CHAFF AND WHEAT - A Few Gentle Flailings de Francis P. Donnelly - 1915-01-01

P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1915-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. P. J. Kennedy & Sons, New York, 1915. Hard cover, 266 pp. First Edition. NOT a Facsimile copy or reproduction. In acceptable+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Dark blue cloth covered boards with blind-stamped diamond pattern on front and gold lettering on front and spine. Cloth has a few nicks at the top and bottom of spine and fraying to the corner tips. Light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well . Spine is cracked at page behind title page, but binding is still intact. Previous owner's name in ink on both front and rear paste-downs. Pages yellowed but otherwise unmarked, with occasional light spotting. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. A collection of Donnelly's writings originally published in "America" magazine. It is a companion volume to Donnelly's earlier book entitled "Mustard Seed" which contained the first set of reprints of Donnelly's columns from America. Includes the following: I know just how you feel; All for the Best; Passing it along; Once upon a time; "Your Shall." "I Won't", To Rage or not to Rage; The Dogmatist; Simplifying Life; That Blessed Word, Automatic; This Vale of Sunny Shadows; Harping on one String; Euphemia and the Euphemists; Will you give up?; The Short Way Around; Chivalry Still Passing; Antipathy and sympathy; Are you doing it yourself? If I were Your/ Saints made while you wait; Carrying his point; Does it Pay? Agreeing to Differ;Micrometer or megaphone? Which? Tremendousnes of Trifles; Broad or Narrow; Make-Ups; Comparisons are - ; Saving up; A Voracious Monster; What are curmudgeons; "I have been dead"; The Carving out of a character; Because!; How to Tell a Jesuit: One Way; How to Tell A Jesuit: Another way; Patriotism of Peace; The Breaking Point; Fads and Faddists; How fads Grow; How fads go;