“One of the supreme pleasures available to man is knowledge, discipline, intelligence guiding the hand to create beautiful and intellectually desirable objects.” - Lewis Allen Dear Rare Reader, This blog post is the second in a three-part series. To read the preceding post, click here. — As we learned last week,...
No doubt it is "the early bird that catches the worm." But, as the pillow-loving boy said to his father, "it is the early worm that gets caught." Early Rising, Or It is the early worm that gets caught William Mathews San Francisco, CA: The Cloister Press, 1938 PS2368 M8...
“Enter Two Angels in white, with scarlet wings; aso, Four Ladies in gowns of red and green; also an Angel, bearing in his hands a surcoat of white, with a red cross.” SIR GALAHAD, A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY William Morris (1834-1896) New Rochelle, NY: The Elston Press, 1902 Originally published in 1859, this...
“My sakes alive — the turkey is burnt on one side, and the kettles have biled over so the pies I put to warm are all ashes!” Aunt Jo’s Scrap-bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882 First edition PS1017 A8 1882 “Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag” is...
“Animals should not use human language.” Alice’s adventures in wonderland… Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 First published edition Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s now-famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was intended solely for Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Dodgson made the story up to entertain the bored children...