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the indeterminate sentence
literary copyright
the relation of literature to life
biographical sketch by Thomas R. Lounsbury.
The relation of literature to life
“Equality”
What is your culture to me?
Modern fiction
thoughts suggested by Mr. Froude’s “Progress”
England
the novel and the common school
the people for whom Shakespeare wrote
AS WE WERE SAYING
By Charles Dudley Warner
BACKLOG EDITION
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS
OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
1904
AS WE WERE SAYING
CONTENTS: (25 Short Studies)
Rose and chrysanthemum
the red bonnet
the loss in civilization
social screaming
does refinement kill individuality?
The Directoire gown
the mystery of the sex
the clothes of fiction
the broad A
chewing gum
women in Congress
shall women propose?
Frocks and the stage
altruism
social clearing-house
dinner-table talk
naturalization
art of governing
love of display
value of the commonplace
the burden of Christmas
the responsibility of writers
the cap and gown
A tendency of the age
A locoed novelist
ROSE AND CHRYSANTHEMUM
The Drawer will still bet on the rose. This is not a wager, but only a strong expression of opinion. The rose will win. It does not look so now. To all appearances, this is the age of the chrysanthemum. What this gaudy flower will be, daily expanding and varying to suit the whim of fashion, no one can tell. It may be made to bloom like the cabbage; it may spread out like an umbrella—it can never be large enough nor showy enough to suit us. Undeniably
