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From Plotzk to Boston, by Mary Antin
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Title: From Plotzk to Boston
Author: Mary Antin
Commentator: Israel Zangwill
Release Date: February 21, 2007 [EBook #20638]
Language: English
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From Plotzk to Boston
BY MARY ANTIN
WITH A FOREWORD BY
ISRAEL ZANGWILL
BOSTON, MASS. W. B. CLARKE & CO., PARK STREET CHURCH 1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899 BY MARY ANTIN
PRESS OF PHILIP COWEN NEW YORK CITY
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DEDICATED TO
HATTIE L. HECHT
WITH THE LOVE AND GRATITUDE OF THE AUTHOR
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FOREWORD
The "infant phenomenon" in literature is rarer than in more physical branches of art, but its productions are not likely to be of value outside the doting domestic circle. Even Pope who "lisped in numbers for the numbers came," did not add to our Anthology from his cradle, though he may therein have acquired his monotonous rocking-metre. Immaturity of mind and experience, so easily disguised on the stage or the music-stool--even by adults--is more obvious in t