Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 6

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PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume6
Issue6
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Articles in this issue

  • AUGUST IN POESY LAND.
    An opening anthology of August-themed verse quoting Bryant, Rossetti, Anne Bradstreet, Helen Maria Winslow and Celia Thaxter.
  • FOOLS RUSH IN—
    A poem by Curtis Hidden Page praising bold dreamers and outcasts such as Columbus, Giordano Bruno and Rousseau.
  • THE AGE OF LOVE.
    A poem in which a young girl and a grizzled old man are each asked when love begins and when it expires.
  • SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.
    A question-and-answer feature explaining the Samian letter and Pythagoras, the origin of the ballads-versus-laws saying (Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun), removing ink from carpet, Poe's "To Helen," and the Dominical Letter.
  • TO SET RIGHT.
    A puzzle feature of fresh anagrams and a lipogram for readers, with answers to the July anagrams identifying poems by Goldsmith, Macaulay, Thomson and others.
  • LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY.
    Shelley's poem "Love's Philosophy" on how all things in nature mingle.
  • [L.A.W. officers for 1908-09, National Assembly notice, and wheelmen's news]
    Lists the League of American Wheelmen officers for 1908-09 (President Marriott C. Morris; Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett) and announces the National Assembly meeting at Hendrie's, Dorchester, on September 10 and the Wheel About the Hub run; followed by club news including the Newton Bicycle Club's run to Amherst, the Rhode Island Division reunion, Sterling Elliott's operation, and Maj. Edward A. Weed's planned transcontinental ride from Portland, Me.