A Sailor's Log by Robley Evans review
Admiral Evans memoirs reveal his naval career across two wars, Pacific service, the Kiel canal opening, and the Merrimac sinking. The diary style blends vivid battle scenes with personal reflections and a portrait of a magnetic Emperor William. A book with historical value and strong naval flavor.
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Robley D. Evans
Annapolis
Admiral Evans
Pacific
Chile
Alaskan
Kiel Canal
New York
William
Germany
Kiel
Palace
United States
Canal
Alexis
Duke of York
North Sea Canal
Rudyard Kipling
Bob
Sergeant Mulvaney
Zogbaum
The Story of Eva reviewed by a Chicago observer
A critical appraisal of Will Payne's novel The Story of Eva. The piece praises the author’s restraint in depicting an unmarried couple living together while exploring city life, conscience, and social conventions in Chicago. It notes the work as a psychological study of character and environment.
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Robly D. Evans
Eva
Will Payne
Rome
Carthage
Maryland
Chicago
The Lion's Brood by Duffield Osborne review
A literary notice praising The Lion's Brood as a compelling portrait of a great military captain. It highlights the romance, the noble lineage of daughters, and the youthful soldier’s heart, noting both current appeal and nostalgic scenes for an elder reader. Published by Doubleday Page in New York. Price $1.10.
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Duffield Osborne
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
Everyday Birds by Bradford Torrey review
A 103 page Riverside Press book for young readers offers elementary bird studies. Each chapter profiles a common regional bird with notes on haunts habits and traits. Simple language suits both young and old, illustrated with twelve Audubon plates.
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Riverside Press
Audubon
Bradford Torrey
Bueh
Tennessee
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Boston
G. C. Prince & Son
A Maryland Manor Novel Seeks Maryland Charm
Frederick Emory, long familiar with Maryland, writes his first novel A Maryland Manor. The historical tale shifts from Virginia and nearby locales to Maryland, aiming to evoke the state’s romance and political backdrop with authentic detail. Emory, a magazine writer by trade, draws on his years living in the region to shape the narrative.
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Virginia
Maryland
Frederick Emory
Pleasures of the Telescope review by Appleton
Garrett P. Serviss offers Pleasures of the Telescope a beginner friendly guide to astronomy. The 200 page handsomely bound volume includes maps diagrams and nearly fifty illustrations to help novices locate double stars nebulae and planets with a small telescope. Published by Appleton & Co priced at 1.50 obtained through G C Prince Son and T H Lawler.
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Robley D. Evans
D. Appleton & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
T. H. Lawler
Garrett P. Serviss
Gemini
Leo
Virgo
Lyra
Hridanus
Pisces
Aries
Taurus
Mars
Appleton & Co
Manual of Statistics 1901 edition highlights markets
Investors and speculators will find the twenty third annual Manual of Statistics now available. It presents clear data on railroad, industrial and street railway securities, with prices across stock grain and cotton markets and essential statistics for market transactions.
A Maryland Manor Review of Duffield Osborne Novel
The article surveys A Maryland Manor by Frederick Emory, praising its historical mood set around Hannibal era Carthage and Roman fate, while noting sprawling length and southern themes. It highlights rich local color on Maryland aristocracy, slave life, and Civil War tensions, with calls for tighter editing.
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Maryland
South
Maryland Manor
Frederick Emory
F. A. Stokes Company
New York
G. C. Prince
Mabel Gordon novel and a financial statistics manual
A reader remark on Mabel Gordon a novel about a daughter raised under strong home influence and her evolving relationship with a man who once commanded the destruction of her Southern home. The passage also reviews The Manual of Statistics 1901 a comprehensive financial reference detailing railroad securities industrial stocks banking and other market data with extensive figures and notes.
Publication notes on recent literary works and authors
Posthumous and new works announced include Grant Allen's Country and Town in England a nature sketches book. The Linnet already published. George Meredith's A Reading of Life poems with a related series planned. Scribners as publishers. Mrs Reginald de Koven starts an ancient history novel By the Waters of Babylon with Artaxerxes as central figure. Miss Margaret Potter in Egypt.
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Grant Allen
England
George Meredith
Critic
Scribners
Reginald de Koven
Babylon
Artaxerxes
Novel serials set in Egypt and Navarre house
The Century and Harper's Magazine plan to launch large runs for Bertha Bunkly's The Helmet of Navarre in serial form. Gilbert Parker returns to London after visiting Egypt and the Soudan, hinting another Egypt based novel.
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Navarre
Egypt
Gilbert Parker
London
May announcements from D. Appleton and Company
The publisher lists numerous romance titles by E F Benson Elinor Macartney Lane Louis Evan Shipman and J Parmly Parett plus non fiction works including A History of the United States Navy by Edgar S Maclay and The Wilderness Road by J A Altsheler with new three volume edition and an updated naval account since the Civil War.
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D. Appleton & Company
E. F. Benson
Elinor Macartney Lane
Kate Poins
Louis Evan Shipman
James Barnes
United States Navy
Edgar S. Maclay
A. M
New Books and Authors Highlighted in 1900s Catalogs
A collage of 1900s literary notices features Antonia by Jessie Van Zile Belden from L. C. Pege & Co, praised for its Colonial New York plot and refined style. Ginn & Company releases Bird Portraits with descriptive text by Ralph Hoffman, detailing numerous birds. The Text Book Bulletin from Ginn & Company debuts as a magazine style notice with articles by Harvard and Chicago scholars on geography and rhetoric. Richard Le Gallienne’s poem from The Love-Letters of the King is quoted. E P Dutton & Co announces Through Siberia by J Stadling, a travel work drawing on famine relief work and Russian scholars. Tolstoy’s Pere Serge is cited as a new novel about an aristocrat who becomes a monk.
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L. C. Pege & Co
Antonia
New York
Jessie van Zile Belden
Mrs. Belden
Ginn & Company
W. M. Davis
Harvard University
Robert Morse Lovett
University of Chicago
Bulletin
Richard le Gallienne
E. P. Dutton & Co
Siberia
J. Stadling
Sweden
United States
Tolstoi
Andree
North Pole
Stadling
Pere Serge
Tolstoy
New Books and Volumes Tied to McKinley West Trip
Appletons General Guide volumes for McKinley and his party include John Marshall Ulysses Grant and Lewis and Clark with portraits and unpublished letters. Penelope’s Irish Experiences expands Wiggin’s Ireland tale. Julet ty, a new Kentucky story by Crowell, prints 5000 copies, second edition ordered. ten thousand copies before publication signals strong demand.
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McKinley
The
West
United States
Canada
Riverside
John Marshall
Ulysses. Grant
Lewis and Clark
James B. Thayer
Harvard Law School
Walter Allen
William R. Lighton
Marshall
Edition de Luxe of Amorett Love Sonnets by Spenser
The Laurel Press at 156 Mirth Avenue New York announces an Edition de Luxe of Amorett or Love Sonnets of Edmund Spenser. It notes there has been no good separate edition of these famous poems until now and highlights the significance of this publication.
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Laurel Press
Mirth Avenue
New York
Edmund Spenser
Limited Edition Shakespeare Sonnets Print Run Announced
Sonnets of Shakespeare praised as finest love poetry. Only 450 copies will be printed on hand-made paper with ornate initials. Little, Brown lists Selma Lagerlof works including The Story of Gosta Berling The Miracles of Anti Christ and Invisible Links stories and legends.
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Shakespeare
Little, Brown & Company
Selma Lagerlof
Gosta Berling
Anti-Christ
Nature Biographies and The Players Blue Book Revealed
Doubleday, Page & Co announce Clarence Moores Weed's Nature Biographies a personal look at common insects with photographs. Sutherland & Storms plan The Players Blue Book portraits and biographies of 150 stage celebrities in heavy coated paper with blue silk binding and gold embossing due soon.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
Clarence Moores Weed
Sutherland & Storms
Worcester
Ships That Pass in the Night and a Cautionary Tale
Miss Beatrice Harraden recalls selling the Ships That Pass in the Night copyright for twenty guineas with promises of more if it sold well. Tauchnitz paid £40 for the continental privilege while Putnam’s Sons paid $125 and $25 for an introduction. The book netted Harraden $775, yielding priceless friendships and letters from readers worldwide including translations into multiple languages before the war. She urges young authors to hold onto copyrights and notes a forthcoming American edition by Dodd, Mead & Co with added interest.
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Beatrice Harraden
Tauchnitz
Messrs
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Miss Harraden
New Zealand
Western Australia
India
South America
Canada
United States
South Africa
Ike
Messrs. Dodd, ‘Mead & Co
May National magazine highlights women in national affairs
Editor Joe Mitchell Chapple’s Washington Affairs tribute honors American women and their influence. The issue includes "An American King," "How Mars Communicate with the Earth," "Abigail," "Fred Punst on, and His Capture of Aguinaldo," and "Our Neighbors, the Mexicans" by a woman traveler. Lydia Maria Child letters and noted American authors provide stories and poems. W. W. Potter Co. Ltd., 91 Bedford Street, Boston, Mass.
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Joe Mitchell Chapple
Washington
Mars
Earth
Abigail
Fred Fpunston
Aguinaldo
Kansan
Sister Republic
Lydia Maria Child
W. W. Potter Co. Ltd
Bedford Street
Boston
Mass
Young Authors William Vaughn Moody Profile
William Vaughn Moody grew up in New Albany Indiana and studied at Harvard before joining the University of Chicago English department. After years abroad he published poems in magazines and debuted a five act lyric drama The Masque of Judgment inspired by Italy. A book of portable poems is planned for spring by Houghton Mifflin.
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William Vaughn Moody
New Albany
Falls
Ohio
Indiana
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Ohio River
New York State
Harvard
Europe
Moody
University of Chicago
England
Italy
Dolomite
Messrs. Houghton, Miffitn & Co
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