The Graphic – Poetry and Its Criticism – Extremes

Anthology

This anthology, The Graphic - Poetry and Its Criticism, opens a welcoming route into The Graphic. It brings together 401 entries, beginning with The Kansas Man by Robert J. Burdette, Esopus by Anonymous, and The Man Behind the Man by Anonymous. The selection turns a large run of periodical material into something a reader can enter in an afternoon and return to over time. It is not meant to replace the journal’s history. Instead, it offers a clear doorway: representative writing, useful names, and enough context to connect each piece with the publication that first carried it.

to "The Blue Grass Cook Book," compiled by Minnie C. Fox (Fox, Duffield & Co). "I have heard," he says, "of a man stopping to spend the night on a Georgia plantation and staying for twenty years. I have heard of an old major in Virginia, the guest of the father of a friend of mine, who every spring had his horse saddled and brought to the fence, when the following annual colloquy took place: Its arrangement also restores literary Los Angeles as a network of reviewers, clubs, libraries, theaters, visiting writers, and local debates, allowing brief weekly notices to accumulate into a cultural history larger than any single issue. The introduction, contents, and editorial notes are there to help, but the writing remains at the center. Readers can move straight through the book, follow a favorite author, or begin with a title that looks inviting. Each route reveals a slightly different anthology, which is one reason the volume can support both a quick first visit and a slower return.

The order offers its own route. Early entries establish the first group of voices; near the middle, Child Labor by Harry Murphy changes the view; the closing stretch reaches Lines to the Fleet by April 18, 1908. Reading in order reveals echoes between pieces, while browsing by title or author makes the book useful for quick discovery. Neither approach requires a scholarly guide. The anthology works best when a familiar name leads toward an unfamiliar one, or when a poem encountered by chance becomes the reason to explore another issue or another book.

Among the people represented are Robert J. Burdette, E. S. Martin, Wallace Irwin, Adrian Ross, R. C. E. Milne, Walt Whitman, Bliss Carman, Charles Stuart Calverley, Edith Jamison Lowe, and Wex Jones, with 193 more contributors included elsewhere in the book. The catalog connects their work with Los Angeles literary culture, American poetry, Little magazines, War, Love, and Death and elegy. These terms help with searching, but they do not set limits on what a reader may find. Brian Kim Stefans prepared the volume for Text/Tech Journals, with Los Angeles, California given as its place of publication. The aim is simple: bring scattered material together, identify it clearly, and let readers make their own connections.

A good first route is to read The Kansas Man by Robert J. Burdette, turn next to Child Labor by Harry Murphy, and then try Lines to the Fleet by April 18, 1908. From there, the contents and contributor list can guide a more personal path. Reader’s edition: 519 PDF pages. The digital reading edition uses a consistent page size and clear typography so that the material can be read on screen or downloaded without losing its order. Source scans used during preparation remain private and are not part of the public upload. What the reader receives is the finished editorial volume: a generous introduction to the journal, a useful reference, and an invitation to keep following the writers who appear in its pages.

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Contributors

Robert J. Burdette — Contributor
E. S. Martin — Contributor
Wallace Irwin — Contributor
Adrian Ross — Contributor
R. C. E. Milne — Contributor
Walt Whitman — Contributor
Bliss Carman — Contributor
Charles Stuart Calverley — Contributor
Edith Jamison Lowe — Contributor
Wex Jones — Contributor
Lord Byron — Contributor
Washington Star — Contributor
A. T. Quiller-Couch — Contributor
H. H. Bashford — Contributor
Louis J. Stellmann — Contributor
Charles Kingsley — Contributor
Alfred Tennyson — Contributor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Contributor
Alfred J. Waterhouse — Contributor
Andrew Marvell — Contributor
Laurence Housman — Contributor
Richard Watson Gilder — Contributor
Gelett Burgess — Contributor
Ambrose Bierce — Contributor
Edwin Markham — Contributor
Stephen Phillips — Contributor
Gertrude Hill — Contributor
Paul England (from the German of Heine) — Contributor
Katharine Tynan — Contributor
Louise A. Sterry — Contributor
Dean Mansel — Contributor
George Russell (AE) — Contributor
Strickland W. Gillilan — Contributor
James Whitcomb Riley — Contributor
A. C. Benson — Contributor
Handley Dunelm — Contributor
Hazel Patterson — Contributor
Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Contributor
Eugene Field — Contributor
A. G. B — Contributor
Miss Cary — Contributor
Miss Spaulding — Contributor
Elwyn Hoffman — Contributor
A young maid of Alhambra — Contributor
Henry van Dyke — Contributor
Joseph Rodman Drake — Contributor
William Shakespeare — Contributor
S-m T. Cl-v-r (parody) — Contributor
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson — Contributor
Arthur Munby — Contributor
Arthur Detmers — Contributor
Walter M. Patrick — Contributor
Burt Estes Howard — Contributor
Norman — Contributor, Essayist
Henry Newbolt — Contributor
Thomas Moore — Contributor
Carrie Reynolds — Contributor, Dramatist
A. R. Ropes — Contributor
Stella Graham Singleton — Contributor
May Doney — Contributor
Mrs. Lucy Long — Contributor
Rosamund Marriott Watson — Contributor
C. R — Contributor
Chicago Tribune — Contributor
John Boyle O'Reilly (printed as "James Boyle O'Reilly") — Contributor
Wilfred Campbell — Contributor
Izaak Walton — Contributor
Pauline B. Barrington — Contributor
Charles K. Field — Contributor
Cyril H. Bretherton — Contributor
Mrs. John Hancock — Contributor
Carolyn Wells — Contributor
C. M. Young — Contributor
Ward Muir — Contributor
F. L. Stanton — Contributor
Clinton Scollard — Contributor
John S. McGroarty — Contributor
Robert Louis Stevenson — Contributor
John Edward Hazzard — Contributor
Francis Marshal — Contributor
Jack Densham — Contributor
Wilson G. Smith — Contributor
Joaquin Miller — Contributor
Martha Calhoun — Contributor
J. N. Merrill — Contributor
Russell Judson Waters — Contributor
Charles G. D. Roberts — Contributor
E. R. Taylor — Contributor
J. Adair Strawson — Contributor
Charley Eyton — Contributor
Harry Murphy — Contributor
John Kendrick Bangs — Contributor
Stuffy Davis — Contributor
Harvey Peake — Contributor
Henry F. Gilhofer — Contributor
E. J. G. ("Chatterbox") — Contributor
Oliver Wendell Holmes — Contributor
Edmund Mitchell — Contributor
Melvin Bartlett — Contributor
H. C. Dodge — Contributor
Marmion — Contributor
Henry Christeen Warnack — Contributor
G.l.w — Contributor
Percy Bysshe Shelley — Contributor
August 6, 1904 — Contributor
August 20, 1904 — Contributor
September 3, 1904 — Contributor, Essayist, Reviewer
September 10, 1904 — Contributor
September 17, 1904 — Contributor
October 15, 1904 — Contributor
November 5, 1904 — Contributor
November 26, 1904 — Contributor
December 3, 1904 — Contributor
December 10, 1904 — Contributor
December 17, 1904 — Contributor
December 24, 1904 — Contributor
December 31, 1904 — Contributor
January 14, 1905 — Contributor
January 21, 1905 — Contributor
February 4, 1905 — Contributor
February 11, 1905 — Contributor
February 25, 1905 — Contributor
March 4, 1905 — Dramatist
March 11, 1905 — Contributor
March 18, 1905 — Contributor, Fiction writer
March 25, 1905 — Contributor, Fiction writer
April 1, 1905 — Contributor
April 8, 1905 — Contributor
April 15, 1905 — Contributor
April 22, 1905 — Contributor
May 6, 1905 — Contributor
May 13, 1905 — Contributor
May 20, 1905 — Contributor
June 10, 1905 — Contributor
June 24, 1905 — Contributor
July 1, 1905 — Contributor
July 8, 1905 — Contributor
July 29, 1905 — Contributor
August 5, 1905 — Contributor
August 19, 1905 — Contributor
August 26, 1905 — Contributor
September 2, 1905 — Contributor
September 9, 1905 — Contributor, Essayist
September 23, 1905 — Contributor
October 7, 1905 — Contributor
October 14, 1905 — Contributor
October 28, 1905 — Contributor, Essayist
November 4, 1905 — Contributor
November 11, 1905 — Contributor, Dramatist
November 18, 1905 — Contributor
November 25, 1905 — Contributor
December 9, 1905 — Contributor
December 23, 1905 — Contributor
January 13, 1906 — Contributor, Dramatist
January 27, 1906 — Contributor
February 3, 1906 — Contributor
February 17, 1906 — Contributor
February 24, 1906 — Fiction writer
March 3, 1906 — Contributor
March 17, 1906 — Contributor
March 31, 1906 — Contributor
April 7, 1906 — Contributor, Reviewer
April 14, 1906 — Contributor, Essayist
April 21, 1906 — Contributor
May 5, 1906 — Contributor
May 12, 1906 — Contributor
May 26, 1906 — Contributor
June 2, 1906 — Contributor
June 9, 1906 — Contributor, Reviewer
June 16, 1906 — Fiction writer
June 23, 1906 — Contributor
June 30, 1906 — Contributor
July 28, 1906 — Contributor, Fiction writer
August 4, 1906 — Contributor
August 18, 1906 — Contributor
August 25, 1906 — Contributor
September 8, 1906 — Contributor
September 15, 1906 — Contributor
September 29, 1906 — Contributor
October 6, 1906 — Contributor
October 20, 1906 — Contributor
November 3, 1906 — Contributor
November 10, 1906 — Contributor
November 17, 1906 — Contributor
December 1, 1906 — Contributor
December 22, 1906 — Essayist
March 30, 1907 — Contributor
April 20, 1907 — Contributor
April 27, 1907 — Contributor
May 4, 1907 — Contributor
June 8, 1907 — Contributor
June 29, 1907 — Contributor
July 6, 1907 — Contributor
July 13, 1907 — Contributor
August 3, 1907 — Contributor
August 17, 1907 — Contributor
September 21, 1907 — Contributor
September 28, 1907 — Contributor
November 9, 1907 — Contributor
November 23, 1907 — Contributor
January 11, 1908 — Contributor, Dramatist
April 18, 1908 — Contributor

Publication details

Journal: The Graphic
Volume: Not applicable
Issue number: Not applicable
Issue date: 2026
Editor: Brian Kim Stefans
Publisher: Text/Tech Journals
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Reader’s edition: 519 PDF pages.
Record ID: ttj-the-graphic-poetry-and-its-criticism

Full contents

The Kansas Man — Robert J. Burdette [Contribution, p. 28]
Esopus — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 30]
The Man Behind the Man — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 31]
“I dropped a seed in a cold, cold heart” — E. S. Martin [Contribution, p. 32]
Fall Styles in People — Wallace Irwin [Contribution, p. 33]
“Mixed Bathing” in England — Adrian Ross [Contribution, p. 35]
In Nippon — R. C. E. Milne [Contribution, p. 36]
from “I Dream’d in a Dream” — Walt Whitman [Contribution, p. 38]
The Primal Lesson — Bliss Carman [Contribution, p. 39]
The Children — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 40]
Ode to Tobacco — Charles Stuart Calverley [Contribution, p. 42]
The Last Straw — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 44]
Fulfillment — Edith Jamison Lowe [Contribution, p. 45]
“The girl that blistered on the beach” — Wex Jones [Contribution, p. 46]
The Kilkenny Cats — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 47]
The Song of the Greek Poet — Lord Byron [Contribution, p. 48]
Hans: A Horse Prodigy — Wallace Irwin [Contribution, p. 49]
“He wants no verses” — Washington Star [Contribution, p. 50]
To Idleness — A. T. Quiller-Couch [Contribution, p. 51]
Massage of the Eye — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 52]
A Negligent Nurse — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 53]
“He goes to college” — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 54]
“Knock, and the world knocks with you” — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 55]
A Song of the Plains — H. H. Bashford [Contribution, p. 56]
The Gentle Critic — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 57]
The City's Voice — Louis J. Stellmann [Contribution, p. 58]
untitled — Charles Kingsley [Contribution, p. 59]
blank verse (quoted in "Personal Rhythm") — Alfred Tennyson [Contribution, p. 60]
trochees (quoted in "Personal Rhythm") — Alfred Tennyson [Contribution, p. 61]
hexameter (quoted in "Personal Rhythm") — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Contribution, p. 62]
Where There is no Telephone — Alfred J. Waterhouse [Contribution, p. 63]
from the ode to Cromwell (on the death of Charles I) — Andrew Marvell [Contribution, p. 64]
untitled (a temperance satire) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 65]
To the Men of Port Arthur — Laurence Housman [Contribution, p. 66]
Two Optimists — Richard Watson Gilder [Contribution, p. 67]
"Omar Cayenne" — Gelett Burgess [Contribution, p. 68]
The Editor's Regrets — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 69]
Converted — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 70]
The Sailor's Wedding — Bliss Carman [Contribution, p. 71]
Stanford's Epitaph — Ambrose Bierce [Contribution, p. 72]
A Fly and a Flea in a Flue — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 73]
The Right to Labor in Joy — Edwin Markham [Contribution, p. 74]
Contrasts — E. S. Martin [Contribution, p. 75]
A Turk with nine wives in his harem — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 76]
A young theologian named Fiddle — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 77]
The Sin of David (interlude between Lisle and Miriam) — Stephen Phillips [Contribution, p. 78]
The Last of the Roses — Gertrude Hill [Contribution, p. 79]
The devil put his stock of sins — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 80]
To My Mother — Paul England (from the German of Heine) [Contribution, p. 81]
John D. Rockefeller (verse squib) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 82]
Pastoral — Katharine Tynan [Contribution, p. 83]
A New Easter — Louise A. Sterry [Contribution, p. 85]
A woman from Sault Ste. Marie — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 86]
What changes in a pair we see — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 87]
A lhassie was lhost down in Lhassa — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 88]
Epigram on the D.D. Degree — Dean Mansel [Contribution, p. 89]
The Winter Is Over and Gone — Bliss Carman [Contribution, p. 90]
Anthem — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 91]
You and I — George Russell (AE) [Contribution, p. 93]
[Verse filler: darned with silk] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 94]
Untitled ("How doth the little grizzly bear") — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 95]
Untitled ("He used to think her 'long and lean'") — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 96]
Breaking in Pegasus — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 97]
When Little Bo Peep — Strickland W. Gillilan [Contribution, p. 98]
Memorial Day — James Whitcomb Riley [Contribution, p. 99]
Jessie Bartlett Davis (In Memoriam) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 100]
Peace — A. C. Benson [Contribution, p. 101]
Vacation Time — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 102]
The Best Hour — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 103]
[I drove a golf-ball in the air] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 105]
The longest day in June — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 106]
The Eternal Prospect — Handley Dunelm [Contribution, p. 107]
The Island of St. Nicholas — Hazel Patterson [Contribution, p. 108]
A Wee Little Home — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 109]
Oh, the Rift — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 110]
A Mother's Soliloquy — Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Contribution, p. 111]
Mother to Child — Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Contribution, p. 113]
Automobilia of Punbad, the Railer — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 115]
Science Baffled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 116]
The New Version — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 117]
Behind the Bars — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 118]
The Chaperon Speaks — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 119]
Maritime Melodies — Eugene Field [Contribution, p. 120]
Recipe for Social Success — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 121]
Never Mind the Lady — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 122]
From the Cynic — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 123]
(untitled epigraph) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 124]
You and I — A. G. B [Contribution, p. 125]
The Song I Never Sing — James Whitcomb Riley [Contribution, p. 126]
(Away) — James Whitcomb Riley [Contribution, p. 127]
(untitled fragment) — Miss Cary [Contribution, p. 128]
Just Be Glad — James Whitcomb Riley [Contribution, p. 129]
Knee-deep in June — James Whitcomb Riley [Contribution, p. 130]
Desperation — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 131]
Fate — Miss Spaulding [Contribution, p. 132]
The Song of McAleer — Elwyn Hoffman [Contribution, p. 133]
Limerick — There was a young fellow named Neal — A young maid of Alhambra [Contribution, p. 134]
Crankidoxology (Being a Mental Attitude from Bernard Pshaw) — Wallace Irwin [Contribution, p. 135]
Hot Weather Lore — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 138]
The Fallen Idol — Strickland W. Gillilan [Contribution, p. 139]
[Untitled quatrain] — Henry van Dyke [Contribution, p. 140]
The American Flag (quoted as "Flag of the Free") — Joseph Rodman Drake [Contribution, p. 141]
Richard II (quoted by Mayor M. P. Snyder) — William Shakespeare [Contribution, p. 142]
The Puppets — Edith Jamison Lowe [Contribution, p. 143]
The Summer Girl — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 144]
Naughty, Naughty (first stanza) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 145]
Naughty, Naughty (reply) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 146]
Naughty, Naughty (reply) — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 147]
Variable Adverbs (verse filler) — S-m T. Cl-v-r (parody) [Contribution, p. 148]
An Auto Lullaby — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 149]
The Mushroom Gatherer — Wilfrid Wilson Gibson [Contribution, p. 151]
Integer Vitae — Arthur Munby [Contribution, p. 153]
Risky and Frisky Trips — Adrian Ross [Contribution, p. 154]
Spirit of Beauty — Arthur Detmers [Contribution, p. 155]
To Old Baldy — Walter M. Patrick [Contribution, p. 158]
The Belle and the Bell — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 159]
Epigraph to "The Christian Idea" — Burt Estes Howard [Contribution, p. 160]
Rule of Three — Norman [Contribution, p. 161]
Miner's Vision — Norman [Contribution, p. 165]
Mr. Miner, ere you leave us — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 166]
On the Death of a Noble Lady — Henry Newbolt [Contribution, p. 167]
Editorial Mudlarkers — Norman [Essay, p. 168]
Let Erin Remember the Days of Old — Thomas Moore [Contribution, p. 172]
The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls — Thomas Moore [Contribution, p. 173]
Bacchus at the Palace — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 174]
Success — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 175]
When It Rains in Los Angeles — Norman [Contribution, p. 177]
Where Is He? — A. R. Ropes [Contribution, p. 178]
Dreams — Norman [Contribution, p. 179]
[Battling Nelson Sells Papers — a "Danny Deever" parody] — Norman [Contribution, p. 181]
San Francisco, April 18, 1906 — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 183]
True to "Life." — Norman [Contribution, p. 185]
The Flower-Gatherers — Henry Newbolt [Contribution, p. 186]
Cruise of the Lurline — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 187]
Song of Spring — Stella Graham Singleton [Contribution, p. 189]
The Day — May Doney [Contribution, p. 190]
Our Fire Brigade (excerpt) — Mrs. Lucy Long [Contribution, p. 192]
Our Fire Brigade (excerpt) — Mrs. Lucy Long [Contribution, p. 193]
Our Fire Brigade (excerpt) — Mrs. Lucy Long [Contribution, p. 194]
The Early Stars — Rosamund Marriott Watson [Contribution, p. 195]
The Street Violinist — C. R [Contribution, p. 196]
Maid o' Mine — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 197]
The Irish Pipes — Katharine Tynan [Contribution, p. 199]
The Spoken Language — Chicago Tribune [Contribution, p. 201]
The Song of the Buoy — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 203]
Lay of the Long Lee Shore — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 204]
Consolidation Mormonesque — Norman [Contribution, p. 206]
The Preacher and the Preached-at — Adrian Ross [Contribution, p. 210]
The Spirit of San Francisco — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 211]
In Bohemia — John Boyle O'Reilly (printed as "James Boyle O'Reilly") [Contribution, p. 212]
The Blood Feud — Adrian Ross [Contribution, p. 213]
The Unspeakable Russian — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 214]
Yesterday — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 215]
The Solitary Way — Wilfred Campbell [Contribution, p. 216]
The Gallant Fisher's Life — Izaak Walton [Contribution, p. 218]
Mountain Vision — Pauline B. Barrington [Contribution, p. 219]
Barriers Burned (A Rhyme of the San Francisco Breadline) — Charles K. Field [Contribution, p. 220]
Evenfall — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 221]
The Last Act — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 222]
The Player's Death — Carrie Reynolds [Drama, p. 223]
Young Love: A Retrospect — Cyril H. Bretherton [Contribution, p. 224]
The Cobbler Captain — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 227]
The Rain — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 229]
Untitled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 230]
The Children's Christmas — Mrs. John Hancock [Contribution, p. 231]
Married by Motor — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 233]
Ballade of Holiday Books — Carolyn Wells [Contribution, p. 235]
"Automobilitis" — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 236]
From the Heart — C. M. Young [Contribution, p. 238]
Sleepless — Ward Muir [Contribution, p. 240]
The Fall Books — F. L. Stanton [Contribution, p. 241]
Untitled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 242]
Love's Vagrant — Clinton Scollard [Contribution, p. 244]
Shadows — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 245]
Blue Moonshine — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 246]
Not a Song Bird — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 247]
Farewell (To George W. Barnum.) — John S. McGroarty [Contribution, p. 248]
Dreams — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 249]
To My Pastor (By A Black Sheep) — Cyril H. Bretherton [Contribution, p. 250]
The Word of the Water — Bliss Carman [Contribution, p. 253]
Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson [Contribution, p. 254]
Ain't It Awful, Mabel? (The Chorus Girl's Lament) — John Edward Hazzard [Contribution, p. 255]
They've Given Pa a Raise — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 257]
Eventide — Francis Marshal [Contribution, p. 258]
The Fourteenth Man — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 259]
Musical Spring Limericks — Wilson G. Smith [Contribution, p. 260]
For The Fred Finch Orphanage And Their Friends — Joaquin Miller [Contribution, p. 261]
Jack — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 263]
The Yosemite — Martha Calhoun [Contribution, p. 264]
The Rattlesnake — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 265]
The Sprinter — J. N. Merrill [Contribution, p. 266]
Midnight and Dawn — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 267]
Infinitude — Russell Judson Waters [Contribution, p. 269]
Some Day — Russell Judson Waters [Contribution, p. 270]
Nuestras Senoritas — Russell Judson Waters [Contribution, p. 271]
[Strike while the iron's hot] — Russell Judson Waters [Contribution, p. 272]
Monition — Charles G. D. Roberts [Contribution, p. 274]
Sonnet — E. R. Taylor [Contribution, p. 275]
I shall make a brave death — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 276]
Shut Up! — J. Adair Strawson [Contribution, p. 277]
When a Man Marries — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 278]
Nanette (A Love Song) — Charley Eyton [Contribution, p. 279]
[untitled — on Joaquin Miller] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 280]
THE ABSENT MEMBER — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 281]
Child Labor — Harry Murphy [Contribution, p. 282]
In Nature's Aisles — John Kendrick Bangs [Contribution, p. 283]
Lyra Elegantiarum — Stuffy Davis [Contribution, p. 285]
Quail — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 286]
Dan the Blow-Hard; or, Lusty Pips and Leathery Lungs — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 287]
The Cynic's Christmas — Harvey Peake [Contribution, p. 289]
Los Angeles — Henry F. Gilhofer [Contribution, p. 290]
Destiny — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 291]
In the Waltz — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 292]
The Wail of the Doll — The Triumph of the Doll — E. J. G. ("Chatterbox") [Contribution, p. 294]
The Height of the Ridiculous — Oliver Wendell Holmes [Contribution, p. 296]
Mr. Batchelder's Socks — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 297]
Bill Bush's Opening — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 298]
Hail to the Fleet — Edmund Mitchell [Contribution, p. 299]
Radiant Robin — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 300]
Sailing Around the Horn — Melvin Bartlett [Contribution, p. 301]
The Old Fir Tree — H. C. Dodge [Contribution, p. 303]
A Newspaper Puff — H. C. Dodge [Contribution, p. 305]
The Good Little Boy — H. C. Dodge [Contribution, p. 307]
The Pretty Girl — H. C. Dodge [Contribution, p. 309]
Interlude I ("It's very annoying to find you have lost") — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 311]
Interlude II ("She lies at her landing, so dainty her lines") — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 312]
Interlude III ("It isn't the cut of the clothes that they wear") — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 313]
The Navy Cocktail — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 314]
Spring Song — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 315]
The Mirror of Fashion — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 316]
Untitled — Marmion [Contribution, p. 317]
The Rain-proof Beau Brummel — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 318]
To a New Found Comrade — Henry Christeen Warnack [Contribution, p. 319]
The Gaelic Gear Replacer — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 320]
Untitled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 321]
The Race of Resourceful Ralph — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 322]
Obscuria — G.l.w [Contribution, p. 324]
My Prayer — Carrie Reynolds [Contribution, p. 325]
Untitled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 326]
The Rubber Victim — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 327]
Untitled — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 328]
[Untitled: "The lady would remind you"] — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 329]
Aria from Rinaldo — Anonymous [Contribution, p. 330]
Chorus of Spirits and Hours (from Prometheus Unbound) — Percy Bysshe Shelley [Contribution, p. 331]
The Moan of the Weary Gasengeer — Jack Densham [Contribution, p. 332]
From “Character Sketches. IV.—Jonathan Sayre Slauson” (signed Junius) — August 6, 1904 [Contribution, p. 333]
How Smith Lost His Mind — August 20, 1904 [Contribution, p. 334]
Twentieth Century Frivolity — an essay on current literature — September 3, 1904 [Essay, p. 336]
Books and Authors — September 3, 1904 [Review, p. 336]
All Same Melican Lovesclape — September 3, 1904 [Contribution, p. 337]
The Good Gray Critic — September 10, 1904 [Contribution, p. 338]
The Good Gray Critic (a profile of William Winter, signed R. H. C.) — September 17, 1904 [Contribution, p. 338]
Byron’s Poetry — October 15, 1904 [Contribution, p. 339]
Gwendolen Overton’s New Book: “Captains of the World.” — November 5, 1904 [Contribution, p. 339]
"Prosit." — November 26, 1904 [Contribution, p. 340]
Character Sketches. XX. Charles F. Lummis — December 3, 1904 [Contribution, p. 341]
Los Angeles Magazine Writers — December 10, 1904 [Contribution, p. 343]
A Unique Collection — December 10, 1904 [Contribution, p. 344]
On the Stage and Off — December 17, 1904 [Contribution, p. 345]
The Child's Feast — December 17, 1904 [Contribution, p. 345]
Zelda Dameron — December 24, 1904 [Contribution, p. 346]
The Business Career — December 31, 1904 [Contribution, p. 347]
The Friendship of Art — December 31, 1904 [Contribution, p. 348]
What is a Gentleman? — January 14, 1905 [Contribution, p. 348]
The Harvard Dinner — January 21, 1905 [Contribution, p. 349]
Popular Books and Editions — January 21, 1905 [Contribution, p. 350]
Kentucky Hospitality — February 4, 1905 [Contribution, p. 351]
"The True Napoleon." — February 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 351]
A Prosperous Poet — February 25, 1905 [Contribution, p. 352]
Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Power — February 25, 1905 [Contribution, p. 353]
Gorky's Last Play — March 4, 1905 [Drama, p. 353]
Bliss Carman Here — March 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 353]
Bliss Carman Here — March 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 354]
Faith and Flocks — March 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 354]
The Case of the Well-Dressed Woman — March 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 354]
Mrs. Wilcox Influence — March 18, 1905 [Contribution, p. 356]
Why She Couldn't — March 18, 1905 [Contribution, p. 357]
The Argonaut and Miss Overton — March 18, 1905 [Contribution, p. 357]
Socialist Novelists — March 18, 1905 [Fiction, p. 358]
"Raffles" et al — March 18, 1905 [Contribution, p. 358]
The Religious Novel — March 25, 1905 [Fiction, p. 359]
A Kipling Letter — March 25, 1905 [Contribution, p. 360]
Stephen Phillips and "The Sin of David" — April 1, 1905 [Contribution, p. 361]
Stephen Phillips and "The Sin of David" — April 1, 1905 [Contribution, p. 362]
Henry James's Mission — April 1, 1905 [Contribution, p. 363]
Haggard and James — April 8, 1905 [Contribution, p. 363]
Henry James and His Method — April 15, 1905 [Contribution, p. 364]
"The Master's" Style — April 15, 1905 [Contribution, p. 365]
James and Lummis — April 15, 1905 [Contribution, p. 365]
"De Profundis." — April 22, 1905 [Contribution, p. 366]
The Lost Discovery — May 6, 1905 [Contribution, p. 366]
Japanese Character — May 13, 1905 [Contribution, p. 368]
Jack London's Latest Work — May 20, 1905 [Contribution, p. 369]
Dick Barry's Book — June 10, 1905 [Contribution, p. 369]
Mr. Henry James on American Speech — June 24, 1905 [Contribution, p. 370]
The Lion, the Hen and the Jackal — July 1, 1905 [Contribution, p. 371]
By The Way (verse fillers) — July 8, 1905 [Contribution, p. 372]
Verse Filler ("A wee little home") — July 29, 1905 [Contribution, p. 372]
Verse Filler ("Oh, the rift") — July 29, 1905 [Contribution, p. 372]
Verse Filler (parody of "A Psalm of Life") — July 29, 1905 [Contribution, p. 372]
Literary Gossip: W. B. Yeats — July 29, 1905 [Contribution, p. 373]
Literary Gossip: Gertrude Atherton — July 29, 1905 [Contribution, p. 373]
In Defense of Her Friend — August 5, 1905 [Contribution, p. 373]
The Lion (Charles F. Lummis and the Public Library) — August 19, 1905 [Contribution, p. 375]
The Broken Idol (By Barry Pain) — August 26, 1905 [Contribution, p. 376]
Women Artists and Love — August 26, 1905 [Contribution, p. 378]
Agnes Tobin's New Book — August 26, 1905 [Contribution, p. 379]
A Stroke of Diplomacy (By O. S.) — August 26, 1905 [Contribution, p. 379]
"Dead—Not Delivered" — September 2, 1905 [Contribution, p. 381]
Bridge and the Immortals — September 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 383]
Madame Severance's Reminiscences — September 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 384]
A Literary Find — September 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 384]
In Morgan's Library — September 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 385]
The Worst Book of the Year — September 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 386]
Notes On Bridge — September 9, 1905 [Essay, p. 386]
Another Idol Falls — September 23, 1905 [Contribution, p. 387]
The Woman in Love — October 7, 1905 [Contribution, p. 389]
Local Stylists — October 14, 1905 [Contribution, p. 390]
Out of the Dust — October 14, 1905 [Contribution, p. 393]
Burglars and Their Accessories — by D. W. Fieldwin — October 28, 1905 [Contribution, p. 394]
Local Stylists — No. V: The Art of Dramatic Criticism — by Constance Skinner — October 28, 1905 [Essay, p. 395]
"The Human Boy" (a precis of Eden Phillpotts) — by Frederick Stevenson — October 28, 1905 [Contribution, p. 396]
William Winter and Today's Stage — November 4, 1905 [Contribution, p. 397]
VI. Hygiene of the Feet — From the "C-re of the B-dy," By H-rry Br--k — November 11, 1905 [Contribution, p. 399]
VIII. The Colonel and the Dramatic Editor — By Oth-m-n St-v-ns — November 11, 1905 [Drama, p. 400]
Jim Blagge—His Book — November 18, 1905 [Contribution, p. 401]
Madame Reclamier — November 25, 1905 [Contribution, p. 403]
Los Angeles Women at Home: Idah Meacham Strobridge — December 9, 1905 [Contribution, p. 403]
A Dancer's Revenge — December 23, 1905 [Contribution, p. 406]
The Spirit of Christmas — December 23, 1905 [Contribution, p. 409]
Diary of a Hard-Working Mayor — January 13, 1906 [Contribution, p. 410]
"The Earl of Distress" — January 13, 1906 [Contribution, p. 412]
Sam Clover's Play — January 13, 1906 [Drama, p. 414]
The Hammer Thrower — January 27, 1906 [Contribution, p. 414]
Terrence O'Toole Discusses Gothenburg — February 3, 1906 [Contribution, p. 416]
Rule of Three — February 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 419]
The Journalist in Fiction — February 24, 1906 [Fiction, p. 420]
"The Tatler") — March 3, 1906 [Contribution, p. 421]
An Epic of the Prize Ring — March 3, 1906 [Contribution, p. 424]
Deborah's Diary (literary passages) — March 3, 1906 [Contribution, p. 425]
Woes of a Press Agent — March 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 427]
The Blonde and the Brunette — March 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 429]
"Professor of Slang" (George Ade) — March 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 432]
Measurement of Beauty — March 31, 1906 [Contribution, p. 433]
Are Women's Clubs Worth While? (II. What the Clubs Haven't Done) — April 7, 1906 [Contribution, p. 434]
Books and Their Reading — April 7, 1906 [Review, p. 437]
Dum Vivimus Vivamus — April 7, 1906 [Contribution, p. 439]
Shakespeare's Birthday (from "On the Stage and Off") — April 7, 1906 [Contribution, p. 442]
The Spirit of Easter — April 14, 1906 [Contribution, p. 443]
Criticism of the Absent — April 14, 1906 [Essay, p. 444]
Big Trees Brochure — April 14, 1906 [Contribution, p. 447]
Willard's Text Book — April 21, 1906 [Contribution, p. 448]
Music at Dinner — April 21, 1906 [Contribution, p. 448]
One of Col. Tom's — April 21, 1906 [Contribution, p. 449]
[Beethoven and the Modern "Composer"] — April 21, 1906 [Contribution, p. 450]
Who's Who in Los Angeles XXXVI: Willis George Emerson (author notice) — May 5, 1906 [Contribution, p. 451]
The New York Hall of Fame (By The Censor) — May 12, 1906 [Contribution, p. 452]
The Borrowed Book (By Barry Pain) — May 12, 1906 [Contribution, p. 454]
"Madame Momentum" — May 26, 1906 [Contribution, p. 456]
The Lay of Lucy Long — June 2, 1906 [Contribution, p. 457]
Col. Flash's Poems — June 2, 1906 [Contribution, p. 458]
Mission of the Jungle — June 9, 1906 [Contribution, p. 458]
An English Review — June 9, 1906 [Review, p. 459]
"Bob" Burdette on San Francisco — June 9, 1906 [Contribution, p. 460]
The Jungle: A Novel of Chicago, by Upton Sinclair (booksellers' notice) — June 16, 1906 [Fiction, p. 461]
On Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (from Deborah's Diary) — June 23, 1906 [Contribution, p. 461]
Twenty Cents for "The Rosary" — June 30, 1906 [Contribution, p. 463]
"The Builders" Proves a Winner — Stirring Novel of Luck and Love in the West — July 28, 1906 [Fiction, p. 464]
Upton Sinclair's Next Book — July 28, 1906 [Contribution, p. 465]
Seventy Year Young — August 4, 1906 [Contribution, p. 466]
The Charm of Sand — August 18, 1906 [Contribution, p. 466]
Some Authors I Have Known — August 18, 1906 [Contribution, p. 469]
The Literary Matinee Infection — August 25, 1906 [Contribution, p. 471]
The Saving of Bret Harte — August 25, 1906 [Contribution, p. 473]
Animal Heroes — September 8, 1906 [Contribution, p. 474]
The Recrudescence of Izaak — September 15, 1906 [Contribution, p. 477]
The Mandarin's Courtship [From the Russian.] — September 29, 1906 [Contribution, p. 480]
Who's Who in Los Angeles LIX: Charles E. Van Loan — October 6, 1906 [Contribution, p. 483]
Impoverishing the Language — October 6, 1906 [Contribution, p. 485]
The Charm of Accessibility — October 20, 1906 [Contribution, p. 486]
Studies in Singers, No. 2 — October 20, 1906 [Contribution, p. 488]
Industrial Efficiency — November 3, 1906 [Contribution, p. 489]
Jim — November 10, 1906 [Contribution, p. 492]
A Gastronome Among the Ruins — November 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 493]
The Pleasures of Being Out of Work — November 17, 1906 [Contribution, p. 497]
An English Estimate of H. G. Wells's Latest Work — December 1, 1906 [Contribution, p. 500]
On the Stage and Off (Shakespeare-authorship essay) — by George A. Dobinson — December 22, 1906 [Essay, p. 501]
I. — The Last Roistering of Prince Iliaster Before He Marries — March 30, 1907 [Contribution, p. 503]
Popular Trio — April 20, 1907 [Contribution, p. 503]
Alignment for Patriotism — April 20, 1907 [Contribution, p. 504]
Familiar Quotations — April 27, 1907 [Contribution, p. 504]
Markers — April 27, 1907 [Contribution, p. 505]
Shakespeare: Then and Now. In Memoriam April 23, 1564 — May 4, 1907 [Contribution, p. 506]
III — June 8, 1907 [Contribution, p. 506]
A Note on Poetry — June 29, 1907 [Contribution, p. 507]
Furious Satire — June 29, 1907 [Contribution, p. 508]
Elizabeth's Latest — June 29, 1907 [Contribution, p. 508]
Young Field — July 6, 1907 [Contribution, p. 508]
Our American Humorists — July 13, 1907 [Contribution, p. 509]
Steps Toward Democracy — July 13, 1907 [Contribution, p. 509]
Russell Judson Waters—Poet — August 3, 1907 [Contribution, p. 510]
American Humorists—X — August 17, 1907 [Contribution, p. 511]
Literary — September 21, 1907 [Contribution, p. 512]
Literary — September 28, 1907 [Contribution, p. 513]
"Ned" Field Home — November 9, 1907 [Contribution, p. 515]
"Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife." — November 23, 1907 [Contribution, p. 515]
Two Dramas of Despair — January 11, 1908 [Drama, p. 517]
Mrs. Strobridge — January 11, 1908 [Contribution, p. 517]
Miller and Barry — April 18, 1908 [Contribution, p. 518]
Lines to the Fleet — April 18, 1908 [Contribution, p. 518]

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