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Impertinent PoemsCooke Edmund Vance Impertinent Poems A PRE-IMPERTINENCEAnticipating the intelligent critic of "Impertinent Poems," it may well be remarked that the chief impertinence is in calling them poems. Be that as it may, the editors and publishers of "The Saturday Evening Post," "Success"...

Toppleton's Client: or, A Spirit in ExileBangs John Kendrick Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile CHAPTER I INTRODUCING MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON Mr. Hopkins Toppleton, Barrister of London and New York, was considered by his intimates a most fortunate young man. He was accounted the happy posses...

Verse and WorseGraham Harry Verse and Worse AUTHOR'S PREFACE With guilty, conscience-stricken tears,I offer up these rhymes of mineTo children of maturer years(From Seventeen to Ninety-nine).A special solace may they beIn days of second infancy. The frenzied mother who observesThis volume in her ...

Fibble, D.D.Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb Fibble, D.D PART ONE Being a Card to the Public from the Pen of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D. The Young Nuts of America IT is with a feeling of the utmost reluctance, amounting – if I may use so strong a word – to distress, that I take my pen in hand to i...

Adventures of BindleHerbert George Jenkins Adventures of Bindle THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END There are Fairies in the city,There are Fairies on the down,When Wee Hughie comes from IrelandTo visit London Town. There is sunshine in the dungeon,There is starlight in the grave,If June will but rememb...

The Wit of WomenSanborn Kate The Wit of Women / Fourth Edition PROEM.1 We are coming to the rescue,Just a hundred strong;With fun and pun and epigram,And laughter, wit, and song;With badinage and repartee,And humor quaint or bold,And stories that are stories,Not several æons old; With parody and ...

Her Ladyship's ElephantWells David Dwight Her Ladyship's Elephant A WORD TO THE WISE A well-known English novelist once told me that of all his published works – and their name is legion – one only had been founded on fact, and that one his critics united in condemning as impossible and unnatural...

At the Sign of the Jack O'LanternReed Myrtle At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern I The End of the Honeymoon It was certainly a queer house. Even through the blinding storm they could distinguish its eccentric outlines as they alighted from the stage. Dorothy laughed happily, heedless of the fact th...

Lost DiariesBaring Maurice Lost Diaries I FROM THE DIARY OF SMITH MINOR ST JAMES'S SCHOOL, September, 1884.Sunday. – Yesterday afternoon was a half-holiday we were playing prisoners base exept four boys who were gardening with Mrs Wickham. Peel hit Bell by mistake with all his force with the pic-...

Bits of BlarneyR. Shelton Mackenzie Bits of Blarney TO J. S. REDFIELD, ESQMy Dear Sir: – The deified heroes of the Norse mythology are believed to spend their afternoons in drinking something stronger than lemonade out of their enemies' skulls, and some ill-natured persons, seizing on the idea, h...