Understudies and other works in Wilkins Shinn Archibald reviews
A literature roundup notes Mary Wilkins Wilkins new Understudies collection as a set of psychological studies beyond New England. Millicent Washburn Shinn’s The Biography of a Baby is praised for its day by day developmental narrative. James F. J. Archibald’s Blue Shirt and Khaki and The Diary of a Freshman are summarized with focus on war era analysis and vivid reportage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wilkins
St. Clair
Wayne
Millicent Washburn Shinn
New England
Maine
Massachusetts
Miss Wilkins
Harpers
Suzanne Antrobus
New Orleans
Onoto Watama
The Wilderness Road romance by Altsheler reviewed
A long, vivid review of The Wilderness Road by Joseph A. Altsheler, set during Washington’s first administration and Kentucky’s statehood. It highlights Johnny Lee the scout, Osseo the friendly Indian, and a love plot amid battles and conspiracy, praising brisk action, strong characterizations, and historical atmosphere. Published by Appleton, price $1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
St. Clair
Anthony Wayne
Southwest
Washington
Union
Joseph A. Altsheler
Wayne
John Lee
Jasper Lee
Osseo
Black Eagle
D. Appleton & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Book on baby biography by Milli cent Washburn Shinn
The article reviews Milli cent Washburn Shinns new book on baby biography aiming for homes with young children. It contrasts biographical baby study with statistical methods, noting Shinn favors day by day observation of one child to document growth while cautioning against overgeneralizing from a single case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millicent Washburn Shinn
United States
Europe
Miss Shinn
Blue Shirt and Khaki Compared by Archibald Study
James F. J. Archibald, famed war correspondent, presents a detailed study of American and British soldiers in Blue Shirt and Khaki. He compares fighting men, officers, tactics, feeding troops, railways, and sea transport across ten chapters with more than 100 illustrations, arguing that American soldiers show greater education and adaptability, while British rely on officer judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Pretoria
James F. J. Archibald
Silver, Burdett & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Archibald
Philippines
The Christian in Hungarian Romance review
A compact study of Jokai’s novel There is a God in Hungarian history and 1848. The book places Jokai beside Hall Caine with Russia’s role and Solferino’s impact. It notes Episcopal Unitarian figures, divorce law hints, and lists chapter headings including The Vampire City of Austria and Solferino.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurus Jokai
Mr. Fretwell
Dr. Jokai
Hall Caine
Jokai
Episcopal Unitarian
America
Britain
Europe
Jokal
W. H. Mallock
United States
Austria
Rome
Transylvania
John Fretwell
James H. West Co
Milk Street
Boston
G.C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Harvard Diary depicts bohemian campus life with wit
Charles M Flandrau’s The Diary of a Freshman reviews as a breezy confidential account of a Western student in Cambridge and Boston. The Harvard instructor describes dinners theatres college bravado and youthful temptations with plain racily humorous narration. Published by Doubleday Page priced 1.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. Flandrau
Harvard
Cambridge
Mamma
Boston
Flandrau
Charlies M. Flandrau
Doubleday, Page & Co
G.C. Prince & Son
Literary Notes on Upcoming May Publications From Page & Co
L. B. Page & Co of Boston announces June publication of Historical Memoirs of John Heneage Jest. The Memoirs of Jesse promise engaging creative style, akin to Lady Jacksons Memoirs. Also due is Manasseh by Maurus Jokai translated by M P F Bickne?d, portraying a primitive Transylvanian people, contrasted with Jokai’s sharp social sketches.
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Boston
John Heneage
Jesse
Lady Jackson
New Novels Promised From Benson Conrad and Hueffer
A report notes E F Benson's The Luck of the Wals may rival his Do. Do. in popularity with a gentler pastoral focus. Joseph Conrad and Ford M Hueffer plan The Inheritors, set in England and Paris among literary and political circles, including fading Faubourg St. Germain aristocracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Benson
Joseph Conrad
Jim
Ford M. Hueffer
the Inheritors
McClure, Phillips & Co
England
Paris
Faubourg St. Germain
Literary Notices From A Chinese? No, From Old South Carolinian Life
The Life and Times of William Lowndes portrays a refined South Carolina gentleman and 18th century society through Harriott Ravenal’s granddaughter lens. Kipling sales, Queen article previews, Harpers novels in dramatization, Hillegas Boer book suppression, Nell Munro Doom Castle, and a note on James Lowndes style and Highlands heritage are discussed with emphasis on authors, works, and publication plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lowndes
Harriott H. Ravenal
South Carolina
Lowndes
Specimens of the Short Story edited by George H Nettleton
Henry Holt & Co. unveils Specimens of the Short Story edited by Yale instructor George H Nettleton. It features complete works by Lamb Irving Hawthorne Poe Thackeray Dickens Bret Harte and Stevenson, as part of the English Readings series. Also, Booker T Washington up from Slavery to appear in an Indian language with translator Lilavati Singli. chapters already in The Star of India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Munro
Lord Kilkerran
Messrs
Henry Holt & Co
George H. Nettleton
Yale
Lamb
Irving
Hawthorne
Poe
Thackeray
Dickens
Bret Harte
Stevenson
Booker T. Washington
India
Kankale-i-Hind
The
Star of India
Lilavati Singli
The Outlook Berates Puzzling Eva Authorship
A reviewer suspects The Story of Eva author Will Payne may be a feminine pen name yet publishers insist the writer is male. Payne once edited Chicago News and the Economist of Chicago and published in Atlantic and McClure's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Outlook
Eva
Will Payne
Payne
The
Chicago News
Economist of Chicago
Atlantic
McClure’s
Books and authors mapped for travel and fiction in Belgium
Grant Allen's death ends a planned series. G C Williamson will continue and publish The Cities of Northern Italy, a guide to Milan Verona Padua Bologna Ravenna. Harrison Robertson, Kentucky journalist and Scribner author, is noted for adventurous fiction including The Inlanders If I Were a Man Red Blood and Blue and The Inlander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Grant Allen
G. C. Williamson
Allen
Italy
A. Wessels Company
New York
Grant Richards
London
Milan
Verona
Padua
Bologna
Ravenna
Harrison Robertson
Scribners
Kentucky
Mr. Robertson
Scribner's Magazine
Blue
The
Inlander
Wildlife writer Wallace Rice launches new Animals book
Mr Wallace Rice, acclaimed literary critic, writes swiftly and with few edits, producing about three thousand words daily. Messrs Herbert Stone & Co. are releasing his new book on Animals, reflecting his high standing in literary circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Rice
Messrs
Landor's China and the Allies published in New York and London
Henry Savage Landor's two volume book on China and the Allies appears with nearly three hundred illustrations. He saw the first attack on Tien Tsin, entered the Forbidden City with the Russian general, and reported eyewitness details freely. His language skills aided direct, first hand information from multiple national perspectives. The Scribners publish in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Savage Landor
China
New York
London
Mr. Landor
Tien Tsin
Pekin
Forbidden City
Lander
The
Scribners
Maxfield Parrish cover design leads Ladies Home Journal issue
The June Ladies Home Journal features Maxfield Parrish gallery cover design and a rich lineup. Highlights include a double page “Where Golf is Played” with fine country club houses, “Love Stories of the Zoo” by Clifford Howard, the first installment of “Aileen” by Elizabeth Knight Tompkins, “The Passing of the Farm” by W L Taylor, “Some People I Have Married” by the Rev D M Steele, and an article “Women as Poor Pay” by Ed Bok, among other domestic and general pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxfield Parrish
Ladies’ Home Journal
America
Zoo
Clifford Howard
S “Aileen
Elizabeth Knight Tompkins
W. L. Taylor
D. M. Steele
F Edward Bok
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Prodigal Imp and June St Nicholas Contents
A brief survey of St Nicholas June features including The Prodigal Imp by Josephine Daskam about a boy who runs away for excitement, The Fireman by Cleveland Moffett on daring careers, humorous poems by Jennie Hartswick and Carolyn Wells, pictorials like Villa Crawford Sorrento, Italy, and a Century college number with essays by Fallows Hadley and Macy. Also noted are fiction by John M. Oskison and Victor Mapes, and Princeton lectures by ex president Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Daskam
St. Nicholas
Cleveland Moffett
Jennie Hartswick
Miss Cory
Charles F. Holder
Carolyn Wells
Harrison Cady
Palenski
Alice Fallows
Hadley
Yale
Harrison
University of Pennsylvania
Tolstoi
John Albert Macy
Harvard
John M. Oskison
Indian Territory
Victor Mapes
Walter Camp
Cleveland
Princeton
John Burroughs
W. S. Harwood
Young Men's Christian Association
Muroepe
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Walden Fawcett
McMaster
Daniel Webster
Hayne
Woodrow Wilson
Outlook Juno Magazine recreation number features
England provides the frontispiece from Wilkie’s Boys Digging for Rats. An editorial uses Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth to discuss multimillionaires in thinking caps. Contents include Whiton’s First Harvard Yale Regatta, gardens reveries, country clubs, Tuskegee photos, Beoker Washington talk on poultry, Ayres Forester work, Riis autobiography chapter, and reviews. Annual recreation issue at $3 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
ST. Cole
Wilkie
Mr. Carnegie
Thinking Caps
Juno Magazine
Outlook
James M. Whiton
L. H. Bailey
J. Horace McFarland
Gustav Kobbe
Clifton Johnson
Tuskegee
Beoker T. Washington
Philip W. Ayres
the Forester
Colorado
Minnesota
Virginia
Jacob A. Riis
June with the Cosmopolitan offers a wide array of notable pieces
The issue features Richard Le Gallienne's Old French romances and Ian Maclaren's The Bailie’s Double with Scottish flavor. Gustav Kobbe contributes The Artist and His Model, while Harry Thurston Peck writes The Psychology of the Printed Page. Francis Trevelyan drafts How to Choose a Child's Pony, and Mary Blossom highlights The Well Gowned Woman. Additional pieces include A Girl's College Life by Lavinia Hart and Allen Langree's The Youngest Soldiers in the World, plus Well's continued The First Men in the Moon and more literature from O'Neill Latham Tudor Jenks and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmopolitan
Gustav Kobbe
Harry Thurston Peck
Francis Trevelyan
Mary C. Blossom
Lavinia Hart
Allen Langree
H. G. Well
Prince Weary Heart
O'Neill Latham
Justice
Tudor Jenks
Pierpont Morgan
BR. C. Machen
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Scribner's June issue features Finns, Samoa, and sea tales
Henry Norman resumes Russian of Today with a Finland paper amid government suppression. John La Farge details his Samoa visit, and Wyckoff recalls a Union Pacific section hand. James B. Connolly offers On the Echo o the Moon. Mrs Wiggin's Goose Girl serial. Hibben surveys Scottish universities. Seton-Thompson with Krag the Kootenay Ram. Clara's Vocation short, J R Taylor poems, Buffalo Exposition designs. Senator Hoar on Oratory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Norman
Scribner's Magazine
Finland
John la Farge
Stevenson
Walter A. Wyckoff
Union Pacific
James B. Connolly
Scribner’s
Mrs. Wiggin
Clara
J. R. Taylor
Buffalo Exposition
Walter Cook
John M. Carrere
Hoar
Altsheler Biography and Literary Works Highlighted
Joseph A. Altsheler, a Southern born writer with Kentucky roots, rose through Vanderbilt and Louisville journalism to a long career at the New York World. He gained fame with The Sun of Saratoga and Manhattan Soldier, followed by several acclaimed novels including A Herald of the West and The Last Rebel. His works span stories, short fiction, and a new historical romance The Wilderness Road drawing on American history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Altsheler
Kentucky
Vanderbilt University
Louisville
Evening Post
Courier Journal
New York ‘World
Hawaiian Islands
Altsheler
Saratoga
Manhattan
Great Britain
Australia
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Mary E. Wilkins
Harper & Bros
Association of College
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Slocum
Tommy Atkins
Salisbury Plain
Aldershot
Spain
Quarterly Review
Living Age
New York Tribune
Cape Town
Howard C. Hillegas
D. Appleton and Company
Bertha Runkle
Navarre
Harvard College
Florence
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