So there you are, with that new copy of The Royal Road to Card Magic that you found under the Christmas tree (or that old copy that you found in your stuff and dusted off because you’re finally ready to get serious about learning magic). Lots of tricks in this book. Lots of good stuff. Continue reading “Royal Road”
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I’d Thought I Was Done with Politics
After reprinting the Whig and Republican songbooks from 1844 and 1888 I thought I’d be done with this. But hey, it’s time to stand up for truth. Who knew that Teen Vogue would be a bastion of hard-hitting journalism? The CIA officially determined that Russia intervened in our election, and President-elect Donald Trump dismissed theContinue reading “I’d Thought I Was Done with Politics”
Index of Titles and First Lines: 1888 Harrison Song Book
“And when some jubilant son-of-a-gun Yelled, ‘What’s the matter with Harrison?’ A voice replied, far up the height, ‘He’s all right.’” Songs from The Harrison log cabin song book of 1840 : Revised for the campaign of 1888, with numerous new songs to patriotic airs, together with explanatory notes, links to music, amusing illustrations, &c.Continue reading “Index of Titles and First Lines: 1888 Harrison Song Book”
The Back Matter
OUR OWN PUBLICATIONS. Ohio, a Sketch of Industrial Progress, by Jno. T. Short, late Professor in the Ohio State University. Pamphlet, 56 pp. 25¢. A Short History of Ohio, by A. W. West and J. L. Hunt. Pamphlet 60 pp. 15¢. Ohio in 1788. A .description of the Soil, Productions, etc., of that portionContinue reading “The Back Matter”
Farewell to Ben and Grover
And here it is, the last entry in the 1888 Harrison Log Cabin Song Book: SET HIM THERE K-SOCK. And they’s still another idy ‘at I ort to here append, In a sort o’ nota beany, fer to taper off the end, In a manner more befittin’ to a subject jes’ in view,Continue reading “Farewell to Ben and Grover”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 