Cobwebs from a Library Corner

by John Kendrick Bangs

57 chapters1h 10mEnglish1899

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This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted stories & otherwise. John Kendrick Bangs had been known as a jokester & prankster; was also known to be the editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine. Take a peak and see how you end up with a grin on your face and in your heart as well. That is honest Bangsian writing. - Summary by AR

Chapters (57)

1A Pessimistic View

2The Master’s Pen—A Confession

3Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)

121

4Ideas for Sale

146

5The Author’s Boomerang

6To an Egotistical Biographer

7No Copyright Needed

8Ingredients of Greatness

9A Common Favorite

10Their Pens

11An Unsolved Problem

12The Bibliophile’s Threat

13My Treasures

14A Poet’s Fad

15The Poet Undone

16A Waning Muse

17Modesty

18My Lord the Book

19The Bibliomiser

20The ''Collector''

21A Reader

22Fate!

23A Pleasing Thought

24Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac

25A Confession

26The Edition de Looks

114

27Napolini’s Error

161

28My Color

114

29Contentment in Nature

105

30The Heroic Gunner

116

31The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy

194

32Garrulous Wisdom

33The Perjury of a Rejected Lover

34Maid of Culture

35Not Perfect

36A City Dweller’s Wish

37Where are They?

38Memories

39A Sad State

40Ad Astra per Otium.

41Consolation

42Satisfaction on Reading ''Not One Dissatisfied,'' by Walt Whitman

115

43To a Withered Rose

44The Worst of Enemies

45Jokes of the Night

46An Autumnal Romance

47The Country in July

48May 30, 1893

49The Curse of Wealth

150

50The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist

148

51One of the Nameless Great

52In February Days

53A Change of Ambition

54Message from Mahatmas

195

55The Gold-seekers

133

56Ode to a Politician

152

57Some are Amateurs

Cobwebs from a Library Corner

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