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Wisdom While You Wait

Wisdom While You Wait

by E. V. Lucas

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Author
Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944
Title
Wisdom while you wait : Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
Original Publication
United Kingdom: privately printed, 1902.
Credits
Debrah Thompson, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Humor
Category
Text
eBook-No.
71166
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71166
Release Date
July 11, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Wisdom While You Wait
  3. 3.Guten Morgan! Have you used PIERPONT’S SOAP?
  4. 4.Y OU are old, Father Thunderer, old and austere;
  5. 5.The Editors.
  6. 6.PREFACE.
  7. 7.The Insidecompletuar Britanniaware.
  8. 8.To Intending Purchasers of our Casket of Jewels.
  9. 9.Secrecy Guaranteed if Required.
  10. 10.Despatch in Delivery.
  11. 11.Humphry Ward’s Iron Buildings.
  12. 12.Warning to Subscribers.
  13. 13.Patent Book Shelf Beds.
  14. 14.Our Wet Summer.
  15. 15.Bell’s Hydraulic Cranes.
  16. 16.EXTRACTS FROM VARIOUS ARTICLES in the New Volumes of the Insidecompletuar Britanniaware
  17. 17.Superb Plate from the Article Agriculture in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  18. 18.Superb Plate from the Article Architecture in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  19. 19.INFANT MORTALITY IN MUSIC.
  20. 20.Superb Plate from the Article The Goths in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  21. 21.THE NEW ENGINEERING.
  22. 22.Superb Plate from the Article on Holland in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  23. 23.THE GREATEST SINCE LEANDER.
  24. 24.Superb Plate from the Article London in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  25. 25.Superb Plate from the Article Luther in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  26. 26.THE GREATEST VICTIM OF PANAMA.
  27. 27.Superb Plate from the Article Poetry in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  28. 28.A CURIOUS TRIBE.
  29. 29.Superb Plate from the Article The Earl of Rosebery in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  30. 30.THE HIGHER LIFE.
  31. 31.Superb Plate from the Article Thames in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  32. 32.THE MAKING OF MAUSOLEUMS.
  33. 33.Superb Plate from the Article on Tomb-Building , by Prof. Algernon Ashton, in the New Volumes of the I NSIDECOMPLETUAR B RITANNIAWARE .
  34. 34.SIGNOR MACARONI’S TRIUMPH.
  35. 35.It Rejuvenates.
  36. 36.Specimen Interview between the Editor and a Contributor.
  37. 37.SOME UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS.
  38. 38.To the Housewife.
  39. 39.To Landscape Gardeners.
  40. 40.For Low-lying Districts.
  41. 41.To Shipowners.
  42. 42.To Authors.
  43. 43.To Athletes.
  44. 44.To Travellers.
  45. 45.To Photographers.
  46. 46.To the Army.
  47. 47.To the Navy.
  48. 48.No Class of Society can do without our Mammoth Work.
  49. 49.LORD KNOLLYS writes: ‘His Majesty commands me to say that he is so pleased with your I NSIDECOMPLETUAR that he has decided to establish a new Order of Merit, to be conferred upon the few persons who have not contributed to its pages.’
  50. 50.OUR GALA NIGHT.
  51. 51.The Latest Invention.
  52. 52.Back Cover
  53. 53.Untitled
  54. 54.Transcriber’s Notes

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