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She went to the shelf, and took down two large scrap-books, carried them across to the fire, and opened one on her knees. "Vulgar and stupid, every one of them," she repeated, as she turned the leaves rapidly. "The clever ones get caught at times," said Briggerland gloomily. "Never," she said, and closed the book with a snap.
My father kept his newspapers also carefully filed away in the garret, but we made sad havoc among the "Palladiums" and other journals that we ought to have kept as antiquarian treasures. We valued the anecdote column and the poet's corner only; these we clipped unsparingly for our scrap-books.
The primitive records, covering the earliest years, were mainly jotted down on loose sheets of paper covered with sketches, notes, and data, pasted into large scrap-books, or preserved in packages; but with the passing of years and enlargement of his interests, it became the practice to make all original laboratory notes in large, uniform books.
When not dancing the watchful Baron took her through the drawing- rooms and picture-galleries adjoining, which to-night were thrown open like the rest of the house; and there, ensconcing her in some curtained nook, he drew her attention to scrap-books, prints, and albums, and left her to amuse herself with turning them over till the dance in which she was practised should again be called.
We helped her mind slowly by this simple means, we took her out between us to walk on fine days, in a quiet old City square near at hand, where there was nothing to confuse or alarm her we spared a few pounds from the fund at the banker's to get her wine, and the delicate strengthening food that she required we amused her in the evenings with children's games at cards, with scrap-books full of prints which I borrowed from the engraver who employed me by these, and other trifling attentions like them, we composed her and steadied her, and hoped all things, as cheerfully as we could from time and care, and love that never neglected and never despaired of her.
The collectors of George's etchings oh the charming etchings! oh the dear old "German Popular Tales!" the capital "Points of Humor" the delightful "Phrenology" and "Scrap-books," of the good time, OUR time Plancus's in fact! the collectors of the Georgian etchings, we say, have at least a hundred pictures of the artist.
Twice, during the last months of his life, it was my very good fortune to spend an evening with him at his room on Lexington Avenue, to drink the delicious coffee he brewed in his percolator given him by William Marion Reedy, to mull with him over the remarkable scrap-books he had compiled out of the richness of his varied reading, and to hear him talk about books and life.
We have several hundred of his newspaper articles saved in scrap-books. He preached altogether without notes, and never seemed to make any especial preparation for preaching a sermon. I once asked him how long it took him to prepare a sermon, and he replied, "Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, generally two or three years.
In a speech before the Woman's Press Club not long since, she said: "When a woman has written enough to fill a room, she feels like burning it instead of preserving it in scrap-books." Probably no woman of her day and generation has done more or better work than our "Jenny June."
He bought freely, never disputed a price, and laid down his cash with the air of a man who believes that unspent money is the root of all evil. These travels brought about three results: the making of friends, the compilation of scrap-books, and the establishment of 'bins. Before speaking of any one of these points, a word on the satisfactions of bibliographical touring.
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