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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1914
Page
7
The August 16 1914 Sunday Post devotes a page to Baroness Von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms and her Nobel Peace Prize legacy. It then discusses her second work When Thoughts Will Soar, praised for its hopeful aviation metaphor and call for good will as the basis of human relations and peace.
A Boston newspaper quotes a Memphis Scimitar claim that Keats erred in a sonnet about Homer. It asserts Balboa discovered the Pacific, not Cortez who never saw Darien. The note catalogs critic quotes from Palgrave and other authorities and questions the historical line in Keats.
A sharp critique of W Douglas Newton's War describing the book as a fearless, graphic portrayal of modern combat. The review notes vivid battle scenes, including artillery and rifle fire, and cites prefaces by Monsignor Benson and an introduction by Rudyard Kipling.
Centenary of Waverley is noted with Scott’s description of Liege in Quentin Durward. The Chaplain of Schonwaldt Castle counters that Liege is fierce and untamable, twice chastised by Burgundy, with banners, arsenals, and a history of revolt and robust city life.
The review praises Thoreau's Cape Cod as timeless and urges readers to visit a wind swept Cape. A Visitors Edition from Houghton Mifflin with 16 illustrations and an introduction by Charles S. Olcott is noted as a fine reissue priced at $1.09.
A brief unfavorable notice of You Should Worry by George W Hobart published in New York by G. W. Otlingham Company. The reviewer questions the claim of near a million sales and expresses regret over the volume's humor and circulation.
The passage surveys the rise of realism and naturalism in the last two generations. It notes novelists like Flaubert Maupassant George Moore and Arnold Bennett and observes poets from the square who read novels and follow narratives in verse. The point of view stresses the tale as central.
Kathleen Norris author of Saturday's Child receives a September 5 review note indicating forthcoming publication or discussion in the paper.
A passage from Walter Weyl's New Americans reflects on immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. It emphasizes that diverse newcomers become part of American lineage within generations, noting that race and origin blur as they integrate into the nation.
The piece argues that true theatre satisfaction is nearly impossible to achieve due to the need for perfect talent alignment and casting. It notes famed actors often perform poorly in their best parts, citing Mansfield, Nazimova, Sothern, Adams, and Mrs. Fiske in various roles.
Morley’s resignation brings into view his On Politics and History, a collection based on a Manchester lecture. The work frames his meditative view of history, noting how modern generalization wanes and encyclopedic minds fade as specialization grows.
A historical novel set in Mexico half a century ago features The Brethren of the Road and the rise of Diaz. Juarez Maximilian Carlotta and Princess Salm Salm appear among a cast of convincing and less convincing figures in a spirited critique.
The review classifies Albert Hickman’s Canadian Nights as seven yarns with mixed reception. It labels two stories Oriented and The New Power as hair-raising and notes some tales are of poor quality while praising passages of description that hint at real potential if humor and restraint are improved.
New York reports railroad passenger rates will be increased and a European system of differential charges for service classes will be introduced. Higher fares will apply to special tickets for travel in Pullman sleeping and parlor cars.
The poem depicts a WWI battlefield with mud blood and ruined farms. A Maxim gun shines in the mire while Zeppelins sweep the sky. A mother clutches her child as a burning town and ravaged scenes unfold and the crowd proclaims Prussian victory.
All official government correspondence between Great Britain and Japan now passes through San Francisco. The route shifts from London to New York, San Francisco overland, then cable to Guam and to Tokyo. Messages run 300 words or more and brisk traffic continues.
London telegram from Antoine de Zwan to the Spectator states mobilization in Warsaw generated enthusiasm and cites more than 400,000 Poles in the Russian army, with peasants taking an active part in the national movement since Poland’s partitions.
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