March 14,1887 
 December 16, 1889 
 October 3, 1892 
 April 8, 1895 
 October 28, 1895 
 December 13, 1897 
 October 29, 1900 
 November 14, 1904 
 January 14, 1906 
 October 7, 1907 
 January 16, 191 1 
 October 2, 191 1 
 January 5, 1914 
 April 17, 1916 
 May 17, 1920 
 January 24, 1921 
 January 22, 1923 
 
 April 2, 1877 
 January 10, 1881 
 January 15, 1883 
 January 26, 1885 
 
 February 6, 1888 
 October 14, 1889 
 
 March 30, 1891 
 Februarj^ 6, 1893 
 March 5, 1894 
 March 19, 1894 
 Aprils, 1897 
 October 3, 1898 
 
 [ 262 ]
 
 Papers Rkad Befork the Club 
 
 Personal Recollections of the Early Days of the Club 
 
 The Romance of a White Rose of York 
 
 V'erses by the Shade of Omar Khayyam 
 
 The Receiving Ships of the Navy during the War of the 
 
 Rebellion 
 The Marquis de la Ensenada 
 
 A Gentleman Adventurer in the Days of the Tudors 
 The CopperQuccnof the Mediterranean; with incidental 
 
 reference to a brave but foolish knight who first won 
 
 and then sold her: being the story of the island of 
 
 Cyprus 
 
 Harry Sigmund Hyman 
 
 Terra Incognita 
 
 Subiaco 
 
 The Modern Babel 
 
 Edward Swift I sham 
 
 Proudhon as a Social Phenomenon 
 Tumulto dei Ciompi 
 Pompey 
 
 Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, and Miles Stan- 
 dish in the Northwest 
 Ethan Allen: a Study in Civil Authority 
 
 Huntington Wolcott Jackson 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Gettysburg 
 
 Chancellorsville 
 
 March 13, 1899 
 April 23, 1900 
 December 22, 1902 
 
 February 16, 1903 
 October 24, 1904 
 January 28, 1906 
 
 February 14, 1910 
 
 November 12, 1917 
 May 10, 1920 
 May 5, 1924 
 
 February 19, 1877 
 February 3, 1879 
 March 5, 1883 
 
 November 30, 1885 
 May 10, 1897 
 
 March 17, 1879 
 March 20, 1882 
 October 20, 1884 
 
 Augustus Jacobson 
 
 Birth and Training 
 American Problems 
 The Railroad Question 
 
 John Alexander Jameson 
 Culture and Professional Life 
 Is Our Civilization Perishable? 
 The Federation of the World 
 
 Edmund Janes James 
 
 Municipal Ownership of Public Utilities 
 
 The Relation of the Federal Judiciary to the Federal 
 
 Legislative Power 
 Adventures in Spirit Land (not very serious) 
 
 [ 263 I 
 
 October 7, 187 
 May 15, 1882 
 October 11, 18 
 
 March 15, 1875 
 January 14, 1884 
 May 31, 1886 
 
 February 2, 1903 
 
 NLiy 9, 1904 
 April 1 4, 1924
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 James Clarke Jeffery 
 
 Some Jumping-off Places of the Human Mind 
 
 Our Hunting Trip 
 
 The Extent of Our Belief in the So-called Supra- normal 
 
 The Coming of the Ice 
 
 William LeBaron Jenney 
 
 The Fossils of History 
 
 Personal Reminiscences of Vicksburg 
 
 An Age of Steel 
 
 Theodore Jessup 
 
 A Journal of Civilization 
 
 Starved Rock and Its Neighborhood 
 
 A Banking Bugaboo; the Guaranty of Bank Deposits 
 
 Illinois State Parks 
 
 Silvertail 
 
 A Valentine's Day Love Story 
 
 The Everglades Mystery (Story) 
 
 A Review of Kane's "Romance and Tragedy of Banking" 
 
 James Stewart Jewell 
 
 The Present Condition of the Darwinian Theory 
 
 John Nelson Jewett 
 
 Newspaper Literature (Conversation) 
 
 The Authority of Legislation over Private Rights and 
 
 Private Property (Conversation) 
 Are We Drifting? (Conversation) 
 The Methods and Purposes of Public Education 
 
 Frank Seward Johnson 
 
 Astrology 
 
 The Healing Art in the Past and the Present 
 
 Nervous and Mental Influences upon Health 
 
 Books as Pictures of the Past 
 
 The Romance of Science 
 
 The Intrinsic Potentials of Matter 
 
 Beauty 
 
 "What Is life?" — A Continuation 
 
 Human Nature 
 
 Herrick Johnson 
 
 The Special Demands of the Country upon the Edu- 
 cated Men of This Generation 
 Fraternal Relations (Conversation) 
 Thinkers and the Risks They Run 
 
 [ 264 ] 
 
 March 19, 1917 
 November 19, 1917 
 March 21, 1921 
 January 16, 1922 
 
 April 16, 1883 
 December 14, 1885 
 October 27, 1890 
 
 November 18, 1901 
 December 18, 1905 
 May 17, 1915 
 April 10, 1916 
 May 20, 1918 
 February 14, 1921 
 October 30, 1922 
 December 10, 1923 
 
 October i, 1877 
 
 November 12, 1877 
 
 January 3, 1881 
 January 3, 1887 
 May 21, 1888 
 
 January 6, 1890 
 May 3, 1897 
 October 22, 1900 
 February 6, 1905 
 January 20, 1908 
 May 9, 1910 
 December 2, 191 2 
 January 18, 1915 
 January 22, 1917 
 
 December 18, iS 
 November 12, i^ 
 February 7, 188;
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Then and Now 
 
 The Imagination in Science and Religion 
 
 The Reformative and Retributive Element under Law 
 
 HosMER Allen Johnson 
 
 Life: What Do We Know about It? 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Preventive Medicine 
 Mystery in Medicine (Conversation) 
 Medical Memories 
 
 James Gibson Johnson 
 
 The Scholar's Debt 
 
 A Neglected Chapter of Our Colonial History (The 
 Siege ot Louisburg) 
 
 David Benton Jones 
 
 Is the Despotic Socialism of General Booth a Safe Way 
 
 Out of Darkest England? 
 What Is There in the Sunday Question? 
 The Indecision ot Democracy 
 
 Llewellyn Jones 
 
 Some Unimported Poetry 
 
 Two Utopias 
 
 The Poetic Forms Used by Whitman 
 
 Recent Poetry and Fiction 
 
 Bishop Wilson of Sodor and Man, 1 698-1 755 
 
 Lascelles Abercrombie: Poet and Critic 
 
 Thomas Davies Jones 
 
 The Relation of the National Executive to Congress 
 The Referendum 
 
 Walter Clyde Jones 
 
 Preparedness 
 
 Edwin Oak.es Jordan 
 
 The Drainage Canal Case 
 
 Harry Pratt Judson 
 
 A Wandering Dutchman of the XVIth Century 
 
 Walter Scott 
 
 What Is There Left of International Law? 
 
 Persia 
 
 January 30, 1888 
 December 15, 1890 
 February 19, 1894 
 
 May 20, 1876 
 June 24, 1876 
 February 18, 1884 
 April 18, 1887 
 March 19, 1888 
 
 November 14, 1892 
 February 15, 1897 
 
 March 9, 1 891 
 December 19, 189: 
 April 6, 1896 
 
 February 21, 19 16 
 November 13, 1916 
 December i, 1919 
 March 15, 1920 
 January 10, 1921 
 April 7, 1924 
 
 January 25, 1886 
 April 4, 1892 
 
 March 6, 191 6 
 
 February 25, 1907 
 
 March 9, 1908 
 February 21, I910 
 February 28, 1916 
 February 9, 1920 
 
 [ 265 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Albert Martin Kales 
 
 "Lady Rose's Daughter"; an Appreciation 
 
 Lines on a Sunset behind Monadnock - 
 
 The Will of an English Gentleman of Moderate Fortune 
 
 John Davis Kales 
 
 Methods Used in the Development of Science 
 
 Edson Keith, Jr. 
 
 Voltaire at Ferney 
 
 Elbridge Gerry Keith 
 
 The Relation of Education to Universal Suffrage (Con- 
 versation) 
 The Fourth of July and Its Observance (Conversation) 
 A Business-Man's Impressions of Silas Lapham 
 Business in the Past 
 A Notable National Convention 
 
 James Peacock Kelly 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Arthur Isaac Kendall 
 
 Ecuador 
 
 Science, Biology, and Religion 
 
 Henry Herbert Kennedy 
 
 Varieties of Peace 
 
 William Kent 
 
 Scraps from the Great American Frying Pan 
 Historical Vignettes 
 Res Indigestse 
 
 Shake: Personal Reminiscences of the San Francisco 
 Earthquake 
 
 Samuel Humes Kerfoot, Jr. 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Henry William King 
 
 The Administration of Public Charity 
 
 Joseph Kirkland 
 
 Travel and Travelers 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 [ 266 ] 
 
 April 27, 1903 
 November 7, 1904 
 March 19, 1906 
 
 May 7, 1894 
 December 4, 1893 
 
 April 4, 1 88 1 
 December 11, 1882 
 January 4, 1886 
 October 28, 1895 
 March 10, 1902 
 
 May I, 1882 
 
 October 23, 1922 
 November 5, 1923 
 
 January 14, 191 8 
 
 December 3, 1900 
 January ii, 1904 
 November 27, 1905 
 
 November 26, 1906 
 
 November 20, 1882 
 
 March 15, 1886 
 
 April 5, 1875 
 December 6, 1875 
 March 18, 1878
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Protection (Conversation) 
 
 Personal Acquaintance with Bryant 
 
 What to Leave Unsaid in Fiction 
 
 The Wreck of the Pioneer 
 
 The Running Fight 
 
 The Nicaragua Canal 
 
 Literary Men of Chicago 
 
 The Wreck of the Aguan 
 
 The Oo-garoo 
 
 The W'orld's Congress of Cripples 
 
 Theodore W. Koch 
 
 Dante's Life and Work (Illustrated) 
 
 Kaufman Kohler 
 
 Myths and Miracles 
 
 Howard Kretschmar 
 
 Motives and Expression in Art 
 
 John Joseph La lor 
 
 Population 
 
 Bi-Metalism (Conversation) 
 
 An Argument for Silver 
 
 Edwin Chaxning Larned 
 
 The Influence of Modern Fiction (Conversation) 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 The Chicago Fire and the Relief Work 
 
 Walter Cranston Larned 
 The Devil in Literature 
 Will o' the Wisps 
 No Art Without the Ideal: no Literature Without the 
 
 Supernatural 
 An Impression of Jean Franfois Millet 
 The Myth of Siegfried and Wagner's "Ring of the 
 
 Nibelung" 
 What Was the Matter with Hamlet? 
 The Legend of the Morte d Arthur and How Tennyson 
 
 Has Used It 
 A Night in Chinatown 
 Michael Angelo 
 Modern Landscape 
 The Spirit and Development of Nuremberg Gothic 
 
 October 21, 1878 
 November 29, 1880 
 May 14, 1883 
 April 20, 1885 
 October 25, 1886 
 November I4, 1887 
 May 6, 1889 
 November 2, 1891 
 October 3, 1892 
 November 7, 1892 
 February 27, 1893 
 November 13, 1893 
 
 January 3, 1921 
 October 19, 1874 
 April 26, 1886 
 
 November 20, 1876 
 December 8, 1879 
 March 15, 1880 
 
 March 11, 1876 
 October 3, 1881 
 October 9, 1882 
 
 March 4, 1875 
 November 4, 1878 
 
 January 30, 1882 
 February 5, 1883 
 
 May 26, 1884 
 December 15, 1884 
 
 Febuary 8, 1886 
 January 9, 1888 
 April 15, 1889 
 February 24, 1890 
 March 16, i8qi 
 
 [ 167 1
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Velasquez 
 
 Some Experiences in Southern France in Winter 
 The Functions of the Gentleman of Leisure 
 Art and Scenery in Sicily 
 The Modern School of Landscape Painting 
 New Westminster Cathedral and the Wallace Collection 
 With the Roman and the Goth from Southern France to 
 Paris 
 
 Sherwood Johnston Larned 
 The Dilletante 
 
 Bryan Lathrop 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Random Recollections of the Far East 
 
 Urban Augustine Lavery 
 Revising a Constitution 
 
 Charles Burrall Lawrence 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Gouverneur Morris 
 
 Albert Lazenby 
 
 Memorial of the Late Queen Victoria 
 George Meredith, Novelist and Sage 
 
 Joseph Bloomfield Leake 
 Observations on the Common Law 
 Eastern Highways 
 The Indian Question (Conversation) 
 Address on the Presentation to the Club by Lawrence 
 
 C. Earle of a Portrait of Charles B. Lawrence 
 The Weakness of the Executive Department of the 
 
 State 
 Recollections of a Southern Prison 
 The Yazoo Claims 
 
 Remarkable Professional Experiences 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 The Story of the Christian Indians 
 The Constitution of the United States and Internal 
 
 Improvements 
 Eastern Highways, Ancient and Modern 
 
 Blewett Lee 
 
 Confederate Lyrics 
 Women of the Confederacy 
 The Law of Aerial Navigation 
 
 [ 268 ] 
 
 November 28, 1892 
 February 25, 1895 
 May 25, 1896 
 March 17, 1902 
 November 23, 1903 
 October 28, 1907 
 
 January 3, 1910 
 
 November 6, 1905 
 
 May 19, 1879 
 January 31, 18 
 
 May 2, 1921 
 
 June 21, 1875 
 December 13, 1880 
 
 January 28, 1901 
 December 9, 1901 
 
 March 18, 1876 
 June 18, 1877 
 February 20, 1882 
 
 March 23, 1885 
 
 May 10, 1886 
 February 21, 1887 
 January 15, 1894 
 November 25, 1895 
 October 4, 1897 
 January 9, 1899 
 
 May 20, 1 907 
 February 27, 191 1 
 
 April 13, 1896 
 March I4, 1898 
 November 8, 1915
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Edward Thomas Lee 
 
 Characters in the Rolitical Life of Washington, D. C, 
 
 1888-1894 
 Are Lawyers Leaders or Followers in the Lnprovement 
 
 of Society? 
 
 Henry Eduard Legler 
 
 The Genesis of Poe's "Raven" 
 
 A Forgotten Poet of the Last Generation: James Gales 
 
 Percival 
 Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books 
 Parodies 
 
 Walt Whitman Yesterday and Todav 
 A Bundle of Old Chap-Books 
 Richard Hovey, Poet 
 
 Harvey Brace Lemon 
 
 New Vistas of Atomic Structure 
 
 Charles Stanley Lester 
 The Exposition of 1889 
 
 Edwin Herbert Lewis 
 
 William Vaughan Moody 
 
 The Work of Tagore 
 
 The Work of Henry Adams 
 
 The Arts Here Represented. Inaugural Address as 
 
 President 
 Modern Tendencies in Religion 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Leslie Lewis 
 
 Cahokia 
 
 The Trail to the Great Northwest 
 
 How Far Should Education by the State Be Free? 
 
 Memories of Boyhood in Early Illinois 
 
 The Sudden Awakening of the Northwest 
 
 The Influence of Illinois in Early National Legislation 
 
 Reminiscences of Early Members of the Club 
 
 Arthur Little 
 
 The Supernatural in Art 
 
 Divorce (Conversation) 
 
 The Secular Value of Christian Missions 
 
 Charles Joseph Little 
 Abraham a Santa Clara 
 
 February 12, 1916 
 February 23, 1 920 
 
 March 21, 1910 
 
 February 13, 191 1 
 April I, 1912 
 May 27, 191 2 
 January 20, 1913 
 November 2, 191 4 
 February 14, 19 16 
 
 November 27, 1922 
 
 May 12, 1890 
 
 November 4, 1912 
 January 15, 1917 
 April 28, 1919 
 
 October 6, 1919 
 January 26, 1920 
 December 5, 1921 
 
 June 6, 1887 
 January 28, 1901 
 February 22, 1904 
 May 23, 1910 
 February 20, 191 1 
 April 7, I913 
 May 26, 1 91 9 
 
 June 7, 1880 
 April 9, 1883 
 March 28, 1887 
 
 May I, 1893 
 
 [ 269 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Karl Marx and His Theories 
 
 Ibsen's Women 
 
 Ibsen Compared with Sophocles and Shakespeare 
 
 The Women of Dante's Commedia 
 
 John Milton 
 
 Walter Lichtenstein 
 
 A Book-Buyer in South America 
 The Present Banking Situation 
 
 Henry Demarest Lloyd 
 
 The Cure of Vanderbiltism 
 
 The Political Economy of Fifteen Millions 
 
 Too Much of Everything 
 
 A Conservative View of the Labor Movement 
 
 The Need of the Hour 
 
 The Wit and Humor of Emerson 
 
 A Day with William Morris 
 
 The Scholar in Politics 
 
 Edwin Lyman Lobdell 
 
 The Business Depression and Some of Its Causes 
 Impressions of Siberia and Russia 
 
 Clinton Locke 
 As Others See Us 
 The Cardinal Statesman 
 
 Leaving the United States and Going to Jersey 
 The Making, Giving, and Receiving of Taffy. Inau- 
 gural Address as President 
 The Need of the Hour 
 A Royal Liar 
 Don John of Austria 
 Apocrypha, Newly Discovered 
 An Acrostic on His Own Name 
 How a Christian Can Be an Evolutionist 
 
 Frank Joseph Loesch 
 
 A Study in Human Nature 
 
 The Literary or Educational Value of Supreme Court 
 
 Decisions 
 A Search for a Husband and a Dower; Another Study in 
 
 Human Nature 
 Suggestions for Securing Additional City Breathing 
 
 Spaces 
 The European War 
 Lyman Trumbull 
 
 February ii, 1894 
 March 30, 1896 
 December 14, 1903 
 May 13, 1907 
 December 7, 1908 
 
 May 5, 1919 
 December 13, 1920 
 
 January 12, 1880 
 April 10, 1882 
 April 14, 1884 
 November 3, 1890 
 April 18, 1892 
 May 27, 1895 
 December 7, 1896 
 January 17, 1898 
 
 March 22, 1915 
 December 4, 1916 
 
 November 16, 1885 
 January 18, 1886 
 November 28, 1887 
 
 October 12, 1891 
 April 18, 1892 
 January 16, 1893 
 June 10, 1895 
 January 24, 1898 
 April I, 1901 
 December 23, 1901 
 
 March 28, 1910 
 
 October 10, 1910 
 
 April 8, 1912 
 
 January 12, 1914 
 October 19, 1914 
 Aprils, 1915 
 
 [ 270 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 World Politics 
 Labrador 
 
 Daniel Miner Lord 
 
 Some Fallacies Relating to the White Squadron 
 
 Herbert Ivory Lord 
 The Literature of Commerce 
 
 Frank Orrin Lowden 
 
 Modern Realism and Ancient Epicureanism 
 
 Charles Doak Lowry 
 
 The House Boat People of the Ohio River 
 
 The Cruise of the Double Ell 
 
 A Wagon Trip among the Wisconsin Lakes 
 
 East Tennessee from a Flat-boat 
 
 The Biography of a Village 
 
 The Life Is More than Meat (Story) 
 
 World Politics 
 
 The Romance of Commonplace Things 
 
 Tests of Musical Talent 
 
 David Brainerd Lyman 
 
 Hawaii, the Faded Kingdom 
 The Taxation of Church Property 
 
 Francis Ogden Lyman 
 Hawaiian Volcanoes 
 
 Henry Munson Lyman 
 
 A Vacation for the Brain 
 
 Samuel Adams Lynde 
 
 The Manorial Estates in New York and Their Disso- 
 lution 
 
 William Macdonell 
 
 Wordsworth 
 Utilitarianism 
 
 Nathan William MacChesney 
 
 The Romance of Illinois 
 French Contribution to American Life 
 The Administration of Woodrow Wilson 
 The Military Policy of the United States 
 
 February 1 1, iyi8 
 November 17, 19 19 
 
 January 12, 1903 
 November 6, 1905 
 January 6, 1896 
 
 November 6, 190^ 
 November 12, 1906 
 November 22, 1909 
 February 5, 191 2 
 April 28, 1913 
 November 27, 1916 
 February 11, 191 8 
 December 9, 1918 
 November 24, 1919 
 
 November 28, 1898 
 January 18, 1904 
 
 April 3, 1882 
 June 7, 1886 
 
 May 24, 1897 
 
 October 18, 1875 
 February 4, 1878 
 
 May I, 1911 
 February 23, 191 4 
 February i, 1915 
 November 12, 1917 
 
 [ 271 J
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Julian William Mack 
 
 Gerhart Hauptmann's drama "Einsame Menschen" 
 
 Franklin MacVeagh 
 
 Political Education (Conversation) 
 Matthew Arnold 
 Marquette 
 
 A Literary View of the Political Situation 
 A Business View of Classical Studies 
 New Invasions by the Barbarians 
 Inevitable National Expansion 
 Some Reflections on the Future of Riches 
 . Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Edgar Madden 
 
 Franklin's Correspondence 
 The Louisiana Purchase 
 
 Benjamin Drake Magruder 
 The Chinese Question (Conversation) 
 
 Edward Manley 
 
 The Birthplace of Carl Schurz 
 Fabre, the Literary Artist 
 
 George Linn^us Marsh 
 
 The Cult of the Short Story 
 Cockney Poets and Their Critics 
 
 Thomas BpCunton Marston 
 
 The United States in the Far East 
 
 Horace Hawes Martin 
 
 The Curiosities of Pro-Slavery Literature 
 The Reading of Minor Biography 
 American Literary Criticism 
 
 Alfred Bishop Mason 
 
 Public and Private Charities: Their Uses and Abuses 
 
 (Conversation) 
 The Abolition of Poverty 
 Inside Politics 
 
 A Man and His Money: a Moral Novelette 
 A Talk with Porfirio Diaz 
 
 Arthur John Mason 
 
 Impressions of an Englishman Returning after Thirty 
 Years' Life in the United States 
 
 May 17, 1897 
 
 May 16, 1881 
 December i, 1884 
 October 26, 1885 
 January 24, 1887 
 December 5, 1887 
 October 28, 1895 
 October 31, 1898 
 February 8, 1904 
 October i, 1906 
 
 December 22, 1884 
 January 12, 1891 
 
 February 10, 1879 
 
 February 24, 191 9 
 February 26, 1923 
 
 April 7, 1 91 9 
 March 13, 1922 
 
 March 27, 1 S 
 
 April II, 1898 
 February 11, 1901 
 May 28, 1906 
 
 May 13, 1876 
 October 2, 1876 
 December 9, 187 
 April 4, 1 88 1 
 May 19, 1902 
 
 January 22, 1912 
 
 [ 272 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 A Day's Work 
 
 Some Studies on Crops by a Non-Farmer 
 
 Is the United States a Permanent Coimtry like North 
 
 Europe? 
 Comments of an Ore Engineer on the Coal Situation 
 
 Edward Gay Mason 
 
 Arthur Hugh Clough 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Old Fort Chartres 
 
 A Visit to South Carolina in i860 
 
 As Others See Us 
 
 The March of the Spaniards across Illinois 
 
 Two Men of Letters (Edmund Spenser and Sir Walter 
 
 Raleigh) 
 The Nile Land 
 
 Reminiscences of the Early Days of the Club 
 A Chapter from a History of Illinois 
 
 Hexry Burrall Mason 
 An Old Picture 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Railroad Oracles 
 The Law's Delays 
 A Race for Love and Liberty 
 Childish Recollections of Chicago 
 Glimpses of Cape Cod 
 
 RoswELL Henry Mason 
 
 Among the Florida Keys 
 
 Edgar Lee Masters 
 
 American Standards and Character 
 Robert Browning as a Philosopher 
 
 William Mathews 
 Thomas DeQuincey 
 Sainte-Beuve 
 Style 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Herman Lewis Matz 
 
 As Others See Us (Conversation) 
 A Literary Thanksgiving Dinner 
 
 Rudolph Matz 
 Incidents of Travel 
 
 [ 273 ] 
 
 January 27, 1913 
 February 5, 1917 
 
 April 26, 1920 
 April II, 1 92 1 
 
 March i, 1875 
 June 24, 1878 
 March 30, 1880 
 November 5, 1883 
 November 16, 1885 
 November 23, 1885 
 
 April 30, 1888 
 May 23, 1892 
 March 19, 1894 
 December 30, 1895 
 
 March 6, 1876 
 February 16, 1880 
 March 13, 1882 
 January 7, 1884 
 June I, 1891 
 February 20, 1893 
 December 10, 1894 
 
 May 25, 1891 
 
 November 20, 191 1 
 November 18, 191 2 
 
 November 3, 1874 
 February 5, 1877 
 February 17, 1879 
 April 20, 1880 
 
 November 16, 1885 
 November 25, 1901 
 
 October 19, 1896
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 William Andrew McAndrew 
 
 English Comedy Convalescent 
 
 George Martin McBean 
 
 Hygiene for the Middle-Aged 
 
 Ezra Butler McCagg 
 
 Literary Men in Politics (Conversation) 
 
 What Knowledge Is of Most Worth? (Conversation) 
 
 Adelard of Bath 
 
 James Gore King McClure 
 
 The Influence of England's First Library 
 
 Dreams and Dreamers 
 
 America's Apostle of Toleration — Roger Williams 
 
 The Power of Personality in the Teacher 
 
 How a Silver Dollar Looks to a Numismatist 
 
 The Scholar's Attitude toward the Past 
 
 The Autobiography of a Dining Table 
 
 Equal to the Occasion 
 
 Alexander Caldwell McClurg 
 
 A Decisive Battle and Its Untold Story 
 
 Address on the Presentation to the Club by Walter 
 
 Cranston Earned of a Portrait of Edwin C. Earned 
 International Copyright 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 An American Soldier — Minor Milliken 
 The United States Volunteers: Why We Enlisted and 
 
 How We Went to the Front 
 
 Osbourne McConathy 
 
 The Value of Music to the Community 
 
 Samuel Parsons McConnell 
 The Labor Question 
 
 What Ought to Be the Limitation to Majority Govern- 
 ment? (Conversation) 
 Men as Witnesses 
 
 Cyrus Hall McCormick 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 The Hawaiian Islands 
 Russia 
 
 Surprises in Sardis: A Vacation Trip to North Africa and 
 Asia Minor (Illustrated) 
 
 May 1 8, 1891 
 
 April 25, 1 92 1 
 
 April 9, 1877 
 March 11, 187! 
 March 7, 1881 
 
 January 28, 1889 
 February 2, 1891 
 March 7, 1892 
 February 13, 1893 
 October 26, 1896 
 January 20, 1902 
 April 18, 1904 
 November 19, 1906 
 
 May 29, 1882 
 
 March 23, 1885 
 March 29, 1886 
 October 4, 1886 
 December 8, 1890 
 
 December 6, 1897 
 
 November 24, 1919 
 
 April 6, 1880 
 
 March 12, 18: 
 May 2, 1887 
 
 February 25, 1884 
 May 19, 1890 
 November 5, 1917 
 
 January 8, 1923 
 
 [ ^74 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Parmalee John McFadde>j 
 
 The Influence of Environment 
 The Making of Books 
 
 BuELL McKeever 
 
 The Spirit World 
 
 A Review of "DcV'cre, or the Man of Independence," by 
 Robert Piummer Ward 
 
 Kenneth McKenzie 
 Dante and Italian Politics 
 
 Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin 
 
 Anne Hutchinson, the First American Feminist 
 
 A Chapter in American Literary History: Publicists 
 
 and Orators, 1 800-1 850 
 The Last Phases of the Monroe Doctrine 
 The War in Retrospect 
 Some Reflections on the American Revolution 
 
 William Gordon McMillan 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Simon John McPherson 
 
 John Scotus Erigena 
 
 Calvinism in Education 
 
 What Is the Essential Element in Religion? 
 
 Charles Patrick Megan 
 The Dead Hand 
 
 Henry Payson Merriam 
 
 The Value of Mental Impressions in the Treatment ot 
 Disease 
 
 LoRiNG Wilbur Messer 
 
 Sociological Forces in Action 
 
 Fundamental Religious Truths Applied to Life 
 
 Edwin Lillie Miller 
 
 Chicago; by Juvenal, Jr. 
 
 A Twentieth Century Chaucer 
 
 Robert Burns, a drama 
 
 Henry Giles Miller 
 
 The Silver Question 
 
 The Silver Legislation of 1890 
 
 April 4, 1898 
 March 25, 1901 
 
 February 26, 1906 
 March 14, 1910 
 
 January 3,1921 
 
 December 20, 191 5 
 
 November 20, 191 6 
 April 29, 191 8 
 May 17, 1920 
 January 30, 1922 
 
 June 14, 1880 
 
 March 16, 1885 
 April 23, 1888 
 January 27, 1891 
 
 November 26, 1923 
 
 February 24, i i 
 
 March 20, 1 899 
 December 5, 1904 
 
 October 15, 1900 
 March 28, 1904 
 January 22, 1906 
 
 November 2, 1885 
 January 5, 1891 
 
 [ 175 1
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 James Alexander Miller 
 The Labor Question 
 The Rights of Labor 
 
 John Stocker Miller 
 
 Something of the Romantic in Litigation 
 
 John Stocker Miller, Jr. 
 
 Poems 
 
 The Influence and Results of Whitman's Work 
 Sir William Herschel 
 Around the Fireside 
 
 Thomas George Milsted 
 
 The Origin and Meaning of the Names We Bear 
 
 Charles Wellington Minard 
 The Corsairs of the Temple 
 
 Beveridge Harshaw Moore 
 
 Modern Tendencies in Religion 
 The I 'is a Tergo 
 
 Louis Celestin Monin 
 
 Reminiscences of a German Student 
 The Life and Work of Gottfried Keller 
 The Man Within 
 
 Frank Hugh Montgomery 
 
 Light as a Therapeutic Agent 
 
 Henry Crittenden Morris 
 
 Contrasts in Books 
 The Flemish Chambers of Rhetoric 
 A Fortnight in Greece 
 
 The Search for a Sea: a Prelude to the Conquest of 
 the Pacific 
 
 Harold Nicholas Moyer 
 The Mendelian Theory 
 The Freudian Doctrine and Its Limitations 
 Dreams 
 
 The Submerged Literary Complex 
 Hygiene for the Middle-Aged 
 "Be Fruitful and Multiply and Replenish the Earth" — 
 
 Gen. I : 28 
 
 Drink 
 
 April 2, 1906 
 March 29, 1909 
 
 March 18, 1918 
 
 November 3, 1919 
 December i, 1919 
 October 25, 1920 
 January 7, 1924 
 
 December 10, i8i 
 January 15, 1906 
 
 January 26, 1920 
 February 5, 1923 
 
 November 10, 1902 
 March 5, 1906 
 December 16, 1907 
 
 May 16, 1904 
 
 February 6, 1905 
 November 29, 1909 
 December 4, 191 1 
 
 January 25, 1915 
 
 March 10, 1913 
 May 10, 1915 
 November 22, 191 5 
 April 14, 1919 
 April 25, 1921 
 
 May 9, 1921 
 May 22, 1922 
 
 [ 276 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 MuRRY Nelson 
 
 The Duties and Responsibilities of the Citizen to the 
 
 City (Conversation) 
 Corners (Conversation) 
 As Others See Us 
 The Gangs in Politics (Conversation) 
 
 MuRRY Nelson, Jr. 
 
 The Untold Story of a Revolutionary Soldier 
 
 William Wilson Kirchhofer Nixon 
 1492 — An Historical Sketch 
 
 James Sager Norton 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal," including The Old 
 
 Story, a poem 
 George Washington 
 The Relation of the Legal Profession to the Public 
 
 (Conversation) 
 A Portion of the Old Testament Rewritten 
 The Confessions of a Millionaire 
 What Was the Matter with Hamlet? 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 The Press (Conversation) 
 The Rise and Fall of the Devil 
 Some Proposed Rules for the Regulation of Story 
 
 Tellers 
 A Trip to the Nipigon 
 Mr. Jones' Experiment 
 The Coming Literary Man 
 
 George Clement Noyes 
 
 Immigration (Conversation) 
 
 The Legal Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Horace Sweeney Oakley 
 
 The Franciscan Missions of California 
 
 John O'Connor 
 
 The Spirit of Modern Criminal Reform 
 
 Hugh Robert Orr 
 
 Forbidden Fruit 
 
 Sonnets of Beauty and Disillusionment 
 
 [ ^77 ] 
 
 February 14, 188 1 
 February 12, 1883 
 November 16, i88( 
 January 23, 1888 
 
 February 14, li 
 
 May 5, 1890 
 
 November 6, 1876 
 February 18, 1877 
 
 February 11, 1878 
 May 19, 1879 
 October 30, 1882 
 December 15, 1884 
 October 5, 1885 
 February i, 1886 
 January 31, 1887 
 
 April 9, 1888 
 May 27, 1889 
 May 2, 1892 
 October 3, 1892 
 
 February 11, 1884 
 October 12, 1885 
 October 10, 1887 
 
 April 30, 1900 
 March 2, 1914 
 
 February 20, 1922 
 October 15, 1923
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Hartwell Osborn 
 
 The Twentieth Army Corps with Sherman from Atlanta 
 
 to the Sea 
 Sherman's Carolina Campaign 
 The Eleventh Army Corps 
 Sherman's Atlanta Campaign 
 The Eleventh Army Corps in East Tennessee 
 An Unknown German Patriot 
 
 Louis Shreve Osborne 
 
 Socialism 
 
 Summer Saunterings in Scotland 
 
 Roy Clifton Osgood 
 
 Hilltown Journalism 
 Lawyers 
 
 Ephraim Allen Otis 
 
 The English Constitution (Conversation) 
 From Corinth to Perr>'ville in 1862 
 The Government of Great Cities 
 Aaron Burr and His Alleged Treason 
 The Nashville Campaign 
 
 John Nash Ott 
 
 Anatole France 
 Giordano Bruno 
 The Einstein Theory 
 
 George Packard 
 
 Thomas Love Peacock 
 
 Glimpses of David Garrick 
 
 A Matter of Motive (Story) 
 
 Amid the Whistling of Evil Birds (Story) 
 
 The Letters of Henryk Ibsen 
 
 Some Observations on the Adventurous Life ot a Men- 
 dacious Mendicant — Father Louis Hennepin 
 
 The Lawyers of Dickens 
 
 A Canadian Kipling 
 
 Prejudice and the New Emancipation 
 
 The Administration of Justice in the I-ake Michigan 
 Wilderness 
 
 Poems 
 
 An Imperative Duty for American Citizenship. Inau- 
 gural Address as President 
 
 Poems 
 
 [ 278 ] 
 
 October 15, 1906 
 October 26, 1908 
 November 15, 1909 
 December 5, 1910 
 November 11, 1912 
 May 25, 1914 
 
 November 9, iS 
 November 5, il 
 
 February 19, 1917 
 April 18, 1920 
 
 March 8, 1880 
 March 12, 1888 
 March 3, 1890 
 November 19, 1894 
 January 10, 1898 
 
 February 25, 191 8 
 May 16, 1920 
 April 9, 1923 
 
 March 8, 1897 
 February 6, 1899 
 February 4, 1901 
 March 13, 1905 
 March 5, 1906 
 
 April 27, 1908 
 November 6, 191 1 
 May 27, 1912 
 April 27, 1914 
 
 March i, 191 5 
 March 5, 1917 
 
 October 7, 1918 
 November 3, 1919
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Are Lawyers Leaders or Followers in the Improvement 
 
 of Society? 
 The Humanism of William Dean Howclls 
 Some Modernistic Fiction from the Middle West 
 A Consideration of Some Contemporaneous Plays 
 
 George Laban Paddock. 
 
 Historic Periods in European Culture 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Source and Tendency of American Patriotism 
 
 Chicago and the Fair 
 
 Remarkable Professional Experiences 
 
 The Education of the American Citizen: Some General 
 
 Remarks as to the Historic Basis 
 George Washington, President and Commander-in-Chief 
 
 of the Army and Navy of the United States 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 The Two American Diplomacies 
 The Method of Public Power and Personal Responsibility 
 
 Herman Page 
 
 The Church and Social Service 
 
 Francis Warner Parker 
 
 The Spirit of Invention 
 The Land of Lost Causes 
 The Great American Ruin 
 
 Robert Henry Parkinson 
 
 An Unconscious Emancipator: Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. 
 
 Newton Augustus Partridge 
 
 Little Journeys 
 
 Line upon Line: Gems Extracted from Legal Decisions 
 
 John Clorey Patterson 
 
 Something about American Humorists 
 
 Robert Wilson Patterson, Jr. 
 
 John Wise, the First Great American Democrat 
 
 William Morton Payne 
 
 The Molicre of the North (Ludwig Holberg) 
 American Literary Criticism, or the Doctrine of Evo- 
 lution 
 
 February 23, 1920 
 January 31, 1921 
 November 21, 192 1 
 February 1 1, 1924 
 
 April 7, 1879 
 October 23, 1882 
 April 28, 1884 
 April 12, 1886 
 P'ebruary 25, 1889 
 March 19, 1894 
 November 25, 1895 
 
 November 2, 1896 
 
 October 17, 1898 
 October 9, 1899 
 November 4, 1901 
 November 16, 1903 
 
 November 5, 1906 
 
 February 17, 1913 
 May 22, 1916 
 April 12, 1920 
 
 February 10, 1902 
 
 January 15, 1900 
 March 7, 1904 
 
 February 21, 1876 
 
 December i, 1879 
 
 October 11, 1897 
 November 6, 1899 
 
 [ 279 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 The Poetry of Mr. Swinburne 
 Literary Criticism in the United States 
 Personal Reminiscences of Shakespearean Perform- 
 ances in Chicago 
 A Quarter Century of English Literature 
 Abraham Lincoln 
 
 A Stoico-Epicurean Adiaphorist: Henry David Thoreau 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Peter and the Primrose. Inaugural address as President 
 Poems 
 "The first Lord in the yunited States of Amercay" 
 
 Selim Hobart Peabody 
 
 Utilitarianism in -Education 
 The Mission of the Sunbeam 
 Some Lessons of the Great Exposition 
 
 George Record Peck 
 
 Wordsworth 
 
 James Harvey Peirce 
 
 Normals and Eccentrics of the Patent Office 
 Out Icelandic Kinsmen and Their Commonwealth 
 An Icelandic Scholar of the Twelfth Century 
 Some Modern Aladdins 
 
 Abram Morris Pence 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Conditions and Prospects of Protestantism (Con- 
 versation) 
 
 Trial by Jury (Conversation) 
 
 The Law and the Lady: a Tale of Two Continents 
 
 The Evolution of the Federal Constitution and State 
 Socialism 
 
 DwiGHT Heald Perkins 
 
 Shop Talk and Its Relation to Thought 
 A Metropolitan Park System for Chicago 
 
 Norman Carolan Perkins 
 Socialism in Chicago 
 
 William Ferdinand Petersen 
 The Other Side 
 
 William Jacob Petrie 
 
 A Student of Comparative Theology Two Hundred Years 
 
 . Ago _ 
 
 Cicero's Obligations lo Greek Writers 
 Mysticism 
 
 [ ^80 ] 
 
 March 2, 1903 
 April 25, 1904 
 
 April 23, 1906 
 November 25, 1907 
 February 15, 1909 
 March 22, 1909 
 December 19, 1910 
 October 2, 191 1 
 March 5, 1917 
 February 10, 1919 
 
 April 14, 1879 
 January 11, 1892 
 April 9, 1894 
 
 May 30, 1898 
 
 March 2, 1885 
 March 21, 189 1 
 October 21, 1895 
 March 4, 1901 
 
 April I, 1876 
 
 March 6, 1882 
 February i, 1889 
 October 24, 1898 
 
 October 26, 1903 
 
 December 15, 1902 
 October 17, 1904 
 
 January 5, 1880 
 April 28, 1924 
 
 May 6, 1876 
 November 9, 1891 
 January 6, 1902
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Clement Knowles Pittman 
 
 The Effect of Present Immigration upon American Con- 
 ditions Considered Both Sociologically and Biologi- 
 cally 
 
 March 2, 1914 
 
 Allen Bartlit Pond 
 
 An Essay in Criticism; wherein is an argument setting 
 forth (showing up) the true relationship of Poetry 
 and Prose 
 
 An Invocation to the Muses; wherein is a petition that 
 said Muses take up their abode in Chicago with rea- 
 sons for such change of base 
 
 Books that Have Not Helped Me 
 
 Why James Watson Never Married (Story) 
 
 Where Moses Stood 
 
 The Last Expression of Art (Preface to the Catalogue 
 of "An Expose of Exceptional Expressionism") 
 
 Trades Unionism (Conversation) 
 
 A Gospel of Beauty 
 
 Recent Poetry (Conversation) 
 
 The Day of Small Things 
 
 March 24, 1890 
 
 March 24, 1890 
 January 4, 1892 
 January 4, 1892 
 April 16, 1894 
 
 February 28, 1898 
 March 12, 1900 
 May 28, 1900 
 December 16, 1901 
 March 8, 1909 
 
 Irving Kane Pond 
 
 A Strange Fellow November 1 1, 1889 
 
 The Mystery of the Light (Story) March 2, 1891 
 
 A AL-itter ofTaste March 6, 1893 
 
 The Pleasures of Travel April 16, 1894 
 
 Can Achitecture Become Again a Living Art? December 23, 1895 
 
 The Poetry of Motion; and Other Matters October 30, 1899 
 A Few Melancholy Reflections and Lively Anticipations 
 
 of Misdeeds to Come January 2, 1905 
 
 A Side Light on Architecture • May 14, 1906 
 
 Art and the Expression of Individuality March 13, 191 1 
 
 About Two Hours (Facetious Address) May 27, 1912 
 
 An Ancient Principle and a Modern Application March 17, 1913 
 
 Confusion of Mind October 6, 1913 
 
 Architecture: Its Origin and Illusions November 9, 1914 
 
 Poems March 5, 1917 
 
 Here Lies the Way March 4, 1918 
 
 "The Stones of Venice" December 15, 1919 
 Art in a Straight-jacket. Inaugural Address as President October 9, 1922 
 
 A Day under the Big Top: a Study in Life and Art January 21, 1924 
 
 Charles Clarence Poole 
 The Inventive Faculty 
 
 [ 281 ] 
 
 January 13, 1902
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 William Frederick Poole 
 
 The Origin and Secret History of the Ordinance of 1787 
 The Opportunities of the Man of Means and Leisure 
 
 (Conversation) 
 The Mission and Function of Public Libraries 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Witchcraft (Conversation) 
 Mr. Bancroft and the Ordinance of 1787 
 Some Matters Relating to the Early Northwest 
 The Literary Character of the Columbus Family 
 Columbus as a Discoverer and as a Man (Conversation) 
 Our Modern Education and the University Curriculum 
 
 Louis Freeland Post 
 
 The Prophet of San Francisco 
 
 A Non-ecclesiastical Confession of Religious Faith 
 
 Despotism vs. Democracy 
 
 The Morey Letter, an Incident of the Garfield Cam- 
 paign 
 
 The State Control of Railways 
 
 Newspaper English 
 
 At the Crack of a Boss's Whip; a Personal Experience 
 in the Politics of Old New York 
 
 A Carpet-Bagger in South Carolina 
 
 Horatio Nelson Powers 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Sartell Prentice 
 
 The Influence of Locality 
 
 Keith Preston 
 
 Literary Levities 
 
 Theodore Philander Prudden 
 
 Life in a New England Town in the Seventeenth Century 
 
 Eugene Ernst Prussing 
 
 Some Personal Reminiscences of Edwin Burritt Smith 
 
 Carl Schurz 
 
 Chicago's First Great Lawsuit; Forsyth and Kinzie 
 
 vs. Jeffro Nast 
 The Art of Advocacy 
 
 William Henry Ray 
 
 Russia in Asia 
 
 April 19, 1B75 
 
 May 14, 1877 
 November 11, 18" 
 October 6, 1879 
 April 17, 1882 
 May 28, 1883 
 February 4, 1889 
 October 3, 1892 
 October 24, 1892 
 November 27, i8( 
 
 November 17, 1902 
 December 5, 1904 
 April 2, 1906 
 
 October 22, 1906 
 November 23, 1908 
 January 9, 191 1 
 
 March 3, 191 3 
 April 16, 1917 
 
 December 7, 1874 
 October 4, 1875 
 
 February 5, 1894 
 
 April 16, 1923 
 
 March 10, 1890 
 
 May 28, 1906 
 April 19, 1909 
 
 November 16, 1914 
 January 3, 191 6 
 
 March 22, 1886 
 
 [ 282 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Henry Warren Raymond 
 
 The History of a Miniature Republic (San Marino) 
 Hark! from the Tombs 
 
 Charles Bert Reed 
 
 The Venereal Peril 
 
 The Lords of the North 
 
 The First CJreat Canadian, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur 
 
 d'Iberville 
 Waboos; a Forest Idyll 
 
 An Ojibway Legend 
 
 The Beatification of the Novice (Story) 
 
 Toxiemia as a Stimulus in Literature 
 
 The Orientation of Waboosons 
 
 The Beaver Club 
 
 The Curse ot Cahaba 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Albrecht von Haller 
 
 Eleanor of Aquitaine 
 
 Poems 
 
 Utopia and Life 
 
 Ubi Leones Erunt 
 
 Jiminido 
 
 Duke 
 
 Survivals 
 
 The Guardian of Gargantua 
 
 Alexander Frederick Reichmann 
 The State of the Nation (Conversation) 
 
 William Lee Richardson 
 
 The Letters of Keats 
 Thomas Hardy 
 
 William Charles Roberts 
 
 The Hebrew Literature 
 
 Carl Bismarck Roden 
 
 Literary Stragglers and Strugglers in Early Chicago 
 What a Librarian Thinks About 
 Pennsylvany-Dutch 
 
 George Mills Rogers 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 January 7, 1878 
 March 1 4, 1881 
 
 February 24, 1908 
 May II, 1908 
 
 April 5, 1909 
 January 17, igioand 
 January 24, 1910 
 May 22, 191 1 
 May 29, 191 1 
 February 12, 191 2 
 April 29, 1912 
 February 10, 1913 
 October 13, 1913 
 October 5, 19 14 
 March 15, 191 5 
 January 31, 1916 
 March 5, 1917 
 March 26, 1917 
 February 4, 1918 
 January 17, 1921, 
 April 24, 1922 
 October 16, 1922 
 November 12, 1923 
 
 May 29, 191 6 
 
 December 19, 1921 
 December 3, 1923 
 
 April 16, I i 
 
 April 21, 1919 
 December 6, 1920 
 March 6, 1922 
 
 April 23,1883 
 
 [ 283 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Joseph Martin Rogers 
 
 Engraving 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Frederick Woodman Root 
 
 An American Basis of Musical Criticism 
 
 A Study of Musical Taste 
 
 The Need of the Hour 
 
 The Resources of Musical Expression 
 
 The Real American Music (Illustrated) 
 
 The Voice in Song and Speech 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 The Story of Alice in Words and Tones: a new excursion 
 into the domain of musical expression 
 
 Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky 
 
 Nothing in Particular (After-dinner speech) 
 
 Lowell Mason 
 
 Bill Nye 
 
 Confessions of an Intruder 
 
 Nominations of Members of The Chicago Literary Club 
 for Eminent Positions in Washington, D.C. (After- 
 dinner speech) 
 
 The Humor and Sparkle of Song 
 
 John Wellborn Root 
 
 The Art of Abstract Color 
 Idealism and Realism in Art 
 Broad Art Criticism 
 A Great Architectural Problem 
 
 Julius Rosenthal 
 
 The German Citizen in America (Conversation) 
 
 The Widow's Mite 
 
 The Law Institute Library 
 
 Lessing Rosenthal 
 Some General Reflections 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Are Lawyers Leaders or Followers in the Improvement' 
 of Society? 
 
 James Boyer Runnion 
 
 The Recent Drama 
 
 William Henry Ryder 
 
 The American Public School (Conversation) 
 
 March i, 1886 
 March 14, 1892 
 
 November 22, 1886 
 November 25, 1889 
 April 18, 1892 
 November 11, 1895 
 October 25, 1897, and 
 November 29, 1897 
 October 23, 1899 
 October 10, 1904 
 
 February 5, 1906 
 November 30, 1908 
 October 2, 191 1 
 November 27, 191 1 
 May 27, 1912 
 March 31, 1913 
 
 October 6, 1913 
 November 30, 1914 
 
 March 19, 1883 
 January 19, 1885 
 December 12, 1887 
 February 10, 1890 
 
 May II, 1885 
 May 9, 1892 
 February 6, 1905 
 
 May 12, 1902 
 May 27, 1918 
 
 February 23, 1920 
 
 May 17, 1880 
 
 December 11, 1876 
 
 [ 284 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Martin Antoine Rversov 
 
 Sicily 
 
 Coucy le Chateau 
 
 William McIntire Salter 
 
 George Eliot's Views of Religion 
 
 Emerson and His Views on Reform 
 
 William Morris 
 
 Walt Whitman 
 
 Heine; a Soldier in the Liberation of Humanity 
 
 Emerson's Attitude towards Social Reform 
 
 Mr. Bernard Shaw as a Social Critic 
 
 Victor Channing Sanborn 
 
 An Unforgiven Puritan — Rev. Stephen Batchellor 
 A Boy's Glimpse of Whitman 
 
 Carlos Pomeroy Sawyer 
 Daniel Webster as a Lawyer 
 
 John James Schobinger 
 
 Glaciers and Climate 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Improvements in Educational Methods 
 Getting an Education 
 
 Arthur Pearson Scott 
 The American Indian in Fiction 
 
 Frank Hamline Scott 
 
 Through Arizona on Horseback 
 The Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 George Rogers Clarke 
 In the Province of Tusayan 
 
 Moses Lewis Scudder, Jr. 
 Method in Political Economy 
 The Transportation Question 
 Congested Prices 
 Social Control for Everything 
 Competition and Charity 
 Fallacies for which Men Have Died 
 Some Recollections of the Early Meetings and Early 
 Members of the Club 
 
 December 12, 1898 
 November 21, 1904 
 
 April I, 1889 
 November 17, 1890 
 November i, 1897 
 November 21, 1898 
 November 1 1, 1901 
 May 25, 1903 
 November 4, 1907 
 
 December 14, 1908 
 December i, 1919 
 
 March I, 1909 
 
 April 16, 1877 
 November 26, 1883 
 April 27, 1896 
 January 29, 1900 
 
 October 24, 1921 
 
 March 13, 1893 
 March 18, 1895 
 May 31, 1897 
 May 27, 1 901 
 
 May 3, 1875 
 October 13, 1879 
 May 7, 1883 
 May 19, 1884 
 February 27, i88f 
 April 13, 1891 
 
 March 16, 191 4 
 
 [ 285 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Louis Martin Sears 
 
 Jefferson as a Pacifist 
 
 A Confederate Diplomat at the Court of Napoleon III 
 
 Some Forgotten Amenities of Journalism 
 
 Theodore Sheldon 
 
 Transfer of Land by Registration of Title 
 
 Robert Dickinson Sheppard 
 
 Milton 
 
 Religion and Politics 
 
 John Hancock 
 
 The Chicago Convention of i860 
 
 Daniel Lewis Shorey 
 
 Recent English Legislation 
 
 Civil Service Reform (Conversation) 
 
 The Restoration of a Specie Basis (Conversation) 
 
 The Government of Large Cities (Conversation) 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Socialism in the United States (Conversation) 
 
 The Problem of Municipal Government for Chicago 
 
 (Conversation) 
 Political Economy Since Mill 
 Nihilism in Russia 
 Turgot 
 
 Leaders and Parties in the French Revolution 
 The Girondists 
 The Functions of the Gentleman of Leisure 
 
 Paul Shorey 
 
 Dion Chrysostom — or Greek Culture under the Early 
 
 Roman Empire 
 Improvements in Educational Methods 
 Scenes from Aristophanes 
 Some Recent Discoveries in Greek Literature 
 The Pace that Killed x'\thens 
 The True View of Shakespeare's Work as a Playwright 
 
 and as a Poet 
 Some Modernisms of the Ancients 
 The Emperor Julian 
 Alfred Tennyson 
 Athens Fin de Siecle 
 The Case of Euripides 
 An Exchange Professor in Germany 
 Plato and Poetry 
 The Wit and Humor of Herbert Spencer 
 
 [ 286 ] 
 
 December 18, 1916 
 February 2, 1920 
 December 20, 1920 
 
 April 20, 1891 
 
 October 18, 1886 
 March 11, 1889 
 February i, 1892 
 October 19, 1903 
 
 January 17, 1876 
 June 17, 1876 
 October 9, 1876 
 February 12, 1877 
 June 25, 1877 
 October 13, 1879 
 
 November 24, 188^ 
 January 17, 1887 
 April 4, 1887 
 November 12, i88{ 
 May 16, 1892 
 April 30, 1894 
 May 25, 1896 
 
 May 8, 1893 
 April 27, 1896 
 February 7, 1898 
 February 19, 1900 
 February 29, 1904 
 
 April 23, 1906 
 April 30, 1906 
 April 6, 1908 
 May 3, 1909 
 October 31, 1910 
 October 30, 191 1 
 May 3,1915 
 March 27, 191 6 
 November 11, 191 8
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Ruskin as a Literary Artist 
 Some Modernisms of Plato 
 The American Language 
 
 John George Shortall 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 A Bundle of Old Letters — Horace Greeley 
 The Lanil of the Chrysanthemum 
 Incidents of Travel 
 More about Japan 
 The Reformation of City Government 
 
 John Louis Shortall 
 
 In Hiawatha's Country 
 
 PVom the White Mountains to the Black Hills 
 
 HiROMICHI ShUGYO 
 
 The Japanese Exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition 
 
 William Pratt Sidley 
 
 Unearthing a Conspiracy in Croatia 
 
 The Northern Boundary of the State of Illinois 
 
 George Gushing Sikes 
 
 Shortcomings of the Daily Press 
 Joseph Lyman Silsbee 
 
 Color in Architecture 
 
 Back Yards 
 
 Can Architecture Become Again a Living Art? 
 
 Charles Gilman Smith 
 
 The Physical Basis of Character 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Cholera (Conversation) 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 Edwin Burritt Smith 
 
 The Negro as a Citizen 
 
 American Sovereignty 
 
 George William Curtis 
 
 At the Parting of the Ways: a Study in National 
 
 Policy 
 A Retrospect of the Campaign and of the Causes which 
 
 Led to It 
 
 December 15, 1919 
 November 28, 1921 
 March 12, 1923 
 
 February 18, 1878 
 June 13, 1887 
 May 6, 1895 
 October 19, 1896 
 April 9, 1900 
 April 4, 1904 
 
 April 4, 1910 
 March 25, 1918 
 
 October 31, 1904 
 
 January 25, 1897 
 December 7, 1903 
 
 May 1 1, 1903 
 
 May 25, 1885 
 March 23, 1891 
 December 23, 1895 
 
 March 5, 1877 
 April 18, 1 88 1 
 February 26, 188; 
 December 10, 188 
 October 6, 1884 
 January 21, 1889 
 
 March 31, 1890 
 April 27, 1891 
 November 21, 189: 
 
 January 20, 1896 
 
 November 9, 1896 
 
 287 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Timothy Smith, Pioneer January 23, 1899 
 
 The Confused West: a Literary Forecast. Inaugural 
 
 Address as President October 7, 1901 
 
 Senate Bill No. 40: the Story and Significance of Recent 
 
 Street Railway Legislation in Illinois November 9, 1903 
 
 Frederick Augustus Smith 
 
 Bench and Bar in the Early Days of the Republic April 6, 1903 
 
 Our Ethical Standards March 26, 1906 
 
 Success March 15, 1909 
 
 What Others Think January 13, 1913 
 
 George Baldwin Smith 
 
 Was Bacon the Author of Shakespeare? February i, 1875 
 
 George Washington Smith 
 
 The Battle of Franklin ' April 30, 1883 
 
 Letters from an Illinois Garret January 21, 1884 
 
 The Law of the Road December 6, 1886 
 
 Thirty Years After January 8, 1894 
 
 Inaugural Address as President October 5, 1896 
 
 Howard Leslie Smith 
 
 Social Problems and Fads April 16, 1900 
 
 Some Superficial Aspects of Plato's Modernity January 28, 1918 
 
 Perry Hiram Smith 
 
 Secret Societies April 21, 1890 
 
 Pliny Bent Smith 
 
 The Oration on the Crown April 22, 1907 
 
 William Henry Smith 
 
 War Pictures January 14, 1894 
 
 Franklyn Bliss Snyder 
 
 Our American Literature Today April 9, 1917 
 
 American Ideals in American Letters March 8, 1920 
 
 The Classic and the Best Seller October 17, 1921 
 
 An Old-time Best Seller: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" January 29, 1923 
 
 Horace Mann Starkey 
 
 The Care of Epileptics in Colonies: the 
 
 Settlement of an Economic Question . February 25, 1901 
 
 Samuel Cecil Stanton 
 
 Here Lies . April 14, 1924 
 
 [ 288 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Merrjtt Starr 
 
 Market Day in Sicily 
 
 Some Recent Pictures 
 
 Olympia Revisited (Illustrated) 
 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson (Address) 
 
 The Politics of Dante 
 
 The State Control of Railways 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 Ascending II Monte 
 
 Holding High Converse 
 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Fourteen Voyages of Adventure and Discovery 
 
 Ruskin — Herald of Revolt 
 
 Ruskin as a Social Reformer 
 
 Dante, Six Hundred Years After 
 
 Marquette, LaSalle, and Chicago 
 
 Lewis Abyram Stebbins 
 
 The Philosophy of Mark Twain 
 
 Frederick Morgan Steele 
 
 Some Suggestions from Unpublished Original American 
 Historical Documents 
 
 Henry Thornton Steele 
 
 The Deformed Spelling 
 
 Patent Ethics 
 
 Herbert Spencer's First Principles 
 
 Otto Albert Steller 
 
 Two stories: "Karma Outwitted," and "The Forest" 
 
 William Robert Stirling 
 
 Partners 
 
 George Frederic Stone 
 
 Yarns of an Old Town 
 
 Henry Baldwin Stone 
 The Use of Machinery 
 
 James Samuel Stone 
 
 What Is the Essential Element in Religion? 
 How to Discover the History of a Family 
 The Influence of the Soldier on Society 
 
 April 22, 1895 
 January 3, 1898 
 December 4, 1899 
 May 25, 1903 
 March 4, 1907 
 November 23, 1908 
 October 10, 1910 
 March 24, 191 3 
 May II, 191 4 
 December 21, 191 4 
 May 1, 1916 
 December 15, 1919 
 December 15, 1919 
 January 3, 1920 
 March 5, 1923 
 
 May 19, 1919 
 
 October 16, i{ 
 
 November i, 1880 
 January 8, 1883 
 December 20, 1886 
 
 March 10, 1924 
 March 11, 1901 
 November 4, 1895 
 February 2, 1885 
 
 January 27, 1896 
 May 9, 1898 
 May 21, 1900 
 
 [ 289 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Joseph Stolz 
 
 The Message of Judaism to the Twentieth Century 
 A New English Translation of the Bible 
 
 Henry Strong 
 
 The Defects in American Public Education, Moral and 
 Economic, as affecting the Stability of Government 
 and the Security of Property (Conversation) 
 
 Is Buckle's Theory of Civilization the True Theory? 
 
 (Conversation) 
 The Earl of Mansfield — Chief Justice of the King's 
 
 Bench 
 The University of Virginia and Its Founder 
 
 William Emerson Strong 
 The Siege of Vicksburg 
 The March to the Sea 
 
 Glimpses of Travel in the West with the Lieutenant 
 General of the Army 
 
 Louis Henry Sullivan 
 Nature and the Poet 
 Can Architecture Become Again a Living Art? 
 
 David Swing 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 A Letter from Tyro, Slave of Cicero, to Ximenes 
 
 Excess 
 
 A Page from History 
 
 Virgil 
 
 The Greek Literature 
 
 A Roman Gentlemen (Pliny the Younger) 
 
 Dante 
 
 Demosthenes 
 
 The Need of the Hour 
 
 A True Love Story 
 
 Submerged Centuries 
 
 LORADO TaFT 
 
 Paris from a Mansard: Experiences of an American Art 
 
 Student 
 Facial Expression in Nature and Art 
 Some Surprises of the Art Palace 
 
 The Entire History of Art from Its Earliest Beginnings 
 Clothes, Art, and Other Things 
 
 December 5, 1904 
 January 7, 1918 
 
 May 13, 1878, and 
 May 20, 1878 
 
 December 19, 1881 
 
 May 23, 1887 
 May 20, 1889 
 
 November 6, 1882 
 November 17, 1884 
 
 January 14, 1889 
 
 December 17, 1888 
 December 23, 1895 
 
 October 5, 1874 
 December 16, 1878 
 October 29, 1883 
 April 13 1885 
 February 28, 1887 
 October 31, 1887 
 March 18, 1889 
 May 26, 1890 
 December 14, 189 1 
 April 18, 1892 
 November 13, 1893 
 January 29, 1894 
 
 January 20, 1890 
 January 25, 1892 
 October 30, 1893 
 February 28, 1898 
 May 8, 1899 
 
 [ 290 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 December 21, 1885 
 April 20, 1903 
 Nlay 25, 1908 
 
 November 26, 1894 
 
 May 2, 1898 
 
 April 13, 1903 
 May 21, 1906 
 
 Charles Henrv Tavi.or 
 
 The Advance of Socialism 
 Progress and Individual Liberty 
 Is It Nation or Confederacy? 
 
 Graham Tavlor 
 
 The Social Unification ot the City (Conversation) 
 
 Thomas Taylor, Jr. 
 Utopia 
 
 Horace KentTennev 
 
 A Litigated Romance 
 
 The Forest Laws of Old England 
 
 John NL^rshall Thacher 
 Early Days of a Reform 
 Ideas — Embodiment — Right of Property Therein 
 
 James Westfall Thompson 
 
 Monks, Monasteries, and Manuscripts 
 
 Private Libraries in Chicago 
 
 Napolean as a Booklover 
 
 Book Hunting as a Sport 
 
 France as It Isn't 
 
 New Tales of Old France: "The Wooing of the Lady 
 
 Talivas," and "The Bell in the Brain" 
 The Romance of Historical Research 
 Mark Twain and the Mississippi River 
 The Frankfort Book-Fair of the Sixteenth Century 
 The Mendacity of History 
 The Paston Letters 
 
 Autobiography and Memoir in Aniitpiity 
 The Vanished Wend 
 
 The Principles and Methods ol Criticism 
 The Purple West 
 
 The Last Pagan. Inaugural Address as President 
 Poems 
 Time 
 
 The Charm of the Prologue 
 The Last Oracle 
 More Smoke than Fire 
 Cathay, and the Way Thither. Unfamiliar information 
 
 about an old road 
 
 Leverett Thompson 
 
 Stevenson's Children's Verses 
 
 April 1 1, 1887 
 June 3, 1895 
 
 March 5, 1900 
 F'ebruary 6, 1905 
 December 11, 1905 
 January 21, 1906 
 December 9, 1907 
 
 October 12, 1908 
 November i, 1909 
 April 25, 1910 
 November 28, 1910 
 January 8, 1912 
 December 9, 1912 
 March 23, 1914 
 October 12, 1914 
 May 24, 1915 
 October 11, 1915 
 October 9, 1916 
 March 5, 19 17 
 November 4, 1918 
 December 22, 1919 
 October 11, 1920 
 October 31, 1921 
 
 February 4, 1924 
 
 November 26, 1900 
 
 [ ^91 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Slason Thompson 
 
 As Others See Us; or Reflections by Six Distinguished 
 
 Mirrors (Symposium) 
 The Model Newspaper 
 James Russell Lowell 
 The Need of the Hour 
 
 What We All Think about It? (Conversation) 
 Ghosts (Symposium) 
 • The American Novel 
 Different Views of Eugene Field 
 Justice to Shafter and Schley 
 The Age and Art of Advertising 
 The Labor Question 
 
 Lying .... 
 Moulding Public Opinion 
 The Parlous Times in Which We Live 
 The Poetry of This War 
 The War in Retrospect 
 The League of Nations — a Post Mortem 
 The Present-Day Business-Man Can Dispense with the 
 Present-day Lawyer 
 
 William McIlwain Thompson 
 
 Canoeing 
 
 The Trail Makers of the Quetico 
 
 Albert Harris Tolman 
 
 Some English Dialogues and Their Ancestry 
 
 Is Shakespeare Anti-democratic? 
 
 A Shakespearean Problem 
 
 The Folk-Songs of England 
 
 The European War 
 
 The Principles and Methods of Criticism 
 
 Why Did Shakespeare Create Falstaff? 
 
 A Postscript to "The Folk Songs of England" 
 
 Shakespearean Studies 
 
 Shakespeare's Manipulation of His Sources in"As You 
 Like It" 
 
 The Early History of Shakespeare's Reputation. Inau- 
 gural Address as President 
 
 Henry Leland Tolman 
 
 A Comparative View of the Development of Literature 
 in All Languages 
 
 Floyd Williams Tomkins, Jr. 
 
 Factors and Products 
 
 November i6, 1885 
 February 3, 1890 
 October 19, 1891 
 April 18, 1892 
 June 13, 1892 
 February 27, 1893 
 October 29, 1894 
 March 23, 1896 
 March 6, 1899 
 March 24, 1902 
 November 2, 1903 
 April 8, 1907 
 December 11, 191 1 
 January 26, 1914 
 November 29, 1915 
 May 17, 1920 
 March 7, 1921 
 
 December 4, 1922 
 
 April II, 1910 
 April 13, 1914 
 
 May 2, 1910 
 April 10, 191 1 
 March 25, 191 2 
 December 8, 1913 
 October 19, 1914 
 May 24, 191 5 
 November i, 1915 
 November i, 191 5 
 October 14, 1918 
 
 March i, 1920 
 
 October 11, 1920 
 
 February 2, 1880 
 April 17, 1893 
 
 [ 292 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Arnold Tompkins 
 TheiS^iture of Beauty 
 
 Melvin Alvah Traylor 
 
 Banking and Coinage 
 
 George Macaulay Trevelyan 
 
 History vs. Literature 
 Serbia (Informal talk) 
 
 Lyman Trumbull 
 
 Slavery and Its Abolition (Conversation) 
 
 Charles Henderson True 
 
 Some Factors Influencing Locomotive Design 
 
 David Newton Utter 
 
 Robert Browning 
 
 The Shakespeare Question 
 
 Marlowe's Part in Shakespeare's Works 
 
 Literary Forgeries, Their Value and Their Weakness 
 
 John Frederick Voigt 
 
 Political Experiences in Southern Illinois 
 
 The Jury 
 
 The Story of Illinois 
 
 Henry Heileman Wait 
 Recent Progress in Engineering 
 
 Horatio Loomis Wait 
 
 Mirth 
 
 Fort Sumter 
 
 Reminiscences of the Blockade 
 
 The Art of Killing 
 
 Novel F"orms for Vessels 
 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 
 The Deeds and Needs of Our Navy 
 
 Submarine Warfare 
 
 Some Incidents at Fort Barrancas 
 
 When General Sherman Reached the Coast 
 
 Some Incidents of the Blockading Service 
 
 Charleston during the Siege 
 
 Some Reminiscences of the Civil War 
 
 Incidents in the War of the Rebellion 
 
 In Time of Peace Prepare for War 
 
 January 25, 1904 
 January 5, 1920 
 
 May 3,1915 
 May 3, 1915 
 
 January 6, 1879 
 April 21, 1924 
 
 November 3, 1884 
 November 21, 1887 
 December 2, 1889 
 December i, 1890 
 
 May 29, 191 1 
 May 12, 1913 
 April 15, 1918 
 
 December 4, 1905 
 
 April I, 1878 
 November 21, 1881 
 March 3, 1884 
 October 28,1889 
 October 20, 1890 
 October 2, 1893 
 October 10, 1898 
 October 21, 1901 
 November 11, 1907 
 October 24, 1 910 
 October 9, 191 1 
 October 21, 1912 
 February 9, 1914 
 January 11, 1915 
 October 18, 191 5 
 
 I 293 ]
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 James Joseph Wait 
 
 Memories of the Sea 
 
 Philippine Reminiscences — The Brown Man's Bondage 
 
 Poetry and Songs of the Sea 
 
 Miss Morning Glory (Story) 
 
 Le Hollandais Volant (Story) 
 
 The Spectre of Roncador Reef (Story) 
 
 Aldace Freeman Walker 
 Competition 
 
 Government Ownership of Railways (Conversation) 
 How to Place the Government of Cities in the United 
 States on a Business Footing 
 
 Seymour Walton 
 
 Personal Reminiscences of Reconstruction in Louisiana 
 
 Frank Gibson Ward 
 
 The Losing and Finding of the Community Ideal 
 The Valley of Democracy 
 William Allen White at Home 
 
 Abra Nelson Waterman 
 
 The War in its Effect on Public and Private Opinion 
 A Few Thoughts Concerning Charles I and the English 
 
 Revolution 
 The Civilizations of Japan and America Compared 
 The Philosophy of Buddhism 
 A Chapter from a Century of Caste 
 Inaugural Address as President 
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
 The Meditations of a Village Philosopher 
 More Reflections of a Village Philosopher 
 The Relations of the United States with Mexico 
 
 Edward Stanley Waters 
 The Pottery of the Renaissance 
 The South Kensington Museum 
 
 William Otis Waters 
 
 Chicago 
 
 English Church and State 
 
 George Washington Webster 
 The Captain of the Hosts of Death 
 
 December 3, 1894 
 April 10, 1899 
 January 23, 1905 
 November 10, 19 13 
 March 12, 1917 
 March 29, 1920 
 
 February 16, 1891 
 December 7, 1891 
 
 February 12, 1894 
 
 December 21, 1891 
 
 April 30, 191 7 
 May 3, 1920 
 February 27, 192: 
 
 November 19, 1883 
 
 March 17, 1890 
 April I, 1895 
 March 2, 1896 
 February 26, 1900 
 October 5, 1903 
 February 27, 1905 
 December 10, 1906 
 February 28, 1910 
 February 16, 19 14 
 
 January 3, 1876 
 October 29, 1877 
 
 November 6, 1905 
 December 17, 1906 
 
 May 2, 1904 
 
 [ 294 ]
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 John Clarence Webster 
 
 The Influence of Japanese Art on Whistler and His 
 
 Contemporaries 
 
 Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson 
 
 David Spencer Wegg 
 
 Changes in the Legal Status of Women 
 The Moors and Some Things We Owe to Tliem 
 The Rebellion of '37 
 
 George Philip Welles 
 
 Patriotism vs. Philanthropy 
 -As Others See Us 
 The Senator's Error 
 
 Arthur Brattle W^ells 
 
 A Just Judge 
 
 Beneath the Dust of a Generation 
 
 Charles William Wendte 
 
 Church and State 
 Genius in Art 
 
 Arthur Dana Wheeler 
 
 The Partitioning of Africa 
 Some Telephone History and Problems 
 The Future of the American Negro 
 The Ethics of Present-day Finance 
 Newspapers: Corporations 
 
 Horace White 
 
 Financial Crises 
 
 The Centenary of Adam Smith (Conversation) 
 
 Russell Whitman 
 
 Pilgrim Plymouth 
 
 Peter Bonnett Wight 
 
 The Practice of Architecture as a Fine Art 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 
 The Development of New Phases of the Fine Arts in 
 
 America 
 The Graduates' Club — a Story of Christmas Eve 
 Can Architecture Become Again a Living Art? 
 
 John Daniel Wild 
 
 The Philosophy of Bergson 
 
 May 18, 1908 
 October 25, 1909 
 
 February 10, 1896 
 February 20, 1905 
 April 12, 1909 
 
 February 16, 1885 
 November 16, 1885 
 March 25, 1889 
 
 November 12, 1900 
 May 10, 1909 
 
 November i, 1875 
 October 10, 1881 
 
 October 14, 1895 
 May 23, 1898 
 January 29, 1906 
 January 16, 191 1 
 May 15, 191 1 
 
 April 15, 1876 
 November 13, 1876 
 
 May 2, 1892 
 
 January 8, 1877 
 December 15, 1879 
 
 May 5, 1884 
 June 4, 1894 
 December 23, 1895 
 
 April 14, 1 9 13 
 
 295
 
 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Pseudo-Humanism 
 
 Bertrand Russell's "Proposed Roads to Freedom" 
 
 Fallacies 
 
 Payson Sibley Wild 
 
 Humorous poems: "The Smell of the Stock Yards," 
 "Calling Me Back Thar," and "An Ode to My Stein" 
 An Old Satirist Modernized 
 Cicero's Theory of Humor 
 An Analysis of the Programme 
 A New Poet 
 Ausonius 
 
 The Valley and Villa of Horace 
 
 An Early Literary Club. Inaugural Address as President 
 The Skillet Fork Literary Club (Poem) 
 De Duabus Juliis 
 Poems 
 
 On the Hades Golf-Club Portico 
 Poems 
 
 Fantasia Humanistica 
 Megistotheos and My Anima Vagula 
 
 Ernest H. Wilkins 
 Dante the Apostle 
 
 John Wilkinson 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 The Microscope 
 
 Edward Franklin Williams 
 The Outlook for Russia 
 Oxford and the High Church Anglicans 
 A Forgotten American Hero 
 Alexander von Humboldt 
 Memories of an Indian Pay Party 
 
 Henry Percy Williams 
 
 The Literature of Business 
 
 Poems 
 
 The Professional Spirit in Business 
 
 Making a World 
 
 The Re-incarnation of Bill Spencer (Story) 
 
 Robert Williams 
 Gambetta 
 
 Stalham Leon Williams, Jr. 
 
 Some Literary Lapses 
 
 April 26, 191 5 
 December 22, 191 9 
 April 17, 1922 
 
 April 4, 1904 
 November 20, 1905 
 November 16, 1908 
 May 29, 191 1 
 March 18, 1912 
 November 25, 1912 
 February 8, 191 5 
 October 4, 191 5 
 May 29, 1916 
 January 29, 1917 
 March 5, 1917 
 December 2, 191 8 
 November 3, 1919 
 May 23, 1921 
 May 21, 1923 
 
 January 3, 1921 
 
 January 21, i! 
 April 6, 1885 
 
 May 6, 1878 
 April 21, 1884 
 April 28, 1902 
 February i, 1909 
 May 4, 1914 
 
 February 26, 1917 
 December 17, 1917 
 April 5, 1920 
 April 4, 1 92 1 
 October 30, 1922 
 
 February 4, 1884 
 
 January 21, 1901 
 
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 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 Charles Henry Wilmerding 
 
 Practical Electricity 
 
 Bexjamin Mairs Wilson 
 
 Edited and read an "Informal" 
 Taxation (Conversation) 
 
 Arthur Wellesley Windett 
 
 The Roman Tribune and the Modern Chancellor 
 
 DeWitt Cosgrove Wing 
 
 Culture and Agriculture 
 
 An Old Country Editor 
 
 A Woman's World 
 
 Books of the Year (Symposium) 
 
 Three Books of Proverbs 
 
 Miss Semple's Great Book 
 
 Newspaper Book-Reviewing 
 
 Thomas Foster With row 
 
 The Literature of the Law (Conversation) 
 
 Henry Milton Wolf 
 
 Some Suggestions about Education 
 
 Benjamin Wolhaupter 
 
 One Proposed Solution of a Difficult Chicago Problem 
 
 Walter Mabie Wood 
 
 Simplicity the Genius of Invention 
 
 Supplemented Education; or the Education of Employed 
 
 Men 
 Recent Progress in Physics 
 
 John Hopkins Worcester, Jr. 
 Tolstoi as a Reformer 
 
 Samuel Henry Wright 
 
 A Local Phase of Labor Combination 
 
 Victor Yarros 
 
 The Newspaper and Contemporaneous History 
 The Condition of Journalism in Russia 
 Municipal Ownership 
 
 Development and Tendencies of the Russian Drama 
 Paper Constitutions and Actual Government 
 
 December 22, 1908 
 
 November 19, 1877 
 January 17, 1881 
 
 May 3, 1880 
 
 January 4, 191 5 
 March 20, 1916 
 February 17, 1 919 
 December 22, 191 9 
 March i, 1920 
 November 29, 192c 
 May 15, 1922 
 
 April 8, 1878 
 May 15, 1916 
 April 19, 1897 
 
 January 19, 1903 
 
 April 3, 1905 
 December 4, 1905 
 
 November 10, 1880 
 
 November 27, 1899 
 
 November 7, 1904 
 March 6, 1905 
 April 2, 1906 
 October 9, 1906 
 January 1 1, 1909 
 
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 The Chicago Literary Club 
 
 Nikolai Vassilievitch Gogol 
 
 Tolstoi: the Man and the Author 
 
 What Ails the Modern Newspaper? 
 
 The European War 
 
 Pessimism and Optimism: Fresh Treatment of an Old 
 Subject 
 
 Progress: the Idea and the Reality 
 
 The Political Situation in Russia 
 
 Wells and Shaw as Prophets of Religion 
 
 The War Debts and the Wage Workers of the World 
 
 Literary Criticisms 
 
 Contemporary American Radicalism 
 
 Recent Assaults on, and Vindications of Popular Gov- 
 ernment 
 
 Fathers and Sons; or Age and Youth 
 
 Prose, Poetry, and the Human Spirit. Inaugural Address 
 as President ' 
 
 Charles Yeomans 
 
 Die Entwickelung des Kanonenfutters 
 
 Abram Van Eps Young 
 
 Some Eccentricities of Nature 
 The Beautiful in Physical Nature 
 Franklin as a Scientist 
 
 John Maxcy Zane 
 
 The Romance of Catarina di Monte Acuto 
 An Early English Booklover: Richard Augerville; other- 
 wise known as Richard de Bury 
 
 Joseph Zeisler 
 
 An Evening with Poet Physicians 
 
 Program Music Illustrated 
 
 Fitness for Marriage 
 
 Dreams 
 
 Stories from Far and Wide 
 
 Our Increasing Interest in Leprosy 
 
 The Venereal Peril 
 
 Arthur Schnitzler, the Great Dramatist 
 
 The European War 
 
 The Art of Growing Old 
 
 -Sigmund Zeisler 
 
 The Prevalence of Perjury in the United States 
 
 About Nietzsche 
 
 Our Tendency to Fads 
 
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 October 18, 1909 
 October 16, 191 1 
 January 6, 1913 
 October 19, 1914 
 
 April 24, 1916 
 October 30, 191 6 
 May 21, 1917 
 April 22, 1918 
 March 24, 1 919 
 December 22, 1919 
 November 22, 1920 
 
 November 7, 1921 
 April 23, 1923 
 
 October 8, 1923 
 
 April 3, 1922 
 
 February 17, 1890 
 February 18, 1895 
 January 8, 1906 
 
 October 29, 1906 
 October 10, 1910 
 
 December 16, 1895 
 March 29, 1897 
 January 22, 1900 
 December 7, 1903 
 October 23, 1905 
 January 6, 1908 
 February 24, 1908 
 March 6, 1911 
 October 19, 1914 
 April 19,1915 
 
 May 14, 1894 
 February 21, li 
 April 17, 1899
 
 Papers Read Before the Club 
 
 A Confidence Man of Internationa! Reputation February 24, iyo2 
 Heine and the English December 12, 1904 
 Almost a Casus Belli January 7, 1907 
 An Enchanted Castle: The Chateau Trevano at Lu- 
 gano. Italy, the Residence of Louis Lombard February 7, 1910 
 The Ethics of Present-day Finance January 16, 191 1 
 The Oberammergau Passion Play May 8, 1911 
 The Mysterious Case of Kasper Hauser March 29, 191 ; 
 
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