Having recently passed into what my great-grandson Shem calls my Anecdotage, it has occurred to me that perhaps some of the recollections of a more or less extended existence upon this globular 1] mass of dust and water that we are pleased to call the earth, may prove of interest to posterity, and I have accordingly, at 2]the earnest solicitation of my grandson, Noah, and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japhet, consented to put them into permanent literary form.

The mantel-piece minstrels and other stories by John Kendrick Bangs. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1896 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second. That the infant Napoleon should have followed rather than led the procession is so foreign to the nature of the man that many worthy persons unfamiliar with the true facts of history have believed that Joseph was a purely apocryphal infant, or, as some have suggested, merely an adopted child; but that Napoleon did upon this occasion content himself with second place is an incontrovertible...

Humorous novel first published in 1893. According to Wikipedia: "John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 - January 21, 1922) was an American author, editor and satirist.

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream" is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1907 and published by Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, published in London, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871).It is critical of economic issues such as taxation, corporate greed, and corruption. Instead of entering Wonderland, Alice finds herself in "Blunderland," which is also described as "Municipal Ownership Country."