Great Paintings as Seen by Famous Writers Volume Two
Esther Singleton edits a second collection presenting forty eight renowned paintings with descriptions by art critics. It includes works by Raphael Murillo Turner Velasquez and others, with a new book featuring Crivelli Luini Giorgione Moroni and more, offering education in art through illustrated plates and criticism.
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Esther Singleton
Raphael
F. A. Gruger
Crivelli
Luini
Giorgione
Moroni
Landseer
Mantegna
Perugino
Murillo
Turner
Velasquez
F. Hals
van Dyck
Titian
Veronese
Botticelli
DaVinci
Ingres
Rubens
Reynolds
Correggio
Gainsborough
Ribera
Rembrandt
The Story of Kate by Pauline Bradford Mackie
A girl from New England moves to California as a teacher after college. She studies art, wins a five year one thousand dollar annual scholarship, and charts her life in San Francisco. Aimed at girls, the tale emphasizes character over plot and reflects Civil War era tastes. Published by L. C. Page & Co. $1.20 net.
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Washington
Pauline Bradford Mackie
California
New England
Pacific Coast
State University
San Francisco
Kate
L. C. Page & Co
Boston
T. H. Lawler
Danny the Wonder Dog and the Laird’s Grim Rule
Alfred Ollivant’s Danny follows a tiny dog who joins a stern Scottish laird and must avoid murder to stay. The tale contrasts gamey and tamey behavior within Missy Robin and Deborah’s household, blending pathos and grim humor with a keen Scottish character study. Danny’s sharp wits save him and endear him as a nearly human figure.
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Alfred Ollivant
Danny
Ollivant
Bob
Battle
Missy
Laird
Robin
Deborah
Doubleday, Page & Co
Eat
York
G. C. Prince & N
A Captured Santa Claus by Thomas Nelven Page
A short story about four children and their Confederate father who promises to return home for Christmas. The Union general who once befriended him plays a role that brings smiles as the tale unfolds. Includes publication details and author notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ite
Eliing
Santa Claus
Thomas Nelven Page
Page
The Mate of the Good Shy York Preview
In this excerpt from W. Clark Russell the tale unfolds aboard a sea bound vessel. The narrative centers on a young heroine drawn into romance amid shipboard dangers including a wreck and maritime atmosphere. The fragment hints at a modern tale framing and suggests further plot possibilities.
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York
W. Clark Russell
The Last Word told by Alice Mac Gowan in Boston
A review notes shifting scenes in The Last Word from West to East and back across cities, yet the tale hinges on love, friendship, and newsroom camaraderie. Miss Carrington West thrives amid publishing circles, with society life, art, and journalism forming a wholesome backdrop across 439 pages. Published by L. C. Page & Co., Boston. $1.50.
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New York
Washington
Boston
Philadelphia
Carrington West
Alice MacGowan
L. C. Page & Co
T. H. Lawler
The Social Comedy Life Picture Book Review
Life the weekly illustrated journal showcases refined wit in its new volume The Social Comedy from Life Publishing Company New York. The 118 page collection features 100 plus full page pictures of fashionable society with stylish portraits, luxurious settings, line and half tone drawings, red and gold binding, priced at $2.
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Life
Fliegende Blaetter
Life Publishing Company
New York City
December issues of Leslie's and Pearson's magazines outlined
The December editions of Frank Leslie's Monthly and Pearson's present expanded pages with works by Ralph Connor Eden Phillpotts Harry Stillwell Edwards and Egerton Castle plus colored plates by Birch Clay Glackens and Shinn. They feature dramatic criticism road football writing Christmas verse and notable female reform articles and lively fiction including The Pearl Maiden and The Friendship of Half a Century. also coverage of New Jersey Palisades and profiles of Joseph Chamberlain Uncle Sam's pocketbook and other vivid pieces.
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Leslie
Ralph Connor
Eden Phillpotts
Harry Stillwell Edwards
Egerton Castle
Seumas MacManus
Reginald Birch
John Cecil Clay
W. Glackens
Florence Scovel Shinn
Howard Giles
Liladislaw Benda
Pearson
Captain Kettle
Woman's Department
Elizabeth Cidy Stanton
New Jersey
Palisades
Joseph Chamberlain
Uncle Sam
The Pilgrim Presents The Adventures of Vicorous Deunt
The December Pilgrim opens a lavish new series by editor Willie J. Abbot. This Christmas edition begins a serial about Sherlock Holmes style adventures titled The Adventures of Vicorous Deunt.
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Vicorous Deunt
Willie J. Abbot
Good Housekeeping’s Christmas Issue Shines Bright
The latest Christmas number of Good Housekeeping features two holiday dinners by Linda Hull Larned and a typical English menu. It includes a Christmas story by Isabel Gordon Curtis, raffia gift ideas, and articles on house management, furniture, colonial cookery, child portraiture, and Indian cousins with illustrations, plus gas range cookery and chafing-dish lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Housekeeping
C. Warde Traver
Linda Hull Larned
Isabel Gordon Curtis
Yelett Burgess
Guy Kirkham
South
Walden Fawcett
Ora V. Eddleman
Frances
Mary Allen
Booklovers Magazine to Debut December 15
A full sized magazine titled The Booklovers Magazine will appear around December 15 with Seymour Eaton as editor in chief. The inaugural issue features portraits of editors from major American magazines, a gossipy piece by Jeannette L. Gilder, French fiction by Edouard Rod, and a translation of The Current Phase of Religious Thought by Rev. Dr. T. T. Munger. It includes sixteen pages of illustrated content, a Dickens focus in the literary section, color reproductions, and a frontispiece pastel of President Roosevelt by W. Flood Campbell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booklovers
Seymour Eaton
Jeannette L. Gilder
Critic
Edouard Rod
M. Rod
T. T. Munger
Dickens
Andrew Lang
Estelle M. Hurll
Roosevelt
W. Flood Campbell
Philadelphia
December Century features lively holiday serialized tales
The issue highlights Christmas material including two stories Mrs Chick by Virginia Woodward Cloud and The Vision by Elizabeth Cherry Waltz, poems by Daskam and Park, and lay editorial pieces. It also previews Lovely Mary a new serial by the Mrs Wiggs author, a Christmassy variety of papers and illustrations, and a science article on The Making of the Universe with Harvard imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Pa Gladden
Elizabeth Cherry Waltz
Josephine Dodge Daskam
James Stanton Park
New York
Lillie Hamilton French
Jessie Wilcox Smith
S. Weir Mitchell
Frederick W. Robertson
Hewett
Cornell
Pompeii
Maude Caldwell Perry
Elino Cometock
Harvard Observatory
FE. C. Pickering
George Cabot Lodge
Vieta
The Ideals of America opens Atlantic issue with Wilson
The Atlantic introduces Woodrow Wilson as Princeton's new president delivering an able article on The Ideals of America, signaling a new world and national rise to meet opportunities. The issue includes St. John's Herald Newfoundland editor T. McGee on The Allool Piehertes, Francie H. Nichols on Dislike, plus studies on Rico and Porto Rican labor dynamics.
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the Atlantic
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Atlantic
America
T. McGee
St. John's Hera! Snfoundland
Allool Piehertes
Francie H. Nichols
Chrteer
Rico
Winston Hie
Christmas issue highlights in Lippincott's Magazine review
The magazine showcases Aldrich, Zitkala-Sa, Black, Chamberlain, and Lay with diverse stories and essays. Contributions from K Johnson, Wilcox, Duvall, and Monahan accompany poetry by Dasham and Dunbar. Miss Maude Roosevelt curates a monthly novel, while other features include "The Price of Fame" and "Lady Delia" alongside Christmas tales and dances of literary names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Sam Weller
Zitkala-Sa
Alexander Black
George Chamberlain
Brazil
Fanny K. Johnson
Marrion Wilcox
Beinie Lay
Ellen Duvall
Dumas
Josephine Dodge Dasham
Michael Monahan
Lippincott
London
Cinderella
Edwin L. Sabin
Santa Claus
New England Magazine December Highlights Notables
The December New England Magazine features Charles H. Davis as a leading American landscapist with an appreciative article by William H. Downes. Margaret Waldo Higginson debuts as an author with Titian's Country. Rev Edward C Grisbrook discusses Tories in New England refusing to renounce allegiance to the King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
William H. Downes
Charles H. Davis
Margaret Waldo Higginson
Thomas Wentworth
Titian
Edward C. Grisbrook
Milford
Hopedale
Universalism
Edward Gilman Mason
N. L. Sheldon
American Free Public School
Ziella Cocke
Frank Norris
World s Work December highlights and features list
The December issue features President Eliot on public education needs and Vanderlip on financial caution. It includes Barnard sculpture prints with Thaw, Crissey on the Traveling Post Office, Rob erts on the Nile dam, Miller on Mormon co operation, portraits of McDonald and Griscom with commentary, interviews on profit sharing and Christmas gifts, Job on arbitration, Smith on production engineering, Norris on the Epic of the West, Paine Harris Sedgwick Kennedy on books, plus articles on corporate bonds, current events, and global workers.
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Eliot
Harvard
Frank W. Vanderlip
George Grey Barnard
Alexander Blair Thaw
Forrest Crissey
Chalmers Roberts
Nile Dam
Glen Miller
John B. McDonald
Clement A. Griscom
Raymond Stevens
Lawrence Perry
Fullerton Waldo
Frederick A. Job
Illinois State Board of Arbitration
Minna C. Smith
Frank Norris
Albert Bigelow Paine
Joel Chandler Harris
Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr
Sara Beaumont Kennedy
Christmas annual showcases winter life and sport in Country Life in America
A large December Christmas annual features Kipling's poem Pan in Vermont and rich illustrations. It highlights winter sports, holiday homes, and country life themes including skating, ice yachting, snowshoeing, and a plan to send urban children to a fresh air farm, with articles on fireside living and country home making.
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America
Rudyard Kipling
Vermont
Kipling
Eleanor Hoyt
Nancy
Florida
Chitmas
Sierra Club
Wallerfow
Audubon
James
Metcalfe
Review of Reviews Decem ber editorial summary and topics
The Review of Reviews analyzes petition states and November election results with reference to national policy debates. It covers the admission of new states, the direct election of U S senators, and foreign and domestic politics with the View’s thoroughness. Dr Lorene S American Children is highlighted as a notable article by Dr V P of New York.
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United States
Jude
Lorene
Eeah
V. P
Notable 1902 Literature Review and Gov Odell Portrait
The article outlines a character sketch of Gov Benj B Odell Jr of New York by Robert H Beattie. It previews the Morgan ship combine with Winthrop L Marvin as author. The December issue surveys new books of the season across history biography sociology and religion with illustrated pieces. Ernest Knaufft contributes The Season s Books for the Young and six pages of Notes on the Novels of 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benj. B. Odell, Jr
New York
Robert H. Beattie
Winthrop L. Marvin
Ernest Knaufft
The December Popular Science Monthly Contents
The December issue lists articles by noted scholars and leaders, including David Starr Jordan on the higher education of women and W. P. Pycraft on the birth condition of young birds, plus works by Bacon, Lipman, Cronwright Schreiner, Cockerell, Woods, Hollister, Cattell, and others on science, universities, the Smithsonian, space, and forest destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
David Starr Jordan
W. P. Pycraft
Solomon's House
Francis Bacon
J. G. Lipman
Hanover
Cape Colony
S. C. Cronwright Schreiner
America
The Outlook Special: The Most American Books Feature
The Outlook annual book number highlights discussions on what books best express American genius and life. Contributors include Higginson Mathews Wister Garland Hale and others with portraits, essays, and featured works like Washington Irving Country Mabie and a five page Bliss Carman poem Father Hudson.
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Outlook
T. W. Higginson
Brander Matthews
Owen Wister
Hamlin Garland
Edward Everett Hale
Miss Hogan
Bliss Carman
Hudson
Motherhood November issue features varied child care topics
The November issue of Motherhood includes sections on puberty in girls by William Edward Fitch M D and on baby care by How Shall We Train Our Girls Lola Clark Reynolds. It also covers home care of the school child by Mrs. Frank C. Wilder, health topics illustrated by Nannie Magruder Pratt, amusements for children, and a curious piece The Professor of Profanity by Edgar Jones.
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William Edward Fitch
M. D
Frank C. Wilder
Lola Clark Reynolds
Mary H. Coates
Minnie Curtis Wait
Nannie Magruder Pratt
Edgar Jones
Christmas National features editors and writers
The Christmas National compiles 150 pages of witty prose and pictures with contributions from Admiral Dewey Secretary Shaw John Mitchell Ernest McGaffey and John Bates Clark among others. It includes stories by ten American writers essays on American women arbi tration and reflections on St Louis and Booker T Washington with poems by noted authors.
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Admiral Dewey
Shaw
John Mitchell
Ernest McGaffey
John Bates Clark
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Washington
Frank Putnam
Poultney Bigelow
S. Glen Andrus
Batopilas
Boas” Shepherd
Hoch
St. Louis
Caroline S. Mahoney
Atlanta
Byrd Prillerman
West Virginia
H. I. Cleveland
California
Nathan Haskell Dole
James Ball Naylor
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Unusual Yoke and Other Tales In Ainslees December
Ainslees December opens with The Unusual Yoke by Neith Boyce and includes Black or Red by Molly Elliot Seawell and The Bachelor Maid by John Gilmer Speed. Edgar Saltus presents The Dear Departed. Arnold Galsworthy pens Excusable Crime. The Preacher by John D. Barry. Frederick L. Cowles The Claimant's Statement. The Wasp's Dance by Vladimir Vaniatsky. The Seven Ages of Love by Dorothy Dix. New York's Sunday Dinner by Kate Masterson. About thirty five contributions feature authors Sir Edwin Arnold and Henry M. Blossom Jr among others.
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Ainslee
S. Ainslee
Neith Boyce
Molly Elliot Seawell
John Gilmer Speed
Edgar Saltus
Arnold Galsworthy
John D. Barry
Frederick L. Cowles
Vladimir Vaniatsky
Dorothy Dix
New York
Kate Masterson
Sir Edwin Arnold
Henry M. Blossom, Jr
Joaquin Miller
Caroline Duer
Ethel Watts Mumford
Lady Violet Greville
Josephine Dixon
Five stories in Black Cat December issue
The December Black Cat presents five items including Andrew Josiah Larkon and Faber Swift with Upside-down ville by George H. Hebard, The Great White Serpent by Alexander Ricketts, Penelope's Proposals by Swift Adama, and One of the Few by Minnie Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Josiah Larkon
Faber Swift
George H. Hebard
Alexander Ricketts
Penelope
Swift Adama
Minnie Baker
Housekeeping Health Tips For Regular Bowels
A grain of water taken before breakfast helps keep bowels regular. Harsh ca thartics should be avoided. For a mild aid, take Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are gentle in effect. For sale by all druggists.
Farmer Column Seeks Short Reader Contributions
The paper invites Northern Middlesex farmers to share brief, pithy notes for an agricultural discussion column. Readers are urged to relate experience, offer opinions, and record items of interest in concise form for editorial selection.
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Middlesex
Old Home Days Doorstep Memories
A lyrical reminiscence in a Missouri farmers tale recalls a stone doorstep, family labor, and homestead scenes from long ago, with memory and grief mingling as generations pass. The piece ends noting goats cleared on forty acres, yielding benefits per acre and urging use of land for browse.
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George
Father
W. A. Croffut
Public winter meeting of state board of agriculture
The 40th public winter meeting of the State board of agriculture will occur in North Adams on December 2 3 and 4. Topics include Beef Production in New England Horticulture and General Farming Two Years With Birds on the Farm and Dairy Stock improvements. The piece urges Northern Middlesex farmers to consider Angora goats noting goats may be more profitable than sheep and recommending a hog tight fence as essential.
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State Board of Agriculture
North Adams
New York City
New England
Middlesex
Nubbins and College Farmers in Agricultural Thought
An Eastern apple demand highlights New England quality amid Western buyers seeking Ben Davis. A Mirror and Farmer piece argues agricultural colleges should graduate farmers to advance national cultural and scientific farming efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Ben Davis
N. E. Homestead
Medical
Agricultural College
No Place Like Home in New England Scenery
After weeks in Georgia and Florida, the author treasures New England’s hills and valleys as the best market for selling crops and the source of life and character. He extols the Northeast's landscapes—valleys, hills, mountains, lakes, rivers—and links beauty to the development of well rounded manhood and womanhood, reflecting the region’s influence on rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Florida
New England
Ufe
United States
G. M. Whitaker
Fakirs at the Fairs Offer Cheap Diversions for Rural Life
A New England Farmer letter critiques fairground entertainments, noting fakirs and similar acts provide easy, low-cost attractions at agricultural fairs. The writer argues these shows reflect social needs and could spur rural Massachusetts inventors to create higher quality amusements that profit both makers and the public, easing monotony in farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
New England
What' the Matter With Courier Citizen Want Ad
A terse reader note questions the reliability of a Courier Citizen want ad listing. The missive hints at concern over ad accuracy and urges scrutiny of classified notices amid local commerce chatter.
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Causette
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Pearson's
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