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He was chairman of the Bristol Republican Town Committee from 1909 to 1922 . Illustrated literary annuals and gift books , designed to be given away rather than read , were highly popular during the 1820 's and 1830 's , especially as gifts to and between young women aspiring to taste and sophistication . Actually Graham was responding to a growing market for inexpensive reading material , usually light enough for a sizeable number of copies to be carried by a packman on his rounds to outlying districts . But this extreme objectivism is now breaking up by a return to Kant , that is , to criticism .