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Title: Cobwebs from a Library Corner

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Release Date: December 14, 2008 [EBook #27534]

Language: English

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various Harper Periodicals, and elsewhere.

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COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER

By

John Kendrick Bangs

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS

MDCCCXCIX

Copyright, 1899, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

TO
SISTER ANNE

CONTENTS

BOOKISH

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

WISE AND OTHERWISE

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

BOOKISH

_A PESSIMISTIC VIEW_