NEW BOOKS LECKY HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
A critical review notes Lecky’s History covers Irish affairs with undue prominence in two volumes, praising sobriety and impartiality. It discusses the Union and the portrayal of Irish politics, plus Lecky’s method as editor of government correspondence and the debate over means vs end in preserving the empire.
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Will
Mr. Lecky
England
Llere
India
Canada
Lecky
Ireland
Pitt
Leeky
Union
Lord Cornwallis
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
New York
D. Appleton
Rare Americana collection items from Hunnewell library
The excerpt notes that many partitions are exceptionally scarce and many reside in Mr Hunnewell's own valuable library. It promises a thorough account of all items he has contributed, illustrated Americana covering 1493 to 1889 by James Hunnewell, published in 1890.
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Theodore Child
M. le Vicomte de Vogné
Revue Des Deux Mondes
Russia
Wallace
Mr. Morrill
M. de Vogilé
M. de Vogné
France
Caucasus
Petersburg
Moscow
Kremlin
Nijni- Novgorod
Tsar
New York
Harper & Bros
Hunnewell
James I
Boston Post
United States Book Company
John W. Lovell Company
Westminster Series
Harold Frederic
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Morley Roberts
D. Appleton & Co
Town and Country Library
Gilbert Elgar
Harriet Riddle Davis
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Rufus Cope
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
Emin Pasha
Equator
A.J. Mounteney Jephson
Henry M. Stanley
Oo Knight
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin R Co
Edgren
University of Nebraska
A. Hjalmar Eagren
D. C
Mungo Park
Joseph Thomson
The
Niger
Herodotus
Africa
Joseph Thorson
Dodd, Mead & Co
Messrs
Charlies Reade
Christie Johnstone
Peg Wellington
Bonny Fish
Woffington
Austin Dobson
Charles Reade
W. L. Clarke & Co
Price
Peg Wastington
Charles Reads
W. B. Clarke & Co
Susan Coolidge
Henry Drummond
George Macdonald
Roberts Bros
Vassar
Switzerland
Elizabeth W. Champney
Estes & Lauriat
Illustrations Americana reprinted by James Hunnewel
James F Hunnewel reprints two papers from the American Antiquarian Society in Illustrated Americana. Read at April 1889 and April last meetings, the thin quarto offers notes useful to readers and collectors though not a full bibliography. The author’s careful research preserves many interesting details for enthusiasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Hunnewel
France
England
Imperial Island
American Antiquarian Socety
Society
Hunneweil
The Pine Tree Coast review by Samuel Adams Drake
A review praising The Pine Tree Coast by Samuel Adams Drake for vivid Maine coast descriptions from Kittery to Quoddy Head. It notes accurate geography, strong historical and scenic detail, modest illustrations, and mentions places like Eastport Lubec Passamaquoddy and Grand Manan with observation of local landmarks and access points.
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Kittery
Quoddy Head
Maine
New Hampshire
New Brunswick
Mr. Drake
Kennebunkport
Portland
York
Boothbay
Mt. Desert
Petit Manan
Machinsport
Ite
Paradise
Eastport
Passamaquoddy
Grand Manan
Cros
Atlantic
Lubec
Bay of Fundy
Pendleton’s Island
Deer Island
Samuel Adams Drake
Boston
Estes & Lauriat
Fra Lippo Lippi biography reviewed as picturesque fiction
A critique of Margaret Vere Farrington's Ava Lippo Lippi A Romance noting the author blends Vasari sourced facts with novelistic flair The Abbess Lucrezia Buti Botticelli Fra Diamante and others appear in a vivid but unembellished life of Fra Lippo Lippi The review praises taste and depth while highlighting omitted indiscreet passages and strong color illustration credits.
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Pra Lippo Lippi
Vasari
Lucrezia Buti
Fra Lippo
Monk
Botticelli
Fra Diamante
Lucrezia
Ippi
Spoleto
Fra Angelico
Castagiola
Browning
Fra Lippo Lippi
Italy
St. Praxed’s
Ava Lippo Lippi
Margaret Vere Farrington
New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Boston
W. B. Clarke & Co
Price
Romeo and Juliet Illustrated by Three Artists
The review ranks Marchetti as the most talented among three illustrators for Romeo and Juliet. It notes figure drawing as the hardest form of illustration and the easiest to criticize. It warns that any detailed scene analysis would invite strictures, citing a likely lack of unity as Juliet changes markedly across pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marchetti
Juliet
Romeo and Juliet illustrated by Merchett Rossi and Cortazzo
A critique notes the lithographs’ Italian richness and costume accuracy outweigh theatrical faces. The pages read as a vivid scenic representation of the play rather than a strict Verona setting. The book is praised for its beauty and careful printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verona
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakspere
Ludovic Merchett
Lucius Rossi
Oreste Cortazzo
New York
Raphael Tuck and Sons
Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations Excerpt
A reflection on the authority of judicial tribunals over municipalities. The speaker commends judges for their learning and conservative wisdom, noting his aim to extract arrange and embody their principles in these pages. A citation from John F. Dillon’s Dillon on Municipal Corporations is included.
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John F. Dillon
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Dillon
Iowa
Law School of Columbia Collegt
United States Supreme Court
Newport Street Railway Company
Rhode Island
Durfee
C.J
New England
Girard, McDonough
McMicken and Mallanphy
Justice Miller
Law of Municipal Corporations reviewed for practitioners
A detailed notice extols Judge Dillon's Law of Municipal Corporations fourth edition. It highlights thorough revision, expanded case tables, and updates reflecting post last edition decisions. The review endorses the work as an exhaustive, technically solid resource for lawyers, officials, and students.
Remarkable Recovery From Paralysis in a Young Girl
The piece details a West Roxbury child, age six, who suffered paralysis after rheumatic fever and spinal meningitis. After decades of failed treatments, a drastic four teaspoon daily regimen and gradual use of supports led to restored strength and walking without crutches, signaling a dramatic, if unverified, improvement.
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Charlca F. Hayden
Highland Street
West Roxbury
Ree
Bheleg
Murdock
The Season of Games and the Top Spinning Tradition
Gray-haired men recall March days of kite flying marbles and tops. Tops show two seasons spring and fall with fall the busiest. In cities smooth sidewalks favor spin tops while country peg tops rely on heavy tops and precise throws to split others.
Nervous Prostration Case Cites Burdock's Food Aid
A letter from Ga. F. Ordway describes her twelve year old son suffering a long nervous shock and St Vitus dance. After trying doctors and medicines the boy improved only after starting Murdock's Food, entering school with no absences for two months and showing no current decline. The family plans to continue use until full strength returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murdock
Bbuys
Curat
Heel
Ife
Burdock
Ga. F. Ordway
Avoane Street
Bishop and Monk Again Address to the Editor
Ex-Churchman praises Bishop Paddock’s reply to ritualist pressures in the Episcopal Church and notes tensions over Father Ignatius. Questions on England’s church unity with Rome, ritualistic practices, auricular confession, celibacy, and bans in Rhode Island are raised, citing Bishop Clark’s revocation of Ignatius’s preaching license.
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Paddock
Ignatius
Rome
Eastburn
Church of the Advent
Boston
England
America
Episcopal Church of America
Wisconsin
Father Ienatius
Llanthony Abbey
Father Ignatius
Banner of Light
Spiritualists
Clark
Rhode Island
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Bower
Tolra
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A. M. Bower
Don Eduardo Tolra
Carl Schoenhof
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A. W. Adams
D. Lothrop Company
Thomas Jefferson
John C. Henderson
Jefferson
Henderson
Cardinal Newman
Washington
National Capital
John ©. Henderson
A. Boys
United States
Annie Cole Cady
Worthington
Worthington Company
de Wolfe, Wiske & Co
Maroussia
Ukraine
P. J. Stahl
Cornelia Cyr
Brownine
Pippa
Cornelia W. Cyr
Dodd
Julia M. Thomas
Lovell Company
Thousand Islands
Macmillan & Co
George Howell
M.P
London
Littie, Brown & Co
Dr. Taylor
Andover
Peck
Columbia College
Harry Thurston Peck
Henry Holt & Co
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co
Forty-ninth
Massachusetts Volunteers
Henry T. Johns
Mack
University of Michigan
Charlies
Chicago
Gross & Delbridge
Messrs. Scribner & Welford
Daniel G. Brinton
N. D.C
Edith M. Thomas
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Galgano
Sarah Bridges Stebbins
G. W. Dillingham
Irene Hardy
South Pacific
Grant Allen
Willis Boyd Allen
C Lothrop Company
American Book Company
School For Scandal
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James Anthony Froude
William Allen Butler
Golden River
John Ruskin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stella Austin
E. P. Dutton & Co
Man
Little Saint Christopher
Alice Weber
E Dutton & Co
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Laura Enson
George Routledge & Sons
Amédée
E. P. Robins
Emilé Bayard
J. H. Riddell
H. W. French
Florence Warden
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Jean Ingelow
W. Clark Russell
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G. A. Henty
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Mexico
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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David A. Wells
John Codman
Gustavus Adolphus
R. L. Fletcher
G. P. Pautnam’s Sons
Cyrus F. Brackett
Edward L. Wilson
William Morris
Annals of the Stage
Thomas Betterton
Edmund Kean
Pe Doran
F.I.A
David Meay
Goethe
John Anster
Frederick A. Stokes & Bro
William J
Marshall Livingston Perrin
Boston University
Gamalel Bradford, Jr
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Blanche E. Howard
F. A. Stokes & Co
Moliere
F. E. A. Gase
D. C. Heath & Co
D.C. Heath & Co
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William R. Jenkins
H. Rider Haggard
Andrew Lang
Rhoda Broughton
Lovell
Russian of Countryof Tolstoi By E. J. Dillon
L. T. Meade
Edith Sessions Tupper
American Authors Series
Bertha Thomas
Rose Eytinge
St. Ada Fisher
United Pious
Eck Company
American Authorseries
Nanon
George Sand
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
England Mutual
Insurance Post Office Square
Ston
Massachusetts
Beng
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Jos
M. Girmbens
F. Trull
Turner
Tiarcourt Studios
Irvington Sweet
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Ebonion
Iso
A.W
SPC Ee
Spruce Lunder
Alpheus M. Stetsomn
Kilby Street
Vicinity
James F.C. Luyde
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