Potter and the Clay recalls a boyhood frontier tale
A review of Maud Howard Peterson's The Potter and the Clay traces a man's life from boyhood to self mastery. The tale centers on two British officers and a remarkable woman, moving from America to England and India. A prologue depicts children at a fort, foreshadowing themes of temptation, courage, and sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud Howard Peterson
Fitzgerald
Browning
America
England
Scotland
India
The Sentimentalists Novel Shows Political Crookedness
Arthur Stanwood Pier’s The Sentimentalists exposes political crookedness in cities across America while presenting a readable, serious novel. Central figures Vernon Kent, his mother, and politician Helmett illustrate how money and influence steer legislatures from Boston to Gage City and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Stanwood Pier
Mr. Pier
Boston
Gage City
Mill Street
West
Vernon Kent
Helmett
Kent
Harvard
The Sentimentalists by Arthur Stanwood Pier review
A study of law makers and voters framed as a romantic wartime tale. The narrative avoids sensationalism, prompting readers to ponder how laws are made and who elects them. Harper & Bros. edition noted with price and distributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Stanwood Pier
Harper & Bros
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Like Another Helen on Crete A Cretan Romance Review
A review of George Horton’s Like Another Helen set during Crete’s war for independence. It follows American, Swedish, Greek, and Turkish characters through capture, rescue, and escape, praising heroism while critiquing a Bostonian inconstancy. The author notes historical basis and casts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete
Mediterranean
Troy
George Horton
United States
Helen
Helen of Troy
Boston
Mr. Horton
Bowen-Merrill Company
Indianapolis
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Mosquitoes and Public Duty in Controlling Plague
A review of L O Howard's Mosquitoes explaining how mosquitoes spread malaria and yellow fever, and how communities can fight infestations. It highlights the need for organized effort, public responsibility, and practical measures, noting the book's 241 pages and 50 illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. O. Howard
Government Agricultural Department
Cuba
Anopheles
Matheson
Mr. Howard
McClure, Phillips & Co
New York
G. ©. Prince
Montan or The Slavers of Old New York
Historical romance set in Old New York and on the seas during and after the Revolutionary era. Dr Montanye, a cultured royalist, aids General Washington through an Indian slave courier while Captains Wilton and Richard navigate privateering and a slave trade plot. Madeline, Wilton, and secrets intertwine as war memories unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline
Washington
Wilton
Richard
Montange
New York
Dr. Montange
Old New York
W. O. Stoddard
Artemus Publishing Co
Philadelphia
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Books News On Jokai And Other Notables
American publishers L C Page Co announce English translation of Maurus Jokai Corsair King joins Manasseh as new Jokai titles. Eden Phillpotts The Good Red Earth continues to sell strongly. The Tribulations of a Princess profiles an exiled noblewoman with court life anecdotes. Crowell issues another Woman's Territory while Winston Churchill The Crisis reaches second edition. MacMillan reports 100000 copies sold in six days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. L. C. Page & Co
Maurus Jokai
Manasseh
P. F. Bicknell
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Winston Churchill
MacMillan Company
Gods Puppets The Dominos Garden English edition
Imogen Clark novel Gods Puppets reprinted in England by John Murray under the title The Domino's Garden. Canada edition exists under American title. Olive Thorne Miller completes The Second Book of Birds with studies of thirty bird families, twenty four illustrations, eight colored. to be published by Houghton Mifflin this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imogen Clark
New York
England
John Murray
Olive Thorne Miller
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
New England Folks Dramatic Novel to Be Staged Next Season
G W Dillingham announces immediate publication of New England Folks by Eugene W Presbrey to be dramatized and staged next season at the Fourteenth Street theatre. Also listed: The Toltec Savior a historical romance by Mrs John Ellsworth Graham Under a Lucky Star on astrology by Charlotte Abell Walker Joy Bells poems by William Trevelyan Browne and editions of John Winslow and John Henry. McClure, Phillips & Co publish The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford M Hueffer a London Paris intrigue tale where a heroine claims a Fourth Dimension existence and the narrator probes her personality amid political satire and moral undertones.
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G. W. Dillingham Company
New England Folks
Eugene W. Presbreyg
Fourteenth Street Theatre
Mexico
John Ellsworth Graham
Charlotte Abell Walker
Joy Bells
William Trevelyan Browne
John Winslow
John Henry
Enduring Works Challenge Novel Supremacy in Literary Circles
Harper's May features critic Howells praising The Individual as a superior, uplifting work with fresh ideas. Its wide circulation signals strong reader and intellectual interest, with Appleton already pressed for multiple editions. Col. T Allston Brown plans a two volume History of the New York Theatres, compiling 1730 to present season in 170 years. Only 300 copies will be printed, sold by subscription through Dodd, Mead & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huxley
Admiral Evans
Professor Shaler
Harper
Mr. W. D. Howells
Col
T. Allston Brown
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co
New York
Col. Brown
America
Dunlap
Williamsburg
Bird Lover Pamphlet Lists 29 Books by Noted Authors
A pamphlet from Houghton Mifflin shows twenty nine birding books in its list. Represented authors include Bradford Torrey John Burroughs Olive Thorne Miller and Florence A Merriam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Bradford Torrey
John Burroughs
Olive Thorne Miller
Florence A. Merriam
English Editions of Two Novels Issued in London
English editions of McClure, Phillips & Co. novels reach London with Mister Booth Tarkingtons Monsieur Beaucaire and Mrs. Crowninshield The Archbishop and the Lady. Crowninshield and Valencia's Garden also previewed. The Youth's Companion previews an upcoming June issue with stories by Spofford Jackson Swett Van Dyke and Dromgoole. A King Cobras piece by Ditmars and Y M C A history by Frentz accompany. Mowbray’s nature work shares Minnesota wilds and Pennsylvania study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure, Phillips & Co
London
Molly Elliot Seawell
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Charles Tenney Jackson
Parker Bartlett
John D. Sherman
Sophie Swett
T. S. van Dyke
Will Allen Dromgoole
R. L. Ditmars
New York Zoological Park
E. W. Frentz
Boston
J. P. Mowbray
Minnesota
Pennsylvania University
Rockland County
N. Y
Henry James Novel Set as Serial in Harper’s
The new Henry James novel, finished recently, is described as a minute study of London life and may premiere as a Harper’s magazine serial. Sidney Mc Call’s Truth Dexter ranks among the six best sellers in the June Bookman, with its fifteenth thousand copies printed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry James
London
Harper's Magazine
Truth Dexter
Sidney McCall
Ethelbert D. Warfield
Charles Augustus Schumacher
Lincoln Owen
W. H. Small
Charles S. Moore
Henry Lincoln Clapp
Elizabeth Porter Gould
Yale
Edward Franklin Buchner
Crowley on Journalism and A Daughter of New France
Mary Catherine Crowley discusses her literary path and the craft of writing in clear, simple prose. Her novel A Daughter of New France, set in Quebec under Frontenac and Cadillac’s Detroit founding, is in its fourth edition. William S. Walsh notes Lothrop Publishing’s role in placing Ken Holden with grown readers after initial juvenile aims.
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Mary Catherine Crowley
New France
New York
Michael Angelo
George Eliot
Miss Crowley
Quebec
Count Frontenac
Detroit
Cadillac
William S. Walsh
Lothrop Publishing Company
Boston
Ken Holden
Mr. Bacheller
Lothrop Company
David Huarum
Book Buyer and Arts Monthly Reviews Debut Highlights
The June issue surveys prominent books and art, with reviews by noted authors. It features long pieces on The Susquehanna Frontier, The Arnolds, Japanese color prints, Henry Timrod, and more, plus art studies in The Artist and Brush and Pencil, including Brangwyn and Hassam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus C. Buell
Susquehanna Frontier
Mr. Halsey
New York Frontier
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Frank Welitenkampf
Henry Timrod
Robert Adger Bowen
Literary News of
England
J. M. Bulloch
Atlantic
Rambler
Frank Brangwyn
G. Moira
J. W. Goward
Herbert Draper
C. W. Bartlett
Arthur Wardle
J. Broughton
R. W. Macbeth
Aymer Vallance
Wentworth Huyshe
W. Fred
Hermann Obrist
Royal Society of British Artists
The
Society of Designers
Elevation of Cardinal Marinelli and Joan of Arc in Guidon
The June Guidon highlights illustrated pieces on Cardinal Marinelli's elevation and on Joan of Arc by Joseph Gordian Daley. The issue showcases vivid illustrations and histo rical storytelling, reflecting the publication's literary tone and period interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Marinelli
Joan of Arc
Joseph Gordian Daley
Young Author Mrs Nellie Tolman Sawyer Honored Writer
Nellie Tolman Sawyer, born in Lowell Massachusetts, gained early musical training and became a skilled pianist and guitarist. She later painted in Boston and turned to literature during illness, producing stories and poems while preserving antique collecting and New England ancestry.
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Lowell, Mass
Studio Building
Boston
Sawyer
New England
Capt
Edward Barbour
Medfield
Mass
Eben Clarke
Quincy
Braintree
Corps d'Elite
Washington Life Guards
Marrying Out of the Army in The Ways of the Service
Frederick Palmer offers a reading from The Ways of the Service in which Colonel Sterne contemplates retirement and Molly and Bobby navigate their affection. Bobby confesses, Molly accepts, and Mrs. Gerrison hints Molly’s feelings, all set against army life and its loyalties. The scene centers on youth, duty, and hopeful union within a military world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Palmer
Scribners
Millonaire
Molly
Daddy
Congress of the United States
Edward E. Sterne
Chancellorsville
Sanderson
Bobby
Lanett
Malecon
Wailer City
Bridge of Spain
Suspension Bridge
Mrs. Gerrison
Dodge
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Jones
Leutenant
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Charlotte Harding
Lothrop Publishing
the Sentimentalist
Tory
Eden Phillpotts
Phillpotts
George Ade
James Whitcomb Riley
Ghe Magazines
George W. Cable
W. C. Morrow
Jack London
Edith Wharton
Mary Morrow
Lorenzo Sasso
Thomas R. Bacon
Kate W. Beaver
Charles A. Murdock
Charles Storm van Gravesande
Dordrecht
Edgar Cameron
Frederick W. Morton
Childe Hassam
David C. Preyer
Hy. Mayer
Katherine V. McHenry
Allan MacKenzie
Buffalo Fair
Egerton Castle
Jennico
John Foster Kirk
Robert Mackay
John Habberton
Sam
Lucia Chase Bell
Mary Peabody Sawyer
Knights of the Round Table
Ziella Cocke
Helen A. Hawley
Jane
Ellen
J. P. Scott
Fred Ferdinand Moore
J. B. Delaney
William H. O'Connell
Portland
Maine
Saint Martin's
Somersworth
N. H
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Jesus
Frederick Rooker
Nellie Tolman Sawyer
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