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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
9
A critical notice lauds The Crisis as a masterful modern American novel with American localities and characters. It praises Churchill as a great American novelist, noting the book’s restrained drama and Thackeray like restraint rather than sensational climaxes.
A lengthy critical appraisal of The Crisis by Macmillan, praising its realism and patriotism. It highlights vivid portraits of Lincoln Grant and Sherman and includes an excerpt about Stephen Brice in Freeport during Lincoln’s 1858 debate with Douglass, showing Lincoln’s humor and candor.
A dramatic scene shows Mr. Lincoln rising with improvised tongs while a terrified rat squeals and wriggles. Stephen forgets politics and is drawn into the Quaker smithy, in a narrative from The Crisis.
The work centers on Martin Brook a boy saved from a brutal master who grows into a preacher opposing slavery. He fights for liberty while North and South clash over abolition, with Judge Northcote representing pro slavery views. The novel mixes religious moral debate with legal and social tensions and praises its character drawing and evocative prose.
A western city tale examines city council manipulation and a fifty year franchise struggle. A charismatic manipulator, a cultured woman, and his son oppose the scheme as love and reform themes weave through the realist plot. Doubleday page edition priced $1.50.
Spalding Athletic library issue presents the Golf Guide for 1901 edited by Charles S. Cox, a 220 page paper bound volume with rules, strategies, records, glossary, course layout and notable portraits. Also released is the Official Handbook of the Amateur Athletic Union detailing by-laws and rules for fencing gymnastics swimming wrestling boxing cross country and water polo. Published by American Sports Publishing Company, 16-18 Park Place, New York. Price ten cents.
A strange and mysterious tale by Nellie K. Blissett appears in the Town and Country Library collection. The story explores enigmatic ocean realms and the awe they inspire, inviting readers to ponder unseen depths and hidden currents.
The review praises a haunting tale set in Herista, France, featuring a mysterious figure named Couca and a cast of natural characters. It highlights the sea’s power and the village’s intrigue, promising two to three hours of pleasant pastime for readers familiar with coastal life.
Doubleday Page reports 3217 paid weekly subscriptions to The World’s Work ending June 1. May cash receipts exceed December by 2555.46. Payne Erskine’s When the Gates Lift up Their Heads is a Southern love story set after the war. Poultney Bigelow’s The Children of the Nations is being translated into German for Berlin. Hall Caine’s The Eternal City to Appletons in autumn. Frederic Uy Adams announces The Kidnapped Millionaires about six New York millionaires seized and marooned on a Southern island in a 500 page novel. Delighted readers praise strong character drawing.
Edgar S Maclay expands his History of the United States Navy to cover current events to the present time including the Spanish War and China troubles and Annapolis adopts the work Published by D Appleton and Company Ellis Meredith asserts authorship of The Master Knot of Human Fate praising its originality and seriousness in its plot
Josiah Flynt, famed for Powers That Prey, releases The World of Graft through McClure, Phillips & Co. He speaks candidly based on personal, intimate contacts with thieves and tramps, detailing alleged police protection and corruption with bold clarity.
A reader praises William James Stillman’s camping episodes in the Adirondacks and the Ampersand Pond trip with Emerson and Agassiz under Stillman’s guidance. The note recalls wild beauty, deer by the shore, and contrasts land value then sixty hundred dollars in 1857 with today’s far higher price seeking.
A renowned dramatist admires the play material in Jocelyn Chesire once serialized in Everybody's Magazine. Sara Beaumont Kennedy delivers strong scenes and well-timed dramatic intervals with natural colonial Southern town life flavor. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.
L. C. Page & Co. announce for early publication a girls book Tilda Jane by Marshall Saunders author of Beautiful Joe For His Country and other works reflecting humane themes and children's literature traditions.
Publisher's Weekly notes the novel sold 106,344 copies by May 25 and now appears in London via T. Fisher Unwin and in Canada through Langton & Hail. It mentions an unpublished diary by Francis.
Parkman will appear in the July Scribner’s with his Lake George travel account of 1842 full of sharp observations. W C Brownell contributes an essay on Matthew Arnold. Hoar’s second oratory paper elevates Edward Everett as a premier American speaker. Appletons’ Town and Country Library marks its 300th issue with The Seal of Silence by A R Conder, a romance gaining English attention. Rear Admiral Evans’s A Sailor’s Leg gets a sixth printing, Pere Didon’s Life of Christ gains a new edition with Cardinal Gibbons’s introduction.
A consolidation of Robert G. Cooke and Frederick H. Hitchcock firms forms The Grafton Press in New York under New York law. Cooke serves as president while Hitchcock is secretary and treasurer. Offices are at 70 Fifth Avenue. The press aims to publish books for authors and privately printed works.
Sir Edwin Arnold, long blind, dictated the 4000 line epic The Voyage of Ithobal about Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa. Ithobal, Tyre’s sea captain, sails with Neku in Egypt, trips through Tyre, Suez, and a 15000 mile voyage, ending with a formal throne discou se.
Messrs Small Maynard and Company publish a ten thousand copy special edition for the trustees of the John F Slater fund. The edition will be distributed to Negroes of the South and a copy given to every member of the trustees.
The Slater Fund started in 1882 by John F. Slater with one million dollars supports education for freedmen in the South. It funds negro schools and literature distribution and has aided Washington at Tuskegee since 1883, with trustees endorsing his ideas on proper education amid southern franchise debates.
The issue highlights Louise Betts Fiiwerds and Mary E. Wilkins long and short stories, Sabin and Roberts love tales, Le Queux and Ballagh foreign fiction, Terhune College Tale, La Mance patriot prose, and a rich poetry section. The Hesperian carries Pan American, Shakespeare Bacon debate, and French literature notes with Isabel Richey poetry. Contemporary Science surveys Arizona buried cities and tech progress, plus current literary history pieces and author surveys.
An excerpt from Harold MacGrath’s The Puppet Crown recreates the duel between Beauvais the villain and Maurice Carewe the American adventurer. Maurice, calm and watchful, relies on wrist skill while Beauvais pressurizes with bold thrusts and taunts. The suspense builds as they circle and spar, the blade a silent test of nerve.
Maurice avoids a deadly risk as Beauvais presses a fierce sword duel. The Colonel’s tactics fail when Maurice counters with a precise feint that hurls the weapon aside, leaving Beauvais with a stump and Maurice insisting on talking rather than killing him.
A fragmentary verse description from Kipling about guard duties on a distant bridge. The poem evokes sunlit deserts, night shifts, and the arrival of a north-bound train. It contrasts conflict imagery with noncombatant roles, focusing on guarding the line and collecting week-old papers and human speech.
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