As We Go - Warner, Charles Dudley
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Charles Warner was an American essayist in the late 1800's. As a boy he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts: the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. As We Go includes 26 short studies including Our president -- The newspaper-made man -- Interesting girls -- Give the men a chance -- The advent of candor -- The American man -- The electric way -- Can a husband open a wife's letters? -- A leisure class --…mehr

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Charles Warner was an American essayist in the late 1800's. As a boy he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts: the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. As We Go includes 26 short studies including Our president -- The newspaper-made man -- Interesting girls -- Give the men a chance -- The advent of candor -- The American man -- The electric way -- Can a husband open a wife's letters? -- A leisure class -- Weather and character -- Born with an 'ego' -- Juventus mundi -- A beautiful old age -- The attraction of the repulsive -- Giving as a luxury -- Climate and happiness -- The new feminine reserve -- Repose in activity -- Women--Ideal and real -- The art of idleness -- Is there any conversation? -- The tall girl -- The deadly diary -- The whistling girl -- Born old and rich -- The 'old soldier' -- The island of Bimini -- June.
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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the place and time revisited in his book Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. [1] He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, where he practiced law from 1856 to 1860, when he relocated to Connecticut to become assistant editor of The Hartford Press. By 1861 he had become editor, a position he held until 1867, when the paper merged into The Hartford Courant and he became co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley. In 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editor's Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. [1] He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, with Mark Twain as a pall bearer and Joseph Twichell officiating.[2][3] Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association.