In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well...

-011-         Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds...

   "TOM, what do you suppose that strange man who looked like a French peasant, yet wasn’t one, could have been up to late yesterday afternoon?"     "You mean the fellow discovered near the hangars at the aviation camp, Jack?"     "Yes. He seemed to go out of sight like a wreath of smoke does. Why, if the ground had opened and swallowed him up, once the hue and cry was raised, he couldn’t have vanished quicker...

Slips of SpeechA helpful book for everyone whoaspires to correct the everydayerrors of speaking and writing...

   YESTERDAY I found in a cupboard an old, small, battered portmanteau which, by the initials on it, I recognized as my own property. The lock appeared to have been forced. I dimly remembered having forced it myself, with a poker, in my hot youth, after some journey in which I had lost the key; and this act of violence was probably the reason why the trunk had so long ago ceased to travel...

   THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line...

  WHEN a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there...

 FAMILY AND BIRTH -- SCHOOL LIFE -- HIS FIRST VISIT TO NEW YORK CITY -- A LANDED PROPRIETOR -- THE ETHICS OF TRADE -- FARM WORK AND KEEPING STORE -- MEETING-HOUSE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL -- ``THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.’’    Among the names of great Americans of the nineteenth century there is scarcely one more familiar to the world than that of the subject of this biography...