Life — July 19, 1923 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Who Is the “Listen and I will tell you: Great Man? “HE IS GREAT who feeds other minds. “HE IS GREAT who inspires others to think for themselves. “HE IS GREAT who pulls you out of your mental ruts, lifts you out of the “mire of the commonplace, whom you alternately love and hate, but whom “you cannot forget. “HE IS GREAT to whom writers, poets, painters, philosophers, preachers, “and scientists go, each to fill his own little tin cup, dipper, calabash, vase, “stein, pitcher, amphora, bucket, tub, barrel or cask.” From Hubbara’s Little Journey on Jean Jacques Rousscau Was Elbert Hubbard A Great Man? Listen! And These Men Will Tell You « JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY— “Hubbard’s was a mountain spirit; free, strong and utterly untrammeled in this very complicated world of ours, We can ill afford to lose his voice.” LUTHER BURBANK—“Centuries may elapse before such a mind may appear again. His loss is a world-wide calamity.” THOMAS EDISON—“Elbert Hub- bard has been of big service to me in telling me the things I knew, but which I did not know I knew until he told me.” ROBERT L. OWEN—“Elbert Hub- bard took some of the cobwebs out of my brain and I learned from him some of the wisdom of simple living.” J. OGDEN ARMOUR—“Little Journeys form that whole five-foot shelf of books for me.” FRANKLIN K. LANE—“He was a Twentieth-Century Franklin in his ap- plication of good sense to modern life.” HORACE FLETCHER —“Hub- bard packs more wit, wisdom and in- spiration in the same place than any other writer who ever lived.” HUDSON MAXIM—“In his Little Journeys Elbert Hubbard has done what no other biographer has ever done so well. He has given us a look not only into their deeds, but also in the heart and soul of their person- ality.” BEN B. LINDSEY—“I followed him in his Little Journeys for more than a decade. I am better for it—as thousands of others are. If I have succeeded in doing anything worth while he is certainly one of the men to whom I am indebted.” ELBERT HUBBARD HESE men, whom everybody knows, are among the multi- tudes whose “minds have been fed” or whose thoughts have been inspired by the miniature biographies which have immortalized Elbert Hubbard— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Fourteen years were consumed in the writing of the work that ‘ranks today as Elbert Hubbard’s masterpiece. In 1894 the series of ‘Little Journeys” was begun and once a month for fourteen years, without a_break, one of these little pilgrimages was given to the world. In all there are one hundred and eighty- two “Little Journeys” that take us to the homes of the men and women who trans- formed the thought of their time, chan zed the course of empires and marked the tiny of civilization. Through Hubbard, the ideas, the deeds, the achievements of these immortals have been given to the living present and will be sent echoing down the centuries, As a Memorial to their founder, the Roy- crofters have gathered together these Srittle Journeys” into 14 beautiful — volumes, printed on specially made paper and bound in semi-flexible binding, each volume hand- somely embossed and modelled in colors. Mail Coupon for Special Quotation and Free Little Journey Booklet A limited number of the Memorial sets are now ready and will be distributed at a very special price. A free copy of the world-famous essay —“A_ Message to Garcia”—and a booklet descriptive of the Memorial Edition, to- gether with full particulars of our special Introductory Price and easy-payment plan, will be sent to those who mail in the coupon. The Roycrofters East Aurora New York nian nin | the Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y. | 1 shalt be pleased to receive, without ob- ligation on my part, a copy, of Elbert Hub- | berd'S™A" Message to Garcia,” and further information about The Roycrofters’ Memo- | fal Edition’ of “Little Journeys to. the | Homes of the Great.” LIFES Fresh Air Fund Live's Fres Arr Fuxp has been in operation for the past thirty-six years. In that time it has expended $221,827.60 and has, grven a fortnight in ‘the ‘country: 10 44,32. poor city children. Contributions, which are acknowledged in Lire about three weeks after their receipt, should be made payable to Lire’s Fresi Ar Funp, and sent to 598 Madison Ave, New York City. Previously acknowledged.........$10,714.4 Helen By Shattuck, Burlingtony Veo eas Allan Hoover, Washington, D. co & es . N, Houston, ee ai 7 10.00 a arclay, Copperhill, Tenn. 10.0 Cigttide’ “AL “Robison,” Rawlins e Salve Springy,, ‘Worcester, “Mas Mrs. Spencer Cosby, Cleveland . Donald D. Smith, ‘Detroit .. Jokephine N. 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