Cobwebs from a Library Corner

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: John Kendrick Bangs In Year : 1899

Book Language: English

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A Pessimistic View
The Master’s Pen—A Confession
Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)
Ideas for Sale
The Author’s Boomerang
To an Egotistical Biographer
No Copyright Needed
Ingredients of Greatness
A Common Favorite
Their Pens
An Unsolved Problem
The Bibliophile’s Threat
My Treasures
A Poet’s Fad
The Poet Undone
A Waning Muse
Modesty
My Lord the Book
The Bibliomiser
The ''Collector''
A Reader
Fate!
A Pleasing Thought
Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac
A Confession
The Edition de Looks
Napolini’s Error
My Color
Contentment in Nature
The Heroic Gunner
The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy
Garrulous Wisdom
The Perjury of a Rejected Lover
Maid of Culture
Not Perfect
A City Dweller’s Wish
Where are They?
Memories
A Sad State
Ad Astra per Otium.
Consolation
Satisfaction on Reading ''Not One Dissatisfied,'' by Walt Whitman
To a Withered Rose
The Worst of Enemies
Jokes of the Night
An Autumnal Romance
The Country in July
May 30, 1893
The Curse of Wealth
The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist
One of the Nameless Great
In February Days
A Change of Ambition
Message from Mahatmas
The Gold-seekers
Ode to a Politician
Some are Amateurs

This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted stories & otherwise. John Kendrick Bangs had been known as a jokester & prankster; was also known to be the editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine. Take a peak and see how you end up with a grin on your face and in your heart as well. That is honest Bangsian writing. - Summary by AR