Red Fox and Northern Trails in Animal Literature
Book reviews praise Charles G. D. Roberts Red Fox as a striking animal tale with vivid color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. William J. Long is spotlighted for Northern Trails detailing wild life in Labrador and Newfoundland with rich natural observations. Dorothea Dix and other figures are featured in Daughters of the Puritans, by Seth Curtis Beach, noted for engaging biographical style.
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Charles G. D. Roberts
Red Fox
Long
Labrador
Newfundland
Straits
Sumer
Charles Copeland
Wm. J. Long
Chas, Copeland
Ginn & Co
Boston
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisa May Alcott
Daughters of the Puritans
Seth Curtis Beach
Prince
American Unitarian Association
Poems Fairy Tales and Myths for Children Series
Doubleday Page & Co of New York publish three children books titled Poems Every Child Should Know Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know and Myths Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie. The fairy tales volume includes Arabian Nights Cinderella Puss in Boots Jack and the Bean Stalk Little Red Riding Hood and others. Mabie argues fairy tales belong to children as vital imagination textbooks. The volumes are illustrated by B Osterag and priced net 90 cents. Also sold in Lowell by G C Prince & Son.
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Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Mr. Mabie
B. Osterag
Doubleday, Page & Co
Lowell
G. C. Prince & Son
The Story Bible by Margaret Sangster reviewed
A favorable notice of The Story Bible from Moffat Yard & Company. The review praises its aim to present the Bible in order Genesis to Exodus for children, retaining scripture phrasing and a reverent tone, and notes its effort to foster living interest in the scripture among young readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Sangster
Moffat, Yard & Company
Sangster
Angster
Mate Weil
Sanna by M. E. Waller on Nantucket life and love
A devoted Nantucket atmosphere novel with local color and a striking plot. Four old mariners propel the story of a heroine and her captivating romance, set in modern times with salt air, careful depiction, and a satisfying climax. Harper & Bros publishes at $1.50.
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New England
Sanna
Nantucket
M. E. Waller
Harper & Bros
New York
Reminiscences of John Brown in Kansas Era
A reader shares a short review of a reminiscence book recounting John Brown’s 1860s Kansas actions. The author writes that the work blends romance with facts, aiming to educate youth and inspire older readers, and includes Brown’s address to prisoners outlining his views and motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
North
John Brown
Booth
Ain Brown
Portraits of Puritans and Early American Unitarians
A truncated article fragment reviews Beth Curthos work on Puritan wearers and outlines chapters from an American Unitarian angle. It hints at biographical sketches of Catharine Bedewick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, and others in a broader biographical list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waehters
Beth Curtoh
Catharine Bedewick
Ary Lovell Ware
Lydia Maria Child
Education of the Negro in the South Volume Noted by Unitarian Association
A new American Unitarian Association volume surveys six leading southern institutions educating African Americans since the Civil War. Contributors include Kelly Miller, William G. Frost, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, H. B. Frissell, W. E. B. DuBois, and James G. Merrill. The work details the ground truth of southern efforts, with notes on educational aims and institutional histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
American Unitarian Association
Howard University
Kelly Miller
Berea College
William G. Frost
Tuskegee Institute
Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Hampton Institute
H. B. Frissell
Atlanta University
W. E. B. DuBois
Fisk University
James G. Merrill
Boston
Alphabetical history readers feature famous figures
A promotional note describes a volume presenting twenty six historical personages from Alexander the Great to Omar in an alphabetical sequence. It highlights literary brilliancy and accuracy, recommending the book for instructors as a supplementary reader with Wilbur Dick Nesbit’s text and Ellsworth Young’s illustrations.
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Yef
Alexander the Great
Zenobia
Palmyra
Brutus
Rome
Yvetot
Christopher Columbus
Xantippe
Socrates
Diogenes
Euripides
Villon
Omar
Wilbur Dick Nesbit
Ellsworth Young
San Francisco
Paul Elder & Company
Carpenter's Geographical Reader Africa reviewed
The latest in Frank G. Carpenter's travel series presents Africa through an educational, child friendly tour. Readers accompany the author across deserts, rivers, mountains, and savannahs to learn geography, commerce, industry, and natural life with maps and illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenters
Africa
Sahara
Nile
Niger
Kongo
Zambesi
Carpenter
Frank G. Carpenter
American Book Company
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
The Little Colonel in Arizona and Christmas Vacation
Annie Fellows Johnston presents two new Little Colonel volumes. In The Little Colonel in Arizona she roams the western desert life, attending school, getting lost, duck hunting, and learning ranch ways. The Christmas Vacation tale shows her at a Washington area school with Betty and the Walton girls, facing disappointment but finding a silver lining.
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Arigona
Desert
Betty
Walton
Washington
Arizona
Etheldred
L. C,rege & Co
Boston
Geograhical Text on Commercial Geography Authors
Study of commercial geography by Henry Gannett Carl L. Garrison and Win J. Houston. Aimed at high schools and colleges, designed to be informative and educative and worth white.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Gannett
United States Geological Survey
Carl L. Garrison
Morgan School
Washington, D.C
Win J. Houston
An American Abelard and Heloise By Mary Ives Todd
The Grafton Press in New York publishes Mary Ives Todd’s A American Abelard and Heloise. The California author wrote the volume during a six year Italy sojourn. a tale of romance and social protest against injustices in church and state with a reforming clergyman and a devoted female congregation. The heroine is an American girl. 12mo cloth 300 pages priced at $1.50.
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Abelard
Heloise
Grafton Press
New York
Mary Ives Todd
California
Italy
Helen Grant at Aldred House third volume review
Amanda M. Douglas returns Helen Grant to Aldred House in a third volume. The heroine grows from girlhood to young womanhood through study and friendship, facing choices between a college career and love. Illustrated by Amy Brooks, 12mo, cloth binding, published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard at $1.25.
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Amanda M. Douglas
Helen Grant
Kathie
Aldred House
Amy Brooks
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Boston
Entrees A Gustatory Classic from 101 Sandwiches series
The ad promotes a sixth book in the 101 Sandwiches series by May E. Southworth, covering oysters to sweets with manuscript notes. It notes the oblong form, Spencer Wright cover design, a 4 cent price, canvas boards at $1.00, and 6 cent postage from San Francisco publisher Paul Sider & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May E. Southworth
Spencer Wright
San Francisco
Paul Sider & Co
Moran's Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings volume review
A handsome illustrated volume presents reproductions of Edward Moran's Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings with a descriptive essay by Theodore Sutro. The Metropolitan Museum displayed the originals, and the book includes Moran portraits by Thomas Bidney Moran, symbolic cuts, an introduction, a full Moran biography, and a complete index.
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Edward Moran
United States
America
Theodore Sutro
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Thomas Bidney Moran
He Edward Istory
I Moran
Taeen Sutro
Tapio Ge the
Baker & Her Compan
New Eve City
New Writer Debuts With Bright Humorous First Book
Thies story introduces a new writer and a clever first book. Characters feel lifelike and the prose is bright with humorous touches. Mary Gray and Mr Penwiper captivate, while Miss Woods guides the children with a gentle, old fashioned charm.
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Thies Etory
Mary Gray
Miss Woods
Anne
Sean Dann Fates
Boston
The Menace of Privilege a New Henry George Jr Study
Literary notes report Henry George Jr is publishing The Menace of Privilege a direct study of wealth inequality class feeling and political corruption in the United States. The piece mentions Frances Hodgson Burnetts Christmas tale The Dawn of a Tomorrow and other new works including Great Portraits Described by Great Writers by Esther Singleton. It also recounts a legend He ana Hecuba by Baroness Von Hutten noting a jasmine rose on a Yarrow estate with royal connections and a recurring flowering tale across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Henry George, Jr
Macmillan Company
United States
Mr. George
Ana Hecuba
Baroness von Hutten
Pam
Appletons
Barowdaile
Lord Yarrow
Queen Anne
Yarrow
George
Fourth volume completes German struggle for liberty
Poultney Bigelow adds a new volume from Harper’s set covering 1844 to 1848 in Germany. The work narrates the Vienna, Munich, and Berlin revolutions, rises of labor and socialist ideas, and portraits of Frederick William IV, Louis Napoleon, Robert Blum, Lola Montez, and otherNotables.
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Poultney Bigelow
Harpers
Germany
Frederick William IV
Frankfort
Bigelow
Vienna
Munich
Berlin
Engels
Marx
Frederick William
Louis Napoleon
Robert Blum
Lola Montez
Jena
Heart of Tilley and Yoland a Maid of Burgundy in Youth's Companion
In the November issue The Heart of Tilley opens a new serial by Henry Gardner Hunting featuring a railroad engineer and his motherless daughter with scenes of railroad and art student life near Chicago. Charles Major's Yo landa: Maid of Burgundy receives strong praise as the true romance. a second edition is due November 9 as publishers rush to print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Gardner Hunting
Tilley
Chicago
Charles Major
Yolanda
McClure’s
Jack London
Alien White
Ray Stannard Baker
Charles D. Williams
William Allen White
Missouri
Railroad Jrebates
Blumenschein
Herminie Templeton
Darby O'Gill
Ringster
Life Insurance Series to Explain Industry Secrets
The World's Work November will publish a notable series on life insurance by an expert who knows every detail of the business and can simplify it. The articles will reveal the real causes of the current scandal, explain benefits to policy holders, and introduce the Life Insurance Machine as a permanent contribution to understanding insurance.
Freeman Friend of Harper Editor Dedicates Debtor
Mary E Wilkins Freeman, living in Metuchen New Jersey since her marriage, is an intimate friend of Mr Alden of Harper's Magazine and his family. While writing The Debtor just off the Harper press she read chapters to the Alden household and dedicated the volume to Mr Allen's daughters Annie Fields Alden and Harriet Alden for their critic work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Metuchen
New Jersey
Mr. Alden
Harper's Magazine
Calendar titles from Fox Duffield and Company 1906
The 1906 calendars include The Wagner Calendar in two colors illustrating Wagner operas by Marion C. Bridgman The Canterbury Calendar with color pictures by Walter Appleton Clark The Toyland Calendar echoing Babes in Toyland by Ethel Franklin Betts The Poets Calendar with English poets in decorative designs by Mary Smith Girl’s Calendar in color tint by Thomas Mitchell Peirce The Saint Francis Calendar with selections from Francis The Omar calendar featuring Rubaiyat in Persian style designs by Austin Smith
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Fox, Duffield & Company
Wagner
Marion C. Bridgman
Walter Appleton Clark
Ethel Franklin Betts
Marry Smith
Thomas Mitchell Peirce
the &T. Francis
Omar Cslentar
Austin Smith
Ford’s Short Stories In Holiday Edition From Dodd Mead
Dodd Mead & Co publish a bright holiday edition of one of Paul Leicester Ford’s finest short stories with color illustrations by Henry Hutt and delicate marginal decorations. The collection highlights Ford’s lesser known tales alongside his acclaimed novels and historiographical work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Leicester Ford
Messrs
Dodd, Mead & Co
Henry Hutt
Golden-Red Fairy Book inspires next collection title
A popular autumn fairy book titled The Golden-Red Fairy Book spurred its compiler Mise Bether Sin leton to assemble a new volume. The Wild Flower Fairy Book gathers tales from nations, illustrated and edited to appeal to many children, continuing the fairy tale tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leton
Mesare
Christmas Century in The Century magazine highlights
The December issue offers Alfred Domett’s illuminated A Christmas Hymn with full color Leyendecker illustrations, varied browns and greens, and fiction by Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Myra Kelly, Jacob Riis, Julian Hawthorne, and more. It features Lincoln the Lawyer by Frederick Trevor Hill, poetry by Knowles and Moody, and profiles and critical pieces on religion, politics, and culture. The Living Age Company markets a six dollar yearly subscription with trial options.
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Alfred Domett
Leyendecker
Humphrey Ward
Fenwick
Westmoreland
London
Elizabeth Foote
Lawrence Mott
Jean Baptiste
Myra Kelly
Star of Bethlehem
Jacob Riis
Sea Breeze
Frank M. Chapman
Camille Gronkowski
Paris
Katharine A. Carl
New York
Florence Brooks
Paul Orleneff
Alla Nasimoff
Frederick Trevor Hill
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
William Vaughn Moody
Punch
Living Age Company
Beacon Street
Boston
Mass
Garden Magazine December issue celebrates reader achievements
The December Garden Magazine features subscriber success stories from solving knotty problems and thriving results. It highlights canny devices for Brussels sprouts, squash secrets, a low cost conservatory built around a cellar door, and 3500 roses on a single bush. Includes titles like A Garden in a 6x6 Backyard and Record-Breaking Hedges of Annuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden
G. L. Whitlock
Grace Weeks
Edith L. Fullerton
M. A. Nichols
James Wood
Who Shall Own America A Problem and the Solution
The Christmas number features Judge Grosscup arguing rational remedies for corporate control including federal incorporation touched on by Roosevelt. The issue is rich with Mary Cholmondeley Prisonera, Metcalfe Hough Hyde Wilbur Tompkins Sabatink Campbell Haines stories, Harwood on agricultural stations, Train on 520 per cent Miller and the Franklyn Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Illustrated
America
Grosscup
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Roosevelt
South
Mary Cholmondeley
Francis Metcalfe
Emerson Hough
Henry M. Hyde
Juliet Wilbur Tompkins
Rafael Sabatink
Mary Talbot Campbell
Helen Haines
W. 8. Harwood
Arthur Train
Mr. Jerome
New York
Miller
Franklyn Syndicate
Country Life Christmas Number Details and Highlights
The Country Life in America Christmas issue is a lavish magazine with a multi color cover, 16 pages of sepia and 16 pages of blue green illustrations, and multiple color frontispieces. It features stories by Elizabeth Hale Gilman and Willem Hopkins, plus articles on Christmas customs, seasonal planting, home grown flowers, and a Christmas tale by Fieanor Hoyt Brainerd with art by Helen W. Cooke and Ostertag.
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Country Life In
America
Bisack
Elizabeth Hale Gilman
Helen W. Cooke
Mise Ostertag
Willem A. Hopkins
Coloniala
Thomas McAdam
Mise Lennie Greenlee
Amas
Fieanor Hoyt Brainerd
Oma
Jean Wel
I. Wraith
A. Muamore
The Age Magazine Review for 1904 Readers
The Living Age advises individual readers or clubs to consider The Age. This magazine offers 64 pages each Saturday with selections from popular and best fiction, designed for well informed readers who follow current affairs and literature.
December St Nicholas gift book brims with Christmas cheer
The December St Nicholas offers rich Christmas cheer verse stories and pictures. It notes new serials by Helen Nicolay and Agnes McClelland Daulton plus short tales by Izola L. Forrester Ralph Barbour and Rebecca Davis. Maurice Egan writes on The President and the Boys as adults and children read. Norah Archibald Smith provides Christmas tableaux ideas with period illustrations.
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St. Nicholas
Helen Nicolay
Lincoln
Harold Hammond
Pinkey Perkins
Ralph Henry Barbour
Agnes McClelland Daulton
Sioux
Susan
E. Vinton Blake
Izola L. Forrester
Frank Lillie Pollock
Rebecca Harding Davis
Maurice Francis Egan
White House
Norah Archibald Smith
England
Farming An Illustrated Home Magazine Debuts
Doubleday Page announces a new periodical Farming An Illustrated Home Magazine devoted to living and growing on the farm. The monthly publication targets the modern farmer with photography, home life, and practical farming topics, priced at 10 cents a copy or 1 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doubleday, Page & Company
United States
Bam
Doubleday
Harper's Weekly November 25 highlights and features
Marper's Weekly presents Harper's Weekly content with timely items. Charlee W Tyler surveys Porto Rico needs and US duties toward islanders while Dr William W Stanford outlines precautions for travel health. Roy E Norton contributes a short story, James L. and Dermand Shaw's critique mix with embryo drama and reviews of potential champions.
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Harper's Weekly
Charlee W Tyler
Porto Rico
United States
William W. Stanford
Roy BE. Norton
James Lb. Aioe
Dermard Shaw
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Gannett, Garrison
Houston
Alphabet OF History
Abelard and
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Christmas Scribner's
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co
Esther Singleton
Garden Magazine
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