THE STURDY OAK
A COMPOSITE NOVEL OF AMERICAN POLITICS
BY FOURTEEN AMERICAN AUTHORS
By Samuel Merwin, et al.
All Authors
SAMUEL MERWIN
HARRY LEON WILSON
FANNIE HURST
DOROTHY CANFIELD
KATHLEEN NORRIS
HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER
ANNE O'HAGAN
MARY HEATON VORSE
ALICE DUER MILLER
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD
MARJORIE BENTON COOKE
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
MARY AUSTIN
LEROY SCOTT
THEME BY MARY AUSTIN
The chapters collected and (very cautiously) edited
by ELIZABETH JORDAN
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1917
Contents
| CHAPTER I. | BY SAMUEL MERWIN |
| CHAPTER II. | BY HARRY LEON WILSON |
| CHAPTER III. | BY FANNIE HURST |
| CHAPTER IV. | BY DOROTHY CANFIELD |
| CHAPTER V. | BY KATHLEEN NORRIS |
| CHAPTER VI. | BY HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER |
| CHAPTER VII. | BY ANNE O'HAGAN |
| CHAPTER VIII. | BY MARY HEATON VORSE |
| CHAPTER IX. | BY ALICE DUER MILLER |
| CHAPTER X. | BY ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD |
| CHAPTER XI. | BY MARJORIE BENTON COOK |
| CHAPTER XII. | BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE |
| CHAPTER XIII. | BY MARY AUSTIN |
| CHAPTER XIV. | BY LEROY SCOTT |
PREFACE
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel.
As I was not present at this particular meeting, it was unanimously and joyously decided by those who were present that I should attend to the trivial details of getting this novel together.
It appeared that all I had to do was:
First, to persuade each of the busy authors on the list to write a chapter of the novel.
Second, to keep steadily on their trails from the moment they promised t