Facts And Fancies For The Curious From The Harvest Fields Of Literature

Author : Charles C. Bombaugh
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ISBN 13 : 9781330564998
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature written by Charles C. Bombaugh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Facts and Fancies for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta The electrotype plates of a compilation which maintained remarkable popularity for more than thirty years, "Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature," having been destroyed in the fire which wrecked the extensive plant of the J. B. Lippincott Company in November, 1899, the publishers requested the compiler to prepare a companion volume on similar lines. Like its predecessor, at once grave and sportive, the present miscellany offers, as Butler says, "a running banquet that hath much variety, but little of a sort." It is a handy book for the shady nook in summer, or the cosey fireside in winter; for the traveller in a parlor-car, or on an ocean-steamer; for the military post, or the wardroom of a war-ship; for the waiting-room of a doctor or a dentist; for the stray half-hour whenever or wherever it may chance. It is not for a class of readers, but for the multitude. Even the scholar, who will find little in its pages with which he is unfamiliar, will have ready reference to facts and fancies which are not always within convenient reach. Even the captains of industry, in moments of relaxation, may find in its manifold topics something more than what Autolycus calls "unconsidered trifles." It makes no pretension to systematic completeness; it is at best, fragmentary, but as we are told in "Guesses at Truth," a dinner of fragments is often the best dinner, and in the absence of a uniform web, patchwork may have a charm of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.