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The Graphic – Literary Criticism and Culture (1904-1918)

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The Graphic - Literary Criticism and Culture (1904-1918) gathers material from The Graphic into a book that can stand on its own. It brings together 104 entries, beginning with Character Sketches: Charles F. Lummis by Junius, Los Angeles Magazine Writers, and Henry James in Los Angeles. The selection turns a large run of periodical material into something a reader can enter in an afternoon and return to over time. It is not meant to replace the journal’s history. Instead, it offers a clear doorway: representative writing, useful names, and enough context to connect each piece with the publication that first carried it.

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Publication details
Journal
The Graphic
Volume
Not applicable
Issue number
Not applicable
Issue date
2026
Editor
Brian Kim Stefans
Publisher
Text/Tech Journals
Place of publication
Los Angeles, California
Language
English
Pagination
Reader’s edition: 306 PDF pages.
Record ID
ttj-the-graphic-literary-criticism-and-culture-1904-1918
Full contents
  • Character Sketches: Charles F. Lummis — Junius [Contribution, p. 20]
  • Los Angeles Magazine Writers [Contribution, p. 23]
  • Henry James in Los Angeles [Contribution, p. 24]
  • Charles F. Lummis and the Public Library [Contribution, p. 28]
  • Local Stylists and the Art of Dramatic Criticism — Constance Skinner and others [Essay, p. 30]
  • Are Women’s Clubs Worth While? [Contribution, p. 38]
  • The Literary Matinee Infection [Contribution, p. 41]
  • Idols of Education [Contribution, p. 45]
  • Poets’ Corner at the Expositions [Contribution, p. 46]
  • Through Ramona’s Country [Contribution, p. 48]
  • Mission Tales in the Days of the Dons [Contribution, p. 51]
  • California Classics: Charles Warren Stoddard [Contribution, p. 53]
  • Two Years Before the Mast [Contribution, p. 54]
  • The Dons of the Old Pueblo [Contribution, p. 56]
  • Tales of California Yesterdays [Contribution, p. 57]
  • Edmund Mitchell’s Call of the Bells — J. M. D [Contribution, p. 58]
  • On Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth [Contribution, p. 60]
  • An English Estimate of H. G. Wells’s Latest Work [Contribution, p. 63]
  • Almost a Great Book: Together — M. H. C [Contribution, p. 65]
  • A Little Brother of the Rich [Contribution, p. 68]
  • Ganton & Co — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 71]
  • The Testing of Diana Mallory — C. C. Parker [Contribution, p. 76]
  • Holy Orders [Contribution, p. 78]
  • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine [Contribution, p. 81]
  • The Hermit and the Wild Woman [Contribution, p. 83]
  • James Branch Cabell’s The Cords of Vanity [Contribution, p. 86]
  • Martin Eden [Contribution, p. 87]
  • It Never Can Happen Again [Contribution, p. 89]
  • The Old Wives’ Tale [Contribution, p. 91]
  • The Glimpse [Contribution, p. 93]
  • The Song of Songs [Contribution, p. 95]
  • Gertrude Atherton’s Tower of Ivory [Contribution, p. 97]
  • Crime and Punishment [Contribution, p. 100]
  • The Revolt of the Angels [Contribution, p. 102]
  • Jack London’s The Star Rover [Contribution, p. 104]
  • Mr. Britling Sees It Through — Bruce Bliven [Contribution, p. 105]
  • The Good Gray Critic: William Winter — R. H. C [Contribution, p. 107]
  • Stephen Phillips and The Sin of David — R. H. C [Contribution, p. 109]
  • Other Days [Contribution, p. 112]
  • Richard Mansfield — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 117]
  • The Great Divide [Contribution, p. 123]
  • John Synge’s Plays — M. H. C [Drama, p. 124]
  • Luke North’s The White Flame [Contribution, p. 126]
  • The Life and Art of Richard Mansfield — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 128]
  • Yeats, the World Musician of the Drama — Randolph Bartlett [Drama, p. 132]
  • Literary Drama and Jelf’s [Drama, p. 139]
  • Renaissance of Romance in Modern Drama — Randolph Bartlett [Drama, p. 141]
  • Hauptmann, Greatest Dramatist of a Generation [Drama, p. 146]
  • Lady Gregory and the Celtic Revival — David Gemmell Baillie [Contribution, p. 152]
  • Somber Play Conceals Sermon [Drama, p. 157]
  • Play Production in America [Drama, p. 158]
  • Russell Judson Waters—Poet [Contribution, p. 159]
  • John S. McGroarty’s Wander Songs — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 161]
  • The Great Fight [Contribution, p. 163]
  • Poets and Poetry of California, 1852–1904 — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 165]
  • An Introduction to Poetry [Contribution, p. 177]
  • In Behalf of Poets and Poetry [Contribution, p. 179]
  • George Rice Carpenter’s Walt Whitman [Contribution, p. 182]
  • Browsings in an Old Book Shop: Early Ballads [Contribution, p. 185]
  • Ida Frances Anderson’s Love’s Garden and Other Verses [Contribution, p. 187]
  • William Sharp’s Songs and Poems [Contribution, p. 188]
  • Poe and His Poetry — S. T. C [Contribution, p. 190]
  • True Mission of Our Poets — The Editors [Contribution, p. 192]
  • Madge Morris Wagner’s The Lure of the Desert [Contribution, p. 194]
  • Contemporary Poetry Survey [Contribution, p. 197]
  • Life and Edgar Lee Masters, with Notes on Poetry — Marguerite Wilkinson [Essay, p. 201]
  • Imagists of Today and Notes on Poetry — Eunice Tietjens [Essay, p. 206]
  • With the Passing of Poetic License and Thoughts on Robert Frost [Contribution, p. 212]
  • Primitive Chanting of Poetry [Contribution, p. 216]
  • Rhyme and Contemporary Poets — Marguerite O. B. Wilkinson [Contribution, p. 220]
  • Poetry’s Prize Winners [Contribution, p. 225]
  • Wanted—A Title — Harry B. Kennon [Contribution, p. 228]
  • Concerning Rabindranath Tagore and Notes on Poetry — Marguerite Wilkinson [Essay, p. 234]
  • Poets at Dinner — Marguerite Wilkinson [Contribution, p. 240]
  • Review Poetry: The Rhythms of Prose — Marguerite Wilkinson [Review, p. 242]
  • Sarojini Naidu’s The Broken Wing [Contribution, p. 244]
  • De Profundis [Contribution, p. 245]
  • Some Authors I Have Known [Contribution, p. 247]
  • The Saving of Bret Harte [Contribution, p. 249]
  • On Shakespearean Authorship — George A. Dobinson [Contribution, p. 250]
  • Josiah Flynt’s My Life — M. H. C [Contribution, p. 253]
  • Sidelights on Dr. Richard Garnett [Contribution, p. 256]
  • Chesterton’s George Bernard Shaw — M. H. G [Contribution, p. 260]
  • Some Aspects of Thackeray [Contribution, p. 262]
  • Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary — John T. Bramhall [Contribution, p. 264]
  • World of Letters the Poorer — The Editors [Contribution, p. 271]
  • Goodbye, ‘Jim!’ — The Editors [Contribution, p. 273]
  • Brooke’s Elizabethan Drama [Drama, p. 275]
  • Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger [Contribution, p. 277]
  • Twentieth Century Frivolity [Contribution, p. 278]
  • Books and Their Reading — R. H. Hay Chapman [Review, p. 280]
  • Over Bemerton’s — M. H. C [Contribution, p. 284]
  • Materials and Methods of Fiction [Fiction, p. 286]
  • Cemeteries of Dead Reputations [Contribution, p. 287]
  • Fairy Tales from the Old French [Contribution, p. 289]
  • Joy of the Mosher Books [Contribution, p. 291]
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales Again [Contribution, p. 292]
  • The Joy of Gardens [Contribution, p. 294]
  • Chesterton’s A Miscellany of Men and the Return of the Essay [Essay, p. 296]
  • Criticism in Its Highest Form [Essay, p. 298]
  • The Year’s Ten Best Books [Contribution, p. 300]
  • Aesop’s Fables in a New Edition [Contribution, p. 302]
  • The Creative Will — J. M. D [Contribution, p. 303]
  • Suspended Judgments and Rodmoor — R. B. S [Contribution, p. 304]
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*The Graphic - Literary Criticism and Culture (1904-1918)*. Text/Tech Journals, digital edition, 2026.