These verses of Mr. Bangs’s have appearedfrom time to time in the variousHarper Periodicals, and elsewhere.
CONTENTS
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- BOOKISH
- A Pessimistic View 1
- The Master’s Pen—A Confession 3
- Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast) 5
- Ideas for Sale 8
- The Author’s Boomerang 11
- To an Egotistical Biographer 12
- No Copyright Needed 13
- Ingredients of Greatness 14
- A Common Favorite 15
- Their Pens 17
- An Unsolved Problem 18
- The Bibliophile’s Threat 19
- My Treasures 20
- A Poet’s Fad 21
- The Poet Undone 22
- A Waning Muse 23
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