James E. Homans, editor

“ A committee of the board of managers of the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, invited bids from publishers for the authorized history of that enterprise, stipulating that, by whatever house published, the work must be edited by Rossiter Johnson. It was finished in 1897 in four sumptuous volumes beautifully illustrated (D. Appleton & Co.) , For a year and a half Dr. Johnson contributed to the “Overland Monthly,” a serial entitled “The Whispering-Gallery,” and he was an associate editor of the "Standard Dictionary.“ He edited ”The World's Great Books" (40 vols., 1898-1901) ”

“ Dr. Johnson attributes largely to the wise and kindly tutelage of Mr. Carter whatever editorial skill he has developed. In 1869-72 he was editor of the Concord, N. H. “Statesman.” He removed to New York City in 1873, and from that date till 1877 was an associate editor with George Ripley and Charles A. Dana in the revision of the “American Cyclopædia.” That work being completed, he made a tour in Europe with his wife, going as far north as Scotland, and as far south as Pompeii. ”

“ He sometimes speaks proudly of the fact that in the process of producing those six volumes the waste was only two per cent., whereas a waste of forty to fifty per cent. is not uncommon in such work. In 1889, with his wife and daughter, he made an extensive tour across the continent and on the Pacific slope, from the Yosemite to the Canadian Rockies. ”