- Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted stories & otherwise. John Kendrick Bangs had been known as a jokester & prankster; was also known to be the editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine. Take a peak and see how you end up with a grin on your face and in your heart as well. That is honest Bangsian writing.
- Chapters
- A Pessimistic View
- The Master’s Pen—A Confession
- Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)
- Ideas for Sale
- The Author’s Boomerang
- To an Egotistical Biographer
- No Copyright Needed
- Ingredients of Greatness
- A Common Favorite
- Their Pens
- An Unsolved Problem
- The Bibliophile’s Threat
- My Treasures
- A Poet’s Fad
- The Poet Undone
- A Waning Muse
- Modesty
- My Lord the Book
- The Bibliomiser
- The ''Collector''
- A Reader
- Fate!
- A Pleasing Thought
- Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac
- A Confession
- The Edition de Looks
- Napolini’s Error
- My Color
- Contentment in Nature
- The Heroic Gunner
- The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy
- Garrulous Wisdom
- The Perjury of a Rejected Lover
- Maid of Culture
- Not Perfect
- A City Dweller’s Wish
- Where are They?
- Memories
- A Sad State
- Ad Astra per Otium.
- Consolation
- Satisfaction on Reading ''Not One Dissatisfied,'' by Walt Whitman
- To a Withered Rose
- The Worst of Enemies
- Jokes of the Night
- An Autumnal Romance
- The Country in July
- May 30, 1893
- The Curse of Wealth
- The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist
- One of the Nameless Great
- In February Days
- A Change of Ambition
- Message from Mahatmas
- The Gold-seekers
- Ode to a Politician
- Some are Amateurs