Life — December 19, 1912 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Then came “A Reaping Hook, Well Tempered, for the Stubborn Ears of the Coming Crop, or Biscuits Baked in the Oven of Charity, Carefully Conserved SORES] 5 PEST] peel Weird Titles for Devotional Books Names of Volumes Printed in Cromwell's Time Were Almost as Long as One of the Prayers of Praise- God Barebone. A Most Delectable, Nosegay for God's is the title of a pamphlet published in 1626. Quaint titles were the rule in those times, and particularly in Puritan writings. Perhaps the sober-faced Roundheads liked sugar coating on their spiritual fare Another title of that period is “A Pair of Bellows to Blow Off the Dust Cast Upon John Fry,” and another is “The Snuffers of Divine Lov Cromwell's was particularly famous for title pages. A book on char- ity is “Hooks and Eyes for Believer's Breeches.” We also find “ High-Hceled Shoes for Dwarfs in Holines: “Crumbs of Comfort for the C of the Covenant.” An imprisoned Quaker published “A Sigh for the Sinners of Zion Breathed Sweet Perfumed ints to Smell At,” time Given Away A 6 Volume Set of Kipling, Beau- tifully Bound in Cloth—A Xmas Gift to Those Who Send the Coupon Now for the Authorized Uniform O. HENRY—IN 8 VOLUMES If you paid $125 for the only other uniform set of O. Henr: this doesn't-interest” you. Otherwise you can ‘t afford to miss i For O. Henry is the American Kipling, “The American de Maupassant,” the American master of the short story—the onder of a new style—a new literature. Other nations are going wild over him. Memorials to him are being prepared. The text books of English literature are including his stories; colleges are discussing his place in literature; theatrical firms are vying for rights to dramatize his stories. 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