New Brooms

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shores, Robert J. (Robert James), 1881-1934.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"New Brooms" by Robert J. Shores is a collection of essays written in the early 20th century. The essays delve into various aspects of life and society, combining humor and philosophy as the author reflects on topics ranging from the culinary arts to the literary world. The opening portion introduces a character, Bartholomew Buttercake, who presents an insightful and humorous perspective on the relationship between cooking and philosophy, portraying cooking as an artistic expression that reveals character and societal values. The beginning of "New Brooms" sets the tone with a humorous letter addressed to the editor of a magazine, where Bartholomew Buttercake explains his background as a cook and his philosophical musings on human nature as observed through the lens of culinary choices. He shares his belief that the kitchen serves as a unique observatory for understanding people, using cooking not only to nourish others but also as a medium for self-expression and philosophical thoughts. Throughout the opening, Buttercake offers a witty critique of society's values while tying them back to the art of cooking, indicating a blend of humor and thoughtful commentary that characterizes the rest of the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

A philosophical cook

A bachelor on women

On pensioning writers

A puritan in Bohemia

An arraignment of originality

A flattering tribute

The riddle of a dream

Beds for the bad

Is Chesterton a man alive?

From a hunchback

From a hotel sponge

From Sarah Shelfworn

From Anna Pest

From Seth Shirtless

Sartor-psychology

Mr. Body protests

On a certain condescension in fashion writers

Of looking backward

The literary life

The poetic license

The necessity for beggars

The abuses of adversity

The science of making enemies

The fate of Falstaff

The reward of merit

The blessings of the blind

A tale of a mad poet's wife

The lock-step

The fruit of fame.

Credits:

E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 63.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2021-06-10