The Days of a Man [1896 



nice book!" And a Chicago child, still more critical, 

 asked if "Dr. Jordan spent his time thinking up 

 such things as that!" 



My young Chicago critic would perhaps have been 

 better pleased with certain other things of mine 

 that appeared in print during the course of 1896. 

 The Care These consisted of a number of educational addresses 

 ul ~ P ublisned in book form under the title, "The Care 

 and Culture of Men," a phrase borrowed from Emer- 

 son's dictum that "the best political economy is 

 the care and culture of men." This volume met 

 with a considerable sale, especially in the reading 

 circles of California. The plates being burned in 

 the fire of 1906, a new edition, somewhat enlarged, 

 was issued in 1910, the separate articles being also 

 bound as booklets. And to anticipate a little, in 

 1903 I put forth another collection of essays of 

 similar motive, entitled "The Voice of the Scholar." 

 But while the plates and unsold copies of this work 

 too were destroyed in 1906, it has never been re- 

 printed. 



u rbe in- In 1896 I published also "The Story of the In- 

 numerabie nume rable Company." Besides the name essay, 



Company ' . ^ J . i , i r r 



afterward twice reprinted in book form, first as 

 "The Wandering Host" and later as "The In- 

 numerable Company," under which title the al- 

 legory is best known, this volume contains an ac- 

 count of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, the 

 Spanish missions of California, the Hospice of the 

 Great St. Bernard, the career of Ulrich von Hutten, 

 and the relation of Thoreau to John Brown. 



At Christmas I was called to Washington to present 

 a preliminary report on the work of the preceding 



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