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The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2

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  1. 1A Marvelous Reception
  2. 2The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While
  3. 3Is the Rich Young Man Handicapped?
  4. 4To Teach Trades to Young Workers
  5. 5A College Career — Is It Worth While?
  6. 6Athenian Culture Is America’s Need
  7. 7Notable Neglect of Industrial Arts
  8. 8Belgian Dramatist Criticizes New York
  9. 9What “Punch” Has Meant to England
  10. 10The Old Journalism Colored by the New
  11. 11How to Assimilate the Best in Books
  12. 12Are We Surfeited With Wit and Humor?
  13. 13Woman’s Real Place in Literary Work
  14. 14Race Suicide May Prove a Blessing
  15. 15Worth While to Live in a Large City
  16. 16Making Money Is a Religious Duty
  17. 17Let Doctors Tell What the Matter Is
  18. 18Food as a Prime Factor of Character
  19. 19Dr. W.S. Rainsford a Forceful Figure
  20. 20Lessons That May Be Learned From Birds
  21. 21China Is Seeking Western Learning
  22. 22Love-Letters of the Great
  23. 23Queen Victoria’s Romance
  24. 24Leigh Hunt and His Marianne
  25. 25The Kingly Love of Charles I.
  26. 26Napoleon to His First Love
  27. 27The Fidelity of Washington
  28. 28Brief but Sincere “Old Noll”
  29. 29Poe’s Heart in a Time of Trial
  30. 30The Love of Bismarck
  31. 31An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  32. 32II
  33. 33III
  34. 34The Giant and Pygmy of Bookland
  35. 35The Great Southwest
  36. 36The Empire State of the Future
  37. 37Texas Now Leads in Railways
  38. 38The Land of Corn and Cotton
  39. 39What Statehood Will Mean
  40. 40The Growth of the Gulf Ports
  41. 41Galveston and the Panama Canal
  42. 42All Kinds of Things
  43. 43How Melodrama Was Eclipsed by Truth — Coincidences in Paris Court
  44. 44The First Sight of a White Face — Hunting Down the Shy Negrito
  45. 45How They Construct English in Belgium
  46. 46“A Most Gentlemanly Emperor”
  47. 47Arteries and Veins as a Race-Course
  48. 48One Is in the Lower Pyrenees
  49. 49Weights of the Sexes at Different Ages
  50. 50Spends Ten Months Gazing Into Mirror — Woman’s Average in a Lifetime
  51. 51Animal Endurance Puts Man to Shame
  52. 52Eggs of Various Fowls Much Alike
  53. 53A Check for Thousands on a Pine Shingle
  54. 54Robert Emmet’s Speech of Vindication
  55. 55The Rivals
  56. 56Little Gems From Tennyson
  57. 57How to Tell a Woman’s Age
  58. 58Oddities of Biblical Literature
  59. 59The Prophecies of Bonaparte
  60. 60Rejected Books That Won Fame
  61. 61Con Cregan’s Legacy
  62. 62George III Sought Heaven’s Aid
  63. 63How Punsters Smite the Lyre
  64. 64The Dying Shoemaker
  65. 65I Want to Go to Morrow
  66. 66Finale
  67. 67The Washerwoman’s Song
  68. 68Mr. Caudle Lends Five Pounds
  69. 69How They Got on in the World
  70. 70Rise of a Chore Boy
  71. 71A Student of Fishes
  72. 72Selecting His Aids
  73. 73Father of German Steel
  74. 74Frightened Jay Gould
  75. 75Work Was Too Easy
  76. 76A Soldier of Fortune
  77. 77How Garfield Rose
  78. 78Turned Over Bricks
  79. 79An Oil King’s Start
  80. 80Came Back for More
  81. 81A “Yellow Journal” Glossary
  82. 82Grave, Gay, and Epigrammatic
  83. 83Ancient, but It Goes
  84. 84Riley’s Rye Patch
  85. 85In a Shoe Store
  86. 86At Napoleon’s Tomb
  87. 87The Other Side — Tips for Authors
  88. 88His Impolite Query
  89. 89Artemus Ward’s Advice
  90. 90Lost
  91. 91It Would Not “Down”
  92. 92Laborers Were Plentiful
  93. 93Feminine Arithmetic
  94. 94Far in the Future
  95. 95Crushed
  96. 96In a Street Car
  97. 97Poems by Dickens and Thackeray
  98. 98The Ivy Green
  99. 99The Church Porch
  100. 100World-Famous Bachelors
  101. 101Baruch de Spinoza (Holland — 1632-1677)
  102. 102René Descartes (France — 1596-1650)
  103. 103Sir Isaac Newton (England — 1642-1727)
  104. 104Emanuel Swedenborg (Sweden — 1688-1772)
  105. 105Immanuel Kant (Prussia — 1724-1804)
  106. 106François Marie Arouet Voltaire (France — 1694-1778)
  107. 107Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (England — 1717-1797)
  108. 108Edward Gibbon (England — 1737-1794)
  109. 109Sir Francis Drake (England — 1540-1596)
  110. 110Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany — 1770-1827)
  111. 111John Greenleaf Whittier (United States — 1807-1892)
  112. 112Samuel Jones Tilden (United States — 1814-1886)
  113. 113Little Glimpses of the 19th Century
  114. 114Second Decade
  115. 1151812
  116. 1161813
  117. 1171814
  118. 1181815
  119. 1191816
  120. 1201817
  121. 1211818
  122. 1221819
  123. 1231820
  124. 124Poe and Longfellow on Their Lost Loves
  125. 125Annabel Lee
  126. 126Via Solitaria
  127. 127The Beginnings of Stage Careers — Blanche Bates Balked
  128. 128To Teach or Not to Teach
  129. 129Too Good for Daly’s
  130. 130Miller’s Star of Destiny
  131. 131Storm for Miss Russell
  132. 132Medal Set Mantell Going
  133. 133Gillette Deserted Law
  134. 134Success Follows Failure
  135. 135Bellew Was a Sailor
  136. 136Tributes to Dead Brothers
  137. 137Sir Ector to Sir Launcelot
  138. 138Ingersoll’s Eulogy
  139. 139America’s First Great Poem
  140. 140Thanatopsis
  141. 141Pre-Easter Philosophy
  142. 142Classics From Carlyle
  143. 143Night — View of a City
  144. 144In Nature’s Wilds
  145. 145The Actual Height of Sea Waves
  146. 146Baseball Bards “On Deck” — The Old Enthusiast
  147. 147The Boy Who Keeps the Bats
  148. 148Casey at the Bat
  149. 149Foibles of Literary Men
  150. 150The World’s Fastest Trains
  151. 151The Beginnings of Things
  152. 152A Rescued Poem
  153. 153Evolution
  154. 154A Horoscope of the Months
  155. 155Faults Are Impatience and Anger
  156. 156Traditions of the Month

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