Writers of New Books Show Personal Histories and Homes
The article profiles authors like Reverend Frank Child of Fairfield and Mary Hallock Foote, detailing their historic homes, church roles, and family backgrounds. It traces Child’s Connecticut lineage, the Judge Roger M. Sherman house, and Fairfield’s 260 year old First Church, plus Foote’s artistic rise from Milton to Cooper Union and Harper’s Weekly, concluding with notes on editor Bliss Perry and Ruth Hall’s Catskill upbringing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Child
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New England
New York
Connecticut
Boston
Furthr
England
Chid Bank
Child Lves
Mr. Child
Parsons
Humphrey of
Amherst
Atwater
McLean
Roger Ludlow
Gov
Gold
Silliman
Fairfield
Hamilton College
Union Theological Seminary
Mary Hallock Foote
Mary Ann Hallock
Milton-on-the-Hudson
Poughkeepsie Female Collegiate Institute
Margaret Gordon
Book list from a local shop advertisement
A compact catalog of book titles and juvenile series with prices. Works include David Harum Richard Carvel Janice Meredith and Flute and Violin by James Lane Allen. Editions priced around 49c to $1.00 feature Stratemeyer authors and other popular writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Harum
Richard Carvel
Janice Meredith
John Street
Bob
Battle
Jennie Baxter
James Lane Allen
Styx
John Kendrick Bangs
E. M. Westcott
W. Churchill
P. LA. Ford
Knighthooa
Richard Whiting
Prisoners of Hope
Mary Johnston
J.8. Bangs
Notable Editors and Dooley Creator Highlight Literary Figures
The article profiles Miss Hall a prolific writer who traveled widely and contributed to many magazines, including a New York column. It also discusses Finley Peter Dunne of Chicago, creator of Mr. Dooley, detailing his rise, influence in journalism, and his works with The Chicago Journal and London reception. It notes Christmas issue contributors to The American Queen and reviews the December Art Amateur, praising its color plate and Raphael and Demont Breton illustrations.
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New York “Mail and Express
Finley
Peter Dunne
Chicago
Dooley
James McGarry
Martin Dooley
McGarry
Dunne
Post
Roscommon
Jay Gout
McNarry
Chicago Journal
Tom Gallon
Arthur Jule Goodman
Tom Brown
Charles Ward
Noed New York Ciy
Florenc J. Hatch
Rose Wagner
Alice May Gillam
The
Art Amateur
Raphael del Colle
Raphael
Mme. Demont- Breton
Col. G. B. M. Harvey
House of Harper & Brothers
North American Review
Cornelia
Bedford
December magazines and the Cosmopolitan pieces
The December Cosmopolitan features Conan Doyle war tale Frank Stockton Maarten Maartens Olive Schreiner and Edgar Saltus. Olga Nethersole writes on stage battles and persistence. New England Magazine reviews Old Boston topics and Harper’s changes. Table Talk covers home making Christmas menus and etiquette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conan Doyle
Frank R. Stockton
Maarten Maartens
Olive Schreiner
Edgar Saltus
Olga Nethersole
Miss Nethersole
Cosmopolitan
Two Ideal Gift Books For Thee Alone
Grace Hartshorne collection offers best love poems in English with many foreign translations. Illustrated with sixteen half tone plates from famous paintings. Printed on fine laid deckle edge paper, Octavo, handsome cover, $1.50. Portland Transcript and The Outlook praise its charm. Dana Estes & Co., Boston sell or mail postpaid.
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Grace Hartshorne
Portland Transcript
Lalla Rookh
Thomas Moore
W. L. Taylor
Frank T. Merril
Henry Sandhem
Dana Estes & CO
Boston
Christmas Book Buying at Pollard & Co
Lowell readers are urged to buy Christmas books now at Pollard and Co book department. The shop promises broader selection, more room, and extra salespeople to aid buyers, noting that delaying only crowds the store and reduces convenience and attention.
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Boston
New Books for Boys and Girls Catalog List
A catalog of public domain and modern titles with prices for Peloubet notes and various novels. Notable authors include Crockett Kipling Richards and Munroe. Items span biographies adventures children's literature and schoolroom aids with prices ranging from 8c to 2 vols set for 1.59.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Marion Crawford
Red Rock
T. N. Page
Jone
S. R. Crockett
Young
Castle
Starky & Co
R. Kipling
Kipling
Fairy Tale Book Sale Catalog Preview Notes
A nostalgic catalog lists Fairy Tale and classic works from Lang Jacobs and Andersen with dozens of titles. Prices range 19 to 49 cents, plus bound editions at 25 cents, calendars and booklets priced from 3 cents to 50 cents, with authors like Kipling Emerson Dickens Verne and Field featured among hundreds of titles for selection.
Young People’s Classics Illuminated Series Offered
A promoted book series for youth features highlighted titles such as A Chita’s History of England Masterman Ready and Andersen’s Fairy Tales with five color plates. Prices vary with multiple offers including 25c per copy in cheaper current deal and 75 cents to $1.50 publisher pricing.
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A Chita
England
Chas
Dickens
Masterman Ready
Captain Marryat
Hans C. An
Daniel Detoedersen
J. R. Wyss
Charles
Brothers Grimm
Mary Lamb
Dean Swift
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Bliss Perry
Atlantic Monthly
James Russell Lowell
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
William Dean Howells
Mr. Perry
Williams College
Princeton
Holmes
Ruth Hall
Miss All
Catskill
Schoharie
Joseph B. Hal
Miss Hall
G.6
Prince & Son
Stalky & Co
Egerton Castle
F. Hopkinson Smith
de Willoughby
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Kit Kennedy
Market Place
Harold Frederic
E. T. Fowler
F. Frankfort Moore
Stephen Crane
Nelson Page
Santa Claus
R. N. Stephens
Manders
Elwyn Barron
Barper
Coast of
Bohemia
W. Dean Howells
Chas. Dudley Warner
Pembroke
Mary E. Wilkins
Sardis
Mississippi
Mark Twain
Princess Aline
Richard Harding Davis
Anne
Catherine Fennimore Woolson
Henry
Andrew Lang
Optic
Kellogg
Cozzens
DeMille
Douglass
Townsend
Otis
Philippines
Edward Stratemeyer
Dewey
Manilla
Cuban
Cuba
Alaska
Edward Stratemeier
Amanda Douglass
Oliver Optic
F. S. Child
Grace LaBaron
G. G. Prince & Son
Merrimack St
Little Tong
Col Harvey
Old Boston
S. Octavia Holden
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Marshall S. Snow
Canterbury
New World
Edmund J. Carpenter
S. Baring Gould, Elia Macmahon and
Frederick Barnard
Old Virginia
W. A. Rogers
van Dyck
Cederstrom
Colonial Hall
Ola
Virginia
Bahamas
MacMillan Company
International Monthly
Edward Rod
Shater
John ‘Trowbridge
Norman Hapgood
Theatrical Syndicate
Charles de Kay
Association of American Artists
Scrooby
Ruth H&l
Lowell
A. G. Pollard & CO. Book Department
Peloubet
International Sunday School
Laura B. Richards
E. S. Phelps
Peggy
Laura E. Richards
Kirk Munroe
Polly Pepper
Sidney
Jersey
Tomlinson
Fairy Library
Joseph Jacobs
P. C. Asbjornsen
Andrew Wang
Hans Christian Andersen
R. N. Bain
Handy Classics
Hound Pseudcalf
Gilbert
Irving
Merson
Plutarch
Prince of the House of David
Ingram
Prue and I
Curtis
Emerson
Buckley
Samantha
Saratoga
Holley
Lamb
Stowe
Warden
Thoresa
Kingsley
Dresden
James Whitcomb Riley
Armazindy
Eugene Field
Childhoood
Wedgewood
Oliphant
W. Clark Russell
Charles Reade
Mariett
Jules Verne
J. H. Walworth
Young People’s Classics
Pike and Dyke
Captain Bayley
Dragon and the Raven
Temple
Jack Archer
St. Mark
North
Pampas
St. George
Clive
India
Wolfe
Canada
Jack the Giant Killer
Qour
Publishers
Longfellow
Lowel
Whitcier
Alice
Phoebe Cary
Bret Harte
Tennyson
Saxe
Rudyard Kipling
Father Ryan
Morocco
A. G. Pollard & CO
Merrimack, Palmer and
Sliddle Streets
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