John Barleycorn

A clipping from The Publishers Weekly, Volume 84 [1913]: Author's own story of his life and experience with alcohol. He has been acquainted with alcohol since he was five years old, in his teens he could out-drink the toughest longshoreman, here confesses that he drinks to-day far more than is good for him, and tells how for twenty years against his wish liquor has been forced upon him, until now he has the drinker's desire. Book tells of his life as newsboy, sailor, miner, wanderer and successful writer.