The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse reviewed
The Heart's Country offers a promising glimpse of a novel in advance, focusing on Ellen Payne's awakening in a simple, free narrative. Vorse evokes a half forgotten New England village, balancing intuitive criticism with a quiet spiritual growth, while avoiding overbearing didacticism.
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Houghton, Miffin & Co
Mary Heaton Vorse
Amiel
Matthew Arnold
St. Francis
Vaughan
Ellen Payne
New England
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin Company
The Palace of Darkened Windows Review
The tale follows an independent American girl who travels in Cairo and is captured in a Turkish palace. Mary Hastings Bradley contrasts her with an obstinate English man and a crafty American engineer as the plot reveals rescue and adventure within the Turk's palace.
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Orient
Miss Bradley
D. Appleton & Co
Cairo
Akron
Ohio
Mary Hastings Bradley
New York
OD. Appleton & Co
Drum's House review by Ida Wild criticizes portrayal
The piece notes a leisurely descriptive opening in Drum's House from E. P. Dutton. It finds the Millincoe family’s unconventionality contrasting with strict country life and ends with a debated tragic close.
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Ida Wild
EB. P. Dutton Company
Millincoe
Drum
New York
E. P. Dutton Company
Red Wrath review notes grand historical romance
A New York review lauds John Oxenham's Red Wrath as a powerful historical romance set from the granite isles of Chausey to Paris during the Franco Prussian War and the Commune. It praises vivid local color, dramatic incidents, strong portraiture, and the romance of Aniette and Ronan, despite swift action. The book is priced at $1.25 from John Lane Company.
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Mr. Oxenham
Appleton
Chausey
Cherbourg
Paris
Chausey Islands
Aniette
Ronan
John Oxenham
New York
John Lane Company
The Cost of Wings and Other Stories by Graves
A collection of ghostly satirical and romantic tales showing Graves’s sincere craft and Kipling influence. Notable pieces include The Man Who Could Manage Women The Fly and the Spider Indian Baby and Yvonne with a blend of tenderness humor and pathos. Published by Frederick A Stokes New York.
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Kipling
Miss Graves
Yvonne
Richard Dehan
New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Redwood Canyon excerpt sparks literary notes in Atlantic Monthly
In the June Atlantic Monthly Henry Siedel Canby presents a forest scene from Redwood Canyon. The prose evokes moonlit giants and glowing trunks while contrasting poetic visions from Keats Coleridge Tennyson and Milton with the author’s rustic observer.
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Redwood Canyon
Henry Siedel Canby
the Atlantic Monthly
Business A Profession The Tribune of the People
Norman Hapgood commends Louis D Brandeis in Ernest Poole prefatory chapter noting Brandeis argued there is a limit to efficiency by size and that true efficiency comes from intensive individual development linking to industrial democracy through his Senate testimony in 1911.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Norman Hapgood
Ernest Poole
Brandeis
Small, Maynard & Co
Hapgood
Senate
Brandeis as Pragmatic Reformer Shaping Industry Leadership
The piece lauds Louis D. Brandeis for applying practical methods to industrial life. It credits his state insurance idea and other reforms with improving efficiency, humanity, and openness to cooperation between capital and labor. It portrays Brandeis as a future-oriented, humane strategist guiding a rewritten code of industry.
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Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis
Book Review in Two Fragments A Profession
A brief note on Louis D Bran deis in Boston from May 1902 presses. The excerpt mentions business and a profession with a price tag of two dollars, reflecting a catalog tone.
Mutiny Fails At Sea As Neptune Intervenes
The voyage features a plain chief engineer and a cast of contraband on the Susan Dale. A mutiny nearly succeeds but collapses as sea sickness overwhelms the ring-leaders and a calm captain becomes a rescuer of maidens.
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Susan Dale
Mr. Bidgood
Father Neptune
The Sorcerer's Stone adventure by Beatrice Grimshaw
A daring quest tale set in a scorching tropic land follows Flint and the Marquis as they chase the Sorcerer's Stone through blood greed and peril. The two adventurers endure life and limb and hardship, but the ending stays bold and restless. Philadelphia publishers John C. Winston Company priced at $1.20.
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Beatrice Grimshaw
John C. Winston Company
Flint
Marquis
Philadelphia
John, C. Winston Company
The Red House Children's Vacation
Amanda M. Douglas writes of a summer full of family fun with eight children, parents, and friends at the Red House series third volume. Early readers may struggle with many characters and references to earlier volumes.
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Amanda M. Douglas
Red House
Cathrop, Lee & Shepard
Bluebeard humorous lecture recital by Kate Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin offers Bluebeard a pocket friendly parody presented as a lecture recital. The spoof imagines Wagner’s hitherto unpublished opera with motifs from the overture and libretto excerpts, aiming for light entertainment and gentle whimsy for Wiggin’s readers.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Harper & Bros
Bluebeard
Richard Wagner
The Goldfish Book Review of a New York Set Satire
A critic surveys The Goldfish by an anonymous author, praising its sharp portrait of New York high society and its insiders. The piece notes the author’s self awareness as a gatekeeper with entree, the sting in its phrases, and the divide between the wealthy set and poorer women unable to reach them.
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The
Century Company
New York
America
Essence of Astronomy Review Highlights Practical Chapters
A compact guide by Edward W Price summarizes The Earth chapter in The Essence of Astronomy. The text praises plain language and notes eleven earth motions including yearly revolution daily rotation and Vega related motion. It mentions other topics and a useful bibliography while inviting readers, even flat-earthers, to consider Parmenides’ sphere view.
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Edward W. Price
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Vega
Parmenides
The Deaf from a Social Economist’s View
A summary of Harry Best’s book The Deaf, examining the deaf as a social class within the state. It discusses classification, causes of deafness, the state’s historical role, and especially education as the decisive factor in turning deaf individuals into self-maintaining citizens.
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Harry Best
T. Y. Crowell & Co
United States
Desert and Mrs Ajax author touts new Nevada tale
E S Moffat, author of The Desert and Mrs Ajax, discusses his new novel published by Moffat Yard Co. He describes writing it across two states and parts of Mexico in tents hotels bunkhouses and even a candle lit camp. He promises a vivid Nevada backdrop with unique characters and a radical departure from the old gunman West.
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E. S. Moffat
Mrs. Ajax
Moffat, Yard & Co
Mexico
Patt
Palace
San Francisco
Nevada
Death Valley
Jonah
Moffat
Southwest
Burnham Book Store Moves to Cornhill Address
Burnham Books relocates from the Old South to 56 Cornhill and will buy libraries and small book collections.
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Burnham
OLD South
Cornhill
Chance in Chains A Monte Carlo Adventure
Review highlights Guy Thorne’s novel Chance in Chains a bold blend of science and gambling set in Paris and Monte Carlo. Two young electricians Basil Gregory and Emile Deschamps plot a Hertzian wave aided roulette scheme while Ethel McMahon and her mother gamble away. The tale blends romance danger and modern ideas and ends with a dramatic finish. SB. A. Chance in Chains. By Guy Thorne New York Sturgis Walton Company. $1.
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Guy Thorne
Europe
Chance In Chains
Sturgis and Walton Company
Basil Gregory
Emile Deschamps
Paris
Carnet Freres
Monte Carlo
Basil
Ethel McMahon
Emile
Flinders
Clements
New York
Sturgis & Walton Company
Unemployment in Pigou’s Economic Study Reviewed
The Home University Library volume on unemployment by A C Pigou of Cambridge is praised for its scientific approach. It limits unemployment to wage work and analyzes meaning, effects, explanations, cycles, and policy options including state action and insurance. Poems by Haworth are also noted as superior dialect verse.
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Eleanor H. Porter
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
America
Knights of the Round Table
Home University Library
Henry Holt
A. C. Pigou
University of Cambridge
Pigou
That Farm by Harrison Whittingham review notes business method profits
The book follows a self made dry goods merchant who buys a 40 acre farm and uses capital to develop it. He relies on practical state farm knowledge and capable foremen to wage a winning fight with the milk trust. The summary compares his salary and profits to the farm’s net income of 12 888 after costs and depreciation.
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Harrison Whittingham
Doubleday, Page & Co
Sunshine and Roses Verse Volume by Edwin Haworth
Sunshine and Roses from Rockhill Art Publishers Kansas City presents a dainty volume of verse by Edwin P Haw orth. The lyrics are varied and readable with thoughtful hints though the prose contains some uneven passages.
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Edwin P. Haworth
Kansas City
Rockhill Art Publishers
Mr. Haworth
Taussig's The Tariff History of the United States reviewed
A critical notice of F. W. Taussig's sixth edition on the 1913 tariff revision. The review praises its clarity and economic insight while noting its portrayal of tariff shifts since 1846 and implications for industrial growth and policy. It emphasizes Taussig’s view that 1913 marks a move away from rigid protectionism toward modernization of the commercial system.
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Taussig
United States
F. W. Taussig
Henry Lee
Harvard University
Century June Magazines Feature Bennett as Yachtsman
The June issue of The Century explores Arnold Bennett in a new light as a yachtsman with From the Log of the Versa recounting a cruise in Dutch waters. Illustrations by J A Rickard accompany pieces on Rodin and Tolstoi and Elsie Singmaster contributes a Civil War story about the 1913 reunion.
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Arnold Bennett
J. A. Rickard
Rodin
Tolstoi
Elsie Singmaster
Palmer's Mexico from Vera Cruz A timely literary contribution
Frederick Palmer's Mexico cabled from Vera Cruz is timely and educational. Readers of The Last Shot will find the same graphic presentation in this hour's contribution, as Harry Vardon discusses what is wrong with our golf.
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Rim
Frederick Palmer
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Harry Vardon
Jeannette Helm Opens Lippincott's With Marcelle Novel
Jeannette I Helm debuts at Lippincott's with a full 23 chapter novel titled Marcelle. Wi Levington Comfort a rising star adds a short story Mellon Drops a Partner. Edward Sherwood Mead PhD reviews The Political Money Trust and his The Careful Investor is noted.
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Jeannette I. Helm
Lippincott’s
Marcelle
Wi Levington Comfort
Mellon
Edward Sherwood Mead
Harvest of Fear and New Terms in Harper's June Issue
The June Harper's showcases Mrs Delands Harvest of Fear opening, with Professor Sloane detailing uses of American parties and the term imperialism beside equality. Burton Hendricks honors American medical science and its leaders, noting Americans as practically responsible for surgery without anesthesia.
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June Harper
Mrs. Deland
William M. Sloane
Burton J. Hendricks
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