There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
by Charles S. Brooks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen), 1878-1934
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Josephine Paolucci and PG Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Essays
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 10023
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10023
- Release Date
- November 1, 2003
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THERE'S PIPPINS
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THERE'S PIPPINS AND CHEESE TO COME
- 5.ROADS OF MORNING — Book reviewers nowadays direct their attention, for the most part, to the worthy books and they habitually neglect those that seem beneath their regard. On a rare occasion they assail an unprofitable book, but even this is often but a bit of practice. They swish a bludgeon to try their hand. They only take their anger, as it were, upon an outing, lest with too close housing it grow pallid and shrink in girth. Or maybe they indulge themselves in humor. Perhaps they think that their pages grow dull and that ridicule will restore the balance. They throw it in like a drunken porter to relieve a solemn scene. I fancy that editors of this baser sort keep on their shelves one or two volumes for their readers' sport and mirth. I read recently a review of an historical romance—a last faltering descendant of the race—whose author in an endeavor to restore the past, had made too free a use of obsolete words. With what playfulness was he held up to scorn! Mary come up, sweet chuck! How his quaint phrasing was turned against him! What a merry fellow it is who writes, how sharp and caustic! There's pepper on his mood.
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