Reading Fiction Ren 3 and The Forester's Daughter Reviews
A critique discusses Reading Fiction Ren 3 noting the play Nowadays by Middleton explores shifting gender roles through a conservative husband and a radical daughter, with a strong mother figure and comic scenes. It also reviews Hamlin Garland's The Forester's Daughter set in Colorado where a college man falls for the forest forester's daughter, highlighting health, landscape, and romance.
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Middle West
Dawson
New York City
Betty Howe
Betty
Diana
Peter Row
Mr. Middleton
Light of Western Stars novel review
A vivid terug of Madeline Hammond seeking her missing brother in a Southwest cowboy town, where Gene Stewart the rugged hero finds love amid banditry and moral tests. The piece praises Zane Grey’s The Light of Western State as virile American fiction with a strong heroine and a hopeful, action filled plot.
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Madeline Hammond
New York
Gene Stewart
Miss Hammond
Hammond
al Hammond
Anthony the Absolute recalls a journey of voice and science
In Pekin a phonograph pioneer, Anthony Eckhart, discovers a room neighbor whose singer with absolute pitch and rare voice shatters his view of art and love. The novel probes gender power, artistic freedom, and the awakening of a scientist to life’s mysteries.
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Anthony Eckhart
Music
China
Japan
Pekin
Anthony
Robert Franz
Anthony the Absolute
The Rocks of Valpre by Ethel M. Dell
A refined English girl and a young French officer form a pure, ironic bond on Valpre sands. After imprisonment and prior wounds, the officer becomes treasurer to an Englishman who harbors secrets. The tale pivots on memory, fate, and enduring life beyond envy and ambition.
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Valpre
France
Bertrand de Montville
Chris Wyndham
Trevor Mordaunt
Mordaunt
Wyndhams
England
Sands of
Ethel M. Dell
New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Nowadays and the 20th Century Woman Movement
A brief note on George Middleton’s collection Nowadays published by Henry Holt and Co. It highlights Middleton’s reputation for plays read by the public and staged by Julia Marlowe, Margaret Anglin, Robert Edeson, and others with a focus on the 20th century and the Woman Movement.
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George Middleton
Henry Holt & Co
Middleton
Julia Marlowe
Margaret Anglin
Robert Edeson
Mrs. Days Daughters a Regency Era Family Tale
Mary E Mann presents a late Victorian English family story of two daughters whose fortunes shift after their father’s financial collapse. A tradesman counsel leads them to a shop venture, altering their social circle while a romance with a young nobleman unfolds amid strict conventions. Both women win love and happiness in the end.
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Mrs. Day
Mary E. Mann
George H
The Forester's Daughter review by Hamlin Garland
The Forester's Daughter by Hamlin Garland is only mildly entertaining and inconsistent in characters with a somewhat confused narrative.
The Terms of Surrender review
The voluminous Mr Tracy returns with his 17th novel The Terms of Surrender. It features a multi millionaire hero a resourceful heroine and a villainous father. The plot is ingenious and not clearly perceived from start to finish though some chapters could be shortened.
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Mr. Tracy
Ek. J. Clode
Mediterranean Idyls by Merrydelle Hoyt reviewed
A Boston book review highlights Merrydelle Hoyt’s Mediterranean Idyls from Richard G. Badger with four travel sketches. A bell, a pillow, a hot water bag and another bell narrate Spain Egypt Palestine and North Africa with graceful naivete and color illustrations by the author.
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Merrydelle Hoyt
Spain
Egypt
North
Africa
Palestine
North Africa
Boston
Richard G. Badger
Thresholds of Science series on Zoology by Doubleday
Doubleday Page and Company of New York launches a practical series titled Thresholds of Science. The Zoology volume, by Dr. Brucker of the University of France and the Taycee de Versailles, explains life’s progression from unicellular origins to more complex forms in plain language.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
B. Brucker
University of France
Taycee de Versailles
Brucker
Evolution and Botany Volumes by Dr. Brucker
A reader learns about evolution through zoology and botany volumes by Dr. Brucker. The books, first published in France, are illustrated and student friendly, with botany including herbarium making and plant classification. Both works cost 50 cents and are issued by Doubleday, Page & Co.
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BE. Brucker
New York
Doubleday, Page & Co
B. Brucker
Alone in the Wilderness by Joseph Knowles review
A concise appraisal of the book Alone in the Wilderness recounting Knowles’s rugged life from farm work to sea tenure and woodland survival. The critic notes the factual tone that heightens the sense of achievement and likens the tale to Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson.
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Joseph Knowles
Small, Maynard & Co
Mr. Knowles
Principles of Oral English and De Morgan Critique
A review notes the volume groups about eighty selections for English study with careful literary focus but criticizes the chapter headings as arbitrary. It highlights De Morgan’s charm in depicting children and adults with humor and character drawing, praising the wit and humane detail in When Ghost Meets Ghost and other works.
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de Morgan
Sally
Christopher Vance
Ghost
Donizetti
Dolly
Miss Dickenson
Mr. Pellew
Moses
M'riar
Bob
Basic Principles of Oral English by Edith Coburn Noyes
An excellent introductory volume offers varied modern selections from Walter Pater Robert Bridges Hardy Maeterlinck Le Gallienne Alice Brown Fiona Macleod and Richard Jefferies. The book educates through a broad range of readings and aims to aid students in accessing superior literature.
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Edith Coburn Noyes
Boston
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