Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 6

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume5
Issue6
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Articles in this issue

  • SCRAPS FROM THE DESERTED CITY.
    The August 1907 opening leader, a stream of short observations and quips on the August Lammas festival, the unsettled earth, William Dean Howells on poets being paid, and per-capita letter statistics for the United States, Britain, Germany and France.
  • STEAM CARRIAGES.
    Reprints satirical verses from the London Literary Gazette (1832) mocking contemporary expectations of the speed and convenience of steam carriages, in which a London exquisite orders his servant to ready a kettle-powered drive to Rome.
  • SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.
    A question-and-answer feature explaining the origins of phrases and names, including 'handsome is as handsome does' (from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield), auto-suggestion, the Huguenots, the flesh pots of Egypt, William Tell, and the Bible.
  • IT IS FOR YOU TO ANSWER.
    A puzzle and quiz section posing a 'Who Was He?' biography (a Confederate general born at Clarksburg, West Virginia who died in May 1863), a land-driveway math problem, and answers to the July problems, crediting Geo. T. Titus with correct answers.
  • [L.A.W. officers for 1907-08 and National Assembly meeting notice]
    Lists the League of American Wheelmen officers for 1907-08 (President Wm. B. Everett of Dorchester, with vice-presidents in Providence and Peekskill, and Secretary-Treasurer/Editor Abbot Bassett of Boston) and announces the Annual Meeting of the National Assembly at Hendries', Dorchester, on Thursday, Sept. 12.
  • THE WHEEL ABOUT THE HUB.
    A two-day wheeling-run itinerary starting Sept. 13 from Roxbury, with stops for lunch at Readville, a ball match, climbing Great Blue Hill, a banquet at Massapoag Lake, and a second day at Ponkapog Lake catered by Joe Hendrie.