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The Scrap Book [v1 #6, August 1906] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 192pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 972 · Recessional · Rudyard Kipling · pm The Times Jul 17 1897 992 · Lines on a Skeleton · Anon. · pm The Morning Chronicle 1820 994 · Chops the Dwarf · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Christmas 1858, as “Going Into Society”, uncredited 1004 · The First Piano in Camp · Sam Davis · ss The Windsor Magazine Oct 1902 1008 · The Tiger · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience 1794 1016 · A Fight with a Cannon · Victor Hugo · ss (r) 1024 · Casey’s Revenge · James Wilson · pm Exchange; a reply to “Casey at the Bat”. 1028 · Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua · Elijah Kellogg · ar School Reader, ed. Epes Sargent 1846 1036 · The Tomb of Napoleon · Robert Ingersoll · ms (r) 1044 · Narcisse · John G. Neihardt · ss 1054 · The Beginnings of Stage Careers: Sixth Installment · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 1064 · Brahma · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm The Atlantic Monthly Nov 1857, uncredited 1065 · Woman and Her Bank Account · J. C. Turner · ar 1073 · The Woman and the Cat · Marcel Prévost; translated by Harry Thurston Peck · ss; from Our Countryside. 1080 · Sidelights from Stageland · Second Nighter · cl 1104 · The Comet · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm (r) 1106 · The Vicissitudes of a Problem · William J. Lampton · ar 1110 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl 1112 · The Companions of Jehu [Part 6 of 6] · Alexandre Dumas · sl 1135 · Index to Volume I · Anon. · ix

The Scrap Book [v2 #1, September 1906] (Frank A. Munsey Company; New York and London, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 3 · Character [from Hamlet] · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 31 · The Drums of the Fore and Aft · Rudyard Kipling · ss (r) 49 · What Paris Gives for Our Dollars · John Joseph Conway · ar 58 · The Arrow and the Song · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r) 59 · A Paper Chase · John Worne · ss 63 · Kublai Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm (r) 72 · Tubal Cain · Charles Mackay · pm (r) 75 · The Mark of Shame · John G. Neihardt · ss 80 · The Rival · Bartholomew Dowling · pm (r) 83 · Sidelights from Stageland · Second Nighter · cl 91 · Dramatic Flights of Royalty · Isabel Ripley Young · ar 98 · How Marriage Began · Arthur Brisbane · ar (r) 101 · Franklin on Marriage · Benjamin Franklin · ms (r) 102 · Finnigin to Flannigan · Strickland W. Gillian · pm Life 108 · Incident of the French Camp · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics, Edward Moxon 1842, as “Camp (French)” 110 · Tree and Vegetable Idiots · Annabelle Stanford · ar 118 · The Pay-Roll of the Government · Harold Boles · ar 126 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl 128 · Io Victis · W. W. Story · pm (r) 128 · The Men Who Lose · Reginald Wright Kauffman · pm The Smart Set Aug 1904 129 · The Beginnings of Stage Careers: Seventh Installment · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 144 · Monterey · Charles Fenno Hoffman · pm (r) 150 · Baron de Trenck · Clémence Robert; translated by S. Ten Eyck Bourke · ss 160 · How to Find the Day of the Week for Known Dates · S. Hart Wright · ms

The Scrap Book [v2 #2, October 1906] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 161 · How to Live Well · George Washington · ex (r) 182 · Love in a Cottage · Nathaniel Parker Willis · pm (r) 184 · Exhumations of Noted Persons · E. B. Mitchell · ar 191 · The Harp of a Thousand Strings · Josha S. Morris · hu (r) 196 · The Discovery of America · Washington Irving · ex (r); from Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. 207 · Dear Hands · Susan Marr Spalding · pm The Atlantic Monthly Feb 1883 209 · Van Nesten and the Burglar · W. S. Rogers · ss 214 · The Lake of the Dismal Swamp · Thomas Moore · pm (r) 219 · The Beginnings of Stage Careers 8 · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 226 · A Letter from Christ · Eusebius · ex (r) 232 · Major Namby · Wilkie Collins · ss All the Year Round Jun 4 1859, as “Pray Employ Major Namby!”, uncredited 247 · Death the Leveller · James Shirley · pm (r) 263 · A Requiem · Robert Louis Stevenson · pm Underwoods, Robert Louis Stevenson 1887 265 · The Bell of Kuang Sai · Edward W. Gilbert · ss 268 · Hohenlinder · Thomas Campbell · pm (r) 277 · The Blackbird’s Song · Henry Kingsley · pm (r) 281 · The Blind Sailor-Explorer · Mary Caroline Crawford · bg; on Lt. James Holman. 286 · The Sower · James Russell Lowell · pm (r) 289 · Sidelights from Stageland · Second Nighter · cl 297 · The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Aug 1859, as “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”, uncredited; original version. 315 · The September Gale · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm (r) 318 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl

The Scrap Book [v2 #3, November 1906] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 321 · Destiny of the Republic · Edward Everett · ar 1853 336 · Fair Ines · Thomas Hood · pm The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, Frederick Warne 1890 344 · A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain · Sol Smith · ss (r) 358 · What’s the Matter with Kansas? · William Allen White · ed Emporia Gazette Aug 15 1896 369 · Never Trouble Trouble · Anon. · pm 370 · The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England · Felicia Dorothea Hemans · pm The New Monthly Magazine Nov 1825 372 · Natural Aristocracy · John Adams · lt 1813; on letter to Thomas Jefferson. 379 · Partridge at the Playhouse [from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] · Henry Fielding · ex A. Millar 1749 384 · The Frost · Hannah Flagg Gould · pm (r) 389 · At the Tomb of Shakespeare · Artemus Ward · hu (r) 391 · A Few Remarks · Josh Billings · hu (r) 396 · Sidelights from Stageland · Second Nighter · cl 408 · ’Swan Song’ of Richard Realf, Written the Night of His Suicide · Richard Realf · pm (r) 422 · The Enchanted Island · Anon. · pm (r) 424 · A Duel to the Death · Alexander Dumas; translated by S. Ten Eyck Bourke · ss (r) 438 · Even This Shall Pass Away · Anon. · pm (r) 445 · Life on a Russian Privateer · William Davidson · mm 1851; from unnamed 1851 magazine. 450 · Twenty Years Ago · Anon. · pm (r) 453 · The Beginnings of Stage Careers: Ninth Installment · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 457 · Common Natures · Aaron Hill · pm (r) 463 · The Dog and the Horse [from Zadig] · Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire · ex Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. De Voltaire, Dodsley 1794; translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747). 465 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844 477 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl 479 · The Delusions of William Blake: A Letter and a Reply · E. D. Wynne & The Editor · lt

The Scrap Book [v2 #4, December 1906] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) All fiction, bylined nonfiction, and all poetry other than short poems collected into columns are listed. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 481 · God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen · Anon. · pm (r) 498 · “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” · George Berkeley · pm (r) 504 · The Siege of Berlin · Alphonse Daudet; translated by Dr. E. H. Du Bois · ex; translated from the French. 510 · Sayings of Napoleon · Napoleon Bonaparte · ms (r) 511 · The Early Christians · Pliny the Younger · lt (r) 524 · The Fashionable Christmas · René Bache · ar 530 · Antony and Cleopatra · William Haines Lytle · pm Cincinnati Commercial Jul 29 1858 534 · Sidelights from Stageland · Second Nighter · cl 537 · Now · Charles R. Skinner · pm The Sun 544 · Taming a Country School [from Elsie Venner] · Oliver Wendell Holmes · ex (r) 554 · The Night Before Christmas · Clement Clarke Moore · pm (r) 567 · The Valiant Tin Soldier · Hans Christian Andersen · ss (r) 572 · The Best Thing in the World · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm (r) 573 · A Night of Terror · Paul Louis Courier · vi (r); translated from the French. 578 · Of Boldness · Francis Bacon · ar Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, Francis Bacon 1625 580 · The Beginnings of Stage Careers · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 590 · The Eagle · Lord Tennyson · pm (r) 602 · Stonewall Jackson’s Way · John Williamson Palmer · pm Miller & Beacham 1862 604 · Christmas Dinner [Bracebridge] · Washington Irving · ss The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Jan 1 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon 617 · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall Dec 19 1843 634 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl

The Scrap Book [v2 #5, January 1907] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 641 · New Year’s Bells · Alfred Tennyson · pm (r) 659 · With Our Readers · [The Editor] · lt 662 · The Beautiful Snow · John Whitaker Watson · pm (r) 667 · The Colonel’s Views · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Dr. E. H. Du Bois · ss; translated from the French. 670 · The Story of Our Calendar · Gerhardt C. Mars · ar 675 · The Stab · Will Wallace Harney · pm 676 · The Silent Prison [from American Notes for General Circulation] · Charles Dickens · ex Chapman & Hall 1842 680 · Punch, Brothers, Punch · Mark Twain · ss The Atlantic Monthly Feb 1876, as “A Literary Nightmare” 683 · The Coming In of the New Year · Charles Lamb · ar (r) 687 · The Elbows of the Mincio · William Henry Hurlburt · ed The New York Times Jun 16 1859 705 · Old Songs and Their Makers · George Fortis · ar 708 · A French Magician in Algeria · Robert-Houdin · ex; translated from the French of his Memoires. 720 · The Devil · Daniel Defoe · pm (r) 722 · Sidelights from Stageland · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 727 · Sub Rosa · Thomas R. Ybarra · pm The New York Times 728 · There’s a Good Time Coming · Charles Mackay · pm Manchester Evening Guardian 1845 730 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 6: Verdi’s Il Trovatore · Helen Keyes · cl 734 · Selections from Emerson · Ralph Waldo Emerson · ms (r) 735 · The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser · Eleanor B. Simmons · ar 752 · The Skeleton in Armor · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm The Knickerbocker Jan 1841 759 · Philosophical Studies · Arthur Schopenhauer · ex (r) 767 · Love and Skates · Theodore Winthrop · nv The Atlantic Monthly Jan 1862 (+1), uncredited 798 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl 800 · Time · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r)

The Scrap Book [v2 #6, February 1907] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 144pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 801 · O Captain! My Captain! · Walt Whitman · pm Sequel to Drum-Taps, Washington 1865 820 · Little Giffen · Francis Orrery Ticknor · pm (r) 830 · A Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Apr 24 1852, as “A Terribly Strange Bed”, uncredited 840 · Black-Eyed Susan · John Gay · pm (r) 849 · The Story of the Cherry-Tree · Mason Locke Weem · ex (r); from Life of George Washington. 851 · Frankenstein’s Monster [from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, as by Anon.; Frankenstein] · Mary Shelley · ex Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818 862 · The Universal Prayer · Alexander Pope · pm (r) 865 · Richard and Saladin · Sir Walter Scott · ex (r); from The Talisman. 868 · Reflections on Life · Henri Frederic Amiel · ex (r); from Pensees. 876 · Faith · Frances Anne Kemble · pm (r); A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press 1895 877 · Sidelights from Stageland · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 884 · The Fight at Rugby · Thomas Hughes · ex (r); from Tom Brown’s School Days. 892 · Clancy of the Overflow · Anon. · pm (r) 895 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 7: Wagner’s Tannhauser · Helen Keyes · cl 904 · The Second Inagural Address of Abraham Lincoln · Abraham Lincoln · ar (r) 907 · The Passage of the Red Sea · Henry Murger; translated, uncredited · ss; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the French (Vie de Boheme). 921 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r); six poems or excerpts. 927 · Curiosities of the Lincoln Cult · A. S. Chapman · ar 930 · Alonzo the Brave · Matthew Gregory Lewis · pm (r) 934 · The Pistol-Shot · Alexander Pushkin; translated by Charles Prescott Fuller · ss; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the Russian (“Vystrel”, Povest Belkina, 1831). 942 · A Horoscope of the Months · Marion Y. Bunner · cl 944 · Bugle Song · Lord Tennyson · pm Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Jan 1854

The Scrap Book [v3 #1, March 1907] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Blow, Winter Wind [from As You Like It] · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 3 · Caprice in Women · Lyndon Orr · ar 5 · The Diamond Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works, Dunne 1903; translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois Feb 17, 1884). 12 · Remarkable Coincidences · Hamilton Osgood · ar 20 · “Remember the Alamo!” · Philip Coan · ar 23 · The Bridge-Builder · Vingie E. Roe · ss 27 · Talks with Our Readers · [The Editor] · lc 31 · Contested Peerages · F. Cunliffe Owen · ar 35 · What Yo’ Gwine to Tell de Lawd? · James Barton Adams · pm Denver Post 37 · How “Wild Bill” Made Good · Charles Francis Bourke · ss 45 · Here’s to George Washington! · Justice Brewer · ar (r) 46 · Constancy · Thomas Moore · pm (r) 47 · Uncle Toby and Lieutenant Le Fevre · Laurence Sterne · ex 1767; from Tristram Shandy. 53 · An Ancient Rural Sign-Language · Frank Lewis Ford · ar 55 · The Story of Beau Brummel · Henry Valentine Day · ar 59 · Poetry as an Aid to Correct Pronunciation · Fred Clark Baldwin · ar 62 · Bruce at Bannockburn · Robert Burns · pm (r) 67 · The Coming of Napoleon · Erckmann-Chatrian; translated by S. Ten Eyck Bourke · ex; from The Story of a Conscript of 1813. 75 · At the Sign of the Belle Helen · Katherine Hoffman · ss 81 · The English Drama Before Shakespeare · William S. Bridgman · ar 85 · The Tempest · Charles Dickens · ex (r); from David Copperfield. 94 · The Truth About Snakes · Charles H. Corbin · ar 97 · The Dog · Harry Irving Greene · ss 113 · A Greek Wonder-Worker · Elizabeth H. Du Bois · ar; on Apollonius of Tyre. 117 · Sidelights from Stageland · Matthew White, Jr. · cl 124 · Nirvana · George W. Chapman · pm The Free Religious Index Sep 1881 126 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 8: Puccini’s “La Boheme” · Helen Keyes · cl 129 · Abraham Lincoln · James Russell Lowell · ar (r); from My Study Windows. 130 · Incompatibility · Smith Ely · pm (r) 132 · The Soldier’s Wife · Alfred Tennyson · pm (r) 133 · According to Precedent · John Barton Oxford · ss 136 · Rock Me to Sleep, Mother · Elizabeth Akers Allen · pm The Saturday Evening Post 1860 141 · Introduction to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” · Frederic Taber Cooper · is 142 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine Apr 1841 160 · Good-By · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm (r)

The Scrap Book [v3 #2, April 1907] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 160pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. 161 · Concord—April 19 · Ralph Waldo Emerson · pm self-published 1837, as “Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836” 163 · Talks with Our Readers · [The Editor] · lc 168 · “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep” · Elizabeth Barrett Browning · pm (r) 171 · Don Quixote and the Windmills · Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · ex 1615; from Don Quixote. 176 · On Telling Secrets · Henry M. Stevens · ar 177 · The Glorious Tombigbee · Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr. · ar (r); from Congressional Record. 181 · Through a Glass Darkly · Annie O’Hagan · ss 186 · On Shakespeare’s Grave at Stratford · William Shakespeare · pm (r) 187 · An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare · John Milton · pm Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (Second Folio) 1632 190 · The Liberty of the Cudgel: An Antidote to the Liberty of the Press · Benjamin Franklin · ar (r) 193 · The Great Inventions · Philip Coan · ar 199 · The “Noche Triste” (Night of Sorrow) · William Hickling Prescott · ex (r); from The Conquest of Mexico. 204 · Maxims of Publius Syrus · Publius Syrus · ms 205 · Introduction to Some Sayings of Prince Bismarck · Harry Thurston Peck · ar 206 · Some Sayings of Prince Bismarck · Otto von Bismarck · ms 208 · On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year · Lord Byron · pm (r) 211 · Count Fathom’s Adventure · Tobias George Smollett · ex (r); from Ferdinand Count Fathom. 215 · The Quarrels of Congress · John Elfreth Watkins · ar 221 · The Last of a Famous Hoax · Frank Lewis Ford · ar; on the Cardiff Giant. 225 · “My Name Is Norval” · John Home · pm (r) 228 · The Prowess of Robin Hood · Sir Walter Scott · ex (r); from Ivanhoe. 231 · The Future Sovereigns of Europe · Frederic Austin Ogg · ar 234 · The Coral Grove · James Gates Percival · pm (r) 237 · The Chariot Race from Ben-Hur · Lew Wallace · ex (r); from Ben-Hur. 244 · The Reveille · Bret Harte · pm (r) 246 · The Conquered Banner · Abram Joseph Ryan · pm (r) 248 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 9: Richard Strauss’s “Salome” · R. H. Titherington · cl 251 · The Man Who Was · Rudyard Kipling · ss Macmillan’s Magazine Apr 1890 259 · Spring in a City Square · Arthur Hugh Clough · pm (r) 264 · The Story of an Old Song (“We Won’t Go Home Until Morning”) · Montague Glass · ar 267 · How It Feels to Die [from “The Death of Ivan Ilyitch”] · Count Leo Tolstoy · ex (r); translated from the Russian (“Smert’ Ivana Ilyicha”, 1886). 271 · The Bath of Light · Burke Jenkins · ss 275 · An Optimist’s Philosophy of Life · Robert Browning · pm (r) 276 · Wisdom and Knowledge · Nathaniel Parker Ellis · pm (r) 289 · The Broken Jug · Johann H. D. Zschokke; translated by R. Arrowsmith · ss 299 · Brain-Weight and Intellectuality · Charles H. Corbin · ar 301 · The Crown of Rudensberg · Izola Forrester · ss 307 · Oliver Twist Asks for “More” · Charles Dickens · ex (r); from Oliver Twist. 309 · Rules of the Perfect Life · Thomas à Kempis · ex (r); from De Imitatione Christi. 312 · The Courtin’ · James Russell Lowell · pm J.R. Osgood 1874 314 · Sidelights from Stageland · Matthew White, Jr. · cl