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One Issue; Just One 52nd of a Year: an Object Lesson in Values
One Issue Just One 52nd of a Year an Object Lesson in Values Author:Norman Rockwell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: The Curtis Publishing Company Description: Reprint in book form of one issue (unspecified) of the Saturday Evening Post, intended to demonstrate the difference in cost between magazine and book publication. Subjects: Saturday evening post Fiction / Ge... more »neral Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A PRESIDENTIAL POTPOURRI By Samuel G. Blythe /CITIZEN BILL LEWIS, erstwhile of Nagasaki, Manila and Vx Shanghai; sometime of Tokio, Vladivostok and Harbin; indigenous to North America, with especial reference to New York and San Francisco; at the present time pleasantly resident in Paris -- Citizen Bill, in addition to being able to speak all known languages truer to the appertinent form thereof than those who invented them, and to sing them, if need be and the occasion calls, in one of the best bass voices extant, has also a proper literary talent, a philosophical trend of mind, and a meditative and historical disposition. Thus, having observed the war lately ended for a space, Citizen Bill bethought himself to set down a chronicle that should portray adequately not only the salient events thereof but present to posterity a philosopheme as to its causes and effects as related to the past, present and future of the esteemed world. To that meritorious end Citizen Bill supplied himself with all the implements of the craft of writing and put himself busily about his task. He labored long and faithfully, collecting, examining, collocating, comparing, conjecturing, deducing wit...« less