Elder Boise and The Seal of Silence Reviews
Everett Tomlinson’s Elder Boise moves beyond juvenile tales to a mature New York parish tale of a young pastor’s theological growth and a deacon’s opposition. Arthur Regnier Conder’s The Seal of Silence balances mystery and humor with two central men, a hermit fugitive and a presumed killer, as love and community esteem shape consequences.
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Everett Tomlinson
Boise
David Harum
New York
Mason
Elder Boise
Evy
Adam
The Seal of Silence Preface by Arthur Conder
A preface to The Seal of Silence recounts the posthumous nature of the work. It portrays the author as a 24 year old tall fair haired man with gray blue eyes and a humorous mouth who died in January before his story could be published. The tale is described as original with hidden plots and Conder’s remarks tease the reader.
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Lakeville
Bran
Scriptur
Tomlinson
Elder Boise
Everett Tomlinson
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
Appleton Town and Country Library
Arthur Regnier Conder
D. Appleton & Co
Arthur Conder
Old Wash
Marjorie
Nashville
A Summer Hymnal by John Trotwood Moore review
A Tennessee romance set in a blue grass mood, A Summer Hymnal blends nature imagery with plantation song. The work introduces Thesis and Old Wash in a tale of race, loyalty, and moral drama, praised for delicacy, sentiment, and Southern literary promise.
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Tennessee
John Trotwood Moore
Blue Grass
James Lane Allen
Moore
Ole Mistis
A Summer Hymnal Excerpt by John Trotwood Moore
An excerpt discusses enduring spirit and growth, contrasting life in bustling cities with personal ascent. The speaker praises intellectual honesty, upward endeavor, and faith, quoting morality maxims and favoring steadfastness over hardship. The note attributes the piece to A Summer Hymnal, by John Trotwood Moore, published by Henry T. Coates & Co. in Philadelphia.
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John Trotwood Moore
Henry T. Coates & Co
Philadelphia
Richard Croker Portrait in Alfred Henry Lewis Book
A Life Publishing biography profiles Richard Croker as a strong, calm, and complex Tammany leader. It blends personal detail with his public image, including Croker’s temperament, kindness to children, political strategy, and the coming New York municipal campaign framed by the author’s close access to Croker and other leaders.
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Richard Croker
Alfred Henry Lewis
Life Publishing Company
Tammany Hall
Lewis
Illustrated Weekly
Oliver Belmont
Congress
Mr. Croker
Tammany
Croker
New York
Mr. Lewis
Appletons to Expand London Branch and Series
OR Literary Notes reports D. Appleton & Co plans to intensify London operations with Mr. D Sidney Appleton taking charge of the London branch. The firm aims to publish a Half-hour Classics series at 50 cents, featuring stories by Barr Hope Hobbes Lewis Chambers Jacobs Kipling and others. American and English authors will be broadened with new works and collaborations with McClure Phillips & Co for U S. publication.
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D. Sidney Appleton
D. Appleton & Co
England
London
Robert Barr
Stephen the Smith
Anthony Hope
John Oliver Hobbe
Rudyard Kipling
Kim
Ian Maclaren
Dr. Watson
Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co
Tristam
Songs of Nature volume by John Burroughs announced
John Burroughs curates Songs of Nature to be published by McClure Phillips. The anthology includes over two hundred twenty five carefully chosen English nature poems from Milton to modern writers with sections on Bird Flower Seasons and General Nature poems and a prefatory note by Burroughs.
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John Burroughs
McClure, Phillips & Co
Mr. Burroughs
Shakespeare
New book line up from Harper Brothers and others
Harper Brothers announce fall release of John Kendrick Bangs new volume Over the Pud ding in their Portrait Collection series. Maurice Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes has sold about 175000 copies here while Cassell's English edition is in short supply. Gaillard Hunt's The Life of James Madison launches Doubleday Page biographical US history series. Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum nears opening with preparatory schools at Omdurman and Khartoum, plus a bacteriological lab gift from H S Wellcome and plans for a Sudan products museum.
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Messrs
Harper& Bros
John Kendrick Bangs
Ium
E Publishers
Maurice Thompson
Alice of
Old Vincennes
Messrs. Cassel, Co
James'Madison
Gaillard Hunt
Doubleday, Page & Co
The
United States
Gordon Memorial College
Khartum
Omdurman
H. 5. Wellcome
Sudan
August midsummer fiction number of Harper's magazine
The August midsummer fiction issue presents a wide range of light literature and illustrations. Alfred Olivant opens with The Cleansing of the Lie, joined by Christy color plates. Robert W. Chambers offers A Pilgrim. The Princess and the Poet is Stewart Edward White, with other tales by Arthur Colton Maurice Hewlett and Josephine Dodge Das ham. Additional pieces include Wilson historical papers, The Birth and Death of the Moon by Edward S Holden, Julian Ralph, poems by multiple authors, and John Burroughs August Days sketch. The issue also features Miss Wilkins The Portion of Labor and Parker The Right of Way. The McClure’s August number is richly illustrated and entertaining throughout.
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Harper's
Alfred Olivant
Howard Chandler Christy
Robert W. Chambers
Christy
Stewart Edward White
Liebchen
Arthur Colton
Peter Newell
Maurice Hewlett
Josephine Dodge Dasham
Mary Applewhite Bacon
Woodrow Wilson
Boston
Gaspee
Edward S. Holden
LL. D
Julian Ralph
Ernest Rhys
Edward Willard Watson
Marian Warner Wildman
Louise Morgan
Sill
John Burroughs
Richard J. Gallienne
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Miss Wilkins
Gilbert Parker
Illustrated magazine highlights strong literary lineup
The issue features contributions from Henry van Dyke Norman Duncan Josephine Dodge Daskam Edwin Le fevre Clara Morris George Hibbard Henry Wallace Phillips and Rudyard Kipling. It showcases a superb Howard Pyle frontispiece and Christy art of a lover duo. Kipling Kim installments, Wall Street tales by Leigh, Dasham stories, Ruhl Baker articles and poems by Kester Webb are included.
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Henry van Dyke
Norman Duncan
Josephine Dodge Daskam
Edwin Lefevre
Clara Morris
George Hibbard
Henry Wallace Phillips
Rudyard Kipling
Howard Pyle
Howard Chandler Christy
Mr. Hibbard
Chas. S. Chapman
Ray Stannard Baker
Arthur Ruhl
Paul Kester
Charles Henry Webb
The Outlook fourteenth annual educational number
The Outlook issue presents a dozen notable educational articles with rich photographs. Features include Progress in Education, The End in Education with Yale’s Hadley and Lyman Abbott, Western State Universities by A. S. Draper, Education in the South by E. A. Alderman, Daniel C. Gilman by G. Stanley Hall, and The Yale Bicentenary by Arthur Reed Kimball.
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Hadley
Yale
Lyman Abbott
Western State Universities
A. 8. Draper
University of Illinois
South
E. A. Alderman
Tulane University
Daniel C. Gilman
G. Stanley Hall
Clark University
Arthur Reed Kimball
Outlook Company
Fourth Avenue
New York
Cosmopolitan August fiction lineup spans continents and themes
The August Cosmopolitan offers a rich mix of fiction. Irving Bacheller crafts a Canadian big timber tale with matching art by Hering. Quiller-Couch’s poignant French exile story. Le Gallienne’s charming Old French Romances tale of Squire Robin and Jehane. Grant Allen’s satire Temple of Fate entertains and provokes thought. Frances Wharton portrays fashionable Newport society. Phoebe Lytle and Egerton Castle tackle strong subjects with mastery.
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Irving Bacheller
Hering
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Richard le Gallienne
Robin
Jehane
Grant Allen
Frances Willing Wharton
Newport
Phoebe Lytle
Egerton Castle
Unpublished Johnson Letters Sell at Sotheby’s London
Eight letters from Samuel Johnson to Mr Chambers, dated 1762 to 1788, sold at Sotheby’s London. The collection includes a 1783 letter noting Johnson’s illness, Thrale’s influence, and references to Boswell, Reynolds, Goldsmith, and other literary figures, with reflections on private happiness and public affairs.
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Sotheby’s
London
Dr. Johnson
Chambers
Birkbeck Hill
Boswell
Highlands
Thrale
France
Wales
Italy
Beauclerc
Langton
Goldsmith
Jones
William
Reynolds
Percy
Dromore
Can Literature Be Taught Across England Debate
Canon Ringer weighs both sides in The Pilot as Andrew Lang argues teaching can’t, while H. C. Beeching contends instruction helps readers grasp words and grow taste. The exchange notes that some readers acquire literary sense naturally, others benefit from guidance, but enjoyment cannot be forced.
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England
Canon Ringer
Andrew Lang
H. C. Beeching
Shakespeare appreciated for culture and influence, not just poetry
Alfred Nutt argues Shakespeare is not isolated from his time and links to England and Europe of the 1500s. He compares studying Shakespeare to exploring plant morphology or Alpine geology to understand broader contexts, contending literary history informs taste rather than dulls it.
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Lang
Shakespeare
Alfred Nutt
England
Europe
Alps
Mr. Gollancz
The Power of Memory by Ibsen Early Poetry Satire
The Outlook in London prints an essay on Ibsen s early lyrical poetry with English renderings of his beginnings in this field. The poem recalls a tame bear forced to dance by torments in a brewer s cauldron and a barrel organ, and the speaker recalls his own painful past in similar terms.
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the Outlook
London
Ibsen
Origin of Ades Fables Told By George Ade
George Ade recalls the origin of his Fables in Slang as a train journey near Kokomo, Indiana. He buys a diary from a conductor, pays $200, faces delays for pencils and ink, and even jumps from a car to write amid marshy ground. He hurries to finish after two days and nights at a stump with a helper bringing meals.
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George Ade
Indiana
Kokomo
Manuscripts of King James I Found in Bodleian Library
The West minster Gazette reports the discovery of unpublished King James I manuscripts in the Bodleian. Robert Rait of New College edited Lusus Regius Poems and other Pieces by King James I. Falconer Madan catalogued them. nineteen pieces, mostly verse, include An Admonition to the Maister Poete and a fragment of a masque likely dated to 1581.
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James I
Bodleian Library
Westminster Gazette
Robert
Rait
New College
Lusus Regius
James
Falconer Madan
Rawlinson
University of Oxford
Earl of Arran
Alexander Montgomerie
Montgomerie
Mr. Kait
Bacchus
Anne of
Denmark
King James Verse Impresses In Notable Volume
A volume of considerable interest contains a unique version of a song different from that in The Psalms of King Davis Translated by King James. It includes a Letter Unto Mr. DuBartas by a Huguenot poet who worked on English diplomatic missions and who rendered a French version of Lepanto. King James could write verse and much of it here has melody.
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Davis
King James
DuBartas
England
Lotos Club Witty After-Dinner Speeches Volume Preview
Horatio N. Fraser prints a private edition of After-Dinner Speeches at the Lotos Club founded in 1870. The 1895 stenographic reports render many speeches as fragments with sharp American contrasts to English speakers. General Porter and Elihu Root offer humorous Civil War and political anecdotes, including jokes about hats, women, and a four foot high tornado fence.
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Horatio N. Fraser
New York
Lotos Club
Kingsley
Froude
Wilkie Cola
Horace Porter
Parliament
Congress
Cain
Elihu Root
Chauncey Depew
Roswell Flower
Great Men satire figure page in London book
A London picture book titled Great Men satirizes prominent English figures through rhymes and drawings. Harold Begbie and F Carruthers Gould lampoon leaders from Salisbury to Rosebery, Blount to Chamberlain, with moral admonitions about ambition and power, ending warning children not to be bragadocious.
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London
Messrs
Harold Begbie
F. Carruthers Gould
Begbie
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