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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
15
Poem excerpt by Fiona McLeod translated through E R In Memory of William Sharp. Describes chalk cliffs and sea voices enacting memory of Sharp. Imagery ties to Sicily Etna and elements of fire and wind, echoing nature’s cycles across day and night. From the August Century.
The piece surveys Mrs Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic linked to Roosevelt’s letter to Joel Chandler Harris, notes Harris’s response and Uncle Remus’s Magazine leadership, and highlights Curzon funding for Thomas Clive statues in Westminster and Calcutta. It also covers Milton tercentenary celebrations and Cambridge Comus masque performances with praise for amateur actors.
The article notes unpublished Carlyle letters about Dr. Julius of Hamburg, a German friend who sought a Northern Literature chair for a projected London University. Carlyle doubted radicals leading the project and offered biting portraits of literary figures and Edinburgh's intellect.
Alice Cunningham Fletcher of the Peabody Museum Cambridge Massachusetts prepares ethnologic works on the Omaha Indians for the Bureau of Ethnology. She has lived among the Omahas for years and aided lands and small loans for homes. She was appointed special agent by President Cleveland and aims to correct misunderstandings about totems religion and Omaha music through her writings.
Sothebys sold Sir Walter Scott letters to the Marchioness of Abercorn in a lot of 363 pages for 3050 dollars, a strong price though far below Mrs Thrales 1625 pages of confessions at 10255 dollars. The sale also featured a first edition of Milton Comus at 1585 dollars, with debate over whether Milton prices reflect muse appreciation or tercentenary effects.
A critical portrait of F. Martin's two volume study on Mexico, praising its wide factual scope. The author highlights Americans in Mexico as industrious and progressive, notes British caution and American energy, and commends the work's coverage of natural features, agriculture, mining, and commerce.
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