Publisher's Synopsis
It is not generally known that after forty-two years of constant use the aged and honored movable which now ag-ain finds itself put back in its old place in the rear of Harper's Magazine was stored in the warehouse of a certain safety-deposit company, in the winter of 1892. The event which had then vacated the chair is still so near as to be full of a pathos tenderly personal to all readers of that magazine, and may not be lightly mentioned in any travesty of the facts by one who was thought of for the empty place. He, before putting on the mask and mimic editorial robes-for it was never the real editor who sat in the Easy Chair, except for that brief hour when he took it to pay his deep-thought and deep-felt tribute to its last occupant-stood with bowed face and uncovered head in that bravest and gentlest pre-sence which, while it abode with us here, men knew as Ge-orge William Curtis.
