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John Bangs

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent DreamJohn Kendrick Bangs Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream CHAPTER I OFF TO BLUNDERLAND IT was one of those dull, drab, depressing days when somehow or other it seemed as if there wasn't anything anywhere for anybody to do. It was raining outdoors, so t...

The IdiotJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot I For some weeks after the happy event which transformed the popular Mrs. Smithers into the charming Mrs. John Pedagog all went well at that lady's select home for single gentlemen. It was only proper that during the honey-moon, at least, of the happy couple...

The Idiot at HomeJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot at Home I BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION "My dear," said the Idiot one morning, as he and his good wife and the two little ones, Mollie and Tommy, sat down at the breakfast-table, "now that we are finally settled in our new house I move we celebrate. Let's g...

Cobwebs from a Library CornerBangs John Kendrick Cobwebs from a Library Corner TOSISTER ANNEBOOKISH A PESSIMISTIC VIEW A little bit of Thackeray,A little bit of Scott,A modicum of Dickens justTo tangle up the plot,A paraphrase of Marryat,Another from Dumas —You ask me for a novel, sir,And I say, ...

The Genial Idiot: His Views and ReviewsJohn Kendrick Bangs The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews I HE DISCUSSES MAXIMS AND PROVERBS ”GOOD!” cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. “Here’s a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Gla...

Half-Hours with the IdiotBangs John Kendrick Half-Hours with the Idiot I AS TO AMBASSADORS' RESIDENCES "I am glad to see that the government is beginning to think seriously of providing Ambassadors' residences at the various foreign capitals to which our Ambassadors are accredited," said the Idio...

A Little Book of ChristmasJohn Kendrick Bangs A Little Book of Christmas A TOAST TO SANTA CLAUS Whene'er I find a man who don'tBelieve in Santa Claus,And spite of all remonstrance won'tYield up to logic's laws,And see in things that lie aboutThe proof by no means dim,I straightway cut that fellow...

Mr. MunchausenBangs John Kendrick Mr. Munchausen / Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder EDITOR’S APOLOGYandDEDICATIONIn order that there may be no misunderstanding as to the why and th...

Olympian NightsJohn Kendrick Bangs Olympian Nights I I Reach Mount Olympus While travelling through the classic realms of Greece some years ago, sincerely desirous of discovering the lurking-place of a certain war which the newspapers of my own country were describing with some vividness, I chanc...

The Dreamers: A ClubJohn Kendrick Bangs The Dreamers: A Club I THE IDEA The idea was certainly an original one. It was Bedford Parke who suggested it to Tenafly Paterson, and Tenafly was so pleased with it that he in turn unfolded it in detail to his friend Dobbs Ferry, claiming its inception as ...