A Book of Burlesques

There is that old fraud asleep again. And to-morrow he'll print half a column of vapid reminiscence and call it criticism. It's a wonder his paper stands for him. Because he onc...

There is now great excitement in the church. The bride's mother, two sisters, three brothers and three sisters-in-law have just marched up the center aisle and taken seats in th...

This gigantic development of materials is carried to a thrilling climax, with the whole orchestra proclaiming the Zarathustra motive _fortissimo_. Then follows a series of arpeg...

But when the eminent Chu Yi-Foy, emerging from his benign stupor, made a sign that he would gaze upon the cause of his distress, it was a bone that Dr. Yen Li-Shen showed him--a...

From Old Subscribers who write in to say that the current number is the worst magazine printed since the days of the New York _Galaxy_; and from elderly poetesses who have read...

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And yet Paris is famous all over the world. No American ever came to Europe without dropping off there to have a look. I once saw the Bal Tabarin crowded with Sunday-school supe...

History seems to bear very harshly upon women. One cannot recall more than three famous women who were virtuous. But on turning to famous men the seeming injustice disappears. O...