What Do You Read and Why Do You Read
A mosaic of readers explains personal choices from fiction to science. Contributors name Dickens Shakespeare Emerson Scott and Bible study as anchors, while noting reading fuels pleasure, profession, and moral reflection across history biographies and current affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grote
Gibbon
Macaulay
Motley
Green
Mommsen
Detlray
Iran
Scott
Thackeray
Hawthorne
Hugo
MacDonald
Francis’ Bacon
Aphorisms From Tolstoi What Is Religion selections
Aphorisms from Tolstoi discuss religion in society, divergence from fundamental meaning, brotherhood, and the relation of man to the infinite. It contrasts feeling and reason guiding conduct and warns against idolatry or magic as corruption. The text notes religion as man’s relation to the infinite and its role in life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Tolstoi
Originals of Dickens Characters and Their Models
Dickens drew many figures from real people and places. Tracy Tupman, Mrs Bardell, Mr Justice Stareleigh, Mr Sergeant Buzfuz, Captain Cuttle, and others matched living counterparts such as Mr Winter, Mrs Ann Ellis, Sir Stephen Gaselee, A S Laing, Thomas Mainland, and Captain Mainwaring. The piece links numerous fictional roles to contemporaries in London, Manchester, and beyond, noting actual persons who inspired recurring character types.
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Bardell Va. Pickwick
Justice Stareleigh
Stephen Gaselee
Court of Common Pleas
Stareleigh
Gaselee
Sargeant Buefie
Buzfuz
Bardell
Bumpus
Harrister
Borsit
Tien Iron Hife
Silas Wegge
London
Edwin Wreed
Dickens
The Dumas Centenary and His Global Regard
A tribute noting Alexandre Dumas born two centuries ago and celebrated in Paris. It lauds his enduring influence on world literature, compares him to Homer and Shakespeare, and cites Chesterton on his genius and faults. It discusses rivals to Dumas in historical fiction and names contemporaries and successors.
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Paris
Jeux
Alexandre Duman
France
Txed
Valois
Bourbon
Louis
Dumas
Homer
Real Artagnan Lives On in Four Thick Volumes
The author argues modern writers fail to create living characters unlike Scott and Dumas. He defends original themes and refined style, noting Elizabethan influences, while asserting the true D Artagnan rests in the long shelves of the classics, ready to step forth for genuine fans.
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Magasines
Artagnan
George
Calla
Paria
Ain
New York
Muianu
Theodosia Burr Death Tale Tied to Pirate Ring
Marred by pirate rumors and faded records a Mobile tale recounts Theodosia Burr Alston daughter of Aaron Burr and Governor Henry Alston of South Carolina who vanished after 1812 voyage to New York. A Mobile merchant cites a dying pirate confession alleging her death on a piracy driven plank execution with others burned in mystery.
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Aaron Burr
Theodosia
Mobile Register
Mia
Alston
Theodosia Bure
Mya
Tay
South Carolina
Aaron Torr
Aca
Anne
Alabama Journal
Aaron Birr
Aleton
Turope
Charleston
New York
Mobile
Mix
Thia
Malile
Aloe
Immorality of Henry James Warns of Skeleton Amour
The piece condemns Henry James as immoral, arguing his writing promotes veiled vice through obscure style. It cites Colby and Bookmen as saying James is bold, is not properly censored, and produces discreditable depictions of women and adulterous affairs without clear moral accountability.
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Hiowry
James
Trahk Moore Coley
Teney Jones
Bookmen
Mr.Colby
Henry Jones
George Sand
Colby
Augustus the Strong
Henry James
Gregs
Jamies
Anylding
Paper Pellets and Proverbs from an Ordinary Page
A compact fragment shows a playful collection of aphorisms and wry sayings about life pleasures luck and appearances. It muses on smoking beauty landscapes and the humor of common proverbs with casual tone.
The Personality of Authors and Their Social Circles
A reflective piece explores how readers are drawn to authors as figures in their own right rather than merely to their books. It imagines famed literary gatherings of Shakespeare, Dickens, Browning, Tennyson, Poe, Whitman, and others, imagining what it would be like to share drinks, cigars, and conversations with them, and contrasts private lives with public works.
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Statesman
Ha Books
Jor
Dick Swiveler
Haxwell
Dr. Johnson
Bacon
Emerson
Carelyle
Letterland
Pope
Polit
Charles I
Tennyson
Milton
Shakespeare
Mermaid Tavern
Oliver Goldwralth
Dr. Jotinson
Thackeray
Gartick
Dickens
Steven
Edmund Gosse
Deede
Dorringale
Howell
Hateniog iv Pfaff
New York
Walt
Whitin
Régor Allan
Theantes
Sidney Lanier
Thoreh
Marion Crawford
Bostonian
King Agha
Tran
Pune
Annie
Bettan
Thorn
Mir Lafewdio Hearn
Mr. Crihte
Dualihy Realite
Current Magasines and July Cosmopolitan Review
The July Cosmopolitan features an illustrated article on The Wreupilon of Mont Melee by Ellery Scot and pieces on New Fashions Are Set by Nancy Wy Woodrow. It includes biographical sketches, literary notes, and short stories. The New England Magazine and The Smart Set also offer varied July contents including essays, fiction, and a coronation piece by Gilbert Parker.
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Mont Melee
Ellery
Scot
Rorsima
Nancy MM
Woodrow
Try
Aduetey
Dante
Beatrice
Hinharnd
Fe Gallienne
Weell Rhodes
John Brishen
Thomas A. Janvier
Edigor Salin
Edward S. van Zile
Clarivia
Clauslin
Marguerite Tracy
Arden
James Branch Cabell
Ricardo
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Betty Syndicate
Seattlee Heron-Minwell
Mr. Livingstone
Jueus Miles Forman
Frank Norris
Douglas Story
Edith Sessions Tupper
Green Portieres
John Regnault Ellyson
Gilbert Parker
M. P
Edward VII
Iuchesn
Somerset
National Magazine
John H. Kirby
Texas
Henry Righter
Kirby
Marcellus E. Poster
The
Houston Chronicle
Frank Puan
Martin Murray
Douglas Malloch
McKintey
Muskegon
Mich
Wind on the Mountain in July Scribner’s
A fragmentary poetic note speaks of wind on the mountain and lovers clinging together as they fear being snatched away by the wind. The verse conveys imagery of blue weather, heather, and a bride-bloomed summit as eternity sleeps beyond reach.
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Scribner's
Prices for Notable Literary Letters and Manuscripts
In London auctions, twenty three letters of Charles Lamb sold separately for 278 dollars, eleven Shelley letters in one lot brought 405 dollars, Keats works including Unfelt Unheard Unseen and Apollo sold for 345, Cap and Belly parts fetched 500, Lamb's King and Queen of Hearts earned 400, Ada and En fan brought 344, Beowulf manuscript 34, and Rossetti manuscript Henry the...
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Charles Lamb
London
Shelley
Apollo
Lamb
Santa
P. Beowshe
RG Rosestas
Henry the Dapax
Jobe
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Orr
L. S. Fawceur
Weir Mitchell
George Ginsing
Tolstoi
Charles Dickens
Ife
Tracy Tupman
Pickwick
Mr. Winter
Hyde Park
Mrs, Barmall
Ann Ellis
Doctors’ Commons
Justice Btarelrion
MR. Fang
A. S. Laing
Hatton Garden
Mr. Laing
Chermole Nrotmer
Cheeryhle Brothers
Nicholas Nickleby
William Grant & Pros
Cotton Apinnére and Cilico
Manchester
Sir Prtem Lamnif
Peter Laurie
Alderman Cute
Peter
Misa Gordon
Thomas Carlyle
Mr. Domaey
Dombey & Son
Thomas Chapman
Treadenhall Street
Cuttle
Thomas Mainland
Orierital
Tommy Trations
David Copperfield
DileWens
Sir Thomas Valfried
Tommy Fradé Dee
Father Sommersony
Eather Sommerson
Sophia Lectin
Mer
Edward Moxon
Sophia Iselin
Hwardld Shimpolt
Harold Shimpole
Rich Hunt
Wweket
Bucket
Inspector Field
Scotland Wordwatch
Suas Weg
Triv
G. K. Chesterton
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's
Esmond
Reade
Waverley
Ie Tlope
Hewlett
Theodosia Burr and the Pirates
Epicures
Francis Geibtle
MacLean Waris
Belwued
Heik
Frank Nona
Stiverity
New England
Anil Panne
Thomas Jefferaan
Frederick Mellen
Clifton Johnsar
Conteetionr
Saybrook
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