Ebook Tod Sloan

For many years I have had a wish to collect the incidents of Tod Sloan's life. The opportunity never seemed to arrive. However, with the strenuous times of the Great War, and soon after Paris had been threatened by a German occupation, I found my chance. There is a double purpose in writing Sloan's life. I had heard him telling so many good stories about himself, and about others, that I thought it would be a pity that they should be lost to the present-day public and to future generations. I was sure too that many phases of his career would typify life preceding 1915, and that this book might be as interesting in the years to come as it is to-day to those who know Sloan personally. Tod Sloan is one of the best-known individualities in Paris, London, New York and other great cities. He has been caricatured by the best known artists, and written about in newspapers, magazines and books. His career has been such a varied one that even a single chapter of his life could be elaborated without undue padding into a most readable volume. My endeavour has been to get Sloan to recount the story of his life in chronological order, at the same time not missing little sidelights and stories which cropped up as we went along. And which could be inserted here and there without breaking ofi the story.