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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1914
Page
10
The piece extols a small pocketbook as more than a friend, a companion that cheers or refreshes the reader. It notes the tiny book holds wisdom as deep as distant horizons and suits journeys or solitary days, meeting mood with smiles or tears.
A review of Silent Sam a Century Company collection by Harvey J O Higgins praising his realism and humanist portrayal of Irish American life. It highlights stories such as His Mother and Tammanys Tithes with a focus on brogue wit sorrow and resilience, noting O Higgins contrasts Dooley as humorist with his own broader social vision.
The Fortunate Youth follows Paul Savelli a youth of striking charm who leaves a squalid North England home with itinerant peddler Barney Bill. He rises through politics and society aided by Sophie Zabraska and aristocrats, faces a hidden parentage, then wins out amid suspenseful climax.
A Boston commentary lauds the book History of Geography by J Scott Keltie and O J R Howarth. It highlights its portrayal of geography history and importance, noting explorers, ancient civilizations, and early maps. The notice advertises the 73 cent New York edition from G P Putnam's Sons.
A Harper’s detective tale centers on a white sapphire whose shifting appearance drives mystery and danger. The plot mingles science, romance, and family secrets as rivals mislead a detective and the guilty seek self sacrifice, with a final surprising denouement.
A London set quick read with animated dialogue and an ingenious plot. The five year tale follows Andinapolis, Bobbe, and Merci in a sketched, lightly realistic social comedy.
A college girl Marjorie Spofford enters a New York stage world after misreading a Burne Jones painting title. She wins a chance at a role, inherits a fortune, and learns love’s primitive truths as the plot follows her awakening through trials, growth, and a stage romance.
A brief notice lists Overland Red available at the Circulating Library located at 293 Washington Street. Readers may borrow the work from the local lending desk.
A note on the side of modern stage novels describes The Masks of Love by Moergarita Spalding Gerry. Published in New York by Harper and Brothers at the price of 1.20 dollars.
The tale of Ezekiel, a spirited Southern schoolboy with a vivid imagination, expands from magazine glee to book form. Two teachers Miss North and Miss Jane guide his loyalty and kindness, with a clear purpose to provoke thought and empathy while entertaining readers.
The Immigration Problem by Jeremiah W. Jencks and W. Jett Lauck distills four years of U S Immigration Commission research into 54 pages. It covers labor supply living standards prostitution Oriental immigration and assimilation with new material from the last census and acts, offering tentative opinions and material for readers to form their own conclusions.
A literary line from Richard Wight about a man and woman meeting on chance. The excerpt frames a timeless romance on a distant planet where human connection remains central.
A short book of twenty letters to a beloved woman beyond attainment. The writer fades between spiritual presence and need, delivering delicate sincere novel realizations of love’s greater capacities. The Century Co. 60 cents.
Francis Rolt-Wheeler narrates a boys book about Virgil Keen and Lost Wolf, an orphan seeking his tribe after high school graduation. They travel to a Little Big Horn peace council with insights from a government ethnologist, learning about Blackfoot culture and Native American language, lore, and artistry.
John Daniels presents a nine year study of Boston’s black population in In Freedom's Birthplace. The reviewer praises Daniels's fairness and judicial tone, noting the work analyzes appearance, abolition, citizenship, social and economic struggles, and future prospects. The piece argues race problems exist in North and South and urges self effort and mutual aid as key solutions.
A reviewer notes Sinclair Lewis in Our Mr Wrenn blends beginner zeal with seasoned craft. The plot follows a lonely clerk who inherits, travels to England, befriends Istra, faces social tension, returns, and reunites with Nelly. The tone mixes O Henry moodiness with Wells style kaleidoscopes.
Edward Dudley Kenna argues for a balanced approach to railroad regulation, critiquing the shipper stockholder clash and urging a middle path between private ownership and government control. He contends railways must serve public needs with low rates supported by government credit while preserving private profit incentives. New York Doffield. 1.25.
Brand Whitlock presents a vivid portrait in Forty Years of It, illuminating fellow thinkers like Blaine Altgelt Clarence Darrow and Tom Johnson. The volume blends memoir with literary commentary, praising Hardy Conrad Moore Corot and the artist-soul Whitlock, who links literature and art to a hopeful vision of a harmonious city.
A History of Education by Frank Pierrepont Graves of the University of Pennsylvania is reviewed as a Macmillan publication. It continues earlier works on medieval education and emphasizes systems over personalities, with an insightful Chapter IV on the Rise of the Common School in America. Massachusetts inaugurated the first real system of public education, and the work contrasts aristocratic southern Virginia with northern plebeian colonies.
A. Neely Hall's The Handy Boy from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard totals about 400 pages with nearly 600 illustrations. The volume splits into Autumn and Winter pastimes focusing on indoor projects and tool use, plus Spring and Summer pastimes with outdoor skills, camp and scout craft, kite making and wardening. The book targets boys as a gift, promising durable use on the workbench and constructive activities for idle hours.
A critical look at The Half-Miler, a Phillips Exeter boys sports tale by A T Dudley. The story follows Dave as he battles rivals on the track and explores themes of athletics, character, and fairness.
The Western tale centers on cow punchers faced with a neighboring sheep ranch. Dunk Whittaker aims to ruin grazing for the Cowboys, but Andy Green and Miguel Rapponi outwit him. The story prides itself on realism and witty humor without romantic fluff.
The piece critiques Miss Jeannette Marks's Leviathan for overdone realism and scattered plotting while praising its removal of complacency about the drug menace. It notes a single servant figure and asks for broader artistic focus, urging wide readership to heed the warning.
A review of Rose Severe's "Scientific Proofs of Another Life" from The Spiritual Science Company calls it a Modern Spiritualistic Classic. The manuscript is described as containing letters from about 100 famous men and presents a compilation of spiritualist arguments and testimonials.
Women of the past, each letter inspired by the personality named, discuss spirit communication and portraits drawn by spirit influence with Raphael as controlling force. The book, a literary curiosity, is reviewed as interesting yet doubtful as scientific proof of another life. New York: The Spiritual Science Company.
A light entertaining novel from Houghton Mifflin features a heroine matched to a Valentine day sweetheart, a devoted poet, and a cherubic finale. The true poet is portrayed as an elderly bookseller who sparks memories of faded valentines.
The Century’s April issue showcases five essays on the art conflict led by John W. Alexander and others with 40 illustrations. Edwin Bjorkman writes An Open Letter to President Wilson for American Literature, plus Browning’s posthumous Gerousios Dinos. McClure features Wallace Irwin tale You Cant Get Away from Your Grandfather and Basil King story Transgression. The number combines art critique with strong fiction and biography.
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