A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 3

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Third by William Dean HowellsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part ThirdAuthor: William Dean HowellsRelease Date: October 23, 2004 [EBook #3368]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, ***Produced by David WidgerA HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNESBy William Dean HowellsPART THIRDI.The scheme of a banquet to celebrate the initial success of 'Every Other Week' expanded in Fulkerson's fancy into aseries. Instead of the publishing and editorial force, with certain of the more representative artists and authors sittingdown to a modest supper in Mrs. Leighton's parlors, he conceived of a dinner at Delmonico's, with the principal literaryand artistic, people throughout the country as guests, and an inexhaustible hospitality to reporters and correspondents,from whom paragraphs, prophetic and historic, would flow weeks before and after the first of the series. He said the thingwas a new departure in magazines; it amounted to something in literature as radical as the American Revolution inpolitics: it was the idea of self government in the arts; and it was this idea that had never yet been fully developed inregard to it. That ...