Cobwebs from a Library Corner
John Kendrick Bangs
57 chapters · 1 h 11 min · English
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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
Chapters
1 A Pessimistic View 1 min 2 The Master's Pen, A Confession 1 min 3 Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast) 2 min 4 Ideas for Sale 2 min 5 The Author's Boomerang 1 min 6 To an Egotistical Biographer 1 min 7 No Copyright Needed 1 min 8 Ingredients of Greatness 1 min 9 A Common Favorite 2 min 10 Their Pens 1 min 11 An Unsolved Problem 1 min 12 The Bibliophile's Threat 1 min 13 My Treasures 1 min 14 A Poet's Fad 1 min 15 The Poet Undone 1 min 16 A Waning Muse 1 min 17 Modesty 1 min 18 My Lord the Book 1 min 19 The Bibliomiser 1 min 20 The ''Collector'' 1 min 21 A Reader 1 min 22 Fate! 1 min 23 A Pleasing Thought 1 min 24 Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac 1 min 25 A Confession 2 min 26 The Edition de Looks 2 min 27 Napolini's Error 3 min 28 My Color 2 min 29 Contentment in Nature 2 min 30 The Heroic Gunner 2 min 31 The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy 3 min 32 Garrulous Wisdom 1 min 33 The Perjury of a Rejected Lover 1 min 34 Maid of Culture 1 min 35 Not Perfect 1 min 36 A City Dweller's Wish 1 min 37 Where are They? 1 min 38 Memories 1 min 39 A Sad State 1 min 40 Ad Astra per Otium 1 min 41 Consolation 1 min 42 Satisfaction on Reading ''Not One Dissatisfied,'' by Walt Whitman 2 min 43 To a Withered Rose 1 min 44 The Worst of Enemies 1 min 45 Jokes of the Night 2 min 46 An Autumnal Romance 1 min 47 The Country in July 1 min 48 May 30, 1893 1 min 49 The Curse of Wealth 2 min 50 The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist 2 min 51 One of the Nameless Great 1 min 52 In February Days 1 min 53 A Change of Ambition 1 min 54 Message from Mahatmas 3 min 55 The Gold-seekers 2 min 56 Ode to a Politician 3 min 57 Some are Amateurs 1 min
