New York'sHorse Exhibit Opens at Madison Square Garden
New Yorkers view the National Horse Show in the vast Madison Square Garden arena with full social season attendance. The exhibition highlights top breeding, stalls, and entertainment, with notable emphasis on Stanley and Mrs. Stanley, plus commentary on plays and performances at Palmer's Theatre.
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Stanley
Mr. Willard
Middleman
New York
SpeciAu
Madison Square Garden
Great Oval
Metropolitan Opera House
Ublic
Bonner
Sunol
Maud S
Mary
Severa
Mr. Stanley
The
Everett
Major Pond
Maio Pond
Mrs. Stanley
England
Aid
Bill
Garden Theatre
Stanley Club
Union League Club
Cosey
Tellowcraft Club
Press Club
Delmonico’s
London Times
Columm
Buarttelot
Jameson
Times
Yale Windfall and Methodist Mission Debate Feature Broad Bequests
The will of Thomas C. Sloane funds Yale College with 300000 for his widow’s later use and a 75000 gift to the Sloane Laboratory, plus 20000 to the Children’s Aid Society and 10000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, among other gifts. A letter to the Post questions missions work in India, arguing for Christian consistency on women’s equality and challenging missionary rhetoric, alongside a review of Henry Brace’s Life of General Oglethorpe highlighting his charitable aims and Georgia colony building.
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New York
Thomas C. Sloane
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Society For
Presbyterian Hospital
Sir
Thoourn
India
Isaac Taylor
China
England
America
Calcutta
Woman Friend Journal
Jesus
Japan
Spruce
Battelle Dietrick
Narrative of Captain Coignet review in 1890s sources
A critical appraisal of The Narrative of Captain Coignet, highlighting its vivid war portrayal, personal honesty, and brutal realism. Notes the book covers Marengo to the Hundred Days and its value for understanding Napoleonic campaigns, despite limited popularity for general readers.
The Maryland Colony Unpublished Calvert Papers
Mr William Hand Browne presents newly saved Calvert documents from the Calvert papers in the Maryland Historical Society collection. The elder Calvert is sketched as a living figure while the younger Calvert appears mainly through letters. the new papers illuminate colonial incidents and refine the colony’s history.
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Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
George Calvert
Cecilius Calvert
Barons
Baltimore
William Hand Browne
Makers of America
New York
Doda, Meade & Co
Calverts
Maryland Historical Society
Calvert
Newfoundland
Eugene Field's Verse and Tales Reviewed by LA Times
A Western humorist Eugene Field gains stature through Scribner's handsome editions of verse and prose tales. The verse shows fluency and sincerity with direct language, while dialect pieces lag in interest. Prose mainly features children stories including Christmas tales with a gentle, sometimes sentimental tone.
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Eugene Field
Scribner’s Sons
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
Makers of Modern English A Review
A critique of W J Dawson’s Makers of Modern English calling it a popular handbook to great poets of the century. The reviewer finds Dawson’s judgments uneven though the work shows genuine love of poetry. notes surfeit of secondary reading confuses counsel. cites preferences for Browning and Keats with reservations.
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Mr. Dawson
Dawson
Mrs. Browning
Keats
Wordsworth
Tennyson
Drowning
W. J. Dawson
New York
Thomas Whittaker
Boston
W. Clarke & Co
Price
Adams's History of Madison Era Dubbed Illuminating and Flawed
The reviewer praises Henry Adams's access to British and French archives for his Madison era volumes, noting light shed on diplomacy, but argues Adams's harsh judgments and occasional style flaws limit his reliability. The piece also reviews Besant's Captain Cook biography, criticizing its focus on anecdotes and earlier voyages, while crediting Besant's readable prose and balanced judgment on Cook as a navigator.
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Captain Cook
Mr. Besant
Cook
Kipvis
Dampier
Shelvocke
Gilpert
Whitby
Magellan
Tasman
Pacific
Newfoundland
Besant
New Zealand
Mr. Firth
Ecapteve Cook
Walter Besant
New York
Acmillan & Co
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Adams work praised for vigorous Madison history sweep
A brief note highlights Henry Adams History of the United States during the First Administration of James Madison. The two volume set by Scribner’s Sons, distributed by De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., is priced at $4 per set and described as lively and vigorous in its subject handling.
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United States of America
James Madison
Henry Adams
New York
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Boston
de Wolfe, Fiske & Co
English Poetry and Poets Review of Mrs Brooks’s Study
A critic assesses Mrs Sarah Warner Brooks’s English Poetry and Poets noting refinement and discrimination. The survey cites conventional critique, emphasis on respectability, but praises the book as a sturdy, readable addition to reference and text books with thoughtful reading and clear writing.
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Brooks
Chaucer
Milton
Sarah Warner Brooks
Boston
Estes & Lauriat
Mabie’s Fire Side Essays Light Domestic World
A review notes Mabie writes warm hearthside sketches and Christmas light, with family scenes and a poetic window on winter. It praises the home chapters but finds the literary criticism of great masters and contemporary books less notable.
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Mr. Mabie
Donald G. Mitchell
New England
Mabie’s My Study Fire Review Reflects Dreamy Tone
A literary critique notes Amiel’s style as sympathetic and even tempered, lacking vigor, matching the book’s dreamlike atmosphere and passive, reposeful mood. The review suggests the work mainly helps readers pass time without labor.
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Amiel
Hamilton Wright Mabie
New York
Dodd, Mead & Co
Outings at Odd Times by Charles C. Abbott, M D
The reviewer notes Abbott’s 1890 nature book focuses on New Jersey marshes ponds and common wildlife. It blends antiquity with field observations of mice turtles frogs and owls. While lighter on sentiment it offers novel insight and engaging natural history from a local habitat.
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New Jersey
Air
Egger
Charles C. Abbott
M.D
New York
D. Appleton & Co
Modern Ghosts reviewed in Harper anthology note
The essay reviews a modern ghost stories collection translated from Maupassant Alarcon Kielland Kompert Becquer and Magherini Graziani. It praises Maupassant Le Horla On the River as standout pieces and commends Curtis Jonathan Sturges translations and the book's uniform series design.
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Darwin and
Huxley
Society For Psychical Research
Psychical Society
Macbeth
Banquo
Hamlet
Kielland
Becquer
Maese Pérez
Alarcon
Fe Horla
M. Guy de Maupassant
Jekyl and Hyde
Janet
Mr. Stevenson
Jonathan Sturges
Guy de Maupassant
Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
Alexander L. Kielland
Leopold Kompert
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
Giovanni Magherini-Graziani
George William Curtis
New York
Harper & Bros
Howells and a Boy’s Town in a Juvenile Memoir
A review notes Howells’s recollections blend memory and commentary, aiming at a boys audience with episodes of school life, games, and town customs. It praises appeal for youths despite limited age-bridging humor and notes a flawed illustration of a Christmas gunpowder celebration.
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Mr. Howells
Howells Book Review Describes Harpers Young People Volume
A critique notes the book is too long and its whimsical humor fails to compensate for exaggerated carefree style. The piece references Roy's Town and identifies Harpers Young People as the intended audience.
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Roy
Asbein and Other Tales in a Virtuoso’s Life
A literary review discusses Ossip Schubin’s Asbein based on Anton Rubinstein’s career, noting its musical intrigue and tensions between Lensky and Natalie Assanov. It also covers Ouida’s Ruffino and other short works, praising certain tales while criticizing The Robber Count for heaviness.
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William Black
Anton Rubenstein
Albein
Arabia
Asbein
Boris Lensky
Natalie Assanov
Lensky
Natalie
Herr Schubin
Blanche Howard
Ouida
Ruffino
Richard Delard
Delavel
Hartz Mountains
John
Avignon
Ossip Schubin
Elise 4
Lathrop
New York
Worthington Comepany
Ada Cambridge
John W. Lovell & Co
Newark
United States Book Company
Hartz Country
Julius Wolff
W. Henry Winslow
Elizabeth R. Winslow
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Stem Dictionary and Sea Wings in Letters and Plays
The review praises John Kennedy's Stem Dictionary as a simple tool for schools to unfold stem meanings, with prefixes and suffixes aiding understanding of word roots. It also praises Robert C. Lesh for Old Sea Wings, Ways and Words for clear nautical history illustrated in pencil, detailing sails and origins. Miss or Mrs. Pratt's Stories From Shakspere is critiqued for quoting Shakespearean language awkwardly and misusing modern prose versions.
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John Kennedy
New York
Chicago
Barnes & Co
Leslie
Robert C. Lesh
London
Chapman & Hall
Shakspere
Mara L. Pratt
Boston
Educational Publishing Company
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Mr. Holland
HH. A. Jones
Palmer’s Theatre
E. S. Willard
Mgr. Willard
Mr. Jones
YALE
Oglethorpe
Johnson
Boswell
Georgia
Carlyle
Mr. Bruca
Belgrade
Prince Eugene
Jonson
Florida
Carolina
Salzburg
Goldsmith and Johnson
Horace Walpole
Adams
United States
Hale
Franklin
Richard Wisdom
Pope
General Oglethorpe
Henry Brace
NEW Books
Captain Coignet
Soliers
Napoleon
Coignet
Marengo
Austerlitz
Jena
Wagram
Loridap Larchey
Madison
Jefferson
Gallatin
John Randolph
Randolph
George Canning
Atlantic
M. ‘Taine
Great Britain
Mr. Adams
John Henry
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