A Painter in Words Coningsby Dawson
Coningsby Dawson the young English author of The Garden Without Walls Florence on a Certain Night and Other Poems and The Raft is profiled. He came to the United States after age twenty and now lives with his father Dr W J Dawson in Newark New Jersey where his father is a pastor. Dawson has edited and read for major publishers and is devoting himself to creative work.
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Florence
W. J. Dawson
First Presbyterian Church
Newark
N. J
Conings
Dawson
Henry Holt & Co
Longfellow
Coningsby Dawson
Mr. Grice
Charles Dickens
Hugo
John Buslness
Peter
Peter Barrington
Galahad
Fiesole
Jehane
Pegasus
Virginia
Dante Cardover
Dante
the Red Hussars
J. B. Lippincott Company
Philadelphia
The Raft Review of Coningsby Dawson’s New Novel
Dawson’s The Raft earns praise for its imaginative reach and vivid central figure Peter Barrington. The reviewer notes the bohemian, playful tone with characters like Ocky Waffles and Grice, and highlights Dawson’s lyrical prose and mystic undercurrent.
Tents of a Night by Mary Findlater review
The novel set mainly in France with Scottish characters follows Anne and Dragotin amid Carnac relics and French scenery. It offers careful workmanship and natural dialogue in a leisurely Victorian essay style, with appealing setting and lightly drawn lovers.
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Mary Findlater
Carnac
Mrs. Hepburn
Edinburgh
Anne
Dragotin
Mont Saint Michel
Tours
The Last Invasion: A Boy’s War Tale Unfolds
The narrative opens with a spirited story for boys by Donal H. Haines and remains engaging through its wartime drama. It features two youths Tom and Jack in perilous adventures including an aerial fight aboard a dirigible and the Battle of Pittsfield.
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Donal H. Haines
United States
Europe
Tom
Jack
Pittsfield
Medoc in the Moor
Georgia Willis Read’s Medoc in the Moor is a first person tale set in a small Breton village near L Orient. An American artist narrator frames a slow moving romance with humor and pathos amid moorland scenes and sea imagery, as background texture to the unfolding story.
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Georgia Read
L'Orient
Stewart Edward White in the Movies
Stewart Edward White writes of his first and only acting experience in The Call of the North produced from Conjurer's House. He details meeting DeMille and the Lasky Company, the high dedication to accuracy, and his role as the Indian steersman for the canoe in the Sierras.
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Stewart Edward White
Mr. White
Sierras
Lasky Company
Sigersman
De Mille production praised for North American life accuracy
The author credits De Mille with a faithful portrayal of northern life in a film, detailing extensive canoe scenes, training of cowpunchers as voyageurs, and realistic action such as a canoe chase and trap sequences. He recalls paying nine dollars for acting, a mustache sacrifice, and the crew’s careful efforts to capture authentic camp, trade, and combat details.
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North
Mr. Fisher
Me-en-gan
Fisher
Rand
Julie
Mr. DeMille
Mr. Carpenter
Achille Picard
Picard
Meen-gan
Robert Edeson
Trent
The Smart Set October Issue Highlights
The cover proclaims One Civilized Reader is Worth a Thousand Boneheads. Features include The Beautiful Face in the Rue D Enfer by Richard Le Gallienne, a complete novelette Would a Lady Have Done It? by Fred Jackson, A Master of Men by Edwin Balmer, and A Protest for Vulgarity by George Jean Nathan urging more honest Falstaffian vulgarity in American theatre.
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Rue D’enfer
Richard le Gallienne
Fred Jackson
Edwin Balmer
George Jean Nathan
James Oppenheim Aims at Modern Poetic Spirit
The 20th century poet James Oppenheim born in St Paul Minnesota studied at Columbia University and held posts at Hudson Guild Settlement 1901 03 and Hebrew Technical School for Girls 1905 07. He now writes and is known for Idle Wives Wild Oats The Nine Tenths and Songs for the New Age.
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James Oppenheim
St. Paul
Minn
Columbia University
Hudson Guild Settlement
New York
Hebrew Technical School For Girls
The
Century Company
The Haunted Heart Poem Excerpt by James Oppenheim
A fragment from Songs for the New Age features The Haunted Heart speaking of winter and isolation. The speaker grapples with crowd life and inner abyss, choosing to stand firm on a rock and seek life's breadth. Published in New York by The Century Co. priced at $1.20.
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Taswadi As
Nhisim
James Oppenheim
New York
the Century Co
Psychology and Social Sanity by Hugo Munsterberg
A review lauds Munsterberg’s Psychology and Social Sanity as bringing psychology to everyday life. It discusses topics from socialism and sex education to thought transference and the dancing craze, noting timely insights and warnings for American society.
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Beulah Miller
Warren
R. I
America
Munsterberg
Imperial
Rome
Manhattan
Hugo Munsterberg
Garden City, N
Doubleday, Page & Co
The Spring Lady in Rural Escape and Insight
Mary Brecht Pulver presents The Spring Lady as a gentle humorous tale. A city woman flees to the countryside to escape luxury and discovers country life mirrors city life and that love for her husband endures.
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Pest
Mary Brecht Pulver
Bobbs-Merrill
The Story of Dudehurst a Tale of the Mississippi
A critical review finds Miss Murfree’s latest novel dull in places and cluttered by a confused plot. It praises Southern atmosphere and certain descriptive passages but notes weak character convictions and anachronistic references to electric streetcars. The work, set just after the Civil War, raises accuracy concerns despite strong mood.
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Mary N. Murfree
Tennessee Mountains
Dudehurst
Radcliffe
France
A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
Theorizes that ends justify means in charity, through Uncle Joseph protector of Philip Meldrum. Noted are Uncle Joseph’s clever fundraising tactics and his clashes with editor mocks. The novel centers on Philip Meldrum’s romance while tracking the odd pair’s antics and the eccentric Mr Mablethorpe.
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Ian Hay
Houghton, Miffflin & Co
Joseph
Philip Meldrum
the Searchlight
Uncle Joseph
Mr. Mablethorpe
Depew’s Whiskers Spark Cheer in War News
Former Senator Chauncey M. Depew traveled aboard the Baltic and recounted European upheavals. He described bank closures in Geneva, mobilization signs in France, cheering soldiers mistaking him for an Englishman, and a rainy Boulogne pier journey before boarding the steamer.
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France
Paris
Boulogne
Personal and Unusual Incidents in War News
The account contrasts the French wounded showing calm signs of nervous excitement with German wounded who, though reputed stolid, spend much of their waking hours sobbing. The piece highlights psychological effects of war on combatants.
Americans witness Mons battle from French rear
James A. Wakefield of Pittsburg and seven other Americans persuaded Captain Antord of the French commissariat to take them within three miles of Mons rear. They paid $100 each and arrived by spring wagons. They described the scene as hellish with exploding shells, burning farmhouses, and fearsome noise, witnessing limited destruction.
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James A. Wakefield
Pittsburg
Europe
Antord
French Commissariat
Mons
Dramatic Helgoland episode cited by English naval lieutenant
An English lieutenant describes the Defender sinking an enemy ship and abandoning a whaler. As survivors drift in an open boat, a British submarine E-4 surfaces to rescue them and returns them home 250 miles away, a scene praised as magnificent and unfilmable.
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Helgoland
German Cruelties Imagin ary A correspondent's view
A correspondent born in America argues that rumors of German atrocities as the Brussels invasion neared are exaggerated. He notes no confirmed crimes in Brussels and cites an eye witness who recalls only a German soldier kissing a Flemish girl in Louvain on August 19.
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Brussels
Louvain
Germans Sub French Stoics During War Wounds
A correspondent notes a psychological difference between German and French wounded arriving at Bordeaux. Physically German injuries are similar to French ones, but German prisoners show extreme nervous exhaustion while the French wounded appear steadier despite shared suffering.
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Bordeaux
Terrible Artillery Advance From a Bordeaux Hospital Account
A wounded French artilleryman in a Bordeaux hospital recalls a brutal forward rush across a field littered with dead and dying Germans. He describes horses and guns trampling bodies, bone crunching under hooves, and the haunting cries of agony that linger after the deadly advance.
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Bordeaux
Airmen in Death Duel Above British Lines
A German aeroplane reconnoitred British lines and fought an aerial duel with a British airman. The two aircraft clashed high in the sky with rapid maneuvers and gunfire. The German was wounded and descended to the ground while the British remained aloft.
War His One Passion
Mrs. Despard says Sir John French loves war as his lifelong hobby and passion. She notes the general idolizes Napoleon as a soldier and has studied Britain’s terrain for battle. She calls him the happy warrior who has spent his life learning the greatest game of all.
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London
Warr
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Fifth Ave
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BE. P. Dutton & Co
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Medoc
Georgia Willis Read
Boston
Sherman, French & Co
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Old Corner Book Store, Inc. Books
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Nietzsche
Psychology and
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the MacMillan Company
Ughton, Mifflin & Co
Eve Edgarton
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Century Co
Depew
Chauncey M. Depew
Baltic
Geneva
the Duke OF Oblivion
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