A History of American Magazines, Volume V: 1905–1930

“Mott is like Gibbon. You cannot think of the history of the Roman Empire without thinking of Gibbon, and you cannot think of the history of the magazine in our country without thinking of Mott… Those who begin by consulting Mott for a particular point commonly find themselves reading on and on. Higher tribute cannot be paid to a standard history or a standard book of reference.”—Howard Mumford Jones