Literary updates from Philadelphia publishers and authors
LITERARY NEWS OF PHILADELPHIA reports postponement of Howard Furness Jr.’s Richard the Third in the Variorum Shakespeare series. It notes John Bassett Moore’s biography project, Becker revisions by George W. Scott Barli es, and Bradford’s Bibliographer’s Manual volume two. Also covers Beveridge work, S. Weir Mitchell story, Stephens biography, Pen dleton’s Georgia trip, Ralph Henry Barbour tales, and new publications from the American Baptist Publication Society and Cortland Myers.
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Richard the Third
Howard Furness, Jr
Shakespeare
Furness
Macbeth
John Bassett "Moore
Lippincott House
James Buchanan
George W. Scott Barlies
University of Pennsylvania
Moore
Columbia University
Bibliographer's Manual of
Thomas Lindsley
Bradford
Stan. V. Henkels
United States
Henry Artemus Company
Albert J. Beveridge
Jacobes
Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Ladies’ Home Journal
Alexander H. Stephens
Confederate States
George de Jacobs & Co
Benjamin
Davis
Lee
Stephens
Pendletorn
Georgia
Macon Telegraph
Ralph Henry Barbour
Lippincotts
Clarence F. Underwood
American Baptist Publication Society
Girls’ World
A. Edith Meyers
Jesus
The Novelist and the Hang Man Review
A crusade against capital punishment appears in Margaret Holmes Bates's novel In the First Degree where a young woman is convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to hang. The story centers on a family and their circle with sharp dialogue and a few vivid ideas from a disagreeable daughter in law, though overall characters feel sketchy and the plot drives the author’s stance.
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Chicago
Margaret Holmes Bates
Robert Grier Cooke
Abolition Effort Spurs Reform Figure’s Stance
A woman shows earnest opposition to capital punishment and aims to advance abolition efforts through activism and advocacy. Her strong feelings drive her to seek change and support reform in the justice system.
Cards and Cupid. A gay and giddy little book by Walter Pulitzer
The item, Cupid's Pack of Cards, illustrated by Theo Aulmann and published by Luce & Co., Boston, pairs each card with an epigram and a comic saw. It features colored card prints on cream paper, a mahogany look cover without a heart motif, and playful lines on romance and jealousy.
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Walter Pulitzer
Theo Aulmann
Luce & Co
Boston
Cupid
How Animals Get Their Color
A new Macmillan book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom by Abbott H. Seagel and Gerald H. Thayer arrives this Spring. Thayer, a veteran color scientist, shares theories from long research on animal coloration with colored plates from Thayer and Smith to illustrate the ideas.
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Macmillan Company
Abbott H. Bseagel
Gerald H.thayer
Thayer
Harper & Brothers to Publish Handbook of Trees
Early this month Harper and Brothers will publish a handbook by Romeyn Beck Hough. The volume covers trees of the Northern States and Canada and includes numerous photographs. It aims to guide readers through features of the outdoors based on the author's life study.
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Harper & Brothers
States
Canada
Romeyn Beck Hough
A. B
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West 23d St
New York
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Texas
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Pius X
Father George Tyrrell
A. Lestey Lilley
Crown Theological Library
Intel
P. Putnam’s Sons
Cece
Seder
Mrs. P Cowen
Timp Croth
Morocco
Philip Cowen
5Th Av
N. J
Blorh Publishing Co
Broadway
William Jennette Lee
Nova Scotia
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Literary News OF Philadelphia
Buchanan
John T. McIntyre
Mr. McIntyre
McClure
Juve
Chambers
London
Novelist and the Hangman
Coleridge
Hazlitt
Dowden
Furnivall
Goethe
Frese
Israel Gollancz
Walter Bagehot
Leslie Stephen
Thomas Spencer Baynes
Richard Grant White
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