Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 4, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Poem by Matthew Arnold opening the November 1906 issue, urging a weary fighter to charge once more before falling silent.
- Poem by Theodore Tilton on seeing the hidden thought and soul of God animating all of nature.
- Poem by Winfred Chandler in which graybeards and youths each speak of love as something one understands at a different stage of life.
- An explanatory note on Dr. L. Zamenhof's Esperanto, outlining its grammar and phonetic spelling, giving a sample paragraph, and advertising free Tuesday-evening lessons at the Rogers Building (Technology) in Boston.
- Poem counseling the reader to take life easy and find today's sweetness in yesterday's bitterness.
- An item, credited to the Figaro, tracing the word chauffeur to bands of soot-faced robbers in 1790s France who burned the soles of victims' feet, contrasted with its cheerful modern automobiling sense.
- A question-and-answer feature (running through p.13) covering a line from Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia," student rankings of American universities, the first automobile (Cugnot, Trevithick, Serpollet), the origin of the word "feminist" (Alexandre Dumas fils), cigarettes, and the equinoctial storm.
- Poem from the Atlanta Constitution, a lament that the woman whose singing the narrator loves never sings to him.
- A day-by-day almanac of historical events for November, from the Saxon names for the month to U.S. presidential elections, the Lisbon earthquake, the Boston fire of 1872, and the death of Horace Greeley.
- Poem on the type of high humility, holding that those who know do not speak and those who speak do not know.