New Books Review in The Century Magazine
The January issue surveys debates on Ruskin and Turner with W J Stillman critiques, plus Kennan on Russian prisons, Towse on John Gilbert, and Twain and Stockton fiction. It also features a Deerfield house study by Catharine Yale and Mahaffy on the art of conversation, with vivid portraits and period commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Century Magazine
Mr. Ruskin
W. J. Stillman
Turner
Ruskin
England
Adirondacks
London
Dante Rossetti
Schaff
Lincoln
Kennan
Mr. Kennan
Korolenko
J. Ranken Towse
John Gilbert
Mr. Stockton
Mr. Chadwick
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
Cabinet portraits adorn government offices in a random rank
Cabinet photographs decorate Treasury desks with Fairchild Thompson and Maynard while Vilas Stevenson and Knott pose in the Postoffice Department. The photos of Secretary Fairchild and Governor Thompson stand out for character. Comptroller Durham lacks credits, but Colonel Williams and his division chiefs receive many of his photos. Conant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairchild
Thompson
Maynard
Treasury
Vilas
Stevenson
Knott
Postoffice Department
Durham
Williams
Conant
Raymond & Whitcomb Fourth Winter Excursion Departs
The Raymond & Whitcomb California excursion party leaves Fitchburg station at 4 PM in a vestibuled Pullman train heading west to Los Angeles Pasadena and San Francisco. About eighty passengers travel via the Bee Line West Shore Lake Shore and other lines with stops including Cincinnati Louisville Mammoth Cave New Orleans Montgomery Houston Galveston San Antonio and El Paso, arriving Los Angeles January 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond & Whitcomb Cal\rnia
Fitchburg
Los Angeles
Pasadena
San Francisco
West Shore
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Bee Line
Louisville & Nashville
Southern Pacific Company
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Louisville
Mammoth Cave
Montgomery
Houston
Galveston
San Antonio
el Paso
Thracia
Corinthia
Servia
Delmonte
California
Messrs
Raymond & Whitcomb
Company of
Mexico
Boston
Eliza A. Anderson
A. H. Andrews
Meriden
Walter T. Baird
Valley Forge
E. A. Banchor
C. P. Bancroft
J. P. Bancroft
Concord
N. H
Benjamin Betts
Fairfield
Conn
S. Branch
Cleveland
Allen F. Bray
Pawtucket
B. PT. Brown
Hartford
Ellen A. Bryant
Philadelphia
Walter H. Bryant
Walter FH. Bryant
Saratoga Springs
F. E. Bulloch
New Bedford
S. N. Callender
Buffalo
Clarence W. Cole
Hamilton
J. S. Crowell
Quincey
William P. Davis
Somerville
Ambrose W. Ellis
P. B. Mansfield
Lynn
James M. Marvin
John Merriam
Fred Miller
Lowell
James E. Neill
V. Sturgis Noe
Hingham
Catharine Paris
Susan A. Paris
U. G. Paris
Sandy Hill
A. L. Parrott
Alice E. Peabody
E. G. Peterson
Richard Peterson
George 8. Seeley
M. C. Shoemaker
J. B. Shumway
West Granville Corner
H. A. Smith
Frances Smith
Jane A. Smith
Pine Plains
N. Y
H. B. Sprague
D. D. Stewart
St. Albans
John Stokell
Winterport
James R. Sutliff
Henry R. Tracy
Joshua Wilbour
Bristol
Bernard M. Wolt
A. J. Woodman
Danvers
H. M. Woods
Police Commission and Liquor Laws in Boston
A letter to the editor criticizes the Boston Police Commission for lax enforcement of liquor laws. It argues many saloons operate unlawfully, licenses are misused, and the commission evades rules by issuing victualers licenses and tolerating disorderly conduct. The piece urges the Legislature to probe the commission and enforce existing laws.
Some Boston Artists and their Studios Featured in The American Magazine
The January American Magazine opens with W H Rideing’s piece on Boston artists including Gaugengigl Ross Turner Caliga Halsall and Winthrop Pierce with studio interiors and illustrations. Turner’s Salem studio in a former oil cloths factory is described alongside works Ashore A Roman Villa La Salute Murrano The Last Haven and The Last Gleam. Other sections discuss Boy Life on the Prairie pensioning soldiers Manual Training in Schools and Julian Hawthorne contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
W. H. Rideing
Messrs
Gaugengigl
Ross Turner
Caliga
Halsall
Winthrop Pierce
Boylston Street
Salem
Eden
Rome
Murrano
Venice
Adriatic
Mr. Rideing
Mr. Caliga
Delft
Beauvais
Alexander
Darius
Story of the Willard House in Deerfield
At the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association annual meeting in February Mrs Yale recounted a charming account now published of Deerfield Massachusetts Willard House. Built in 1768 by Joseph Barnard the house stands under elm trees and reflects honest workmanship with its sturdy beams and colonial charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard
Pocurtuck Valley Memorial Association
Yale
Deerfield
Mass
Joseph Barnard
The Art of Conversation by Mahaffy
A reviewer extols Mahaffys study of conversation as an art, noting its rules, the value of a pleasant voice and tact, and the balance between sociability and satire. The essay praises his humane view on women, dismisses rigid methods, and calls the book an inviting dinner party topic and source of lively anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Maharty
Nathan
Hale
Ahaffy
J. P. Mahaffy
New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Price
Mahaffy
Mr. Mahaffy
Mr. Maha
Among the Publishers A Busy Season for Books and Authors
A portfolio of photogravures of Daly’s comedians and notes by Winter and Matthews will be issued in a 100-copy edition. Riverside Literature Series adds portraits and bios of Emerson Hawthorne Longfellow Holmes Lowell Stowe. Hodder, Mifflin announce nine new numbers totaling about 1000 pages next school year. Dante Society eyes a Concordance to the Divine Comedy by A Fay with subscriptions urged. Also in press are Maximina translation by Cole and Archer’s Anatomy of Acting in Longman’s Magazine. New Camelot Series reprints Valdes tale and Velsung Saga. Canterbury Poets plans Australian Ballads and Rhymes edited by Sladen. Phiz drawings fetch high prices. new National Biography entries list numerous scholars and Cruden, Cromwell, and Dalton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daly
William Winter
Brander Matthews
Riverside
Emerson
Hawthorne
Longfellow
Dr. Holmes
Lowell
Stowe
Messrs. Houghton, Miff
John Woodbury
Fremont Street
Boston
W. C. Lane
Harvard College Library
Cambridge
Messrs. T.Y. Crowell & Co
Nathan Haskell Cole
Great Britain
United States
Archer
M. Coquelin
Irving
Mary Anderson
Bancroft
Kendal
Beerbohm Tree
Genevieve Ward
Wilson Barrett
William Morris
Erik Magnusson
Walter Scott
London
Australia
New Zealand
Douglas Sladen
Phiz
Messrs. Sotheby
Pickwick
Dictionary of National Biography
Craik
Damer
James Gairdner
Archbishop Cranmer
Thomas Cromwell
Leslie Stephen
Mary Ann Cross
George Eliot
Ralph Cudworth
Allan Cunningham
L. Lee
Crash
Insolvency filed by Perkins Dupee & Co stock brokers
Perkins Dupee & Co at 40 State Street declare insolvency with liabilities around 95 256 85 including 15 705 secured on stocks. They offer 60 cents on the dollar within thirty days of acceptance. Perkins has no private debts, Dupee owes 5 000 with 2 500 secured. Additional failures and assignments noted in Auburn Me Lewiston Me Boston and Chicago related firms and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonanza Mining and Development Company
Catalpa Mining Company
Boston Water Power
Worcester & Nashua
Franklin Mining Company
Wisconsin Central Preserve
Essex Railroad
Boston, Concord & Montreal
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Perkins
Dupee
Yie
A. B. Gee & Son
Auburn
Jr. M. Fernald
Lewiston
Hooper & Co
Deering
Joseph M. Reed
Boston
Thompson Ole
Eau Claire
Wis
Ingraham
Tts
Executors sale of stocks and bonds in varied firms and rails
A listing of securities to be sold Wednesday January 4 1888 by order of the executrix and administrator includes Manchester Mills Atlas National Bank Merchand ise National Bank Boston Gas Light Co Lombard Investment Co West End Street Railway Pittsburgh and more alongside city and railroad bonds from Cleveland Chicago St Louis and New York dates and par values noted for each holding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Mills
Atlas Natl
Merchandise
Hshares
City Bank
Union Bank
Shawmut Natl
Bennington Co
Bennington
Lawrence Duck Co
West End St. Ry. Pfd
Conn
River Ro
Boston Gas Light Co
Lombard Investment Co
Cammridge Gas Light Co
Do Nepean Insurance Co
Arlington Gas Light Co
Arlington
Mass
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Co
Kansas
McKay & Big. Heeling Mach. Asso
Boston Tow Boat Co
Cambridge Gas Light Co
Natick Natl. Bank
Natick
Natick Gas Light Co
St. Jonnsbury
Lake Champlain
Cedar Rapids & Mo. River
Tiffin
Ohio) Water Works Co
Tremont & Suffolk Mills
Continental Mills
City of St. Louis
St. Louis Co
Park Loan
City of Cleveland
Street
Viauet and Bridge Loan
Cleveland
City of
Chicago, Mil
St. Paul Rd
Dubuque
Lake Champ, Rd
Pass
Rivers Ra
Falls Mfg. Co
Mortgagee's Sale of Boston Property Authorized by 1882 Deed
Eugene H. Mahoney as mortgagee will sell at public auction the West Brookline Street brick house in Boston Massachusetts to satisfy breach of mortgage dated April 25 1882 recorded in Suffolk Deeds. The sale on January 11 1881 at 2 PM includes the parcel described in the mortgage with all its appurtenances and the equity of redemption of William F. McDowell subject to unpaid taxes if any.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Isabella Thmpson Hallett
Boston
Jean
LE Reid
Sale
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Elliah George, Gister
William F. McDewell
Said McDewell
Eugene H. Mahoney
County of and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
J. F. Full
McDowell
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NEW Books
Barnard
Nabby
Joshua Clapp
Rachel
Hart Leavitt
Sally
John Stone
Barnards
Samuel
Carter
Samuel Allen
Ethan Allen
Samuel Barnard
Samuel Willard
Dr. Willard
Susan Barker
Deerfield House
Willards
New England
Lesley
Northampton
Lymans
Harvard College
Willard House
Catharine B. Yale
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
IER
Police Commission
Sir
Boston Journal
Boston Police Commission
Metropolitan Police Commission
South Boston
Republican Party
Andaity
G.W. Simmons & Co
Simmonsky
the American Magazine
N. Kenison & Sons
Temple Place
Tremont Street
Eovat Baking Powpeer Co
Wall St. N. Y
Nwealth
MASSAC.&S/SUPERIOR COURT
Holden
Adell
Nathaniel J. Leavitt
Nathaniel J. Igavitt
A. D
Angel J. Leavitt
Delia Yntilett
Adelia Eleavicy
Massachusetts
Superior Court
Coug
Iton Post
Iity
Jos
A. Willard
Edwin A. Wadleigh
Medical
Harvard Med
MT. Vernon ST
State House
Menlo Park
N. Dd
O Edison
Polyform
Edison Polyform Company
Congress St
Barbara Blake
Quincy
Norfolk
Commonwealth
Marshall S. Blake
Chelsea
Thomaston
Maine
Marshall L. Blake
Marshall I. Blake
William H. Blake
Commonwealth OF Massachuset's
Marshall
Blake
Percy Cliffton Greenlaw
Ee Cliffton Eaton
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Common Wealth
George Gorham Bond
Haseen
John T. Wheel. Wright
Suffolks
Elijail George
Charles F
Literaternment
Catholic Books
Steamship
Salesrooit
Fisk
Florida of
Ex Steamship “Gatd
Florida
Valencia
Steamships
Francis Hens
State Street
Be Building
First
Ommonwealth
Massacieus Setts
Helen Ellis
Brookline
Winslow Warren
Minor
Ward
Dedham
George White
Esquire Court
Jonathan
Joseph H. Hunneman
County of Suffolk
Henry W. P Boston
Aone
Shardian
Bate Court
Mase
St. Before
T E. Lydon
Robert Gra
William MacKay
Bosto Suffolk
Hersey B
Charles L. Holbrook
County of
Helen Bucinda Holby
Winston
Heritan
Executrix
Androscoggin Mills
Macvlehead Gas and Electric Light Co
Lyman Mis
Fitchburg Rd
Ste
Little Rock & Ft. Smith Ry. Co
Westbrook Mfg. Co
Chicago, Burl. & Quincy Rd
Charlestown Gas Co
Boston & Maine Ra
Natl
Bank
Do Burton Stock Car Co. Ptd
Order of Administra Atlantic Natl. Bank
Taunton Copper Co
Mercantile
Webster Bank
Rockland Bank
Washington
Banky Shawmut
Great Falls
Mfg
Everett Mills
Stark Mills
Loutaville
Evans
Andover Iron Vo
Newburyport
Boston Gas
St. Louis County
Union Pacific
Marquette, Houghton
Iowa Falls
Sioux City
Fort Scott
Southeastern
Orismouth
Great Fally
Waar
Boston Cab Co
Ashton Valve
Otis Co
McKay & Big
Jase
Cocheco Mfg. Co
Middlesex Co
Lancaster
Pepperell Mfg. Co
Current River RR
Spring
Memphis
Chicago & West Midh
McKay & Bigelow Coy
Amoskeag Mig
Massawippi
Kansas City
Amo
Cally
Albert HN
Brighton
Courate
Warren Arenue
Bighari
Arrow
John C. Wilmerd
Wilmerding Auctioneers
Townsen Auctioneers
Susan
Jevonshire Tnt
R. L. Day & Company
State St
Merchants’ Exchange Building
Boston Stock Exchange
Actios
Boste
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