Totally Irrelevant but interesting? You decide or delete now.....

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/25/2011 5:02 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> The earlist listed copy of Vanity Fair found
> in Google Book Search---available to download, I think---
> comes from the library of Charles Eliot Norton, Harvard
> Pres back when he told Henry Adams his Education---
> 100 specially printed for some, including him----was a piece
> of shit....paraphrase
>
> And, if I remember correctly, when I checked out Henry's
> Education in google (before I bought one) that copy was
> Charles Henry Dana's, another Harvard writer whose most
> famous book is Melvillean without genius.........
>
I've mention this before I'm sure, but I've got the 1918 edition 
published by Massachusetts Historical Society as it was privately 
published in 1907 so I guess you'd call it a first public edition.

Tucked into the book is the July 16, 1930 The Nation review of James 
Truslow Adam's (no relation) The Adams Family, the review written by H. 
L. Menken, who had quite a low opinion of Henry and apparently that view 
was fairly wide spread at that time. The family was definitely thought 
to be in decline.

Nobody would want to buy Henry Adams beer.

P