New brooms
By: by Robert J. Shores.
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill company
Published: 1913
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Table of contents: title: Contents.-A philosophical cook.-A bachelor on women.-On pensioning writers.-A puritan in Bohemia.-An arraignment of originality.-A flattering tribute.-The riddle of a dream.-Beds for the bad.-Is Chesterton a man alive?-From a hunchback.-From a hotel sponge.-From Sarah Shelfworn.-From Anna Pest.-From Seth Shirtless.-Sartor-psychology.-Mr. Body protest.-On a certain condescension in fashion writers.-Of looking backward.-The literary life.-The poetic license.-The necessity for beggars.-The abuses of adversity.-The science of making enemies.-The fate of Falstaff.-The reward of merit.-The blessings of the blind.-A tale of a mad poet's wife.-The lockstep.-The fruit of fame.