Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071
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- Alexander at Gordium
- Before Grant Won His Stars
- A California Motor Tour (1909)
- A Despicable Trick
- Draft Riots in Wisconsin During the Civil War
- The Furnace
- Healthy But Not Social
- Limitations of Truth-Telling
- Mary Anning, the Fossil Finder
- On Demagogues, in The American Democrat (1838)
- On Thinking For Oneself (excerpt)
- Rendering Reflections in Window Glass
- Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality
- Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa (1921)
- Tasman Explores Australia
- The Tomb of Keats
- The True Story of Mary Pickford's Beginning
- The Truth About Greece (1917)
- Woman's Press Club
- Woman's Problems (1914)
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was the editorial opinion of the Boston Cooking School Magazine in May, 1914. [Woman's Problems]. Disillusionment with easy answers is the theme of several Vol. 071 readings [On Thinking for Oneself; Limitations of Truth-Telling; On Demagogues]. Rebellion and war, heroics and aftermath, are treated in Alexander at Gordium; Before Grant Won His Stars; Draft Riots in Wisconsin; The Truth About Greece; and Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa. Humor provides relief in a lighthearted look at home heating [The Furnace]; bicycling [A Despicable Trick; Healthy But Not Social], grammar [The Woman's Press Club] and The Beauty of Unpunctuality. Exploration then and now is contrasted in Tasman Explores Australia and A California Motor Tour. The arts--literature, drawing, and the cinema--are celebrated in Mary Pickford's Beginnings, Rendering Reflections in Window Glass, and On the Tomb of Keats. Lastly, a biography of British fossil finder Mary Anning (1795-1847) throws light not only on ichthyosaurs, but on the remarkable life of a self-taught woman scientist. - Summary by Sue Anderson
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