FIVE HISTORICAL BOOKS
The Tale of Chicago - by Edgar Lee Masters. The Ingenious Dr. Franklin - edited by Nathan G. Goodman. Philadelphia Lawyer: An Autobiography - by George Wharton Pepper. The Inside of the Cup - by Winston Churchill. Baedeker's Canada - by Karl Baedeker, fold out maps, published 1907.

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THE INGENIOUS Dr. FRANKLIN: Goodman
Philadelphia
CHICAGO
OF THE CU
Lawyer
GEORGE
PEPPER
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
CANADA
Baedeker's
PUTNAM
SI ROSSET
THE
INGENIOUS
Dr.
FRANKLIN:
Goodman
Philadelphia
CHICAGO
OF
THE
CU
Lawyer
GEORGE
PEPPER
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
CANADA
Baedeker's
PUTNAM
SI
ROSSET


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COPYRIGHT, 1933, BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS
COPYRIGHT 1931
not All rights reproduced reserved. This any book, form without parts thereof, permission must
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
НЕ new Benjamin Franklin Memorial and the Frank-
T
lin Institute S Philadelphia, emphasizing mechanical
skill, is a fitting monument to
the ingenious scientist
of the eighteenth century. His engaging letters and papers, of a
practical, experimental, and conjectural nature, being tucked
away in ponderous volumes of Collected Works, and therefore
not widely known, are now in these pages made available to the
general reader In our scientific age
COPYRIGHT,
BY
EDGAR
LEE
MASTERS
COPYRIGHT
not
All
rights
reproduced
reserved.
This
any
book,
form
without
parts
thereof,
must
OF
PENNSYLVANIA
PRESS
Printed
in
the
United
States
of
America
PREFACE
new
Benjamin
Franklin
Memorial
and
the
Frank-
T
lin
Institute
S
Philadelphia,
emphasizing
mechanical
skill,
is a
fitting
monument
to
the
ingenious
scientist
of
the
eighteenth
century.
His
engaging
letters
and
papers,
of a
practical,
and
conjectural
nature,
being
tucked
away
in
ponderous
volumes
of
Collected
Works,
and
not
widely
known,
are
now in
these
made
available
to
the
general
reader
In
our
scientific
age


Image 3:

FOREWORD
has
been
record my
Actually, of course, the dominant motive has been self-
experiences.
gratification.
I was born in the days when miles an hour the accepted
speed limit and when telephone seven was only an unrealized was dream. have
and time and the incidental sub-
lived to see the annihilation of
space
world chaos for
world order. In the interval the world has
stitution of
Copyright, 1944, by
been almost continuously in quick water.
As I write the words
FOREWORD
written
is
the
for
life-story
the
pleasure
of
Philadelphia
of
friends
who
lawyer
urged
Ostensibly
me
it
has
been
record
my
Actually,
of
course,
the
dominant
motive
has
been
self-
experiences.
gratification.
I
was
born
in
the
days
when
miles
an
hour
the
accepted
speed
limit
and
when
telephone
seven
was
only
an
unrealized
was
dream.
have
and
time
and
the
incidental
sub-
lived
to
see
the
annihilation
of
space
world
for
world
order.
In
the
interval
the
world
has
stitution
of
Copyright,
1944,
by
been
almost
continuously
in
quick
water.
As I
write
the
words


Image 4:

OF THE CU
THE CUP
WINSTON
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
CHURCHILL
WINSTON CHURCHILL
OSSET
DUNLAP
OF
THE
CU
THE
CUP
WINSTON
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
CHURCHILL
WINSTON
CHURCHILL
OSSET
DUNLAP


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COPYRIGHT, 1912 AND 1913,
COPYRIGHT, 1913,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published May, I9I3. Reprinted
July, twice, August, three times, September, October, twice,
November, twice, December three times. 1913; January, 1914.
February, twice, March, April, May, November, December, I9I4:
February, April, 1915.
COPYRIGHT,
1912
AND
1913,
HEARST'S
MAGAZINE.
COPYRIGHT,
1913,
THE
MACMILLAN
COMPANY.
Set
up
and
electrotyped.
Published
May,
Reprinted
July,
twice,
August,
three
times,
September,
October,
twice,
November,
twice,
December
three
times.
January,
twice,
March,
April,
May,
November,
December,
February,
April,