Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The issue's opening New Year's poem reflecting on the coming year of 1908 as an undiscovered land to be crossed hand in hand with loved ones.
- A humorous poem assembled from verses by the Chicago Journal, Cleveland Leader, Philadelphia Ledger and Lippincott's, each offering a comic explanation for why the ocean moans.
- A sentimental poem by Henry Coyle on an unnamed mother whose churchyard epitaph the poet finds grander than a famed soldier's nearby monument.
- A short poem by Emily Dickinson about a gentian that tried and failed to be a rose; the page also reprints verses Edward Everett wrote in 1856 to a daughter of W. W. Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Art Gallery.
- A question-and-answer feature answering readers' queries on topics including the origins of proverbs, leap year, the new foreign postal rate, theosophy, the Flying Dutchman legend, pin money and Hendrik Hudson.
- Results of the League of American Wheelmen's annual election of national officers, electing Marriott C. Morris of Philadelphia president, Frank W. Weston of Boston first vice president, Abbot Bassett of Boston secretary-treasurer and others, taking office January 1st.
- Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett's notice setting out each state's number of representatives in the L.A.W. National Assembly based on Dec. 1, 1906 membership, with nomination and election procedures ahead of the Assembly meeting Sept. 10, 1908.