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Title: The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5
July 1906

Author: Various

Release Date: April 24, 2010 [EBook #32122]

Language: English

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THE SCRAP BOOK.

Vol. I. JULY, 1906. No. 5.

PATRIOTISM.

BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well!
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim--
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

"Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI.

The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While

An Old Business Man Testifies to the Progress the World Has
Made Since Seventy Years Ago--Lewis Carroll's Advice on
Mental Nutrition--Rudyard Kipling Defines What Literature
Is--Richard Mansfield Holds That All Men Are
Actors--Professor Thomas Advances Reasons for
Spelling-Reform--Helen Keller Pictures the Tragedy of
Blindness--With Other Expressions of Opinion From Men of
Light and Leading.

_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.

INSIDE FACTS ABOUT THE "GOOD OLD TIMES."

Stephen A. Knight, an Aged Cotton Manufacturer,
Tells of Work and Wages
Seventy Years Ago.

The more deeply one looks into the conditions of life in the "good old
times" the more likely is he to find reason for exclaiming, "Thank Heaven,
I live in the Now!" Life held out comparatively little for the American
working man three-quarters of a century ago. Wages wer