Friday, September 21, 2012
"A Drift-Log on the Mississippi" (1849-1850)
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Or, a literary curiosity from The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist , 1849-50.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
September
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From this 1825 edition of James Thomson's The Seasons White rabbits and all that. Welcoming in Autumn with a poem or two from Helen ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Belated Happy Birthday, Walter Scott
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I missed Walter Scott's birthday - August 15th, for those of you who want to send a card next year. If this had been 1871 instead of 201...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
On the New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Sad news out of New Orleans: last night, the New York Times reported that the Times-Picayune looks set to face severe cuts, including t...
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Kipling and America
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Kipling, at home in Vermont I've been reading some Kipling recently, for circuitous reasons (mainly Peter Bellamy ), and it's hi...
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