Writings in Prose and Verse Author:Eugene Field Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to your hotel, call a doctor, and nurse the influenza for ten days. A good view of an orange grove is to be had from Mount Lowe or any of the other peaks back... more » of the Sierra Madre valley. Seen from above and at a distance of thirty miles, an orange grove presents a pretty spectacle, fresh, green, and picturesque. The farther away it is the more charming. Seen at its best, it is seen three thousand miles off through the eyes of the imagination of one poetically minded and kept at normal temperature by that sweetest of all human inventions, a well-regulated furnace. May 23, 1894 Encouragement for F. Marion Crawford The new national library will have space for four million books. We mention this merely to encourage Mr. F. Marion Crawford to keep right on. June 4, 1894 Small Price for a Great Poem Julia Ward Howe received only five dollars for her " Battle Hymn of the Republic,"and it was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly. It was worth more than that at that time, but it would probably not be accepted by any magazine now, for the reason that there is no demand for verse of that character. We do not rate it very high either as a patriotic inspiration or as a literary composition. But the context of contemporaneous history has made it great. June aa, 1894 The Shoe-Strings of Metbuselab Our learned, ingenious, and charming friend Franklin H. Head is reported to have credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes the authorship of a story he told at a banquet at the Union League Club, when introducing the stalwart Rev. Dr. F. A. Noble to the rest of the company. He recalled the physiological fact that after fifty years of age men become appreciably smaller; by a gradual settling process they will lose in thirty years possibly one quarter of an inch in height. "Dr...« less