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Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureLectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureFrom the size of the present work, it will not be expected that it should contain either a course of Dramatic Literature bibliographically complete, or a history of the theatre compiled with antiquarian accuracy. Of books containing dry accounts...
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A Collection of Scotch ProverbsA Collection of Scotch Proverbs 1 (return) [ "Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings from Scottish Writings Before 1600," Mediaeval Studies, XI (1949), 123-205, XII (1951). 87-164.] 2 (return) [ Erskine Beveridge, Fergusson's Scottish Proverbs From the Original Print of 1641 Together with a larger Manuscript...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousand fold, Is a healthy body, a mind at ease, And simple pleasures' that always please. A heart that can feel for another's woe, And share his joys with...
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Aristotle on the art of poetryAristotle on the art of poetry In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in...
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NonsenseorshipNonsenseorship At current bootliquor quotations, Haig & Haig costs twelve dollars a quart, while any dependable booklegger can unearth a copy of "Jurgen" for about fifteen dollars. Which indicates, at least, an economic application of Nonsenseorship. Its literary, social, and ethical reactions are rather...
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The Adventure of Living : a Subjective AutobiographyThe Adventure of Living : a Subjective AutobiographyIt is with great pleasure that I accept Major Putnam's suggestion that I should write a special preface to the American edition of my autobiography. Major Putnam, I, and the Spectator, are a triumvirate of old friends,...
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Public Speaking: Principles and PracticePublic Speaking: Principles and PracticeHappily, it is no longer necessary to argue that public speaking is a worthy subject for regular study in school and college. The teaching of this subject, in one form or another, is now fairly well established. In each of...
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Half-Hours with Great Story-TellersHalf-Hours with Great Story-Tellers - Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and OthersA few days before, a notable miracle had been wrought in the neighborhood; and in those times miracles were not so common as they are now; no royal balloons, no...
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English literary criticismEnglish literary criticismIn England, as elsewhere, criticism was a late birth of the literary spirit. English poets had sung and literary prose been written for centuries before it struck men to ask themselves, What is the secret of the power that these things have...
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Masterpieces of American Wit and HumorMasterpieces of American Wit and HumorMore than half a dozen years have passed since Mr. Andrew Lang, startled for once out of his customary light-heartedness, asked himself, and his readers, and the ghost of Charles Dickensall three powerless to answerwhether the dismal seriousness of...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3ALADDIN LEADS THE PRINCESS INTO THE PALACE (Color Plate) Arthur Henderson FRONTISPIECE JOHN'S PUMPKIN Lucille Enders THE GRYPHON After Sir John Tenniel ALICE SAT STILL After Sir John Tenniel THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE After Sir John Tenniel AND TURNS OUT HIS...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2KAY AND GERDA AT PLAY AMONG THE FLOWEBS (Color Plate) Arthur Henderson AESOP (Halftone) .. From Painting by Velasquez THE OWL .. Herbert N. Rudeen THE SPARROW AND THE EAGLE .. Herbert N. Rudeen INFANT JOY .. Lucille Enders JAPANESE...
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Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, HungarianStories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, HungarianOn a time it happened that the light-house keeper in Aspinwall, not far from Panama, disappeared without a trace. Since he disappeared during a storm, it was supposed that the ill-fated man went to the very edge...
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An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph PulitzerAn Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph PulitzerIn the course of my wanderings about the labyrinth of life it has been my good fortune to find awaiting me around every corner some new adventure. If these have generally lacked that vividness of action...
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A Defence of Poetry and Other EssaysA Defence of Poetry and Other Essays The dialogue entitled The Banquet was selected by the translator as the most beautiful and perfect among all the works of Plato. [Footnote: The Republic, though replete with considerable errors of speculation, is, indeed, the greatest repository...
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Writing for VaudevilleWriting for VaudevilleCan you be taught how to write for vaudeville? If you have the native gift, what experienced writers say about its problems, what they themselves have accomplished, and the means by which it has been wrought, will be of help to you....
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Evolution of Expression — Volume 1Evolution of Expression — Volume 1Teach me, then, To fashion worlds in little, making form, As God does, one with spirit,be the priest Who makes God into bread to feed the world. Richard Hovey. The revised edition of the "Evolution of Expression" is issued...
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Legends of CharlemagneLegends of Charlemagne No new edition of Bulfinch's classic work can be considered complete without some notice of the American scholar to whose wide erudition and painstaking care it stands as a perpetual monument. "The Age of Fable" has come to be ranked with...
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Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 - containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal SocietyThere is now Engraving, and will speedily be Publish'd, A New Pair of Globes, sixteen Inches Diameter; the...
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The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other EssaysThe Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other EssaysIN COMMEMORATION OF THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF THE INTRODUCTION OF ETHER AS AN ANAESTHETIC AGENT Fifty years ago to-daythat is to say, on the 16th of October, 1846,there occurred an event which marks as distinct a step in human...
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