PENGUIN PERSONS &
PEPPERMINTS
BY
Essay Index Reprint Series
BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS
FREEPORT, NEW YORK
First Published 1922
Reprinted 1969
STANDARD BOOK NUMBER:
8369-1288-8
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:
72-93335
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To
My Little Sister
who was born just in time
to know the old, quiet ways of life
in their gentle decline—to
know and to love
them
Contents
| Page | |
| Author's Foreword | ix |
| Penguin Persons | 1 |
| Spring Comes to Thumping Dick | 18 |
| The Passing of the Stage Sundial | 33 |
| On Singing Songs with One Finger | 41 |
| The Immorality of Shop-windows | 46 |
| A Forgotten American Poet | 51 |
| New Poetry and the Lingering Line | 65 |
| The Lies We Learn in Our Youth | 77 |
| The Bad Manners of Polite People | 87 |
| On Giving Up Golf Forever | 96 |
| “Grape-Vine” Erudition | 108 |
| Business Before Grammar | 114 |
| Wood Ashes and Progress | 118 |
| The Vacant Room in Drama | 128 |
| On Giving an Author a Plot | 132 |
| The Twilight Veil | 136 |
| Spring in the Garden | 154 |
| The Bubble, Reputation | 168 |
| The Old House on the Bend | ...