Crankisms, by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman

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Title: Crankisms

Author: Lisle de Vaux Matthewman

Illustrator: Clare Victor Dwiggins

Release Date: December 5, 2006 [EBook #20024]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Crankisms

By Lisle de Vaux MATTHEWMAN

Pictured By Clare Victor DWIGGINS

* MCMI * HENRY T. COATES & CO. PHILADELPHIA

If I may be permitted to offer a suggestion, the Crankisms should be read in the spirit in which sermons are listened to--with the object of discovering whom they hit. This will furnish amusement, for what is more entertaining than trying the cap on others?

The settings speak for themselves; but the author desires to express his indebtedness to the artist for having infused life into and lent grace to dead bones of words, and for having, in many cases, given to those words a deeper and more subtle meaning than they themselves could be made to express.

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