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    The Scrap Book [v10 #3, September 1910] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 192pp, pulp)
    Details supplied by Denny Lien.


    The Scrap Book [v10 #4, October 1910] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 192pp, pulp)
    Details supplied by Denny Lien.
    • 578 · Where Is John Orth, Royalty’s Vagabond? · E. L. Bacon · ar
    • 595 · The Altruist · Emmet F. Harte · ss
    • 598 · The Animals as Prophets of Weather · Anon. · ar
    • 599 · Fruition · Martha McCulloch-Williams · pm
    • 600 · How Paper Money Is Made · Anon. · ar
    • 601 · “My Country, ’tis of Thee” in Esperanto · Anon. · sg
    • 602 · Great Horses of History · Harrison Derwent · ar
    • 605 · Extermination of Europe’s Bison · Anon. · ar
    • 606 · Living’s Cost in Europe · Anon. · ar
    • 607 · Where Tortoiseshell Comes From · Anon. · ar
    • 608 · The Old Familiar Faces · Charles Lamb · pm Blank Verse 1798
    • 609 · The Vintage [Part 1 of 6] · Joseph Sharts · sl
    • 623 · Life Looks Brighter on Lonely St. Helena · Anon. · ar
    • 624 · Irresistible Homely Men · Anon. · ar
    • 625 · No Nightingales, Please · Herman Scheffauer · ar
    • 627 · France Considering a Postal Check System · Anon. · ar
    • 628 · October, the Martian · George J. Hagar · ar
    • 630 · The Ten Rarest Autographs · Robert F. Roden · ar
    • 633 · Hints About Tub Bathing · Dr. Alexander Alworth · ar
    • 637 · The Governor’s Fee · Henry Christopher Christie · ss
    • 645 · Well-Watered Spots in Teeming India · Anon. · ar
    • 646 · Freed from the Petticoat · Anon. · ar; on trousers and women.
    • 647 · Brief Tales of Success · Frank MacDonald · cl
    • 651 · Incorporeal Hereditaments · Richard J. Beamish · ss
    • 655 · How to Order a Dinner · Brander de Rennes · ar
    • 659 · History Embodied in Place Names · Anon. · ar
    • 660 · The Maids of Lee · F. E. Weatherly · pm
    • 661 · Oddities from Everywhere · Anon. · ms
    • 662 · The Collision · William Patterson White · ss
    • 666 · How to Treat a Snake-Bite · Anon. · ar
    • 667 · Nursery Rimes Are of Ancient Origin · Anon. · ar
    • 668 · Professional Bridegrooms · Arno Dosch · ar; on bigamists.
    • 673 · The Parts of Speech · Anon. · pm
    • 674 · Odd Facts About Spiders · L. W. Brownell · ar
    • 676 · The Old Homestead [Pod Slattery; Pittsburg Bender] · George Allan England · ss
    • 685 · Sonnet 60: (“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore...”) · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets, Thomas Thorpe 1609
    • 686 · The World’s Superlatives · Francis Smith · ar
    • 692 · Adventures of the Famous Blue Diamond · Anon. · ar
    • 693 · Afterward · Muriel Rice · pm
    • 694 · Captain Silence [Part 3 of 4] · Robert Shirley · sl
    • 708 · A Hive of Bees (“B hopeful, b cheerful...”) · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 709 · The Lost and the Found · W. Bert Foster · ar; on mislaid and restored property.
    • 712 · The West Wind Blows · Lida Evandell · pm
    • 713 · The Flying Shuttle · Katharine Eggleston · ss
    • 719 · First Meanings of Common Phrases · Anon. · ar
    • 720 · Fishing for Pearl-Shell · Anon. · ar
    • 721 · Conceit · Ethellyn Brewer DeFoe · pm
    • 722 · The Pawn and the Game · John Barton Oxford · ss
    • 726 · Doctors Who Have Become Criminals · Anon. · ar
    • 727 · Prayer Through the Ages · A. C. Chase · ar
    • 732 · The Blindness of Big John · William Holloway · ss
    • 737 · Were the Chinese Ancestors of the Indians? · Anon. · ar
    • 738 · Own Your Own Apartment · Arthur B. Reeve · ar
    • 743 · The Henpecked Club a Peculiar Institution · Anon. · ar
    • 744 · Great-Grandfather’s Paper · Henry Waldorf Francis · ar
    • 748 · Twenty Generations, a Million Ancestors · Anon. · ar
    • 749 · Freak Farm’s Two Bad Days · Johnston McCulley · na; sf. Kansas weirdness happens because of lost invention of “air shaft,” a sort of portable vaccuum, which causes things to levitate.


    The Scrap Book [v10 #5, November 1910] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 192pp, pulp)
    Details supplied by Denny Lien.
    • 769 · What Is the Fate of “The Great Assassin”? · Haddad El Baku · ar; on Sultan Abdul-Hamid.
    • 788 · Safe Ways to Brace Up Nerves · Anon. · ar
    • 789 · Codes for Daily Life · Anon. · ms
    • 792 · “Oh, You Moonlight” · Frank Condon · ss
    • 796 · Scraps from All Sources · Anon. · ms
    • 797 · The Prayer of the Horse · [Western Professional Humane Society] · ms (r)
    • 798 · October · William Morris · pm (r)
    • 799 · Where Is Podmore’s Spirit? · Olin Crawford · ar; on a test of spiritualism.
    • 802 · The Vintage [Part 2 of 6] · Joseph Sharts · sl
    • 818 · Song of Myself · Walt Whitman · pm (r)
    • 819 · Our Most Dignified Office · Arthur B. Reeve · ar; on the Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
    • 826 · “Go Find Magoon” · Warner H. Bell · ss
    • 832 · Color as a Test of Food Quality · Anon. · ar
    • 833 · Land of the Morning Calm · M. G. Seckendorff · ar; on Korea.
    • 840 · His Books · Robert Southey · pm (r)
    • 841 · The Element of Mischance · Emmet F. Harte · ss
    • 845 · Daily Life of the Wasp · L. W. Brownell · ar
    • 847 · Dumas the Most Rapid of Story Writers · Anon. · ar
    • 848 · Girls That Are in Demand (“The girls that are wanted are good girls...”) · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 849 · Captain Silence [Part 4 of 4] · Robert Shirley · sl
    • 852 · An Inventory of a Healthy Man · Anon. · ar
    • 853 · London Bridge · Frederic Edward Weatherly · pm (r); A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press 1895
    • 854 · The Story of November · George J. Hagar · ar
    • 856 · Diplomacy and a Hold-Up · Frank X. Finnegan · ss
    • 868 · Build a Little Fence · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 869 · Brief Tales of Success · Frank MacDonald · cl
    • 874 · Financial Wisdom Found in Proverbs · Anon. · ar
    • 875 · Sidelights on Whaling · Edward Marshall · ar
    • 880 · Data of Thirty-Two Years of Marriage · Anon. · ar Tit-Bits
    • 881 · The Spending of Mr. Piper · Gordon H. Cilley · ss
    • 888 · Reconstructing Bad Boys · Frank Marshall White · ar; on Randall’s Island.
    • 893 · Palaces That Fall Below Expectations · Anon. · ar
    • 894 · Psychology for Daily Use · Arno Dosch · ar
    • 899 · Cost of Different Methods of Illumination · Anon. · ms
    • 900 · Putting Crimps in English · Anon. · hu; on syntax errors and spoonerisms.
    • 901 · Odd Betrothal Customs in Sweden · Anon. · ar
    • 902 · The Road’s Last Turn · H. F. Huntington · ss
    • 910 · Lines on Advancing Years · William Wordsworth · pm (r)
    • 911 · Penniless in a Big City · Himself · te
    • 915 · Tears, Idle Tears · Lord Tennyson · pm (r); A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press 1895
    • 916 · The Switchboard Empress · Nalbro Bartley · ss
    • 921 · To a Skeleton · Robert Philip · pm (r)
    • 922 · Cupid and the Monoplane · Charles B. Stilson · ss
    • 929 · The Romance of Rings · Margaret Connolly · ar
    • 934 · Suffragists Know What They Want · Anon. · ms (r)
    • 935 · The Long White Seam · Jean Ingelow · pm Wide Awake Jul 1883
    • 936 · The Butler’s Secret · Gilbert Riddell · na


    The Scrap Book [v10 #6, December 1910] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 186pp, pulp)
    Details supplied by Denny Lien.
    • 961 · Guerin, the Man Who Laughed at Law · George Jean Nathan · ar; on criminal Eddie Guerin.
    • 977 · Knights Erratic · Emmet F. Harte · ss
    • 982 · The Sailor’s Consolation · William Pitt · pm Sea Songs and Ballads by Dibdin and Others, Bell and Daldy 1863
    • 983 · Father of the Automobile · George Gray Haven · ar; on George B. Selden.
    • 988 · Patent Office Humorists · Anon. · hu
    • 990 · Sonnet (“To one who has been long in city pent...”) · John Keats · pm Poems, C & J Ollier 1817
    • 991 · The Ghost Ship [Part 1 of 7] · E. Lawrence Dudley · sl
    • 1006 · A Woman the First Daily’s Editor · Anon. · ar; on Elizabeth Mallet in 1702.
    • 1007 · Stopping the Leakage · Eugene Shade Bisbee · ar; household economy tips.
    • 1010 · “Good-By” · Ah Foo Lin · pm (r)
    • 1011 · Brief Tales of Success · Frank MacDonald · cl
    • 1015 · The Character of Shelley · Walter Savage Landor · ms (r)
    • 1016 · In the Cold Grip of Fear · Anon. · ar
    • 1017 · English Bets During the Revolution · Anon. · ar
    • 1018 · A Woman’s Hero · William Holloway · ss
    • 1022 · A New National Hymn for India · Mahommed Iqbal · sg (r)
    • 1023 · Cipher Secrets Revealed · Arthur B. Reeve · ar
    • 1030 · Sources of Salt Supply · Anon. · ar
    • 1031 · Weights of United States Coins · Anon. · ar
    • 1032 · The Wild Honeysuckle · Philip Freneau · pm The Columbian Herald Jul 6 1786
    • 1033 · The Black Sheet · Edwin Baird · ss
    • 1046 · The Water Fowl · William Cullen Bryant · pm Poems, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf 1834, as “To a Waterfowl”
    • 1047 · Mary Jemison, White Squaw · J. Earl Clauson · bg
    • 1051 · The Titles of England’s Rulers · Anon. · ar
    • 1052 · Ancient Universities · Anon. · ar
    • 1053 · Thumbs an Index to Character · Anon. · ar
    • 1054 · Esther Wheeler’s Cure · Alma Martin Estabrook · ss
    • 1060 · The Humors of the Cemetery · Anon. · hu; amusing epitaphs.
    • 1061 · The Mistletoe-Bough · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm Songs and Ballads, Carey and Hart 1844
    • 1062 · The Tricks of Traitors · Olin Crawford · ar
    • 1065 · “Affurisms” by Jose Billings · Josh Billings · hu (r)
    • 1066 · Diseases of Imagination · Joseph Addison · ms The Spectator Mar 29 1711, as “untitled (‘I am one of that sickly Tribe who are commonly known by the Name of Valetudinarians’)”, uncredited
    • 1068 · The Vintage [Part 3 of 6] · Joseph Sharts · sl
    • 1084 · Firelight [from “Snow-Bound”] · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm (r)
    • 1086 · Called Back from Death · Rose C. Tillotson · ar
    • 1090 · The Priceless Gems of Potentates · Anon. · ar
    • 1091 · Little by Little · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 1092 · The Moment of Victory · Roland Ashford Phillips · ss
    • 1096 · Patriotism · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r); from Lay of the Last Minstrel.
    • 1097 · A Hero Willy-Nilly · George Allan England · ar; on Charles Newton Trefethen.
    • 1099 · Life · Bryan Waller Procter · pm (r)
    • 1100 · Some Microscopic Marvels · Anon. · ar
    • 1101 · The Only Remaining Yew Forest · Anon. · ar; on Bavaria.
    • 1102 · The Magic Hat · E. L. Bacon · ss
    • 1106 · Are Time and Space Infinite? · Anon. · ar
    • 1107 · Singular Names of Modern Aborigines · Anon. · hu; on Red Indians, not Australians.
    • 1108 · Beats and Bungles · William Johnston · ar; on newspaper reporters.
    • 1116 · The House of the Flying Dragon · Chauncey C. Hotchkiss · na



    The Scrap Book [v11 #2, February 1911] (Frank A. Munsey Co.; NY and London, 10¢, 192pp, pulp)
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    • 193 · Are Solomon’s Mines to Be Found at Last? · E. L. Bacon · ar
    • 211 · An Adventure in Vibrations · Richard Garth Stevens · ss
    • 216 · Why He Fought · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 217 · Kind Words for Father · Anon. · ar
    • 218 · How a Good Traveling Salesman Looks · Anon. · ms
    • 219 · Have You Estates in Spain? · George William Curtis · ar (r); on daydreaming.
    • 223 · Statements Under Oath · Josh Billings · ms (r)
    • 224 · Humnity’s Best Friend (poems on sleep)
    • _224 · Early Rising · John Godfrey Saxe · pm (r)
    • _225 · King Henry IV on Sleep [from Henry IV, Part II] · William Shakespeare · pm Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623
    • _226 · Why Sleep Restores: An Oriental Poem · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 227 · The Radium Terrors [Part 2 of 8] · Albert Dorrington · na The Pall Mall Magazine Jan 1911 (+5)
    • 235 · The Molds Which Make Good Cheese · Anon. · ar
    • 236 · Our First Great Suffragette: Woman’s Rights · Margaret Fuller · ms (r)
    • 237 · Brief Newspaper Essays · [Various] · ms
    • 240 · Signs of Rain · Edward Jenner · pm (r)
    • 241 · Nimrod—Hero · Jennie Harris Oliver · ss
    • 245 · Some Sound Practial Advice for Young Men · Anon. · lt New York World
    • 246 · A Few Exercises in Pronunciation · Anon. · ms
    • 247 · Jolts from the Thinkers · [Various] · ms
    • 253 · The Thermometer’s Growth · Anon. · ar
    • 254 · A Unique Bit of Versifying (“Bold Nassau quits his caravan...”) · Anon. · pm (r); lipogram.
    • 255 · Number 33,009 · Avery Gaul · ss
    • 259 · Monte Cristo a Playground for a King · Anon. · ar
    • 260 · A Briton on Baseball · Keble Howard · hu The Sketch
    • 262 · Seven Poets—One Girl (portmanteau poem) · [Various] · pm (r)
    • 263 · “Deathless” Saint-Germain · Olin Crawford · ar
    • 268 · Romes Found All Over the World · Anon. · ms
    • 269 · Life Saving Their Business · Anon. · ar
    • 272 · Fame Based on Fairy Tales: The Toads and the Diamonds · Charles Perrault · vi (r); abridged.
    • 273 · The Varied Color of the Seven Seas · Anon. · ar
    • 274 · Smith’s Recipe for Salad · Sydney Smith · pm (r)
    • 275 · The Ghost Ship [Part 3 of 7] · E. Lawrence Dudley · sl
    • 284 · How Dare You, Ben Franklin (“She that will eat her breakfast in her bed...”) · Poor Richard · pm (r)
    • 285 · Thompson’s Visitor · Perley Poore Sheehan · ss
    • 286 · The Clergyman and the Wedding Fee · Anon. · ar
    • 287 · “The Big Spot” in Figures · Anon. · ar; statistics about NYC.
    • 290 · Sounds for Moving Picture Shows · Anon. · ar
    • 291 · In Search of Adventure · William Patterson White · ss
    • 296 · Data from the World’s Largest City · Anon. · ms; on London.
    • 297 · Eli Perkins’s Humor · Eli Perkins · hu (r)
    • 301 · A Bible Recipe for Cake · Anon. · ms (r)
    • 302 · An Old Kentucky Preacher · H. C. Wood · ar; on Rev. Jesse Head.
    • 303 · A Poem for Lovers of Dogs (“I am only a dog, and I’ve had my day...”) · Anon. · pm (r)
    • 305 · The Vintage [Part 5 of 6] · Joseph Sharts · sl
    • 318 · The Tennysonian Talent Not Transmitted (“It seems but yesterday I saw at dawn...”) · 2nd Lord Tennyson Hallam · pm (r)
    • 319 · A One-Essay Immortal: The Well Orderering of a Man’s Life · William Cecil, Baron Burleigh · ar (r)
    • 322 · Concerning Loneliness · Rafford Pyke · ar
    • 324 · The Husband’s Decalogue · Anon. · ms
    • 325 · “The Little Giant” · Eugene Shade Bisbee · ss
    • 328 · To P-E-A-R-L · Clark Hinman · pm
    • 329 · The Puzzle of Tobacco · Leonard Wilson · ar
    • 331 · The Children of Other People · Charles Lamb · ms (r)
    • 332 · The Printer’s Angel · Anon. · pm Punch
    • 333 · A Costly Neglected Letter · Ella W. Dunham · ar; on the cause of Abyssinian war.
    • 338 · Birds’ Family Affairs · L. W. Brownell · ar
    • 339 · A Tip from President George Washington · George Washington · lt (r)
    • 340 · A Cold Night in Bohemia · Henri Murger · ex (r); from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter.
    • 344 · Measuring a Bottomless Pond · Henry David Thoreau · ex (r); from Walden.
    • 346 · Tagged for the Asylum · Marion Short · ss
    • 350 · A School-Reader Favorite: “Farmer John” · J. T. Trowbridge · pm (r)
    • 352 · The Lost Art of Archery · Godwin Huystedt · ar
    • 356 · End of the Peabody Fund · Arthur B. Reeve · ar
    • 359 · To-Morrow · William Gifford · pm (r)
    • 360 · What It Means to Be Hungry · Elisha Kent Kane · te (r)
    • 362 · The Vagaries of Tolstoy · Frank Marshall White · ar
    • 368 · Table Manners for Small People (“In silence I must take my seat...”) · Anon. · pm
    • 369 · A Transaction in Diamonds · Talbot Mundy · ss
    • 384 · A Good Motto for Your Fireplace (“Read the rede of this old rooftree...”) · Anon. · pm (r)


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