Bert Leston Taylor
The So-called Human Race
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4064066222864
Table of Contents
[p vii ] Foreword
By Henry B. Fuller
[p xi ] The So-Called Human Race
[p 1 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 25 ] Gilded Fairy Tales.
THE BABES IN THE WOOD.
[p 30 ] LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD.
[p 33 ] JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.
[p 39 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 67 ] The Delectable River.
I.—DOCTOR MAYHEW’S SHOP.
II.—THE RIVER.
III.—SMUDGE.
IV.—“BOGWAH.”
V.—FINE FEATHERS.
VI.—THALASSA!
[p 79 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 109 ] Alice in Cartoonland.
[p 115 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 139 ] The Witch’s Holiday.
A TALE FOR CHILDREN ONLY.
[p 153 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 177 ] The London Busman Story.
I.—As George Meredith might have related it.
II.—As Henry James might have written it.
III.—As finally elucidated by Arnold Bennett.
[p 183 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 207 ] The Magic Kit.
A FAIRY TALE FOR SYMPATHETIC ELDERS.
[p 215 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 237 ] Mr. Dubbe’s Program Study Class.
(ACCOMPANYING THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERTS.) Reported by Miss Poeta Pants.
[p 251 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 273 ] Vacation Travels.
[p 283 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p 305 ] Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
BEING A FEW HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED PAGES FROM HIS JOURNAL.
[p 309 ] A LINE-O’-TYPE OR TWO
[p v]
WORLD WITHOUT END
Once upon a summer’s night
Mused a mischief-making sprite,
Underneath the leafy hood
Of a fairy-haunted wood.
Here and there, in light and shade,
Ill-assorted couples strayed:
“Lord,” said Puck, in elfish glee,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
Now he sings the self-same tune
Underneath an older moon.
Life to him is, plain enough,
Still a game of blind man’s buff.
If we listen we may hear
Puckish laughter always near,
And the elf’s apostrophe,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
B. L. T.