Ponkapog Papers

THESE miscellaneous notes and essays are called _Ponkapog Papers_ not simply because they chanced, for the most part, to be written within the limits of the old Indian Reservati...

A NOT too enchanting glimpse of Tennyson is incidentally given by Charles Brookfield, the English actor, in his “Random Recollections.” Mr. Brookfield's father was, on one occas...

THE stolid gentleman in livery who has his carriage-stand at the corner opposite my house is constantly touching on the extremes of human experience, with probably not the remot...

Mr. James's engaging epigram seems to me vulnerable at both ends--unlike Achilles. “Plot is by no means character.” Strictly speaking, it is not. It appears to me, however, that...

The little picture has all the opaline atmosphere of a Claude Lorraine. One instantly frames it in one's memory. Several such bits of impressionist landscape may be found in the...

Observing that the grave-digger in his too eager realism was damaging the thing--the marks of his pick and spade are visible on the cranium--Edwin Booth presently replaced it wi...

It cannot positively be asserted that all the verses in question relate to the period of his incumbency, for none of his verse is dated, with the exception of the Dialogue betwi...

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July flowers; I sing of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their...