Charles Dudley Warner

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Literature and the Stage From Nine Short Essays by Charles Dudley Warner This is a LibriVox recording.

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The newspaper need not be well written, but it must startle with incident and surprise, found or invented.

An observer must notice that the usual theater audience in New York or Boston today laughs at and applauds costumes, situations, innuendos, doubtful suggestions that it would have blushed at a few years ago.

Has the audience been creating a theater to suit its taste, or have the managers been educating an audience? Has the divorce of literary art from the mimic art of the stage anything to do with this condition? The stage can be amusing, but can it show life as it is without the aid of idealizing literary art? And if the stage goes on in this materialistic way, how long will it be before it ceases to amuse intelligent, not to say intellectual people? End of Literature and the Stage by Charles Dudley Warner Read by Ahana Malik

The New Aspect of the Woman Question by Sarah Grand This is a LibriVox recording.

I think he also came in contact while in college with that singular poet, Jones Very, of Salem.

He was by no means unsocial in college, though he did not form such abiding friendships as do many young men.

He graduated in 1837.

His expenses at Cambridge, which were very moderate compared with what a poor scholar must now pay to go through college, were paid in part by his father, in part by his aunts and his elder sister Helen, who had already begun to teach school, and for the rest he depended on his own efforts and the beneficiary funds of the college in which he had some little share.

Those who loved him never had the least reason to regret it.

He made no useless professions, never asked one of those questions that destroy all relation, but he was on the spot at the time, and had so much of human life in his keeping to the last that he could spare a breathing place for a friend.

He meant friendship, and meant nothing else, and stood by it without the slightest abatement, not veering as a weathercock with each shift of a friend's fortune, nor like those who bury their early friendships in order to make room for fresh corpses.

It is therefore impossible to sketch him by himself.

and perhaps the other ways of interpretation that he was skilled in being more distinct than glossology could be in a deaf man it happened soon after that homer had invited some friends to dinner commanding aesop to provide the greatest rarities the market could afford aesop made a show of great preparation but set nothing upon the table besides the tip of his own tongue in a large dish upbraiding his master with his pipe that he did not tear his blotted papers when he could not read them but had patience till he himself corrected them upon his fingers homer not enduring this affront before strangers throws aesop's pipe in the fire aesop fearing worse to follow throws himself at his master's feet taking him by the hand and by the rules of haptology begs him pardon promising if he would have patience to make amends for his fault homer startled at this to find both a tongue and a pipe in aesop's fingers was transported from wrath to fear and admiration concluding for certain that aesop was a conjurer and that he deserved to be thrown in the fire after his pipe yet resolving once more to try his wit and honesty and for making satisfaction to his friends who had lost their dinner he invites them to return to-morrow charging aesop to provide the oldest and leanest carrion he could find the night following aesop serves his blind master with lex telionis tongue for tongue and repeated the same dinner to his friends the next day excusing the matter that he had from first to last obeyed his master's commands to the best of his judgment homer taking it ill to be so often outwitted by a slave by dactylology begs to his provoked friends to revenge him upon aesop by plucking out his eyes that his condition might not be more comfortable than his own after his old age and a fit of sickness deprived homer of his hearing this reconciled him again to aesop for he judged him the fittest companion he could find with whom to bemoan his folly and misery after this they lived good friends passing the time in telling old stories sometimes upon their fingers ends and sometimes with hand in hand traversing the alphabetical illias this drama being acted according to the rules of art if there be any certainty in art that the promised effects will follow is no less true than it seems to be strange and from this we may learn two things one that though hearing and seeing be the principle yet they are not the only senses of knowledge that the hand is or at least is capable of being made a more serviceable organ of interpretation to the soul than the tongue for it has access to its mistress's presence by the door of three senses one of hearing by autology two of seeing by both the species of schematology to wit typology and dactylology three of feeling by haptology whereas the tongue can only enter by the door of one sense and do its message only by only one kind of interpretation glossology end of of a deaf man's capacity to speak by george dalgarno sixteen twenty six to sixteen eighty seven

The Plumber by Charles Dudley Warner From Humorous Masterpieces for American Literature This is a LibriVox recording.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Dale Grothman The Plumber by Charles Dudley Warner Speaking of the philosophical temper, there is no class of men whose society is to be more desired for its quality than that of plumbers.

They are the most agreeable men I know, and the boys in the business begin to be agreeable very early.

I suspect the secret of it is that they are agreeable by the hour.

Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour.

How sweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind.