| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.4

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Stories of Chicago

By George Ade. Edited with an introduction by Franklin J. Meine

(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Illustrations, notes. Clothbound, $29.95; paperbound, $15.95.)


Hoosier George Ade during the seven Stories of Chicago is a recently republished collection of short stories written by years (1893–1900) when he crafted American personality types. In clear the daily newspaper column "Stories of the Streets and of the Town" for the Chicago Record, the morning edition of the Chicago Daily News. Beginning in 1894, the paper's publisher, Herbert S. Stone, republished a number of the stories in independent volumes. Both the newspaper column and many of the subsequent books were illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, Ade's fraternity brother from his Purdue days and his Chicago apartment-mate.	1
A slightly rambling introduction by Franklin J. Meine, written in 1941, opens the book well by placing Ade and his stories squarely in the pantheon of noteworthy and representative nineteenth-century art. The University of Illinois Press chose rightly in reprinting these stories for those interested in studying the urban history of this period. A new introduction, however, would better serve the text by reminding the reader of the continued importance of Ade's unique vision.	. . .

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