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The Scrap Book [v5 #1, January 1908] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 25¢, 186+192pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. First Section 1 · No Wedding Bells for a Million Girls · James H. Ferry · ar 9 · Prosperity—That Made “Millionaires” Even of Hackdrivers · Allan L. Benson · ar 17 · Prize Fighters Who Met Noblemen as Equals · Beverly Stark · ar 24 · How Many Words Do You Know? · C. H. Cullen · ar 26 · Beau Brummell: The Most Insolent Fop of History · Alice Wainright · bg 33 · Patchwork · Ralph Frye · pm 35 · America Plunging on Diamonds · Olin Orr · ar 42 · Little Chats with Big People · Anon. · cl 47 · Henry Clay Barnabee’s Reminiscences [Part 2 of 6] · Henry Clay Barnabee · mm 62 · The Purpose of Marriage · James Cardinal Gibbons · ar 63 · Presidents Who Have Been Snubbed · Lyndon Orr · ar 68 · Nature’s Constant Benediction—Green Grass · James J. Ingalls · ar 70 · Roustabouts Who Grabbed Thrones and Founded Families of Kings · B. C. Benjamin · ar 76 · Modern Rome’s Splendor · Anon. · ar 78 · When the Unexpected Happened · Roy Farrell Green · pm 80 · “Dare-Devil” Crokes: Chief of the Fire Department · Philip R. Dillon · bg 86 · The Vastness of the Depths of Space · Camille Flammarion · ms (r) 88 · Naval Officers Who Won Glory by Disobeying Orders · John R. Spears · ar 93 · Up in the Clouds, Down in the Pacific · W. W. Austin · ar; on ballooning. 101 · Thumbs · William Leslie French · ar; on palmistry. 107 · The Blazing Sun That Makes Brides and Suicides · Edwin Morris · ar 110 · The Marvelous City, Venice · Jacopo Sannazaro · pm (r); translated from the Italian. 111 · The Fate of the Forty-Five · Mary C. Francis · ar; on jumpers from Brooklyn Bridge. 120 · Royal Martyrs to Absurd Etiquette · E. L. Bacon · ar 126 · Clear the Way! · Charles MacKay · pm (r) 129 · Why Are We Superstitious? · George H. Gillette · ar 131 · Stageland · Anon. · cl 143 · Types of Fair Women · Anon. · cl 153 · Why Do Men Never Tell the Truth to Women? · Philip Gilbert Hamerton · ms (r) 154 · Crucial Moments in Court · Chester Harrison · ar 159 · The Richest Boy in the World · Anon. · ar; on Marshall Field III. 162 · Quick Lunch Lingo · Izola Forrester · ar 172 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 12: “The Nibelungen Ring” · Helen Keyes · cl 179 · Queer Divorce Cases · Estelle Whitney · ar 182 · 232 Different Ways of Saying “Money” · Everett McNeil · ms 184 · The Real Nature Fakers and Their Work · Anon. · ar Second Section 1 · Graydon’s Chance [Part 1 of 4] · John Barton Oxford · sl 16 · “It’s Nature” · H. Armstrong Roberts · ss 22 · The Indian Chief to the White Man · Edward Everett · ms (r) 23 · The Seven Ages of Man [from As You Like It] · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 24 · Lazy Beppo · Hans Hoffmann; translated, uncredited · ss; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the German. 29 · Filial Piety of Pao Yeng · A. Robert Groh · ss 33 · The French Soldier · Ralph Bergengren · ss 39 · The Voice of the Dead [Part 3 of 5] · Amos Henry Andrews · sl 52 · The Law of Love · Charles Sumner · ms 53 · The Duel at Night [from The Master of Ballantrae] · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex Cassell & Co. 1889 63 · The Brothers · Harvey J. O’Higgins · ss 72 · The Mystery of Faith · Mabel Symmes · ss 77 · Gentleman Dandy · Evelyn Van Buren · ss 84 · Hohenlinden · Thomas Campbell · pm (r) 86 · Thrust Upon Him [Part 6 of 7] · Peter Carpenter · sl 98 · Passages from “Le Morte d’Arthur” [from The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table] · Sir Thomas Malory · ex William Caxton 1485 102 · The Coward · Nell A. Thompson · ss 106 · The Heirloom · John K. Leys · ss 109 · Old Strugglers · Augustine Birrell · ms (r) 110 · Little Sister · Mary L. Bray · ss 116 · Into the Primitive [Part 3 of 6] · Robert Ames Bennet · sl 132 · How Phileas Fogg Won His Wager · Jules Verne; translated, uncredited · ex; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the French (Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours, Hetzel, 1872). 140 · The Awakening of Carrie Stevens · Anne Story Allen · ss 148 · Public Honesty · Henry Ward Beecher · ms (r) 149 · Her Splendid Sin [Part 4 of 6] · Headon Hill · sl 167 · The Pope’s Mule · Alphone Daudet; translated, uncredited · ss; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the French (“La Mule de Pape”, 1869). 172 · The Art of Monsieur Alceste · Grace Van Braam Truitt · ss 177 · Creation and Art · Charlotte Cushman · ms (r) 178 · The Woman in the Car [Part 5 of 5] · E. R. Punshon · sl

The Scrap Book [v5 #2, February 1908] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 25¢, 188+192pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. First Section 187 · Theosophy—The Religion of the Occult · Arthur B. Reeve · ar 193 · Now I Lay Me · Anon. · pm 194 · The Sons of Their Fathers · Anon. · ar 196 · Mail-Order Matrimony · Albert H. Martin · ar 202 · Nourishing a Serpent · Anon. · vi Gesta Romanorum 1876 203 · The Famous Darwins · Anon. · bg 206 · Where Washington Got His Character · Rev. J. J. Lewis · ar 212 · The King of Siam · Anon. · bg 214 · A d’Artagnan of To-Day · Olive M. Briggs · ar; on fencer Lucien de Merignac. 218 · When Little Old New York Was Young · Mary C. Francis · ar 226 · Be Industrious · Benjamin Franklin · ms (r) 227 · How Women Manage Men · Belden Thomas · ar 229 · Suppose Everything Born Should Live? · C. F. Carter · ar 235 · The Honor of Labor · Thomas Carlyle · ms (r) 236 · American Brides for Noble Foreigners · Anon. · ar 240 · Where Is the Source of Beauty? · Elizabeth York Miller · ar 246 · The Valentines of Yesterday · Anon. · ar 248 · Some Great Quacks of History · Lyndon Orr · ar 257 · A Very Old English Hymn: The Heavenly Jerusalem · Anon. · sg 259 · Fair Financiers Who Have Fleeced Cautious Capitalists · Mary C. Francis · ar 266 · Henry Clay Barnabee’s Reminiscences [Part 3 of 6] · Henry Clay Barnabee · mm 278 · Dwarfs and Giants of the Rail · Albert Britt · ar 282 · Consolation · Fannie Elton Morris · pm 283 · When Ugliness Attracts · W. H. Cullen · ar 294 · Sleep [from Henry IV, Part II] · William Shakespeare · ms Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 295 · Stageland · Anon. · cl 306 · Who Is the Rightful King of France? · Katherine Douglass · ar 316 · Melodramas of the Banks · Gilson Willets · ar 323 · The Doctor Who Bullied Bismarck · Anon. · ar 325 · The Longest Beard in the World · Anon. · ar; of Valentine Tapley, twelve feet. 326 · The Oldest House and the Oldest Bell · Anon. · ar; in Santa Fe. 328 · The Dogs of Law · Frank M. White · ar 336 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 13: “Parsifal” · Helen Keyes · cl 343 · The Triumphal Progress of the Water-Wagon · Gerald Hoover · ar 351 · Types of Fair Women · Anon. · cl 361 · The Skeptic · William F. McCormack · pm 362 · Dared Death at Jail Doors for Liberty · Horace Green · ar 372 · Great Trophies of Big Game · Walter L. Beasley · ar Second Section 193 · Fate Throws the Dice [Part 1 of 4] · Albert Payson Terhune · sl 208 · George Washington · Thomas Jefferson · ar (r) 209 · A Hired Hero · Jonathan Sharp · ss 212 · Valentine’s Day · Charles Lamb · ms (r) 213 · The Smack in School · W. P. Palmer · pm (r) 214 · The Proving of Plaistead · Reginald Wright Kauffman · ss 220 · Spiritual Force · Thomas Carlyle · ms (r) 221 · The Death of Colonel Newcome · William Makepeace Thackeray · ex (r); from The Newcomes. 222 · Happiness · Jane Austen · ms (r) 223 · Graydon’s Chance [Part 2 of 4] · John Barton Oxford · sl 238 · Little Great Men · Oliver Goldsmith · ms (r) 239 · Abraham Lincoln · Phillips Brooks · ar (r) 240 · The Blue Ring · Clover Leist · ss 246 · My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night · Stephen Collins Foster · sg (r) 247 · Homesick fer Missoury · Florence Moloso Riis · ss 251 · The Stream of Life · Arthur Hugh Clough · pm (r) 252 · The Great Stone Face · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The National Era Jan 24 1850 254 · How to Live · J. Keble · ms (r) 255 · The Voice of the Dead [Part 4 of 5] · Amos Henry Andrews · sl 270 · I Remember, I Remember · Thomas Hood · pm Friendship’s Offering 1826, as “Stanzas” 271 · Old Granny Lee · Anne Story Allen · ss 275 · Pippa’s Song · Robert Browning · ex (r); from Pippa Passes. 276 · Gioacchino Rossini · Anon. · bg 277 · A Winter Night’s Tale · Ludwig Lewisohn · ss 281 · Culture · Matthew Arnold · ms (r) 282 · Ballad of the Oyster · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm (r) 283 · Into the Primitive [Part 4 of 6] · Robert Ames Bennet · sl 299 · For A’ That and A’ That · Robert Burns · pm (r) 300 · The Will of Sarah Onderdop · Maarten Maartens · ss 309 · Queen Elizabeth/Amy Robsart · Sir Walter Scott · ex (r); from Kenilworth. 311 · Late Wisdom · George Crabbe · pm (r) 312 · The Homes of England · Felicia Dorothea Hemans · pm Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Apr 1827 314 · The Owners of Six-Horse Mine · Seward W. Hopkins · ss 321 · The Goodness of God · John Ruskin · ms (r) 322 · Her Splendid Sin [Part 5 of 6] · Headon Hill · sl 336 · Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep · Emma Hart Willard · pm (r) 337 · The Black Hand · Chauncey C. Hotchkiss · ss 340 · Purpose · H. D. Thoreau · ms (r) 341 · Thrust Upon Him [Part 7 of 7] · Peter Carpenter · sl 352 · By Command of the Queen · Garrett Geerlings · ss 358 · Robinson Crusoe and Friday · Daniel Defoe · ex (r); from The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 361 · The Feud of Gladness · Walter Hackett · nv

The Scrap Book [v5 #3, March 1908] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 25¢, 188+192pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. First Section 375 · Woman and the Ballot · Arthur B. Reeve · ar 386 · Our One Order of Nobility · William Ardleigh · ar 392 · The Kiss · Estelle Duclo · pm 395 · The Father of Forty Children · George B. Davis · ar 400 · Uncle Sam’s Titled Sons-in-Law an Uncertain Lot · R. D. Stevens · ar 404 · Fantastic Fanaticisms · C. F. Carter · ar 412 · The Wizardry of Mathematics · Orrin Lake · ar 419 · Men Who Have Dared and Won · Edwin Wildman · ar 429 · Comparative Heights of Kings and Queens · Count Savarin · ar 432 · The Confessions of a Dictionary-Maker · Alvan F. Sanborn · ar 435 · The Ten Greatest Americans · Alston Ellis · ar 442 · Treasuretroves · Aloysius Coll · pm 444 · The Edison of Antiquity · Robert Clavering · ar; on Hero of Alexandria. 447 · Sleep [from Henry V] · William Shakespeare · ms Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 449 · Henry Clay Barnabee’s Reminiscences [Part 4 of 6] · Henry Clay Barnabee · mm 461 · Aristocrats of Dogdom · Anon. · ar 464 · Letters That Wait for the Dead to Speak · E. L. Bacon · ar; on spiritualism. 472 · The Return of Wu and Takahira · Anon. · ar 476 · England’s Ablest Criminal · S. Yard · ar; on Charles Peace. 479 · The Eternal City Restored · James R. Ainsworth · ar 484 · Sleepwalkers and the Wonderful Things They’ve Done · Olin Orr · ar 492 · Great Inventions in the Embryo · Albert H. Martin · ar 499 · Stageland · The Critic’s Wife · cl 510 · Strange Facts About Sleep · A. W. Utting · ar 512 · Kidnappers of Royalty · George Von Barnfeldt · ar 518 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 14: “Falstaff” · Helen Keyes · cl 520 · How New York Treats Couples That Wish to Marry · Anon. · ar 522 · A Man with a Rogue’s Gallery in His Brain · Frank Marshall White · ar 530 · Maryland, My Maryland · James Ryder Randall · pm (r) 532 · Take Your Pen in Hand · William Leslie French · ar 537 · Types of Fair Women · Anon. · cl 548 · Huge Diamonds Lure Shrewd Thieves · Izola Forrester · ar 555 · What Is “Cat-Fear”? · Rudolph Bonning · ar 558 · Millionaire Lick’s Strange Way of Avenging His Slighted Love · C. F. Carter · ar Second Section 385 · Secret Lives: A Tale of the Contraband [Part 1 of 6] · Stephen Chalmers · sl 399 · The Skeleton in the Closet · William Makepeace Thackeray · ar (r) 400 · The Girl and the Code · Marguerite Tracy · ss 402 · Meeting at Night · Robert Browning · pm (r); A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press 1895 403 · The Heart of a Woman: a Fantasy · J. L. Perez; translated, uncredited · vi; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the Yiddish. 404 · Their Golden Wedding · Mary C. Francis · ss 407 · Fate Throws the Dice [Part 2 of 4] · Albert Payson Terhune · sl 421 · The Ninety and Nine · Elizabeth C. Clephane · pm The Children’s Hour 1868 422 · The Thunder Lizard · Joseph C. Lincoln · ss 428 · Here or Nowhere · Thomas Carlyle · ms (r) 429 · The Welcome · Thomas Davis · sg (r) 430 · On the Queen’s Service · Tudor Jenks · ss 433 · Self-Reliance · Ralph Waldo Emerson · ms (r) 434 · Ivry: A Song of the Huguenots · Lord Macaulay · pm (r); A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, Riverside Press 1895 436 · Graydon’s Chance [Part 3 of 4] · John Barton Oxford · sl 451 · Sancho Panza’s First Case · Miguel de Cervantes · ex 1615; from Don Quixote de la Mancha. 453 · Wealth and Culture · Matthew Arnold · ms (r) 454 · At Encanto Pass · Thomas R. Ybarra · ss 459 · The Life Serene · Plutarch · ms (r) 460 · Sally in Our Alley · Henry Carey · pm 1715 462 · Masters of Life · Hiram Tong · ss 467 · Gifts [from “Sunday Up the River”] · James Thomson · pm The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, Reeves and Turner 1880 468 · The Delights of Literature · Cicero · ar (r) 469 · The Living Present · Jeremy Taylor · ms (r) 470 · Into the Primitive [Part 5 of 6] · Robert Ames Bennet · sl 484 · A Revelation of the Night · Arthur W. Peach · ss 486 · We’ll Go No More a Roving · Lord Byron · pm Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, J. & J. Harper 1830 487 · Abroad with a Circus · Chall Pancoast · ss 491 · Vain Man · George Eliot · ms (r) 492 · The Village Blacksmith · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm Ballads and Other Poems, John Owen 1842 494 · The Land of Spoiled Bachelors · Kolomon Mikszath; translated, uncredited · ss; newly translated for Scrap Book.; translated from the Hungarian. 496 · When the Town Went Mad · Eleanor H. Sayles · ss 501 · Hymn of the Poets · Arthur O’Shaughnessy · pm (r) 502 · The Voice of the Dead [Part 5 of 5] · Amos Henry Andrews · sl 515 · Immortality · Henry David Thoreau · ms (r) 516 · Lament of the Irish Immigrant · Lady Dufferin · pm (r) 518 · Her Splendid Sin [Part 6 of 6] · Headon Hill · sl 534 · To Dianeme · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648 535 · The Inchcape Rock · Robert Southey · pm 1802 537 · The Lady in the Elevator · William Loren Curtis · nv 576 · Independence in Action · Seneca · ms (r)

The Scrap Book [v5 #4, April 1908] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 25¢, 188+192pp, pulp) Details supplied by Denny Lien. First Section 563 · Law—a Business Career · Arthur B. Reeve · ar 572 · Tricks of the Tramp Trade · John J. Slavin · ar 575 · Famous Women Composers · March Haring · ar 584 · The Attack on Fort Sumter... · Edmund Clarence Stedman · pm New York World Apr 16 1861 587 · When They Thought Tweed Was Crazy · Olin Orr · ar 597 · Men Who Have Squandered Their Countries’ Millions · H. F. Thurston · ar 606 · The Auto as a Fire-Fighter · Edward Hungerford · ar 611 · Speeding Up the Words · Albert H. Martin · ar; on stenography etc.. 618 · When the Tulip-Craze Hit Holland · E. B. Simmons · ar 623 · Mad Monarchs Who Have Gibbered on Europe’s Thrones · Lewis H. Endicott · ar 631 · Fifty Years with the Stars · J. B. Haines · ar 637 · How Fortune Forced a Good Bargain on James Gordon Bennett, Sr. · Anon. · ar 644 · Dies Irae · Anonymous; translated by M. H. Bright · sg; translated from Latin. 646 · Stageland · The Critic’s Wife · cl 656 · Should Women Propose? · Marian Morton · ar 660 · Famous Women Who Are Buried in Westminster Abbey · Helen King Robinson · ar 670 · Lost! · Ada Patterson · ar; on missing persons. 676 · Ready for War in the Clouds · R. S. Thomasson · ar; on Zeppelins etc.. 680 · Where the Martyr Fell · Anon. · ar; on Lincoln’s box in Ford Theater. 682 · Men and Women with Fingers That See · E. L. Bacon · ar; on famous blind people. 690 · Men Who Have Wished to Exterminate the Race · Orson Welling · ar 694 · The World’s Great Operas, No. 15: “Tristan and Isolde” · Helen Keyes · cl 699 · Chins · Harvey E. Conard · ar 701 · Types of Fair Women · Anon. · cl 712 · The Lure of Sunken Treasure · Gilson Willets · ar 719 · Jekylls and Hydes in Real Life · Gustavus Myers · ar 722 · Heroes of Lost Causes · Remsen Jarvis · ar 730 · Who Can Tell? · Harry Larkyn · pm (r) 733 · Henry Clay Barnabee’s Reminiscences [Part 5 of 6] · Henry Clay Barnabee · mm 747 · The Devil · Gerald Whiting · ar 750 · Conscience · Lord Byron · pm (r) Second Section 579 · The Three Crimson Pearls [Part 1 of 5] · Parke Rogers · sl 595 · Pinkie · Katharine Metcalf Roof · ss 600 · Morning and Evening: Two Hymns · John Keble · sg (r) 602 · At the Darkest Hour · Ludwig Lewisohn · ss 606 · The Lark Now Leaves His Wat’ry Nest · Sir William Davenant · pm (r) 607 · Moses and the Green Spectacles · Oliver Goldsmith · ex (r); from The Vicar of Wakefield. 608 · Aphorisms · George Meredith · ms (r) 609 · Secret Lives: A Tale of the Contraband [Part 2 of 6] · Stephen Chalmers · sl 621 · Fashion · William Hazlitt · ar (r) 622 · Oft in the Stilly Night · Thomas Moore · pm The Irish Melodies: National and Harmonius 1825 623 · The Test · Raymond Drake Halsey · ss 629 · The White Mule Claim · Chauncey C. Hotchkiss · ss 638 · Home-Thoughts from Abroad · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Robert Browning 1845 639 · An Adventure in Exile: A Sentimental Comedy [Part 1 of 6] · Richard Duffy · sl 654 · My Psalm · John Greenleaf Whittier · pm The Atlantic Monthly Aug 1859, uncredited 656 · Cigarette’s Supreme Moment · Ouida · ex (r); from Under Two Flags. 658 · The Surviving Spark · Captain M. B. Stewart, U.S.A. · ss 664 · Mrs. Sparsit · Charles Dickens · ex (r); from Hard Times. 665 · Broken Friendship · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · ex 1797; from Christabel. 666 · Siren Gold · Hiram Tong · ss 675 · The Life Earnest · J. Martineau · ms (r) 676 · The End of Arbaces · E. Bulwer-Lytton · ex (r); from The Last Days of Pompeii. 678 · Fate Throws the Dice [Part 3 of 4] · Albert Payson Terhune · sl 691 · Present Appreciation · Jean Paul Richter · ms (r) 692 · Apostrophe to the Ocean [from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto IV] · Lord Byron · pm John Murray 1818 694 · All Her Glory · Tracy Douglas · ss 696 · Fear No More the Heat of the Sun [from Cymbeline] · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 697 · Wyoming Sociology · H. Armstrong Roberts · ss 703 · A Call to Courage · Marcus Antonius · ms (r) 704 · Graydon’s Chance [Part 4 of 4] · John Barton Oxford · sl 719 · Afterglow · Porter Emerson Browne · ss 721 · Vocation · Ralph Waldo Emerson · ms (r) 722 · When the Blood Runs Warm · William Mailly · ss 727 · Into the Primitive [Part 6 of 6] · Robert Ames Bennet · sl 737 · May to April · Philip Freneau · pm (r) 738 · Life · Anna Laetitia Barbauld · pm The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1825 739 · Pitfall and Snare · Bruce Boyd · nv 768 · The Man That Wins · Charlotte Bronte · ms (r)