The Man: A Story of To-day

Chapter 29: Transcriber’s Notes:

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About This Book

A first-person narrator combines open letters, personal commentary, and fiction to mount a frank critique of gender relations. The text opens with epistolary material addressing friends and critics and recounts professional setbacks, then moves into a domestic narrative that begins with the discovery of a wrapped infant left at a doorstep, provoking household disturbance and moral consideration. Throughout, the work alternates between candid social observation, scandal and reputational risk, and probing examinations of expectations placed on men and women, all presented in a conversational, sometimes polemical voice.

Transcriber’s Notes:

This is Elbert Hubbard’s first novel, published pseudonymously.

This book was published by J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text just before the final ad pages and relabeled consecutively through the document.

Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

The notation 1-2 for fractions has been changed to 1/2.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

p. 84: thou added (didst thou notice).