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    Cobwebs from a Library Corner
    Cobwebs from a Library Corner
    Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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    Cobwebs from a Library Corner

    By John Kendrick Bangs

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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    John Kendrick Bangs

    John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) was an American writer and editor best known for his works in the fantasy genre. Bangs began his writing career in the 1880s when he worked for a literary magazine at Columbia College. Later, he held positions at various publications such as Life, Harper's Bazaar and Munsey’s Magazine. Throughout his career he published many novels and short stories including The Lorgnette (1886), Olympian Nights (1902) and Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907).

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      Cobwebs from a Library Corner - John Kendrick Bangs

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      Title: Cobwebs from a Library Corner

      Author: John Kendrick Bangs

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

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER ***

      Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      These verses of Mr. Bangs’s have appeared from time to time in the various Harper Periodicals, and elsewhere.

      OUT IN THE COLD

      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

      PAGE

      BOOKISH

      A Pessimistic View1

      The Master’s Pen—A Confession3

      Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)5

      Ideas for Sale8

      The Author’s Boomerang11

      To an Egotistical Biographer12

      No Copyright Needed13

      Ingredients of Greatness14

      A Common Favorite15

      Their Pens17

      An Unsolved Problem18

      The Bibliophile’s Threat19

      My Treasures20

      A Poet’s Fad21

      The Poet Undone22

      A Waning Muse23

      Modesty24

      My Lord the Book25

      The Bibliomiser26

      The Collector27

      A Reader28

      Fate!29

      A Pleasing Thought30

      Books vs. Books, by a Bibliomaniac31

      A Confession33

      The Edition de Looks35

      WISE AND OTHERWISE

      Napolini’s Error41

      My Color45

      Contentment in Nature47

      The Heroic Gunner49

      The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy52

      Garrulous Wisdom56

      The Perjury of a Rejected Lover58

      Maid of Culture59

      Not Perfect60

      A City Dweller’s Wish61

      Where are They?62

      Memories64

      A Sad State65

      Ad Astra per Otium.66

      Consolation67

      Satisfaction on Reading Not One Dissatisfied, by Walt Whitman68

      To a Withered Rose70

      The Worst of Enemies71

      Jokes of the Night72

      An Autumnal Romance75

      The Country in July76

      May 30, 189378

      The Curse of Wealth80

      The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist83

      One of the Nameless Great86

      In February Days87

      A Change of Ambition89

      Message from Mahatmas91

      The Gold-seekers95

      Ode to a Politician98

      Some are Amateurs101

      BOOKISH

      A PESSIMISTIC VIEW

      A little bit of Thackeray,

      A little bit of Scott,

      A modicum of Dickens just

      To tangle up the plot,

      A paraphrase of Marryat,

      Another from Dumas—

      You ask me for a novel, sir,

      And I say, there you are.

      The pen is greater than the sword,

      Of that there is no doubt.

      The pen for me whene’er I wish

      An enemy to rout.

      A pen, a pad, and say a pint

      Of ink with which to scrawl,

      To put a foe to flight is all

      That’s needed—truly all.

      But when it comes to making up

      A novel in these days

      You do not need a pen at all

      To win the writer’s bays.

      A pair of sharpened scissors and

      A wealth of pure white page

      Will do it if you have at hand

      A pot of mucilage.

      So give to me the scissors keen,

      And give to me the glue,

      And I will fix a novel up

      That’s sure to startle

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