The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... , illustrated in color , picturing the tragedy , as well as the pathos and humor , of life in and near the Kentucky Mountains . CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS · NEW YORK FICTION FOR THE SUMMER George Barr McCutcheon THE DAY OF BY JOHN FOX , Jr.
... , illustrated in color , picturing the tragedy , as well as the pathos and humor , of life in and near the Kentucky Mountains . CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS · NEW YORK FICTION FOR THE SUMMER George Barr McCutcheon THE DAY OF BY JOHN FOX , Jr.
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... humor . With this saving grace came the consequent appreciation of the fact that even unpleasant experiences may bring the receptive mind a certain compensation in the way of a broader outlook on humanity . An invalid when he came to ...
... humor . With this saving grace came the consequent appreciation of the fact that even unpleasant experiences may bring the receptive mind a certain compensation in the way of a broader outlook on humanity . An invalid when he came to ...
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... with considerable humor is some six miles from Calis- toga in an opposite direction from St. Helena on the road to Santa Rosa . It hasn't changed . The forest itself lies among the thick growth of manzanita bushes , its prostrate.
... with considerable humor is some six miles from Calis- toga in an opposite direction from St. Helena on the road to Santa Rosa . It hasn't changed . The forest itself lies among the thick growth of manzanita bushes , its prostrate.
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... humor he traces the suc- cessive steps by which the story grew in his mind , as it slowly took shape and began to have an independent existence . It was an idyl of the East Side , a kodak- picture snapped in the midst of our cos ...
... humor he traces the suc- cessive steps by which the story grew in his mind , as it slowly took shape and began to have an independent existence . It was an idyl of the East Side , a kodak- picture snapped in the midst of our cos ...
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... humor . It takes here and there a Rabel- aisian turn , but mostly it is of the grim sardonic sort characteristic of the Span- iards . Moreover , though Vierge de- lighted in a passage of comedy involving several actors , he could give ...
... humor . It takes here and there a Rabel- aisian turn , but mostly it is of the grim sardonic sort characteristic of the Span- iards . Moreover , though Vierge de- lighted in a passage of comedy involving several actors , he could give ...
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Página 504 - ... dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc. "A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.