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COPYRIGHT, 1920-1924,

BY THE FREEMAN, INC.,

THE FREEMAN CORPORATION

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COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY

B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.

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PRINTED IN U. S. A.

The Freeman

March 17, 1920—March 5, 1924.

Founded by HELEN SWIFT NEILSON

THE following were associated in the editorial conduct and production of the Freeman during its four years or a considerable part of that period:

Francis Neilson

Albert Jay Nock

B. W. Huebsch

Van Wyck Brooks

Suzanne La Follette

Walter G. Fuller

Geroid Tanquary Robinson

Emilie A. McMillan

Harold Kellock

William MacDonald

Lucie D. Taussig

Helen McLeod

AN EXPLANATION

The laudable ambition to compress the best of eight volumes into one book of conventional length proved impossible of adequate fulfillment. Of the thousands who read and loved the Freeman none will agree with the selection here presented; but none who tries to prove how much better he could have done the job will withhold sympathy from the one who undertook the task.

It seemed wise to omit most contributions of transitory interest, to choose with a view to variety of subjects, and to give fair representation to the editors, to whom the Freeman’s unique flavor was due, and to the more frequent contributors. After a careful distillation of the Freeman’s 208 numbers, those pieces that simply had to go into the book proved to be sufficiently numerous to make exactly four volumes of the size of this one. Distillation was no longer a useful process: no course remained but to pour the liquid away. Almost all long articles went; poetry followed; favorites among middle articles, reviews and editorials splashed on the ground.

Here is what is left! Some of the Freeman’s highly valued writers are not even represented; and in justice to them it must be admitted that much that was abandoned was as good as what is here offered.

The compiler would “fain retreat with frustration and a baffle,” and remains only long enough to mention that but for the diligence of Emilie A. McMillan who, during the four years of the Freeman’s life, seems to have memorized its contents, this enterprise (none of whose shortcomings are to be attributed to her), would not have been carried through.

B. W. H.