Burges Johnson

From As Much As I Dare 1944 by Burges Johnson

NEW ENGLAND before modern means of transportation had broken down the barriers which hemmed it in and kept it distinctive ; New York City at the turn of the century, with the spell of the Gay 'Nineties still hovering over it ; and finally the ghost of the Old West, still flitting and sighing here and there amid the mountains and cattle lands beyond the Mississippi, not yet wholly exorcised by the law and the profits : these I hope are in this book.

  And I have shyly nursed a secondary purpose. It has been my good fortune to come face to face with men and women who have directed the currents of our national life, and to live beside several channels where those currents flowed. To my children such figures are likely to move as puppets through the pages of history. But if I have talked to someone who saw Lafayette it is as though only one other man and I stood between my children and the great French Marquis, hand touching hand, and he is no longer mere paragraphs upon a printed page, but comes alive. So I have hoped to use myself in this book as a device by which these men and women might gain flesh-and-blood reality for my readers.

[ From PREFATORY ; signed : ]

BURGES JOHNSON    

Schenectady, New York

New York : Ives Washburn 1944, p. 132.

Bibliographic

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963 Title A little book of necessary nonsense. Illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Publisher Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970, c1929] Description xii, 81 p. illus. 21 cm. Series Granger index reprint series ISBN 0836961498 Language English Note Poems.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Essaying the essay / by Burges Johnson. Publisher Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, 1970, c1927. Description xiii, 317 p. ; 23 cm. Series Essay index reprint series ISBN 0836919653

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title As I was saying. Publisher Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, [1968] Description xiii, 235 p. 23 cm. Series Essay index reprint series Language English Note Reprint of the 1923 ed.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title New rhyming dictionary and poets' handbook. Publisher New York : Harper, [1957] Description x, 464 p. ; 22 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title The lost art of profanity; foreword by H. L. Mencken, drawings by Orson Lowell. Publisher Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1948] Description 223 p. illus. 20 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Campus versus classroom, Publisher New York, N.Y., I. Washburn, inc. [1946] Description 4 p. l., 3-305 p. 22 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title As much as I dare, a personal recollection, by Burges Johnson. Publisher New York, N.Y., I. Washburn [1944] Description x, 346 p. front. (port.) 23 cm. Language English Note Experiences in the West: p. 274-346.

Author Blodgett, Harold William, 1900- Title Readings for our times, by Harold Blodgett and Burges Johnson. Publisher Boston, New York [etc.] : Ginn and company, [1942] Description 2 v. 24 cm. Language English Contents v. 1. Essential values. People. Present issues. Essays. Drama.--v. 2. Prose fiction. Language and literature. Poetry.

Author Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, 1881-1946. Title The art of fiction; a formulation of its fundamental principles, Publisher New York, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc. [c1939]

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Ladder to the moon, poems by Burges Johnson. Publisher Schenectady, New York, Union College, c1939. Description vi, 57 p. 21 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title The Rubaiyat of Omar Ki-Yi and other waggish rhymes, by Burges Johnson...illustrations by Morgan Dennis Publisher New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1938 Description 39 p. illus. 24 cm

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Professor at bay, by Burges Johnson. Publisher New York, G. P Putnam's Sons [c1937] Description viii p., 1 l., 243 p. 19 1/2 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Written composition in American colleges; a study of several aspects: and the test of a method of teaching, by Burges Johnson and Helene Hartley. Publisher [Schenectady, N. Y.] : Union college, 1936. Description cover-title, 46 p., 1 l. tables. 25 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Classes in "Journalistic writing" and "Journalism"; a few inferences drawn from an inquiry under the direction of Burges Johnson ... and Helene Hartley ... into the effectiveness of the teaching of written composition in American colleges. By Burges Johnson. Publisher [Schenectady, N.Y.] Union College, 1936. Description 37 p. 25 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Sonnets from the Pekinese and other doggerel, Publisher [New York] : The Macmillan company, 1935. Description 5 p.l., 3-38, [2] p. illus. 24 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title "Creative writing"; inferences drawn from an inquiry now being carried on at Syracuse university under the direction of Burges Johnson, Litt.D., and Helene Hartley, Ph.D., into the effectiveness of the teaching of written composition in American colleges, by Burges Johnson. Publisher [Syracuse] Syracuse university, 1934. Description 43 p. 25 cm. Language English Note Cover title. "Under a grant from the Carnegie corporation through the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching." Appendix: I. Excerpts from the record of the Syracuse conference on "Creative writing from the viewpoint of the psychologist", edited by Helene Hartley.--II. A dissenting opinion. Training imaginative writers.--III. Imaginative writing courses in the undergraduate curriculum, by Edith R. Mirrielees. "Creative writing" (an informal communication) by Hughes Mearns.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Essaying the essay, by Burges Johnson... Publisher Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1932. Description xiii, 317 p. : illus. (music) ; 19 cm. Language English Note "Suggestions for essays": p. [315]-317.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Good writing, by Burges Johnson; an inquiry into the efficacy of the teaching of written composition in American colleges; and a search for the criteria of "good writing". Publisher [Syracuse, N. Y., Syracuse university, c1932] Description cover-title, 76 p. 25 cm. Language English Note "The preliminary report in a series to be based upon experimental classes in English composition at Syracuse university."

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title New rhyming dictionary and poets' handbook, by Burges Johnson Publisher New York and London, Harper & brothers, [1931] Description x, 455 p. 22 cm Language English Note "First edition."

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877-1963. Title More necessary nonsense (the first American nonsense writers) Publisher New York, London : Harper & brothers, 1931. Description xiii p., 1 l., 98 p. col. front., illus. 17 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title A little book of necessary nonsense, compiled by Burges Johnson; illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Publisher New York, London : Harper & Brothers, 1929. Description xii p., 1 L., 81, [1] p. front., illus. 18 cm. Language English Note Illustrated lining-papers. Verse.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Essaying the essay, by Burges Johnson... Publisher Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1927. Description xiii,317 p. illus. (music) 19 cm. Language English Note "Suggestions for essays": p. [315]-317.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Earning a living by the pen; vocational opportunities in journalism for young women, compiled from the testimony of two hundred young women college graduates ... Publisher Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Bureau of Publication, Vassar College [c1926] Description 96 p. 23 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title As I was saying, by Burges Johnson ... Publisher New York : The Macmillan company, [1923] Description xiii, 235 p. 20 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Youngsters; collected poems of childhood, by Burges Johnson, illustrated by Rollin Crampton. Publisher New York, E.P. Dutton & company [c1921] Description xiii, 250 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 22 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title The well of English and the bucket, by Burges Johnson ... Publisher Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1917. Description xi, 149 p. 20 cm.

Author Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951. Title The cat's elegy / by Gelett Burgess and Burges Johnson. Publisher Chicago : A. C. McClurg & co., 1913. Description [43] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Bashful ballads, by Burges Johnson ... Publisher New York, London : Harper & Brothers, 1911. Description ix, [1] p., 1 l., 144, [1] p. incl. plates. front. 20 cm. Language English Note Illustrated end-papers. Partly reprinted from various sources. Contents Preface.--Apology.--The bashful man.--Ballads of the sea.--Ballads of beasts.--Bookish ballads.--Bachelor ballads.--Ballads of a householder.

Author Johnson, Burges, 1877- Title Beastly rhymes, by Burges Johnson ; with pictures to correspond by E. Warde Blaisdell. Publisher New York, T.Y. Crowell [1906] Description 3 p.��., 5-72 p. illus. 20 x 17 cm.