Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking line of it was this: "The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y."What an inestimable boon it would have been if all the corporeal and ...
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Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking line of it was this: "The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y."What an inestimable boon it would have been if all the corporeal and spiritual facts pertaining to man had thus been tunefully and logically inculcated in our youthful minds! But what we gained in anatomy, music and philosophy was meagre.The other day I became confused. I needed a ray of light. I turned back to those school days for aid. But in all the nasal harmonies we whined forth from those hard benches I could not recall one that treated of the voice of agglomerated mankind.In other words, of the composite vocal message of massed humanity.In other words, of the Voice of a Big City
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Add this copy of The Voice of the City to cart. $12.50, fair condition, Sold by Folded Corner Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Endicott, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1908 by The Mcclure Company.
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Fair/good in Very Good/Fine jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾-7¾Tall; Type: Book The book is a collection of numerous short stories by O Henry. The book has a Gilt-stamped red cloth cover. The hinges are loose and the covers are faded and worn from age. The pages are clean and tight.
Add this copy of The Voice of the City to cart. $113.96, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1908 by Doubleday, Page & Company.
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Very Good in a Fair price clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Top half of rear flap missing. 3 inch open tear at spine crown. Few small open tears along panel edges. Foxing along top text block edge.
