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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1886
Page
5
A promotional note for a Chicago publication by Tiattie Tyng Griswold, issued by A. C. McCrarg & Co. It discusses the author’s method as scrappy and gossipy rather than commendable while noting the book’s price of 31.50.
The memoir recounts Martha Huot Coston’s rise from a Baltimore birth to a Washington society belle and widow. She and inventor husband Benjamin Franklin Coston popularized Coston signals used by navies and explorers. Her travels across Europe include Paris London Rome with engagements, royal audiences, and a dramatic doomed betrothal. she ends as a proud grandmother and famed, if vanity-prone, self-promoter.
A historical critique celebrates Francatelli as royal kitchen chief and author of a lavish twenty sixth edition. It notes doubled menus, eighty new dishes, and receipts for a large royal service. The review praises education of palate but mocks English culinary practice and ornate garnish.
A discussion of French dinner courses and dessert customs contrasts popular cookbooks by Juliet Corson and Francatelli. It notes Corson’s aim to teach economical meals for the poor, lists cake varieties, and compares illustrations and care of dining rooms with Francatelli’s more elaborate designs.
A brief note on the out of print essay The Modern Jew by Anna L Dawes now reissued. It praises Jews as healthy law abiding educated and adaptable while noting assimilation as unlikely and Palestine colonization as debated with support from Lawrence Oliphant and George Eliot.
The December volume surveys eight centuries of Moorish rule in Spain with poetic prose. It highlights legends, learning, and splendor, praising Cordova and Abd er rahman, while tracing decline after the fall of Granada and Spain’s enduring aftereffects.
Messrs Harper and Brothers announce a new book by the author of John Halifax Gentleman titled About Money and Other Things. The volume comprises short stories and papers written over time, released at friends of Mrs Craik's request. The author of A Demigod responds to claims of extreme extravagance in a letter to an Eastern journal, defending the highly colored nature of the tale and noting artificial selection in plants and animals.
A catalog-like note promotes a book by Edwin Verey Whipple with portraits and Dr Bartoi's Memorial Address. Price listed as $1.50 in half calf and $3.00. Numerous newspaper blurbs praise the literary value and brio.
The author argues for a hero shaped by artificial selection to extreme perfection, a figure with superhuman physical and mental powers. Everyday scenes fail to convey the concept, so sensational, torture-filled adventures in exotic settings are required to reveal his extraordinary qualities and moral heroism.
Yale Alumni Association hosted about 300 guests at Delmonico's New York on December 17. Chauncey Depew chaired and urged友 that rival colleges share friendship, praising Yale's influence and education while denouncing intercollegiate bitterness and ruffianism. Dwight spoke of Yale progress and urged unity among great colleges.
Bradstreet s reports a mixed week in bank clearings with declines in Chicago and Pittsburgh while New Orleans and San Francisco post brisk increases. New York gains driven by speculative excitement totaling 113 million, with Boston Philadelphia and Baltimore also up. thirty two cities total 1 348 46 175 against earlier totals. Special railway earnings for eleven months reach 270 191 000 in 1856 and 248 351 000 in 1885.
Curiaco December 17 Judge Cooley informs Judge Gresham of accepting the Wabash receivership. He will travel to Chicago Monday to file his bond.
Boston area venues list afternoon and evening showings. Harbor Lights at the Harbor Lights Theatre runs 7:45. Mikado at the Globe Theatre with 7:45 performances. Mr Frank Mayo stars at the Park Theatre in Nordeck with matinee and night shows. Edwin Booth appears at the Boston Theatre in an afternoon performance. Lang's Comedians play PlUou Theatre daily at 2 and 8. Adonis at Hollis Street Theatre offers matinee and evening. Eagle's Nest at Howard A Henizeum performs in the afternoon.
Pers ia by S. G. W. Benjamin Japanese Homes by E 3S Morse Choson Korea by Percival Lowell Tuscan Cities by W D Howells Red Letter Days Abroad by John L Stoddard Each 1 vol 8vo Gilt Richly illustrated 5.00 dollars
Howells presents The Minister's Charge a tale of modern Boston society. Bynner offers Agnes Surriage a colonial Massachusetts romance. Wendell's Rankell's Remains explores political intrigue. Count Xavier by Henry Greville exposes aristocratic plots. Wertheimber's A Muramasa Blade delivers a lavish illustrated Japanese romance.
Biographical treasures listed include Longfellow two volumes with engravings priced at $6, half calf $11 or half morocco $11. Providence Journal praise notes richness of extracts. Hawthorne by Julian Hawthorne two volumes with portraits $5, half morocco or half calf $9, deluxe $12. Whipple Recollections of Eminent Men featuring Sumner Motley Agassiz Choate Emerson with portrait $1.50, half calf $0.
The record notes stock times: RK L Day & Co at 11 30 a m and Francis Henshaw & Co at noon. No prices or outcomes provided.
In Plymouth Chelsea Weymouth and Beverly on December 14 to 16, the names Alfred W. Eison and Mary Spooner. Harry T. Gerrish and Harriet Willey. Henry Hancock and Florence Parkin. Frederic W. Harris and Mary Hunt. Charles A Hayden Jr and Minnie Buck. Charles W Woodbury and Emma Chipman are recorded in marriage notices.
Listings announce the deaths of Overton Winston Barret Dorchester George E Chase Elizabeth Ford Elizabeth Spratt Alexander Ormiston Gilbert Walt Laura Nichols Mary N Babson Lorenzo Derby Lizetta A Jackson Edgar Corrie Curtis Marshall Pinckney Wilder with funeral details at King's Chapel Second Church and private interment. flowers not requested.
The funeral for the late president of the society, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, will be at Second Church Washington Street Dorchester tomorrow Sunday the 19th at 2 pm. Members are invited to attend meeting at the church vestry at 1:30 pm. Green Grove Hall line cars pass Temple Place leaving at 12:30 pm. D G Haskins Jnr Secretary.
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