Art School Turmoil Sparks Directorship Clash in New York
A dispute over Metropolitan Museum of Art connected art school leadership ends with John Ward Stimson resigning as director. The controversy pits his court of supporters and pupils against the commercial-leaning Metropolitan committee led by Robert Hoe Jr. Stuart Stimson plans a new broadly based art school with subscriptions and prominent teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Ward Stimson
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Art School
Stimson
Robert Hoe, Jr
Hog
Hoe
Chickering Hall
Advantages of Uniformity in Dress Style
From the London Standard, the piece argues that uniform dress simplifies society and reduces wardrobe burdens for all classes. It praises cheap, convenient, democratic clothing while warning that tampering could lead to endless variety and costly, impractical wardrobes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
London Standard
Gorgius Midas
Jones
Charles Surface
Roderick Random
Brave Old Ironsides The Long Chase of the Guerriere and Java
A historical account traces the careers of the Constitution and Constellation, detailing Hull and Bainbridge's Cmdr ships, their sea battles with Guerrire Java and Levant, and the culture of praise, prizes, and monuments that shaped early American naval memory. It argues for preserving legendary ships as living monuments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Truxton
Navy
Constitution
Constellation
Boston
Baltimore
Joshua Humphries
Messrs
France
England
Lloyd's Coffee House
Hull
Broke
Dacres
Congress
London Times
Isaac
Dacre
Bainbridge
Brazil
San Salvador
Charles Stewart
Spain
Stewart
Levant
Porto Praya
New York
Atlantic
Porto Rico
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Elliott
Cass
Constantinople
Livingstone
Claxton
Pacific
Norfolk
Old
Isaac Mayo
Sripoli
Guerriére
Baimbridge
Cyane
Pictou
Hartford
Kearsarge
Windsor Castle Library and Royal Collections Admired
The Windsor private apartments house a 45000 volume library with valuable typographical rarities and an adjoining room features a premier European drawings and prints collection plus a miniatures series from Henry VIII to the monarchs' grandchildren. Prince Albert oversaw their arrangement, aiding underused royal galleries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Windsor Castle
Europe
Henry VIII
Prince Consort
Carlyle
Publishers Notes Highlight Books and Lectures Ahead
A roundup of upcoming publications and editorial moves across publishers and institutions. Princeton president Patton edits the Presbyterian Review. H C McCook's Tenants of an Old Farm gains English intro by Sir John Lubbock. Scribner's Magazine begins railway building articles. Ticknor's Original Copyright Novels Nos 80 and 81 set for March. Cassell & Co. announce Eighty-nine, a socio-political novel by Edgar Henry. Thwaites Historic Waterways details 600 miles of canoe routes and early fur trade highways. Contempo pulpit library by Thomas Whittaker launches with Canon Liddon sermons. Pocket Dictionary of Etiquette teased by Cassell. Arthurian detective tale Section BAS near. Duff lectures on Buddhism. Froude spurs West Indian literature. Macmillan to publish Corean life and Euphrates reminiscences. Shorthouse stories collected. Triad translated by A S Way. English printer preparing sheets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis L. Patton
Princeton College
Presbyterian Review
Patton
Briggs
Union Theological Seminary
H. C. McCook
England
John Lubbock
Scribner’s Magazine
Ticknor
Mr. Fawcett
Mr. Howells
Jollet
Marquette
Thomas Whittaker
Canon Liddon
Canon Farrar
Bishop Magee
Peterboro
Messrs. Cassell & Co
L. D. Powles
Bahamas
W. R. Carles
Corea
Messrs. Macmillan & Co
William Francis Ainsworth
Euphrates
Messrs
Macmillan & Co
J. Henry Shorthouse
A. S. Way
Wesley College
Melbourne
Personal notices of prominent 19th century figures
The obituary of General Schofield's father notes an 87 year life and half a century as a Baptist pioneer in the West. Jockey Harry Harwood lies dying after a serious steeplechase injury in Washington. James L. Hamilton, in Mexican custody for self defense killing, was educated at St Pauls Concord Harvard. London milliners Mme Valentine and Lierre cater to society in Mortimer Street and Park Street, with ties to notable names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Schofield
Chicago
Baptist Church
West
Harry Harwood
Ivy City
Washington
Baltimore
James L. Hamilton
Mexico
St. Paul’s School
Concord
N. H
Columbia College
Harvard University
London
Mme. Valentine
Mortimer Street
Charles Gurney
Val Prinsep
Miss Chamberlain
Miss Winslow
Lierre
Park Street
Granvilla Gordon
Duchess of
Cook Lecture At Tremont Temple On Public Grounds
The Monday noon series at Tremont Temple will present Joseph Cook with a lecture on Free Speech on Public Grounds at Boston Common Under Gay Law. It will include Christ's Testimony to Inspiration and questions to specialists on The Wendell Phillips Memorial Hall and Advertising in Sunday Newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Cook
Tremont Temple
Boston Common
Christ
Wendell Phillips Memorial Hall
Rumor About Offer to Josef Hofmann Father Denied
A New York despatch claimed Colonel Henry L. Higginson of Boston authorized offering $50,000 to Josef Hofmann’s father to fund the pianist’s education. Higginson stated there was no foundation for the report and he had not entertained the idea at all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elbridge T. Gerry
Josef Hofmann
Henry L. Higginson
Boston
Higginson
Stockton's Dusantes brightens a reader’s match with humor
A review praises Frank R. Stockton's The Dusantes as smoother, shorter than his earlier formal novels. It highlights the island departure and the mezre of Mrs Lew is and Mrs Aleshine with the Dusantes, noting witty country dialect, surprising humor, and engaging dialogue. The piece also mentions Memoirs of an Arabian Princess by Emily Ruete, contrasting East and Europe.
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Mr. Stockton
Lewis
Aleshine
Dusantes
Stockton
Meadowville
East
Europe
Arabian princess Salme and her life in Oman Zanzibar
In her autobiography Salme, daughter of Oman and Zanzibar sultans, portrays East women as treated like brothers and sisters within royal households. She recounts palace splendor, private tutoring, and a life of travels, marriage, widowhood, and a quiet Berlin existence teaching Arabic, while noting the complex European views on gender and religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salme
Oman
Zanzibar
Ruete
Berlin
Frau Ruete
East
India
Pandita Ramabai
Arabian Wey
Germany
The Art of Investing by a New York Broker
A New York broker, withholding his name, has prepared a 200 page primer titled The Art of Investing. It compiles papers from Popular Science Monthly and the Forum, explaining national state and municipal obligations, corporations, mortgages, stocks, railroads, water works and mines. It also covers speculation, denounced as harmful in all forms.
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James Gordon Bennett
New York
Herald
Bennett
Mr. Bennett
Walt Whitman
Whitman
Popular Science Monthly
The
Forum
D. Appleton & Co
Geological History of Plants by Sir J. W. Dawson
Sir J W Dawson offers a popular manual on plant development through geological time in the International Scientific Series. The work highlights the Early Mesozoic flora and Tequoia, notes Erdlicher and Sequoyah’s influence, and balances technical terms with accessible prose for both scholars and general readers.
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J. W. Dawson
Dawson
Tequoia
California
Erdlicher
Sequoyah
Alabama
New Mexico
Endlicher
Jackon Tschudi
Sir J. W. Dawson
New York
D. Appleton & Co
Barrows On United States Size And Western Expansion
Dr Barrows extols the vast growth and future of the United States. He cites Texas and western ranches, notes the Mexican War gains, and recounts Chicago’s early days. The piece highlights exaggerated Westward maps and large cattle ranges across Wyoming Texas and California.
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United States
Barrows
Texas
England
Massachusetts
Globe
Oregon
Washington Territory
Idaho
Great Britain
Ireland
Connecticut
Guadalupe Hidalgo
Holy Land
Chicago
John Kinzie
West
Rhode Island
Franklin
Paris
Lake Voorhees
Wyoming
Rogers
Charles Goodwright
Richard King
Santa Barbara
Noone
Barrows Calls for Westward Colleges and Civic Duty
Barrows argues in favor of more western colleges and small colleges in new states, criticizing Eastern jealousy and urging personal effort to combat illiteracy and immorality. He highlights population shift near Cincinnati in 1880 and envisions national greatness through labor, education, and responsible citizenship, citing The United States of Yesterday and of Tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrows
United States
Cincinnati
Republic
William Barrows
Boston
Roberts Bros
New Waggings of Old Tales and related reviews
A critique of two novels and three shorter works in a Boston Globe style review. It discusses New Waggings of Old Tales by Frank Dempster Sherman and J K Bangs, plus Bret Harte A Phylics of the Sierras, An Undluid Ghost and A Life Interest by Mrs Alexander. The piece notes satire, character handling, and distractions of esoteric themes, with verdicts on readability and craft. It mentions publication details and prices for the reviewed books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Dempster Sherman
J. K. Bangs
Mary
Sierras
Redwood Camp
Bret Harte
Phyllis
Poppwa
France
Poppxa
Dick Cranston
Marjory Acland
Boston
Ticknor & Co
Price
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
New York
D. Appleton & Co
Alexander
Henry Holt & Co
Estes & Lauriat
Books Received This Week Industry and Classics
The list of new titles includes Industrial Instruction by Robert Seidel from D C Heath in Boston, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson from Roberts Brothers, Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley from Cassell, and multiple other works. Notable entries include Saint Augustine studies, diet dessert guides, Inspector Byrnes diary, and children’s novels by Burnett and Carey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Seidel
Boston
D. C. Heath & Co
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Roberts Bros
Prometheus
Percy Bysshe Shekley
New York
Cassell & Co
L. R Klemm
Lee & Shepard
Saint Augustine
James Field Spalding
James Pott & Co
Nellie M. Littledale
C. A. Montgomery & Co
Inspector Byrnes
Julian Hawthorne
Victor
Ellery Sinclair
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
Mrs. Alexander
Henry Holt & Co
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Philip H. Welch
John Ashton
Houghton, Mifia & Co
Stephen Higginson and his Harvard ties in early 19th century
Stephen Higginson, son of a Boston merchant and kin of Salem’s first minister, earned a reputation as a generous Boston merchant known as the man of Ross. The text notes his long service, shifting from merchant to steward patron at Harvard in 1818, and describes the era’s fiscally informal college administration with the steward handling books alongside the treasurer.
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Peabody
Harvard
Stephen Higginson
Kirkland
Boston
Salem
Ross
Feeney
Higginson
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the World
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
the Times
Park Row
Printing House Square
Albert
Morning Journal
Smart New Republican
the Press
Roberts Porter
Frank Hatton
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Stedman
Authors’ Club
Executive Council
Mayor Hewitt
Eliot
Judge Barrett
William Allen Butler
Augustus St. Gandens
Lyceum Theatre
Abbey
Hofmann
Mr. Abbey
Josef
de Lancey Nicoll
Hofmanun
Tripoli
Preble
Annapolis
Isaac Hull
Shannon
Chesapeake
Windsor
MR. Cook
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