Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CONTAINING THE INSPIRED AND INSPIRING SELECTIONS GATHERED DURING A LIFE TIME OF DISCRIMINATING READING FOR HIS OWN USE PRINTED AND MADE INTO A BOOK BY PANTAGRAPH PRESS IN BLOOMINGTON, McLEAN COUNTY ILLINOIS, WHERE ELBERT HUBBARD WAS BORN WM. H. WISE & CO. NEW YORK CITY Copyright, 1923 By the Roycrofters' Copyright, 1951 >; By Wm. H. Wise & Co., Jhc. 6616 Prlntedln ff FOREWORD Egbert Hubbard was storing up in his Scrap Book the fruits of other men' s genius, he did not contemplate a v l ume for publication so* He was merely gathering spiritual provisions for his own refreshment and delec tation &* * To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopes of Thought. To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him, and through forests and swamps of contem porary writing. For him it was the quest that mattered, it was the quest he loved s