Walking-Stick Papers
Robert Cortes Holliday
Read by David Wales
Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 – 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918 selection of his essays. - Summary by david wales (6 hr 40 min)
Chapters
| Prologue: On Carrying A Cane | 19:23 | Read by David Wales |
| The Fish Reporter | 24:12 | Read by David Wales |
| On Going On A Journey | 16:47 | Read by David Wales |
| Going To Art Exhibitions | 23:47 | Read by David Wales |
| A Roundabout Paper | 17:47 | Read by David Wales |
| That Reviewer 'Cuss' | 28:25 | Read by David Wales |
| Literary Levities In London | 16:05 | Read by David Wales |
| Henry James, Himself | 11:37 | Read by David Wales |
| Memories Of A Manuscript | 18:45 | Read by David Wales |
| 'You Are An American' | 18:05 | Read by David Wales |
| Why Men Can't Read Novels By Women | 16:07 | Read by David Wales |
| The Dessert Of Life | 20:54 | Read by David Wales |
| A Clerk May Look At Celebrity | 20:43 | Read by David Wales |
| Caun't Speak The Language | 17:18 | Read by David Wales |
| Hunting Lodgings | 9:13 | Read by David Wales |
| My Friend, The Policeman | 9:37 | Read by David Wales |
| Help Wanted -- Male, Female | 13:34 | Read by David Wales |
| Human Municipal Documents | 21:37 | Read by David Wales |
| As To People | 9:08 | Read by David Wales |
| Humours Of The Book Shop | 12:06 | Read by David Wales |
| The Deceased | 17:09 | Read by David Wales |
| A Town Constitutional | 19:56 | Read by David Wales |
| Reading After Thirty | 6:00 | Read by David Wales |
| Epilogue: On Wearing A Hat | 12:14 | Read by David Wales |