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Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"


The Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity.
The Battle of the Prigs and Blackguards.
That Good may Come.
The Marriage of Inconvenience.
The Judicious Separation.
Fooling Around.
Higgledy-Piggledy.
The Diseases and Ordinary Causes of Mortality among Friendships.
The finding a lot of old photographs at Herculaneum or Thebes; and
they should turn out to be of no interest.
On the points of resemblance and difference between the dropping off
of leaves from a tree and the dropping off of guests from a dinner or
a concert.
The Sense of Touch: An essay showing that all the senses resolve
themselves ultimately into a sense of touch, and that eating is touch
carried to the bitter end. So there is but one sense--touch--and the
amoeba has it. When I look upon the foraminifera I look upon myself.
The China Shepherdess with Lamb on public-house chimney-pieces in
England as against the Virgin with Child in Italy.
For a Medical pamphlet: Cant as a means of Prolonging Life.
For an Art book: The Complete Pot-boiler; or what to paint and how
to paint it, with illustrations reproduced from contemporary
exhibitions and explanatory notes.
For a Picture: St. Francis preaching to Silenus. Fra Angelico and
Rubens might collaborate to produce this picture.
The Happy Mistress. Fifteen mistresses apply for three cooks and the
mistress who thought herself nobody is chosen by the beautiful and
accomplished cook.


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