A little bit of information from the author will give you an idea of what the book is about.... I HAVE a miscellaneous collection of books numbering 3,500, and I am fond of the quaint and curious in every line. I am very fond of dogs, birds, and all small pets-a passion not approved of by my wife. My favorite flower is the carnation, and I adore dolls. My favorite hymn is "Bounding Billows." My favorites in fiction are Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," "Don Quixote," and "Pilgrim's Progress." I greatly love Hans ...
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A little bit of information from the author will give you an idea of what the book is about.... I HAVE a miscellaneous collection of books numbering 3,500, and I am fond of the quaint and curious in every line. I am very fond of dogs, birds, and all small pets-a passion not approved of by my wife. My favorite flower is the carnation, and I adore dolls. My favorite hymn is "Bounding Billows." My favorites in fiction are Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," "Don Quixote," and "Pilgrim's Progress." I greatly love Hans Christian Andersen's Tales, and I am deeply interested in folk-lore and fairy tales. I believe in ghosts, in witches, and in fairies. I should like to own a big astronomical telescope, and a twenty-four-tune music box. My heroes in history are Martin Luther, Mme. Lamballe, Abraham Lincoln; my favorite poems are Korner's "Battle Prayer," Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," Newman's "Lead, Kindly Light," Luther's Hymn, Schiller's "The Diver," Horace's "Fons Bandusiae," and Burns' "Cotter's Saturday Night." I dislike Dante and Byron. I should like to have known Jeremiah the prophet, old man Poggio, Horace, Walter Scott, Bonaparte, Hawthorne, Mme. Sontag, Sir John Herschel, Hans Andersen. My favorite actor is Henry Irving; actress, Mme. Modjeska. I dislike "Politics," so called. I should like to have the privilege of voting extended to women. I am unalterably opposed to capital punishment. I favor a system of pensions for noble services in literature, art, science, etc. I approve of compulsory education. If I had my way, I should make the abuse of horses, dogs, and cattle a penal offense; I should abolish all dog laws and dog-catchers, and I would punish severely everybody who caught and caged birds. I dislike all exercise and play all games very indifferently. I love to read in bed. I believe in churches and schools: I hate wars, armies, soldiers, guns, and fireworks. I like music (limited). I have been a great theater-goer. I enjoy the society of doctors and clergymen. My favorite color is red. I do not care particularly for sculpture or for paintings; I try not to become interested in them, for the reason that if I were to cultivate a taste for them I should presently become hopelessly bankrupt. I am extravagantly fond of perfumes. I am a poor diner, and I drink no wine or spirits of any kind: I do not smoke tobacco. I dislike crowds and I abominate functions. I am six feet in height; am of spare build, weigh 160 pounds, and have shocking taste in dress. But I like to have well-dressed people about me. My eyes are blue, my complexion pale, 'my face is shaven, and I incline to baldness. It is only when I look and see how young and fair and sweet my wife is that I have a good opinion of myself. I am fond of the companionship of women, and I have no unconquerable prejudice against feminine beauty. I recall with pride that in twenty-two years of active journalism I have always written in reverential praise of womankind. I favor early marriage. I do not love all children. I have tried to analyze my feelings toward, children, and I think I discover that I love them in so far as I can make pets of them. I believe that, if I live, I shall do my best literary work when I am a grandfather. I GIVE these facts, confessions, and observations for the information of those who, for one reason or another, are applying constantly to me for biographical data concerning myself.
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Very Good. Expanded edition. 12mo. 143pp. Illustrated with 75 original drawings by F. Opper. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in white, top edge gilt. Rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, very good. An attractive copy illustrated by the American political cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. *BAL* 5788.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Expanded edition. 12mo. 143pp. Illustrated with 75 original drawings by F. Opper. Publisher's light green cloth stamped in dark green, top edge gilt. A very good copy in about good original dust jacket. The jacket is modestly dust soiled, shallow chip at head of spine and half-inch chip at tail of spine, partial tearing along edges of spine mended on the back with tape. An attractive copy in the scarce jacket, illustrated by the American political cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. *BAL* 5788.
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