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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1914
Page
7
A Mrs Ward novel Delia Blanchflower examines suffragist conflict through Gertrude Marvel and guardian Mark Winnington. The Things That Count portrays family bonds and a Christmas gathering guiding a grandmother toward values beyond wealth and control.
Wallace Irwin’s Hashimura Togo portrays the Japanese boy as a witty observer of American domestic life. The letters lampoon domestic help troubles, noting Hashimura’s infamous $1302.83 “expensive servant” record and his comic, aloud friendly reading style.
Anne Warner’s novel follows Ernest Claverhouse a lively Englishman told he has six months to live He aims to disinfatuate Madeleine Wythe who loves him It turns into a comic battle of wits with misperceptions and a convent rescue ending in renewed romance
A review of The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary E Wilkins Freeman from Harper Brothers highlights simple village life with lovable real characters. The dozen tales range from child life in a rural village to adult themes, all delivered in Freeman style without violence or heavy drama. The volume is priced at $1.25.
Perley Poore Sheehan and Robert H. Davis collaborate on We Are French a book praising the French national spirit. The review highlights Anatole Picard and a farewell speech as emblematic, noting the work fuses personal perspectives to celebrate France and its legacy.
The critique praises Walter Lippmann for vast knowledge and incisive, clear writing in Drift and Mastery. It notes the book tackles social political and economic issues without offering a panacea, urging readers to ponder causes and progress paths while calling one chapter on Woodrow Wilson particularly worthwhile.
The Hon. William H. Taft releases a clear concise treatise on the Sherman act and the highest court. The work addresses the rule of reason and the judiciary's role in restraining combinations. Published by Harper & Brothers in New York priced at $1.26.
A busy New Yorker voices a grudge against Thornton W. Burgess while praising Old Mother West Wind from Little Brown with color illustrations by George F. Sherr. The review notes other titles and highlights Remember Rhymes by Arthur A. and Emilie B. Knip e as artistically superior and educational.
Mary Frances Blaisdell presents a concise retelling with enough detail for children. The volume pairs simple wording with pretty illustrations to explain what happens next after familiar stories like the Three Bears Cinderella Ugly Duckling and the House that Jack Built.
Elizabeth Gordon and Anna M. Scott author two instructive children’s books. The Butterfly Babies’ Book and The Flower Babies’ Book. both illustrated by M. T. Ross aim to teach youngsters about butterflies and flowers with bright rhymes. Priced at $1.00 each in Chicago.
Clifford Leon Sherman completes a new book The Dot Book from Houghton Mifflin Boston. The puzzle plates invite children to connect dots with pencil lines and fill in the last words of rhymes. A good gift for the little tots priced at $1.00.
Grace G Drayton presents The Baby Bears from The Century Company with 80 full page pictures and comic rhymes. The author, famed for Campbell Kids, says the bears grew like Topsy and reflects a love of fluffy baby animals, human and otherwise.
A review notes Jesse Lynch Williams’s And So They Were Married as a witty satire on old versus new ideals centered on Helen a college educated scientist and her romance with Ernest Hamilton. The piece describes family pressure a civil marriage and a triumph of love amid social change.
A critical notice lauds The Sealed Valley for its clean sparkling prose and natural character dynamics. It highlights vivid outdoor atmosphere and the appealing Indian figure St Jean Bateese, who hides with his tribe in Bowl of the Mountains to escape white influence.
This Saturday the free exhibition of the better books of the year at the Paine Furniture Building hosts children. Thornton W. Burgess, author of Bed Time Stories, will tell stories for the children present at 11 o'clock.
Rose O Neill released a new book of Kewpie cutouts with illustrations of the Kewps adventures. The inexpensive volume aims to delight children and can be hung as a Christmastime decoration for quick recognition and laughter.
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