Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 7

Articles in this issue

• SEPTEMBER IN POESY LAND. (opens in a new tab)

  A collection of September verse quoting George Arnold, Longfellow, Will T. Hale, and the Chicago Chronicle.
• SCRAPS RIPENED IN THE FALL. (opens in a new tab)

  A run of autumn-themed notes and commentary, including a swipe at Russian sayings about wives and a comparison of U.S. and British war spending as a share of national income.
• WOMAN'S DOWER. (opens in a new tab)

  A poem by Thomas Moore (from "Odes of Anacreon") on the gift of beauty given to woman.
• PLEASURES OF CAMPING OUT. (opens in a new tab)

  A comic poem on the miseries of camping in rain, mud, and biting insects.
• SCRAPS OF INFORMATION. (opens in a new tab)

  A question-and-answer feature covering the Indian chief Tammany, Colonial-era mechanics' wages in Massachusetts, the thumb-to-nose gesture, and Luther Burbank's plant breeding.
• BRAIN STORM SCRAPS. (opens in a new tab)

  A puzzle column of anagrams (names of childhood favorites and American authors), lipogrammatic duplicates, and answers to the previous August anagrams.
• [L.A.W. officers for 1908-09 and club / wheelmen's reports] (opens in a new tab)

  Lists League of American Wheelmen officers (President Marriott C. Morris, editor Abbot Bassett) and reports club activity, including the Boston Bicycle Club's 442nd run and a Peoria Bicycle Club chicken dinner, plus the C.T.C.'s thirtieth birthday and attorney Isaac B. Potter's letter to the Erie Railroad over ferry charges on wheelmen's bicycles.