The complete online text of A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field.

Termed "the first of the columnists," Eugene Field is best known today as the poet of children. However, his poems and stories originally appeared in print in columns written for newspapers in St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Kansas City, Missouri; Denver; and...

Highly regarded by his contemporaries as a poet, journalist, humorist, and raconteur, Eugene Field also built a reputation for himself as a bibliophile--although he did not accumulate a notable collection of books or establish a great library. His signif...

Eugene Field was a popular humorist and newspaperman often called the "Poet of Childhood." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field, both of New England ancestry, Field claimed two birthdates--2 and 3 September 1850--in later yea...

A New York prostitute known to specialise in sado-masochism could scupper the career of one of America's best-known sports commentators - from beyond the grave. Nadia Frey, described by New York tabloid papers as the "Manhattan dominatrix", was found dead, in her West Side...

EDITED BY ART SPIEGELMAN AND FRANCOISE MOULY. HarperCollins/Cotler, $19.95 (64p) ISBN 0-06-028624-5 * In this provocative anthology, husband-and-wife team Spiegelman (Open Me... I'm a Dog) and New Yorker art editor Mouly enlist well-known artists to retell traditional tales and invent visual games....