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...ELBERT HUBBARD: GENIUS OF ROYCROFT -David Arnold Balch-Stokes...
...literary histories pass over the career of Elbert Hubbard, Sage of East Aurora. Yet his writings crossed the path of a whole U. S. generation. Between 1895 and his death on the Lusitania, millions read his little magazine, The Philistine, his Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. He wrote the most famous of all inspirational bromides, A Message to Garcia (total estimated printing to date: 40,000,000 copies, including those issued as regulation equipment to both Russian and Japanese soldiers in the Russo-Japanese...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...
...Previous Hubbard biographies have been out-&-out "tombstone pieces." Elbert Hubbard: the Genius of Roycroft is also the work of a highly sympathetic biographer. But his more complete facts speak pretty much for themselves...
Most of the $500,000 passes to Boston wholesalers through the hands of Roy L. Westcott, manager of the University Dining Halls, who every morning buys tons of Hubbard squash, emince of beef, and other edibles requisitioned by the dining hall stewards...