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Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911NOVELS A MAN FROM THE NORTH ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS LEONORA A GREAT MAN SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE WHOM GOD HATH JOINED BURIED ALIVE THE OLD WIVES' TALE THE GLIMPSE HELEN WITH THE HIGH...
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How To Write Special Feature ArticlesHow To Write Special Feature Articles - A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of NewspapersThis book is the result of twelve years' experience in teaching university students to write special feature articles...
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The Silly SyclopediaThe Silly Syclopedia - A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for Hilarious Purposes Only Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things Some eighteen months ago I took this brilliant bunch of brain...
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Best Short StoriesBest Short StoriesThere is a wide difference of opinion, even among the most discriminating critics, as to what constitutes the point of a good joke. Aside from varying temperaments, this is largely due to one's experience with life in general. Or intimate acquaintance with...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 06Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) Within two or three years after the appearance in 1698 of Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness...
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Humorous Masterpieces from American LiteratureHumorous Masterpieces from American Literature BAYARD TAYLOR Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. Dobbs His Ferry JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST. Father Higgins's Preferment JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE. Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad OLIVER BELL BUNCE. Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and...
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Love Letters of a Rookie to JulieLove Letters of a Rookie to JulieWell, hear I am in camp after being "rough-housed on the rattlers" for 1 day and 2 nites; I was so shook-up that I'm like a loose button on an overcoatno wheres in particular. The most vivid impression...
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The Book of Three Hundred AnecdotesThe Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New SelectionGeorge I. and the Lieutenant, 121 II. and the Dutch-Innkeeper, 64 and the Court Martial, 122 III. Punctuality, 64 Carbonel the Wine Merchant, 65 The Horse Dealer, 66 Memorial to a Servant,...
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The Photoplay: A Psychological StudyThe Photoplay: A Psychological Study It is arbitrary to say where the development of the moving pictures began and it is impossible to foresee where it will lead. What invention marked the beginning? Was it the first device to introduce movement into the pictures...
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More ToastsMore Toasts - Jokes, Stories and QuotationsWhat can be more fitting than that a compiled book should have a compiled introduction? Why should one with great pains and poor prospects of success attempt to do what has already been well done? Knowing that all...
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A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)In the preface to each of his volumes of pastorals (Pastorals. After the simple Manner of Theocritus, 1717; Pastorals. viz. The Bashful Swain: and Beauty and Simplicity, 1717) Thomas Purney rushed into critical discussions with...
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A Book of the PlayA Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and CharacterThis book, as I explained in the preface to its first edition, published in 1876, is designed to serve and entertain those interested in the transactions of the Theatre. I...
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Famous Modern Ghost StoriesFamous Modern Ghost StoriesG.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1921 Printed in the United States of America To ASHLEY HORACE THORNDIKE, Litt. D. Professor of English, Columbia University who guided my earlier studies in the supernatural Ghosts are the true...
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Handy Dictionary of Poetical QuotationsHandy Dictionary of Poetical QuotationsIt has been the aim of the compiler of this little book to present a Dictionary of Poetical Quotations which will be a ready reference to many of the most familiar stanzas and lines of the chief poets of the...
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National PolicyIt is admitted that no man can write the history of his own times with such fullness and impartiality as shall entitle his record to the unquestioning credence and...
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Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 04Essays on Wit No. 2The age of Dryden and Pope was an age of wit, but there were few who could explain precisely what they meant by the term. A thing so multiform and. Protean escaped the bonds of logic and definition. In his...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880"And if you do get lost after that, it's no great matter," said the county clerk, folding up his map, "for then all you've got to do is to find William Townsend and inquire."...
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Peck's Compendium of FunPeck's Compendium of Fun - Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite HumoristWe never had a coal stove around the house until last Saturday. Have always used pine slabs and pieces of our neighbors fence. They burn well,...
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Mary AndersonMary AndersonLong Branch, one of Americas most famous watering-places, in midsummer, its softly-wooded hills dotted here and there with picturesque frame villas of dazzling white, and below the purple Atlantic sweeping in restlessly on to the New Jersey shore. The sultry day has been...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. GYPSY MUSIC IN HUNGARY. by E.C.R. 253 THE "GIORNO DEI MORTI." by T.A.T. 256 MR. MILL'S MOTHER. 260 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. TEMPLE OF THE CLITUMNUS. THE FALLS OF TERNI....
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