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Holt (HENRY an American author)

HENRY, an American author and publisher; born in Baltimore in 1840.

He graduated from Yale University in HOLT 1862 and afterward studied law at Columbia. He began the publishing business with G. P. Putnam in 1863, and ten years later founded the publishing company of Henry Holt & Co. He was a member of the first executive committee on Simplified Spelling. He wrote several novels, including "Calmire-Man and Nature" (1892); He Sturmseet Man and Man" (1905). He took great interest in psychic questions and published in 1914 "On the Cosmic Relations." In the same year he founded and became editor of the "Unpopular Review." an