May 1919 Issue [Editor’s Easy Chair] Editor’s easy chair Adjust Share by William Dean Howells, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 19th century American authors Biography Book reviews Boston (Mass.) Charles Eliot Norton Edward Waldo Emerson Edwin Percy Whipple Intellectual life James Thomas Fields Louis Agassiz Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson Saturday Club (Boston, Mass.) More from William Dean Howells The Good Citizen “I have just had a gratifying illustration of the conscientious perfection of the American people in enacting and enforcing a law when they are agreed that it is really for… Eighty years and after Reports Where youth survives Adjust Share