[Illustration: W.J. Stillman]




THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A JOURNALIST


WILLIAM JAMES STILLMAN


IN TWO VOLUMES


VOLUME I


1901




PREFACE


That a man should assume that his life is worth the venture of
a record in the form of an autobiography suggests a degree of
self-conceit of which I am not guilty. From my own initiative this
would never have been written, and the first suggestion that I should
write it, coming from a man of such experience in books and judgment