These verses of Mr. Bangs’s have appeared from time to time in the various Harper Periodicals, and elsewhere. OUT IN THE COLD COBWEBS FROM A LIBRARY CORNER By John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS MDCCCXCIX Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers. Harper & Brothers All rights reserved. TO SISTER ANNE CONTENTS PAGE 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 Modesty 24 My Lord the Book 25 The Bibliomiser 26 The “Collector” 27 A Reader 28 Fate! 29 A Pleasing Thought 30 Books vs. “Books,” by a Bibliomaniac 31 A Confession 33 The Edition de Looks 35 A Pessimistic View 1
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