4 Volumes by Samuel McChord Crothers
By The Christmas Fire Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Binding has some soil and is sunned; spine lettering faded; spine tips have light wear; tight, text clean. 5 stories for the season w/5 full page illustrations by Frances B Comstock, the unaknowledged artist, who does sign her full name in the larger illustrations. Also each story has an illustrated heading. All appeared in magazines before they were collected into this edition. Crothers (1857-1927) was a Unitarian minister and writer of essays in the manner of Lamb. Contents Include: The Bayonet-Poker, On Beng A Doctrinaire; Christmas And The Literature Of Disillusion; The Ignominy Of Being Grown Up and Christmas And The Spirit Of Democracy. The Gentle Reader Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. The contents provide eleven chapters. The chapter headings read: The Gentle Reader.. The Enjoyment of Poetry.. The Mission of Humor.. Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcraft.. The Honorable Points of Ignorance.. That History Should be Readable.. The Evolution of The Gentleman.. The Hinderland of Science.. The Gentle Reader's Friends Among The Clergy.. Quixotism and Intimate Knowledge and Delight. The Pardoner's Wallet Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. The contents provide eleven chapters. The chapter headings read: The Pardoner. ..Unseasonable Virtues..An Hour with our Prejudices..How to Know the Fallacies.. The Difficulties of the Peacemakers..The Land of the Large and Charitable Air.. A Community of Humorists.. A Saint Recanonized.. As He Sees Himself.. A Man Under Enchantment.. The Cruelty of Good People. Among Friends Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. Nine essays including: The Anglo-American School of Polite Unlearning.. The Hundred Worst Books.. The Convention of Books.. In Praise of Politicians.. My Missionary life in Persia.. The Colonel in the Theological Seminary.. The Romance of Ethics.. The Merry Devil of Education. All of these book have binding with some soil and and sunning; spine lettering faded; spine tips have light wear; tight, text clean. They all have gilt tops and are 6 ½ x 4¼. Media shipping is 5.50
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