Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 2, No 3
Articles in this issue
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A note on May's origins in the Roman festival calendar, where almost every day was a celebration, and its association with Flora's festival, which gave us May Day and its floral rites.
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An account of the first marriage in Plymouth Colony in May 1621 between Edward Winslow and Susanna White, widow of the father of Peregrine White — the first child born of English parents in New England.
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A brief editorial question whether Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem 'Bill and Joe' might be the finest lyric in the English language, inviting readers to consider the case.
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A vivid passage from James Lane Allen describing May as the month when nature is wholly absorbed in the business of reproduction, and the author's Boston garden as a microcosm of history's dramas played out among birds.
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Dr. George W. Webster, President of the Illinois State Board of Health, warns that whisky lowers vitality and promotes typhoid fever, prompting the editor to invite the rebuttal of Kentucky.
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A comic anecdote about a sensitive school janitor who resigns after finding notices on the blackboard asking him to 'find the multiplicand' and 'find the least common multiple', fearing he will be accused of theft.
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A brief note on Count Leo Tolstoi's declaration that his sympathies in the Russo-Japanese War lie with the laboring people of both countries, deceived by their governments into fighting against their own conscience.