Under the Lamp With Late Books
A review roundup surveys new publications and authorial voices from Mary Murfree to Stanton and Hall. It notes Craddock’s critique of women authors using male pseudonyms, praises Frank L. Stanton’s verse in From Georgia, and highlights Margaret Scott Hall’s Heart Leaves, along with a survey of Bug books, Anglo Saxon poetry translations, Tom Tad, and Hornung’s The Shadow of the Rope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanton
Dmirers
Frank L. Stanton
D. Appleton& Co
New York
Georgia
D. Appleton & Co
Atlanta Constitution
Margaret Scott Hall
Atlanta
Mennonite Publishing Company
Hillbart
Ind
Halrs Ventura
Ludith
Phoenix
Greiff-Walker
J Lesslie Hal
William and Mary
Hall
Boowulf
Maldon
Brunnanburh
Andrew
Spain
Ass “Brsregger Hail
Publishers and Critics Across the Atlantic Debate Reviews
A discussion of British and American book reviewing standards, noting critics' seriousness, the limits of daily press reviews, and publishers' desire for more influential, conscientious assessments. Andrew Lang is cited, as is The New York Times, with concerns about time limits, censorship, and the role of editors and publishers in shaping criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Sutherland
Ainslee
Uput
Rutherland
Street & Smith, Publishers
New York
Judith
Joan of Arc
Matthew
Andrew
Phoenix
Silver, Burnett & Co
Tom Tad
OM Tad
William Henry Venable
Tom
Miami Woods
Dodd, Mead & Co
American Baptist Publication Society
Atlanta
Sands Goodwin
Andrew Lang
United Kingdom
Reading Publc
Matthew Arnold
Daily Press
Keats
New York Times
Saturday Review of Books
Flaat
Iterary
Saturday Review
Athene
Tits Engishman
America
Brown
Britain
Chamlleys
Greng
Gilain
Tris
Andrew Hang
London Post
Ogilvie
Powrte
Fingustral Blackguard
Wise Publsher
Messrs
Dodd & Mead
Wit and Humor From New Books Era Magazine Collection
A compact, era style compilation of witticisms and humorous quotes from various authors and magazines. The items spoof money, charity, education, science, and social norms with playful dialect and period tone. Notable lines touch on reciprocity, health, and human folly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Era Magazine
Trollope and 19th century fiction discussed in review
An extended literary digest surveys Trollope as a social realist, compares him with Ben Jonson, and notes a trend toward varied reading. It also previews forthcoming memoirs and works on Dumas, Kipling, Remington, Stockton, Browning, and J H Muller, with publisher notes on editions and translations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Thorne
Trollope
Ben Jonson
The Lords Faith
Poem fragment pondering life and faith. It questions the uncertainty of life and the soul's ascent. A speaker envisions a pure region beyond pain and joy where the soul can dwell. The imagery of a bird and wings underscores readiness to rise beyond earthly struggle.
Fergus Hume and the Fatal Bond of a Broken Pact
The tale recounts Fergus Hume’s fevered Melbourne years and a dramatic contract with an actor to share profits from The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. After illness, the author-backed project led to legal threats and the actor’s suicide at sea, framing Hume as a real life parallel to his sensational fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fergus Hume
Melbourne
Bohemia
Good Samaritan
England
Mary MacLane Spirit and a Dishrag Autocrat Sketch
A critic mocks Mary MacLane’s confessions while praising the ongoing publicity for Butters, then reproduces a New York Evening Sun sketch of a servant girl named Mary McJane. The monologue shows a discontented household worker resenting her situation, plotting mischief, and musing on leaving, with lines about breaking china and desiring freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astescriber
Mary MacLane
Butters
Daily Press
Mary
Mary McJane
New York Evening Sun
Harlem
Casey's
Mary McJanes
Bible in Literature Praises Jewish Poetic Power
Philadelphia Bulletin argues the Bible, especially Esaias Job Ruth and the Apocalypse, shapes Western literature more profoundly than Homer Dante or Milton. It claims even revised versions cannot erase its enduring poetic force and influence on old English literature. The piece extols the Bible as seed for new life and a standard surpassing ancient poets and playwrights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esaias
Ruth
Haphocles
God
Esalas
Job
Calderon
Milton
Cynewulf
Bacda
Theocritus
Horace
David
Philadelphia Bulletin
Suppy and Demand from a Lippincott's tale
A fragment from a moral tale in Lippincott's describes a rich man dining lavishly while the hungry poor linger outside with no food. Neither side eats. one has plenty, the other none, illustrating stark inequality and appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rechsman
Rumson
Lippincott’s
Grounds of the Terrible Poem Honors a British Gunner
Harold Gebbie presents a Kiplingesque poem on the death of First Class Petty Officer Grounds of H M 8 Terrible. It recalls his service, wage figures, and prize money for shell shots, praising his skill with the heavy gun amid storms and naval duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yiore
Kipling
Harold Besble
Grounds
H. M
Hest
Bisley
Jim
England
Fleet
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Charles Eg’pert Craddock
A& Man
Mary W. Murfree
Ainly
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Publishers
EB. W. Hornung
Sherlock Holmes
London
Australia
Mr. Harmony
Bis
Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers
St. Clair
James Ball Naylor
Muskingum Valley
Sanfold Publishing Company
Akron Ohio
Rob
William Alexander Quin
Aite
Roosevelt
Murat Halstead
Saalfield Publishing Company
Akron
Ohico
Abbey Press
Julia Wolff Molina
Theodore Cuyler
Baker & Taylor Company
Price
Dr. Cuyler
Wordsworth
Dickens
Carlyle
Washington Irving
Gladstone
Lincoln
Cuyler
Beecher i
Brooklyn
Mary Agnes Byrne
The
Saarfield Publishing Company
Ohio
Israel
Herman Bernstein
New York Evening Post
New York Commercial
Menorah
Zanegwell
Bernstein
J. F. Taylor & Co
W. H. White
Royal Horticultural Society of England
Trevor Lawrence
Bart
John Lane
Pubisher
Phoebe W. Futter
Dr. Kline
Henry H. Hadley
William Franklin Johnson
Saalfield Pubishing Company
Lizzie McGuire
Henry A. Dickerman & Son
Boston
Lillian L. Price
Silver, Burdett & Co
Publishers
Mrs. Tree
Abner
Daniel
Christendom
Olympus
Hades
Daniel Everton
Abner Daniel
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Kruger
Munich
Lehmann
Alexander Dumas
Iate
J. B. Lippincott Company
Pere
Arthur F. Davidson
Keble College
Oxford
Dumas
Rudyard Kipling
Brattleboro
Rottingdean
Tunbridge Wells
Frederick Remington
Westernife
Scribner
Remington
Frank R. Stockton
Edward Marshall
New York Journal
Cuba
Lewis, Berliner & Co
Lothrop Publishing Company
Julian Halph
Henry Holt & Co
Hubert Waller Deering
Western Reserve University
Henry C. Porter
Century Company
Japan
China
India
Philippines
Whittier
Canter Harbor
N. H
John Greenhcat Whittier
Lucy Larcom
Posteas
Stopford A. Brooke
Robert Browning
Messrs. ‘Thomas Y, Crowall & Co
Brooke
Tennyson
J. H. Muller
Messrs. Crowell
the Bible IN Literature
Harold Gegbie
de Heuides
Notions Trading Agency
P. O
Ieee
Anne Coma
Rame
Zante
Rouhaca
Fen
TEE Ale Girl CO
Boyal Mas Pactudisg
Coulter Optical CO
Chicagay Ele
Paris Chemical Co
Milwaukee, Wis
Omer
T.aay
Revere
Hoxton
Mass
LL. E. Dillard
Feaple
Ladie Cannontratt
Atamp
Pastevesxs
Buffalo
N.Y
Medici
Sevd
Royal Co
Monroe St
Chicago
Ratarion
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