Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature
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- A Melange of Excerpta
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1. Front matter2. GLEANINGS FOR THE CURIOUS FROM THE Harvest-Fields of Literature. A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,3. Prefatory.4. INTRODUCTION.5. Alphabetical Whims.6. Palindromes.7. Equivoque.8. The Cento.9. Macaronic Verse.10. Concatenation or Chain Verse.11. Bouts Rimés.12. Emblematic Poetry.13. Monosyllables.14. The Bible.15. The Name of God.16. De Nomine Jesu.17. The Lord’s Prayer.18. Ecclesiasticæ.19. Puritan Peculiarities.20. Paronomasia.21. English Words and Forms of Expression.22. Tall Writing.23. Metric Prose.24. The Humors of Versification.25. Hiberniana.26. Blunders.27. Misquotations.28. Fabrications.29. Interrupted Sentences.30. Echo Verse.31. Puzzles.32. The Reason Why.33. Weather-Wisdom.34. O. S. and N. S.35. Memoria Technica.36. Origin of Things Familiar.37. Nothing New Under the Sun.38. Triumphs of Ingenuity.39. The Fancies of Fact.40. The Fancies of Fact.-Continued41. Singular Customs.42. Facetiæ.43. The Flashes of Repartee.44. The Sexes.45. Moslem Wisdom.46. Excerpta from Persian Poetry.47. Epigrams.48. Impromptus.49. Refractory Rhyming.50. Valentines.51. Sonnets.52. Conformity of Sense to Sound.53. Familiar Quotations from Unfamiliar Sources.54. Churchyard Literature.55. Inscriptions.56. Parallel Passages.57. Parallel Passages. (continued 2)58. Prototypes.59. Curious Books.60. THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD.61. Literariana.62. COMFORT FOR BOOK LOVERS.63. Literati.64. Personal Sketches and Anecdotes.65. Historical Memoranda.66. Multum in Parvo.67. Life and Death.68. INDEX.69. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES