Keats Lamia illustrated edition noted for Low designs
Review praises the reduced Lamia edition with W H Low illustrations, noting Greek mood and mythic repetition, while critiquing some awkward drawing. Highlights Low's decorations as fitting and the edition’s appeal to younger readers. Also discussed are Hale's Man Without a Country, Beranger translations, Goldsmith’s The Traveller with Taylor etchings, Sea Vistas in Many Climes, and Modern Art and Artists, with mixed judgments on illustrations and text.
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Keats
W. H. Low
Low
Mr. Low
Hernan
the Traveller
M. M. Taylor
Nell
Taylor
Addison
America
W. B. Hole
Prince Charlie
Coquelin
Raimundo de Madrago
R. W. Macbeth
Wilfrid Meynell
Gérome
Whistler
Vedder
Byron
Mr. Meynell
John Keats
Will H. Low
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
Edward E. Hale
Boston
Roberts Bros
Beranger
William 5. Walsh
Lippincott Comany
Oliver Goldsmith
Susie Barstow Shelding
New York
Frederick A. Stokes & Bro
de Wolfe, Fiske & Co
Price
Oy Wilfrid Meynell
Cassell & Co
Newark
London
German Austrian tensions flare after Vienna visit
The Boston Post notes that Germany resents Austrian premier Taafe and Berlin papers ridicule him after William II snubbed Taafe in Vienna. The dispute centers on Austrian German minority issues, but the writer calls it not a serious crime in the broader triple alliance strain.
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Count Taafe
Berlin
William
Vienna
Austria
Persia and Russia Struggle Shapes East Asia Power
The article notes souring Russia Persia relations may affect Asia. Persia sits between Russia and England, with England’s influence rising again militarily and commercially. The piece argues English growth is preferable to Russian expansion, amid past Indian policy errors.
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Russia
Persia
Asia
England
India
Hewitt poised to name two key New York offices
The piece notes Mayor Hewitt may appoint public works commissioner and corporation counsel before leaving office. Tammany faces a potential four year term for the two posts, pending term rules. Court of Appeals precedent favors appointing to fill the unexpired term first, then the new four year terms. Citizens would gain overall despite Tammany’s setback.
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Hewitt
Corporation Counsel
New York
Tammany
Grant
Court of Appeals
Congress Opens With Tax and Tariff Battles Looming
The fiftieth Congress begins under strain as Senate tariff discuss ion looms over Republican priorities and a possible March deadline for action. In the House, debate over funding the direct tax is set for Thursday, with a Dec 6 special order and final vote the following Tuesday. The caucus agreement guiding these moves may shape a tense session before the holiday recess.
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Senate
House
Cleveland insults the intelligence of the people says Boston Journal
The Boston Journal denounces claims that American workingmen seek war tariff relief as untrue and libellous. It praises workingmen as intelligent and well off, likening such rhetoric to prewar Southern defenses of slavery and warning against muttering doom of perpetual servitude.
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The
Boston Journal
Cleveland
Journal
Emancipation Debate Challenged by Slavery Defenders
The piece quotes pro emancipation critics who insist slaves are the best cared for and most fortunate in material conditions, labeling abolitionists as fanatics. The Journal counters that these are old fallacies repackaged to defend slavery.
President Cleveland's Message Review of Reform Plans
President Cleveland's final message is a clear businesslike review of government departments with practical reform recommendations. It urges educational expansion for Indians, pension law revisions, civil service classifications, fair railroad land relations, consular reorganization, naturalization rules, and a treaty with Mexico. It also argues against bond buybacks as costly to the people and highlights tariff effects and industrial liberty as central, forward-looking themes.
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Cleveland
Mexico
Hawaii
General Harrison
Indianapolis
Harrison
Congress
OUR COAST DEFENCES IN ANNUAL WAR REPORT
The annual report highlights future plans for coast defenses under Mr Enphott. It praises his administration as intelligent and progressive and notes past four years of wise, economical spending. Estimates for the year ending June 30, 1890 total just over forty four million dollars for all planned uses.
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Secretary of War
Great Lakes
Endicott
National Armory
France
Enphorr
ScorrigLp
Naval coast defense and reform urges increased appropriations
The discussion urges building a modern coastal defense system with heavy ordnance, armored emplacements, and torpedo batteries. Endicott backs simultaneous construction of guns and casemates, proposing an appropriation of 2.84 million dollars plus 2.09 million for torpedoes and related work, plus 200 thousand for repairs.
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Congress
Endicott
Contested Elections and House Control Dilemma
The article analyzes the unsettled issue of contesting elections in the House, noting the constitution grants each chamber sole authority over member qualifications. It highlights how party control over disputed seats shapes committee power and speaker selection, potentially embedding party influence in contested outcomes. The piece argues constitutional amendments are hard to achieve to separate these functions.
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House of Representatives
Cecilia Concert Opens Thirteenth Season With Brahms Requiem
Music Hall audience attended the Cecilia Club’s opening night of its thirteenth season. Brahms Requiem featured Miss Elizabeth C. Hamlin and Mr. Eliot Hubbard with an orchestra and piano substitute for harp. Dvořák’s patriotic hymn followed, sung with vigor. The reviewer notes space and hall limitations affected effect and urges a future repeat with enhanced instrument availability and familiarity.
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Cecilia
Music Hall
Brahms
J. Brahms
Elizabeth C. Hamlin
Eliot Hubbard
A. Dvorak
Dvyorak
Australian poet Sladen praises Gordon in lecture at Steinert Hall
Mr Douglas Sladen delivered the first of two lectures on Australian poetry at Steinert Hall yesterday. He highlighted Adam Lindsay Gordon as the first Australian poet heard abroad, detailing Gordon's tragic life and famed ballads like The Sick Stock Rider and The Wreck. The audience included Louise Chandler Moulton Edna Dean Proctor Boyle O Reilly and Arlo Bates with Henry Kendall to be featured next Monday.
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Douglas Sladen
Oxford
Steinert Hall
Field
George Barrington
Charles Harpur
Sladen
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Henry Kendall
Gordon
Cheltenham College
Military Academy
Woolwich
Australia
South Australia
Australias
Marlowe
Burns
Mr. Sladen
Louise Chandler Moulton
Edna Dean Proctor
Boyle O’reilly
Arlo Bates
Richardson Revered by Foreign Architect Authority in Boston
In Boston a Royal Institute of British Architects address praises Henry Hobson Richardson as a master whose late works carry his own unmistakable design. The piece notes his Romanesque influences, campanile at Brattle Square Church, Trinity Church tower, and their lasting prestige among Boston's landmarks and beyond.
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Royal Institute of British Architects
Boston
Henry Hobson Richardson
Waterhouse
Richardson
Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Paris
Athens
Rome
America
Hrattle Square
President Waterhouse
Montgomery Sears
Trinity Church
Society of British Architects
Pittsburg Court House
Field
Chicago
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Ohioans for Harrison Cabinet Draft Noted in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Commercial (Rep) lists Ohio men proposed for Harrison’s cabinet and diplomatic posts including John Sherman as Secretary of State and William McKinley as Secretary of the Treasury, with Foraker, Hanna, Butterworth, Foster, Grosvenor and others suggested for key posts and envoys abroad.
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Harrison
Ohio
John Sherman
Treasury
William McKinley
J. B. Foraker
Interior
Mark Hanna
Navy
Ben Butterworth
Charles Foster
Charles Grosvenor
England
General Bushnell
France
W. D. Bickham
Italy
EN. C. Cowles
Germany
C. P. Tait
Austria
Leopold Markbreit
Cincinnati Commercial
Reform in Maine Demands Secret Ballots
The Biddeford Journal and the Portland Press urge Maine’s new Legislature to pass a bill making ballots secret. They argue Biddeford and other Ring-ridden cities need electoral reform, and such a measure would benefit the whole state by reducing corruption opportunities.
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Maine
Biddeford
Portland Press
Journal
North American
N. Y
Rainbow sheriff, trains, and a windy miscellany
A digest of odd tidbits and quips from various sources. A Rainbow becomes sheriff in an Ili nois county while a rainbow chaser looks for a catch. A single train runs on the Martha's Vineyard railroad, where collision is impossible. An octogenarian Pittsburger drank gin daily for fifty years. Jokes on Probabilities, cigars, and family meals swirl with sharp social commentary and a Hartford Irish American club resolution. A Washington Territory statehood remark features Seattle’s five mile cable road and wheat production. A clergyman’s son and father share a long sermon and a quip about waking up in church.
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Rainbow
Ilinois
Martha’s Vineyard
John Clinch
New Mexico
London
Philadelphia
Hkecord
Republican Party
Washington Territory
Squire
Seattle
Religious Herald
Diverse Society News From A Week In Review
Personal notes from Washington report Mrs Harrison’s family will not reach the capital before March 1. Philadelphia seniors invite Dr Brooks for June baccalaureate. Endicott confirms Chamberlain arrival at Havre in good health. C L Page resigns Y M C A post to become Dudley Street Church assistant in Boston. Lord and Lady Stanley tour Hamilton Ontario and Ottawa opening an art show. Ethel Ingalls to head Washington society column in a Democratic NY paper. Lord Sackville to assess value of an English minister in Washington. top posts vacant. DeWitt Clinton Mather’s fire loss at The Cedars Bound Brook includes 6000 volumes and paintings worth 40000. Carl Schurz accepts Hamburg American Steamship Co directorship, not active manager here. Governor Ames faces a pardoning critique by a Chicago paper over Thanksgiving clemencies. Feminine theater circles lament Alice Hastings’s death and Chic’s funeral. Miss Bessie Woodville of Baltimore engaged to Prince von Pless. she and mother in Biarrtz. London News portrays Gladstone and wife in Birmingham with vivid attire and scene.
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Endicott
Havre
France
Joseph Chamberlain
C. L. Page
Young Men’s Christian Association of
St. Johnsbury
Boston
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Lord
Lady Stanley
Hamilton
Ont
Ottawa
Ethel Ingalls
Senator Ingalls
Washington Society
New York
Lord Sackville
Washington
DeWitt Clinton Mather
the Cedars
Bound Brook
N. J
Mather
Carl Schurz
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
R. J. Curtis
Schurz
Governor Ames
Chicago
Alice Hastings
Roland Reea
Chic
Bergh
Bessie Woodville
Baltimore
Prince von Pless
Paris
Miss Woodville
Biarritz
London News
Mrs. Gladstone
Birmingham
Mr. Gladstone
Army Orders Relieve Captains Benton Russell and Benton
Washington December 3 Captain A H Russell ordnance department and Second Lieutenant E F S Benton of Third Artillery relieved from duty at Cincinnati Exposition and ordered to join stations Leaves of absence granted Captain H P Kingsbury Sixth Cavalry six months Captain James Jackson First Cavalry six months First Lieutenant K Burnett Ninth Cavalry four months First Lieutenant J J OBrien Fourth Infantry four months
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Washington
Speciau
A. H. Russell
Ordnance Department
Benton
Third Artillery
Cincinnati Exposition
H. P. Kingsbury
Sixth Cavalry
James Jackson
First Cavalry
K. Burnett
Ninth Cavalry
J. J. O’brien
Fourth Infantry
Bank stockholders assessed in Chicago liquidation ruling
Judge Blodgett ruled today that twenty one stockholders of Manufacturers' National Bank of Chicago owe 18 and 2 thirds cents on each dollar of their $500,000 capital. The bank suspended in September 1873. List includes the Adams estate, Marshall Field, Cobb, Comstock, Fawcett, Richmond, Heath and Milligan, Lord, Hutchinson. Largest bill is $488.20 from the Adams estate. All stockholders to pay.
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Cuicano
Blodgett
Manufacturers’ National Bank of Chicago
William H. Adams
Marshall Field
B. Cobb
Charles Comstock
William $. Fawcett
Alonzo Richmond
Heath
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Maginn
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Washington Street
Boston Post
Atkinson
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