Foreword for Boston Post's literary page notes historic site
The Boston Post opens its literary page recalling the paper’s stormy birthplace near Anne Hutchinson’s house and Sir Henry Vane’s defense of her. Winthrop praised Hutchinson and Milton lauded Vane, while the essay hopes the page be young in years yet wise in counsel.
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Boston Post
Boston
Anne Hutchinson
Sir Henry Vane
Winthrop
Mrs. Hutchinson
Milton
Vane
POST
Sage Counsel
Onions Completes His Trilogy The Story of Louie
Oliver Onions completes his trilogy starting with In Accordance With the Evidence and The Debit Account. The Story of Louie centers on Louie Causton, a woman whose psyche and life are explored in depth, revealing courage and resolve. The critic hails the trio as a unified study in character, fate, and the repeating motifs that shape the three novels.
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Louie
George H. Doran & Co
Oliver Onions
Louie Causton
Jeffries
London
Hugh
Louie Cain
Optie
Critics Split on Eden Phillpotts Novel and Corkey Parody
Critics praise Corkey for its lively boyhood perspective and witty asides while deeming Eden Phillpotts’s Hrom at Seventeen sophomoric. The piece contrasts juvenile charm with mature novelist’s burdens and reviews George Alan England’s Six-Hundred-Page thriller Darkness and Dawn as a clever, overblown adventure with a moral undercurrent.
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Tyward
George Alan England
Small, & Co
Jules Verne
New York
New York Jungles and Wild Beasts, Madison Squ
Madison Forest
Twenty-the Street
England
Joe Knowles
Double Life and a Counted Two Weeks Thriller
A literary review notes Victor Bridges and Mary Roberts Rinehart use a double life premise. Bridges' Another Man's Shoes features two alike men and a two week impersonation for two thousand pounds. Rinehart's counterfeit presentment delivers a delayed solution aboard a yacht with three axe killings and a posthumous villain reveal.
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Victor Bridses
George H. Doran O
Bank of the Thames
London
Croesus
Lazarus
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Houghton, Mifflin Co
Ella
The Old Boston Post Road by Stephen Jenkins
The excerpt praises The Old Boston Post Road by Stephen Jenkins and notes its depiction of a historic thoroughfare. It references the road’s role from colonial war times to military movements and later migration toward the Mohawk Genesee valleys and Middle West, with final chapters covering Weston Waltham Watertown Cambridge Newton Brighton Brookline Roxbury landmarks.
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Boston Post Road
Stephen Jenkins
G. P. Putnami
Minutemen
Lexington
Gates
Washington
Mohawk
Genesee
Middle West
Weston
Waltham
Watertown
Cambridge
Newton
Brighton
Brookline
Rox
Washington Street Boston’s name a 1824 marker in old town notes
The piece traces Boston streets from 1703 to 1708 records spelling Orange Marlborough and Cornhill before Washington Street earned its current name on July 6 1824. It links the Post’s 1831 print site at Washington Street 261 and 17 Milk Street to Franklin’s birthplace site and early postal history. Benjamin Franklin is highlighted as printer electrician patriot deputy postmaster general in 1787.
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Bury
Old Bay State
Washington Street
Boston
New England
Neck
Deacon Eliot's
Orange Street
Dr. Oakes
Newbury Street
Peneman
Summer Street
Mr. Haugh's
Marlborough
School Street
Mr. Clark
Cornhill
Dover Street
Essex
Dock Square
Post
Jenkins
Milk Street
Franklin
Ben Franklin
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
New York
Hutchinson River
Anne Hutchinson
Heroines of Modern Religion reviewed in brief foreword
A New York publisher sent Heroines of Modern Religion. Anne Hutchinson opens the table of contents and the editor Warren Dunham Foster collects sketches of ten women including Hutchinson Susannah Wesley Elizabeth Ann Seton Lucretia Mott Fanny Crosby Sister Dora Hannah Whitall Smith Frances Ridley Havergal Ramabai Dongre Medhavi Maud Ballington Booth. The review notes the book omits La Mere Marie de lIncarnation and references William Wood's In the Heart of Old Canada for La Sainte Therese.
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Sturgis
Walton
New York
Anne Hutchinson
Anne
Barry
Howe
Adams
Boston
Warren Dunham Foster
Susannah Wesley
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Lucretia Mott
Fanny Crosby
Sister Dora
Hannah Whitall Smith
Frances Ridley Havergal
Ramabai Dongre Medhavi
Maud Ballington Booth
Canada
la Mere Marie de L'Incarnation
Bossuet
la Sainte Therese de
Quebec
William Wood
Old Canada
William Briggs
Toronto
A Letter From Coningsby Dawson Reveals The Garden Without Walls
The Boston Post presents an exclusive letter from novelist Coningsby Dawson discussing his inspiration for The Garden Without Walls. He details his background, education, and how personal memories shaped the book’s characters and settings, including Dante Cardover and Lilith, tying real places and people to fiction and noting the novel’s core message about inaction and virtue. He closes with assurances about Mr. Carpenter and a nod to Taunton origin.
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The
Post
Coningsby Dawson
Henry Holt & Co
Dawson
Boston Post
Meredith
Richard Feverer
John Bunyan
Oxford University
America
Canada
Galahad
Launcelot
England
Stoke Newington
Pope Lane
Dante Cardover
Dante
Eden Hill
Sneard
Scotland
Fiesole
Cardover
Fitzgerald
Tennyson
Lilith
India
Calcutta
Bette
Ransley
The Best Man and Then Came Jean Book Notices
Grace Livingston Hill Lutz presents The Best Man where Cyril Gordon marries at a wedding, complicating a cipher retrieval plot set under Secret Service as he escapes pursuit. Robert Alexander Watson’s And Then Came Jean follows a free speech filled TromboneTown Indiana family with a Zulu chief and a murder attempt, delivering entertaining, overdone drama.
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J. B. Lippincott Company
Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
Cyril Gordon
Young Gordon
Secret Service
Jean
Small, Maynard & Co
Robert Alexander Watson
Trotwood
Indiana
Trom
Henry Ham
In Search of a Husband and Other Works Review
Doubleday published Corra Harris early in her career with In Search of a Husband a frank study of a calculating woman who seeks wealth through marriage. The volume also covers Gold by Stewart Edward White a vivid gold rush tale with Italian Bar camp lawlessness and murders. Thonia by Arthur I. Wallis follows a London quest with treachery and romance. Procter’s portrait of a meticulous clerk-errant caps a compact critique of 19th century literary figures with cautious praise.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
Corra Harris
Joy Marr
Sambler
Jov
Stewart Edward White
Thonia
Arthur I Wallis
Little, Brown & Co
Hess Lowis Cleeve
London
Denis
Idonia
Ptol
Skegs
Scott
Procter
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Samuel Abbott
Onions
Rities
Eden Phille
Brown
Corkey
Londor
Paikipotts
Boydom
Everdroll
Churchill
Michael
Tam
Priller
Old Boston Post
Valpre
Inc
Bromfield ST
Coningsby
Dear Mr. Abbott
Morena
George Allan
Allan Stern
Beatrice Kendrick
Small, Maynard & Company, Publishers
Kathleen Norris
Best Bookstore
Old Valentines
Munson Havens
Ithel M
John Reed
Jogcian Marsh Company
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