{"id":10654,"date":"2013-07-28T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2013-07-28T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T19:37:40","slug":"how-to-read-books-and-write-them-too-in-1893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/28\/how-to-read-books-and-write-them-too-in-1893\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read books (and write them, too) in 1893"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2013\/07\/07\/what-id-be-typing-with-if-this-were-1893\/\">I shared with you<\/a> a bunch of typewriters you could have bought in 1893. So let&#8217;s say you <em>had<\/em> bought one of them &#8230; what then?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you were a writer, surely you didn&#8217;t expect to publish your stories without a little editorial supervision. That&#8217;s where Dr. Titus M. Coan&#8217;s New York Bureau of Revision came in. His advertisement in the January 1893 issue of <em>The Cosmopolitan<\/em> promised that he&#8217;d provide &#8220;unbiased criticism of prose and verse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NewYorkBureauofRevision.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NewYorkBureauofRevision-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"NewYorkBureauofRevision\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NewYorkBureauofRevision-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NewYorkBureauofRevision.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would love to know exactly <em>which<\/em> &#8220;leading authors&#8221; endorsed his services, though.<\/p>\n<p>And at the other end of the publishing food chain, readers need help, too. That&#8217;s what the Holloway Reading Stand and Dictionary Holder were all about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HowtoReadBooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HowtoReadBooks-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"HowtoReadBooks\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HowtoReadBooks-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HowtoReadBooks.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because reading a book while letting it rest in one&#8217;s lap is so old-fashioned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I shared with you a bunch of typewriters you could have bought in 1893. So let&#8217;s say you had bought one of them &#8230; what then? Well, if you were a writer, surely you didn&#8217;t expect to publish your stories without a little editorial supervision. That&#8217;s where Dr. Titus M. Coan&#8217;s New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,320],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-magazines","tag-the-cosmopolitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}