Four Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane. These are 1st edition books printed in 1919 by Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc. New York & Chicago. 

Each volume measures 5-1/2" x 3-7/8".
Volume 4, 6 & 7 are included in this lot of books. Each volume has 160 pages of which the last 17 is an Index.

Dr. Frank Crane (1861–1928) was a Presbyterian minister, speaker, and columnist who wrote a set of ten volumes of "Four Minute Essays" which were published in 1919.

Some quotations by Dr. Frank Crane:

“Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.”
Dr. Frank Crane

“A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.”
Dr. Frank Crane

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”
Dr. Frank Crane

“Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.”
Dr. Frank Crane

 

Volume 4 of Dr. Frank Crane’s Four Minute Essays includes; Great Love And Much Service * The Chrysanthemum * Common Sense * Manners * News From The Shenandoah * Ceilings * Creature Or Creator? * The Kinship Of Frailty * Fear Of Greatness * My Castle * Life A Tight-Rope Walk * How To Read The Bible * The Needle * Life Is Something To Do, Not Something To Learn * Except It Die * The Limitations Of Science * The Need Of Change In Government * Out Of It * Capital * The Squirrel * It Won’t Work * Morality Wrong End To * Something To Love For * Pompeii, Ravenna, America, And The Soul * Here’s To Your Good Health! * Isms * The Healing Power Of Housekeeping * Where To Take Hold The Body And The Automobiles * The Second-Temper * The Demand For Preaching * Catch-Phrases * The Stenographers * Remnants Of Paganism * Core-Sureness * What Did We Get For Our Money? * Somebody Is Following You * Eighteen * Pan * The Modern Craze For Beauty

 

Volume 6 of Dr. Frank Crane’s Four Minute Essays includes; Irony and Pity * The Stringed Instrument * Despair * The Reflex * Action of Words * Columbus * What is Efficiency? * Intellectual Trains * A Story * Overtones *  Dreams and Art * I Know * The Journalist * Bananas * Consistency * They Sang * The Greatest Railway in the World * On New Year's Day - Try Again * Tennyson's Theology * When I am Gone * The Call * Maxims of Friendship – I * Maxims of Friendship – II * The Gary System * The Whole-Souled * The Seed * The Habit of Self-Confidence * Loyal * How to be Interesting * The Town Forest * Laughter * A Woman's Prayer for the Man Over There * Bob White * The One you can Talk to * The Comeback * Enupeak * The Overlooker * Power and Humility * The Ideal and the Job * An Opportunity for a New Writer * Mind-Healing * The Eternal Humanities * Peace Within

 

Volume 7 of Dr. Frank Crane’s Four Minute Essays includes; MINE OWN WILL COME TO ME * DAD * THE MARCH OF THE SHADOWS * HALF-SCIENCE * THE KINGS * GOD'S WHISPER * SLOVENLY THOUGHT * SELF-STARTERS * QUAND MÉME! * THE PRESSURE * THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FEAR * POISONING THE CHILD MIND * NOTHING'S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE * A SCHOOL FOR LIVING * WHAT IS BERGSONISM * DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM * THE MASTER'S HAND * YOUR COMPETITOR * THINGS TO THINK ON TO CURE THE BLUES * THE GREAT SOUL * THE PART OF ME THAT DOUBTS * FUNDAMENTALS IN DEMOCRACY * EXPERIENCE VERSUS RESULTS * THE TRUTH IN ADVERTISING * THE SPIRIT OF THE DAY'S WORK * ONE WORD HIDDEN HAPPINESS * THE REAL ARISTOCRAT * NO GREATNESS WITHOUT TEACHABLENESS * LITTLES * I DON'T KNOW * GRAYSON * TEN SUCCESS HUNCHES * PAY, PAY, PAY! * ART AND DEMOCRACY * FUTURISTS * ANGER POISON * BE A BIRD LANDLORD! * THE ACTOR'S PRAYER * IT CAN'T BE DONE * FROM THE CHIN UP * YESTERDAY 

There is wear from age and use on the covers of these books. There are markings on the cover of one of the books. There are some smudge marks on the cover of a couple of the books. There is a name written in pencil on the inside front cover of 2 of the books and some pencil scribbles on the inside front cover and first blank page, on the inside back cover and last blank page and on at least 4 of the inside pages (pgs. 12, 13, 46, and 80) of one of the books. I notice no writing on the inside gages of the other 2 books. 

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