Religio Journalistici

By Christopher Morley

Religio Journalistici is a deep and reflective dive into the journalism field. Christopher Morley reads newspapers on a long train ride and remarks on the analogy of church life to represent the press. His philosophical book is an entertaining peek into the mind of a journalist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338065735

Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems. After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. Kitty Foyle (1939), a controversial novel exploring the intersection of class and marriage, was adapted into a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role.

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Christopher Morley

Religio Journalistici

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Fiction

Parnassus on Wheels

The Haunted Bookshop

Kathleen

Tales from a Rolltop Desk

Where the Blue Begins

Essays

Shandygaff

Mince Pie

Pipefuls

Plum Pudding

Travels in Philadelphia

The Powder of Sympathy

Inward Ho!

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Poetry

Songs for a Little House

The Rocking Horse

Hide and Seek

Chimneysmoke

Translations from the Chinese

Parsons’ Pleasure

The Bowling Green

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Garden City New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1924

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It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall....

I too knitted the old knot of contrariety,

Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,

Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant....

Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting,

Saw many I loved in the street or ferry-boat or public assembly, yet never told them a word.

—Whitman’s Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things without shame or blame; which verbal discourse cannot do farther than the judgment shall approve of the time, place, and persons.—Hobbes’s Leviathan.

I WAS coming home from Buffalo in a train delightfully called The Black Diamond. I had any number of books in my bag, but my lower instincts were uppermost: I was tired, and pined for the narcosis of newspapers. I asked the porter, also a black diamond, to see if there were any lying around. He brought me a great mass of them: Chicago papers, Buffalo papers, Wilkes-Barre papers. With great happiness I browsed among their cheerful simplicities. From Wilkes-Barre I learned that

Shakespeare’s marvellous plays could never have been written by a dyspeptic. He ate carefully, sensibly, and had excellent digestion.

(I had just come back from the dining car when I read that, and wondered a little sadly if I had been sensible.)

From Chicago (The World’s Greatest Newspaper) I learned, in an article on A Perfume to Suit Your Personality, that

The vampire had best be sparing in her use of any odour. An oriental bouquet of jasmine, tube rose, cassie, and civet would enhance the individuality of the colourful type. For a perfume combination of this sort when used correctly can create a sensation akin to