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# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Concentration

CONCENTRATION
ISN'T it just simply terrible the way the Balkans are bombarding Venice… all those beautiful Doges and things, you know.
I suppose there will be nothing left, just simply nothing, of the city that Byron wrote about in—in—what was it? Oh, yes, in "Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came."
That's one comforting thing to think of if this country ever gets into war, isn't it?—I mean that we haven't any of those lovely old things that can be bombarded, you know.
I suppose if we ever did get into war someone like Edison would invent something quick, you know, and it would be all over in a few hours.
Isn't inventive science wonderful! Just simply wonderful!
It's so—so—well, so dynamic, if you get what I mean. Isn't it?
Don't you just dote on dynamic things?
Dynamic personalities, especially.
I've often thought if I had it to do over again I'd go in less for psychics and more for dynamics. ​But then there are so many things that a modern thinker must keep up with, aren't there?
And it's easy enough to concentrate one's mind on one or two things, but I often find it terribly difficult to concentrate on ten or twelve different things all at the same time.
And one must if one is to keep up with the very latest in Thought and Life.
Concentration! Concentration! That is the key to it all! Nearly every night when I am alone with my own Ego I go into the Silences for a little period of Spiritual Self-Examination and I always ask myself: "Have I Concentrated today? Really Concentrated? Or have I failed?"
I call these little times my Psychic Inquisitions.
In the hurry of this crowded age one must find time to get alone with one's self, must one not? Fothy Finch has written a beautiful thing about the hurry of this crowded age which I wish everyone could hang over his desk.
Well, I must be going on now. I have a committee meeting for this afternoon. I can't for the life of me remember whether it's about suffrage—Oh, yes, I marched!—or about some relief fund.
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/A Spiritual Dialogue

A SPIRITUAL DIALOGUE
Last night I met Hermione, And eagerly she said to me:
"Thoughts from the ambient everywhere
Electrify our worldly air."
"My soul," I said, "grabs off such hints
As butter, whether pats or prints,
Receives and holds all unaware
Small strands of drifting, golden hair.
But have you thought, O maiden fair,
O, have you thought profoundly of
The psychic consciousness in crows?
Or why the Malay when in love
Wears rubber earrings on his toes?"
The lady shook her lovely head— Twas coiffed divinely—and she said:
"Have you reflected on the part
Primeval instinct plays in Art?
It's simply wonderful the way
Old things grow new from day to day!"
"That's true," I said, "I often ape
The Ape to get my Art in shape— And with the Simian going strong,
Behold, another Rennysawng!"
"Perhaps," she said, "across the verge
Of darkness, from the Cosmic Urge,
The Light is speeding in bright waves,
E'en now to show the way to slaves!"
"The thought," I said, "is cheerful—but
These Swamis will chew betel-nut!"
"Alas!" she said, "alas! too true!
But oh! it's wonderful of you
To sympathize and understand—— (She gestured with a jeweled hand)— "The joy of being understood!"
"Our talk," I said, "has done me good."
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Aren't the Russians Wonderful?

AREN’T THE RUSSIANS WONDERFUL?
AREN'T the Russians marvelous people!
We’ve been taking up Diaghileff in a serious way—our little group, you know—and, really, he’s wonderful!
Who else but Diaghileff could give those lovely Russian things the proper accent?
And accent—if you know what I mean—accent is everything!
Accent! Accent! What would art be without accent?
Accent is coming in—if you get what I mean—and what they call "punch" is going out. I always thought it was a frightfully vulgar sort of thing, anyhow—punch!
The thing I love about the Russians is their Orientalism.
You know, there’s an old saying that if you find a Russian you catch a Tartar . . . or something like that.
I’m sure that is wrong. . . . I get so mixed on quotations. But I always know where I can find them, if you know what I mean.
​But the Russian verve isn't Oriental, is it?
Don't you just dote on verve?
That's what makes Bakst so fascinating, don't you think?—his verve!
Though they do say that the Russian operas don't analyze as well as the German or the Italian ones—if you get what I mean.
Though for that matter, who analyzes them?
One may not know how to analyze an opera, and yet one may know what one likes!
I suppose there will be a frightful lot of imitations of Russian music and ballet now. Don't you just hate imitators?
One finds it everywhere—imitation! It's the sincerest flattery, they say. But that doesn't excuse it, do you think?
There's a girl—one of my friends, she says she is—who is always trying to imitate me. My expressions, you know, and the way I talk and walk, and all that sort of thing.
She gets some of my superficial mannerisms… but she can't quite do my things as if they were her own, you know… there is where the accent comes in again!
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Blouses, Bulgars, and Buttermilk

BLOUSES, BULGARS AND BUTTERMILK
SOME of us—Our Little Group of Advanced Thinkers, you know—are going in for Bulgarian buttermilk.
It came in about the time the Bulgarian blouses did—there was a war over there somewhere, you know, before this big war, that made it fashionable.
But the blouses went out, and the buttermilk stayed in.
It seems there's a Bulgarian by the name of Metchnikoff in Paris who sits down and designs these things—the buttermilk, you know, not the blouses.
Isn't science wonderful—simply wonderful!
We're going to take up Metchnikoff in a serious way. You know what he aims to do is to lengthen life.
The question is: "Should life be lengthened? Or should it not?"
The Leaders of Thought will have to thresh that out soon.
The question of old age is a subtle one, isn't it?
And it's very typical of our times, don't you ​think, that we should discuss the problems of old age?
Other epochs have done it, of course, but not optimistically.
The question enters into everything—even millinery.
I'm having the loveliest hat adapted from a French model—to wear with my lingerie costumes, you know—a wide-brimmed black lace with a black velvet crown.
It's only recently that young women could afford to wear black, even when it was becoming. When Mamma was young it was a sign that youth was past.
And nowadays, age doesn't matter so much one way or another. A person is the age one feels, you know.
Have you thought deeply on Hypnagogic Illusions? We're planning to take them up.
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

* HERMIONE
* AND HER LITTLE GROUP OF SERIOUS THINKERS
* BY
* DON MARQUIS
* AUTHOR OF "THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.," ETC.
* D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
* NEW YORKLONDON
* 1923
Copyright. 1916, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
| | PAGE |
| Proem—Introducing Some of Hermione's Friends | 1 |
| Sincerity in the Home | 5 |
| Vibrations | 8 |
| Aren't the Russians Wonderful? | 11 |
| How Suffering Purifies One! | 13 |
| Understanding and One's Own Home | 16 |
| Thoughts of Heredity and Things | 19 |
| The Swami Brandranath | 22 |
| Fothergil Finch, the Poet of Revolt | 24 |
| How the Swami Happened to Have Seven Wives | 29 |
| The Romantic Old Days | 32 |
| Hermione's Boswell Explains | 34 |
| Symbols and Dew-Hopping | 36 |
| The Song of the Snore | 39 |
| Ballade of Understanding | 45 |
| Hermione on Fashions and War | 47 |
| Urges and Dogs | 50 |
| Moods and Poppies | 53 |
| Concentration | 57 |
| Soul Mates | 59 |
| Hermione Takes Up Literature | 62 ​ |
| The World Is Getting Better | 66 |
| War and Art | 68 |
| A Spiritual Dialogue | 71 |
| Will the Best People Receive the Superman Socially? | 73 |
| The Parasite Woman Must Go! | 76 |
| The House Beautiful | 79 |
| Mamma Is So Mid-Victorian | 81 |
| Voke Easeley and His New Art | 84 |
| Hermione on Superficiality | 89 |
| Isis, the Astrologist | 92 |
| The Simple Home Festivals | 96 |
| Citronella and Stegomyia | 100 |
| Hermione's Salon Opens (Verse) | 104 |
| The Perfume Factory | 109 |
| On Being Other-Worldly | 112 |
| Parents, and Their Influence | 114 |
| Fothergil Finch Tell of His Revolt Against Organized Society | 117 |
| The Exotic and the Unemployed | 120 |
| Souls and Toes | 123 |
| Kultur and Things | 128 |
| The Spirit of Christmas | 131 |
| Poor Dear Mamma and Fothergil Finch | 134 ​ |
| Prison Reform and Poise | 139 |
| An Example of Psychic Power | 141 |
| Some Beautiful Thoughts | 145 |
| The Bourgeois Element and Background | 148 |
| Taking Up the Liquor Problem | 150 |
| The Japanese are Wonderful, If You Get What I Mean | 154 |
| She Refuses to Give Up the Cosmos | 157 |
| The Cave Man | 159 |
| The Little Group Gives a Pagan Masque | 163 |
| Sympathy | 167 |
| Blouses, Bulgars, and Buttermilk | 171 |
| Twilight Sleep | 173 |
| Intuition | 175 |
| Stimulating Influences | 178 |
| Politics | 181 |
| Hermione on Psychical Research | 183 |
| Envoy—(Hermione the Deathless) | 187 |
HERMIONE
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Envoy—(Hermione the Deathless)

ENVOY
HERMIONE, THE DEATHLESS
She will not die!—in Brainstorm Slum
Fake, Nut and Freak Psychologist
Eternally shall buzz and hum,
And Spook and Swami keep their tryst
With Thinkers in a Mental Mist.
You threaten her with Night and Sorrow?
Out of the Silences, I wist,
More Little Groups will rise tomorrow!
The lips of Patter ne'er are dumb,
The Futile Mills shall grind their grist
Of sand from now till Kingdom Come;
The Winds of Bunk are never whist.
You scowl and shake an honest fist— You threaten her with Night and Sorrow?
Go slay one Pseudo-Scientist,
More Little Groups will rise tomorrow!
With Fudge to feed the Hungry Bum She plays the Girl Philanthropist—
Each pinchbeck, toy Millenium
She swings, a Bangle, at her wrist— Blithe Parrot and Pert Egoist,
You threaten her with Night and Sorrow? Hermiones will aye persist! More Little Groups will rise tomorrow!
She, whom Prince Platitude has kissed,
You threaten her with Night and Sorrow?
Slay her by thousands, friend—but list: More Little Groups will rise tomorrow!
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Ballade of Understanding

BALLADE OF UNDERSTANDING
    "Does not the World's stupidity
    At times make Serious Thinkers fret?"
    I asked the fair Hermione;
       "Sometimes" she said, "and yet… and yet…
    We feel we owe the World a debt!"
    She waved a slim, bejeweled hand,
    She brooded on some vague regret….
       "I hope," she sighed, "you'll Understand?"
    "Is not your high Philosophy
    Too subtle for the Mob to get?"
    I asked…. She pondered seriously;
       "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…"
    She trifled with an amulet
    Imported from some Orient land….
    "What fish can burst the Cosmic Net?…
       I hope," she sighed, "you'll Understand."
    "Art, Science and Psychology,
    Causes that rise and shine and set, ​
    Do all these never weary thee?"—
       "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…
    Would Thought and Life have ever met
    Unless"… She paused. Her lashes fanned
    Her eyes, with tears of ardor wet….
       "I hope," she sighed, "you'll understand!"
    "Princess, is Bull the One Best Bet?"—
       "Sometimes," she said, "and yet… and yet…"
    She mused, and then; in accents bland,
       "I hope," she said, "you'll Understand!"
# Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers/Cover

Cover and dust jacket
Hermione
Don Marquis
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/1/Title page

HISTORY OF IOWA
From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
FOUR VOLUMES
By BENJAMIN F. GUE
Illustrated with Photographic Views of the Natural Scenery of
WITH PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE MEN AND WOMEN OF IOWA
VOLUME I
THE PIONEER PERIOD
SEAL OF THE STATE OF IOWA
THE CENTURY HISTORY COMPANY
136 Liberty Street
New York City
# History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/2

* Title page
* Table of Contents
* List of Illustrations
* Preface
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
* Chapter XXI
* Chapter XXII
* Chapter XXIII
* Chapter XXIV
* Chapter XXV
* Chapter XXVI
* Chapter XXVII
* Chapter XXVIII
* Chapter XXIX
* Chapter XXX
* Chapter XXXI
# Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates is a novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge, first published in 1865. The novel takes place in the Netherlands, and is a very colorful fictional portrait of early 19-century Dutch life, as well as an inspirational tale of youthful honor.Warning: template has been deprecated.
"Once upon a time, when Saint Nicholas was on the earth."—p. 48.
HANS BRINKER;
OR,
THE SILVER SKATES.
A
STORY OF LIFE IN HOLLAND.
BY MARY E. DODGE,
AUTHOR OF "THE IRVINGTON STORIES."
ILLUSTRATED BY
F. O. C. DARLEY and THOMAS NAST.
THIRD EDITION.
NEW YORK: JAMES O'KANE, 484 BROADWAY. SAN FRANCISCO: H. H. BANCROFT & CO.
MDCCCLXVII.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, By M. E. DODGE, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court, for the District of New Jersey.
M'CREA AND MILLER, STEREOTYPERS.
CONTENTS
Illustrations.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Hamilton Hendricks v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
223 U.S. 178
Hamilton Hendricks v. United States
Argued: January 25, 1912. --- Decided: February 19, 1912
Mr. Alfred S. Bennett for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from page 179 intentionally omitted]
Assistant Attorney General Denison and Mr. William W. Lemmond, Assistant Attorney, for defendant in error.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the the opinion of the court:

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# Hamilton v. Alabama (368 U.S. 52)

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Hamilton v. Alabama, 368 U.S. 52 (1961), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. Hamilton was charged in an Alabama court with breaking and entering a dwelling at night with intent to ravish, and had pleaded not guilty. He had then been convicted and sentenced to death. The Court ruled unanimously that the absence of counsel at the time of his arraignment violated Hamilton's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
368 U.S. 52
Hamilton v. Alabama
Argued: Oct. 17, 1961. --- Decided: Nov 13, 1961
Constance B. Motley, New York City, for petitioner.
George D. Mentz, Montgomery, Ala., for respondent.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Hamilton v. Alabama (376 U.S. 650)

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## Concurring Opinion

    Black
United States Supreme Court
376 U.S. 650
Hamilton v. Alabama
Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and Oscar W. Adams, Jr., for petitioner.
Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, and Bernard F. Sykes and Owen Bridges, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

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# Hamilton v. Alabama

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* Hamilton v. Alabama (368 U.S. 52)
* Hamilton v. Alabama (376 U.S. 650)
# Hastings Company v. Whitney

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United States Supreme Court
132 U.S. 357
Hastings Company v. Whitney
Gordon E. Cole, for plaintiff in error.
LAMAR, J.

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# Hastings v. Selby Oil & Gas Company

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United States Supreme Court
319 U.S. 348
Hastings v. Selby Oil & Gas Company
Argued: and Submitted April 15, 1943. --- Decided: May 24, 1943
See 320 U.S. 214, 63 S.Ct. 1443, 87 L.Ed. --.
Mr. W. Edward Lee, of Tyler, Tex., for petitioners O. L. Hastings et al.
Mr. James D. Smullen, of Austin, Tex., for petitioner Railroad Commission of Texas.
Mr. Dan Moody, of Austin, Tex., for respondents.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Hatahley v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
351 U.S. 173
Hatahley v. United States
Argued: March 26-27, 1956. --- Decided: May 7, 1956
Mr.Norman M. Littell, Washington, D.C., for petitioners.
Mr. Roger P. Marquis, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Hastings v. Selby Oil & Gas Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
319 U.S. 348
Hastings v. Selby Oil & Gas Company
Argued: and Submitted April 15, 1943. --- Decided: May 24, 1943
This is an action in the nature of an equity proceeding brought by the respondents to cancel an order of the Texas Railroad Commission granting petitioners Hastings and Dodson a permit under Rule 37 of the Railroad Commission to drill an oil well. The Respondents contend that the order granting a permit to the petitioners deprives them of property without due process of law, and that the order is invalid as a matter of Texas law. Jurisdiction is rested on diversity of citizenship.
There are no significant differences between the problems presented here and those in Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U.S. 315, 63 S.Ct. 1098, 87 L.Ed. --, decided this day. For the reasons set forth in that opinion, the decision below is reversed and the cause is remanded with instructions to dismiss the complaint.
It is so ordered.
Reversed and remanded.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice ROBERTS, Mr. Justice REED, and Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER dissent for the reasons stated by them in dissent to Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U.S. 315, 63 S.Ct. 1098, 87 L.Ed. --.

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# Hatch v. Coddington

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United States Supreme Court
95 U.S. 48
Hatch v. Coddington

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# Hasten, Ye Faithful, Glad, Joyful, and Holy

From The Harvard Classics, Sacred Writings, Vol. II, 1909-1914; retrieved from hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com
1. Hasten, ye faithful, glad, joyful, and holy, Speed ye to Bethlem to honour the Word; See there the King of angels is born lowly— Oh, come and kneel before him; Oh, come and all adore him; Oh come, oh come, rejoicing to honour the Lord.
2. God of the Godhead, true Light unabated, Mary the Virgin has borne the Adored; True God eternal, begot, uncreated— Oh, come and kneel before him; Oh, come and all adore him; Oh come, oh come, rejoicing to honour the Lord.
3. Sing, all ye angels, till echoes rebounding Swell through your halls, for ever be heard; ‘Glory to God,’ through all heaven resounding— Oh, come and kneel before him; Oh, come and all adore him; Oh come, oh come, rejoicing to honour the Lord.
4. Praise to the Infant, who this day descended; Glory to thee, blessed Jesus adored; Word, in whom two natures join, yet unblended— Oh, come and kneel before him; Oh, come and all adore him; Oh come, oh come, rejoicing to honour the Lord.
# Harper's Weekly/A Humane Word from Satan

[The following letter, signed by Satan and purporting to come from him, we have reason to believe was not written by him, but by Mark Twain. --Editor.]
TO THE EDITOR OF HARPER'S WEEKLY:
Dear Sir and Kinsman,--Let us have done with this frivolous talk. The American Board accepts contributions from me every year: then why shouldn't it from Mr. Rockefeller? In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience-money, as my books will show: then what becomes of the sting when that term is applied to Mr. Rockefeller's gift? The American Board's trade is financed mainly from the graveyards. Bequests, you understand. Conscience-money. Confession of an old crime and deliberate perpetration of a new one; for deceased's contribution is a robbery of his heirs. Shall the Board decline bequests because they stand for one of these offenses every time and generally for both?
Allow me to continue. The charge must persistently and resentfully and remorselessly dwelt upon is that Mr. Rockefeller's contribution is incurably tainted by perjury--perjury proved against him in the courts. IT MAKES US SMILE--down in my place! Because there isn't a rich man in your vast city who doesn't perjure himself every year before the tax board. They are all caked with perjury, many layers thick. Iron-clad, so to speak. If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates. Will you say it isn't infraction of the law, but only annual evasion of it? Comfort yourselves with that nice distinction if you like --FOR THE PRESENT. But by and by, when you arrive, I will show you something interesting: a whole hell-full of evaders! Sometimes a frank law-breaker turns up elsewhere, but I get those others every time.
To return to my muttons. I wish you to remember that my rich perjurers are contributing to the American Board with frequency: it is money filched from the sworn-off personal tax; therefore it is the wages of sin; therefore it is my money; therefore it is I that contribute it; and, finally, it is therefore as I have said: since the Board daily accepts contributions from me, why should it decline them from Mr. Rockefeller, who is as good as I am, let the courts say what they may?
Satan.
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