Page 5 - Poetry-Books

CONTENTS

Introduction, by Moira Allen .............................................................. 5

Part 1: For the Love of Books ................................................... 7
The Art of Book-Keeping, by Laman Blanchard ............................... 9
The Future of the Classics ................................................................. 13
A Book, Or a Riddle, by Hannah More ............................................. 15
The Book-Hunter, by Frank Dempster Sherman ............................. 15
Picture-Books in Winter, by Robert Louis Stevenson ...................... 17
The Country Squire, by Tomas Yriarte ............................................. 18
Old Books ........................................................................................... 20
Too Many Books, by Robert Leighton ...............................................22
De Libris, by Cosmo Monkhouse ....................................................... 23
The Sultan of My Books, by Edmund Gosse .................................... 24
Forgotten Books, by Frank Dempster Sherman ...............................27
The Library, by Frank Dempster Sherman ....................................... 28
Ballade of Poor Book-Worms, by Alice Williams Brotherton ........ 30

Part 2: The Writing Life .......................................................... 31
Dear Editor .......................................................................................... 33
Ad Interim–Ad Diem–Ad Damnum! by Margaret Vandegrift ....... 36
A Writer ............................................................................................... 37
A Literary Success .............................................................................. 39
“Something Humorous,” by Margaret Vandegrift .......................... 40
Ballade of Neglected Merit, by Andrew Lang ................................... 41
A Mad Poet, by Nat Lee ..................................................................... 42
The New Play, by George Birdseye ................................................... 43
In Advance, by Bessie Chandler ........................................................ 44
The Curse (A Warning to Editors, by Robertson Trowbridge ........ 45
The Truth About It, by Mrs .M.P. Handy ........................................ 46
The Bitter Soliloquery of a Lesser Poet, by Anthony Morehead .... 47
Revision, by Esther B. Tiffany ........................................................... 48
Uncertain, by Margaret Vandegrift .................................................. 49
First Appearance in Type, by Oliver Wendell Holmes .................... 50
Hard to Suit ......................................................................................... 51
Ballade of Rejected MS, by Andrew Hussy Allen .............................. 52
Ballade of a Rejecter of MS, by Tudor Jenks ..................................... 53
The Glacier versus the Editor, by Charlotte W. Thurston ............. 54
With Pen and Ink, by Walter Learned .............................................. 55
A Purpose, by Margaret Vandegrift .................................................. 56
The Dialect Tale, by Margaret Vandegrift ........................................ 57
A Complaint, by Louisa Trumbull Cogswell .................................... 58