"Over the Plum Pudding" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

Excerpt from Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe
Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe was written by John Kendrick Bangs in 1897. This is a 213 page book, containing 32869 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title.
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"Peeps at People" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

John Kendrick Bangs was an American satirist and author who wrote several works of fiction, including some featuring the detective Raffles.

Excerpt from The Dreamers: A Club; Being a More or Less Faithful Account of the Literary Exercises Pf the First Regular Meeting of That Organization
The First Gloomster; Discussing The Idea; And So To Dream; The Dreamers Dine; "'Remember To Be Brave'"; "'Eleanor Huyler Has Disappeared.'" "Writ A Pome About A Kid"; "I Bought A Book Of Verse"; "It Filled Me With Dismay"; "'Come In'"; Mary; Edwards Rebels; The Viceroy Examines His Ruined Smile; They Gave Him Punch; The Donkey Engine Calls On Findlayson; The End Of The Gloomster; Wished Her A Happy New Year; "'O Argent Browed Sarcophagus'"...

"The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

"The Enchanted Typewriter" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).

Excerpt from The Genial Idiot: His Views and Reviews
"Good " cried the Idiot, from behind the voluminous folds of the magazine section of his Sunday newspaper. "Here's a man after my own heart. Professor Duff, of Glasgow University, has come out with a public statement that the maxims and proverbs of our forefathers are largely hocus-pocus and buncombe. I've always maintained that myself from the moment I had my first copy-book lesson in which I had to scrawl the line, 'It's a long lane that has no turning, ' twenty-four times.
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Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day succeeded in breaking; and it was impossible to distinguish anything more than a few yards away from the carriage windows. Some of the passengers by this particular train were returning from abroad; but the third-class carriages were the best filled, chiefly with insignificant persons of various occupations and degrees, picked up at the different...

"Pursuit of the House Boat" from John Kendrick Bangs. American author, editor and satirist (1862-1922).