Word: cats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fiction of the number consists of "The Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...Pussy Cat, De Koven...
...this list there are not more than three that can really be called old songs, "The Owl and the Pussy Cat," "The Three Glasses," and Fair Harvard." On the other hand quite a number of the songs are entirely new, being written by men in college...
...Little Old French Woman," is an admirable sketch of a bizarre old creature who on being raised to comparative affluence by a legacy of fifty thousand francs, founds an asylum for straw cats. The touches of character sketching are well laid on, although the idea of the thing as a whole is suggestive of T. B. Aldrich's translation from the French of "The Story of a Cat...
...Pussy Cat, De Koven...