Leaves from a Life charms with artists and anecdotes
The memoir recounts a painter’s daughter and her circle in Victorian circles. It sketches intimate portraits of Calderon Du Maurier Dickens Sothern Leech and Cruikshank with wit and affectionate hostility toward pretension. It defends Dickens while lampooning relics of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boughton
Leighton
Millais
America
Calderon
du Maurier
Shirley Brooks
Sothern
Dickens
Landseer
Cruikshanks
Cruikshank
Lord Bateman
John Leech
St. John’s Wood
Mrs. Dickens
Charles Dickens
Trollope
Oscar Wilde
Weepers in Playtime by Beatrice Sands reviewed
A critical review questions Beatrice Sands book Weepers in Playtime proposing the novel blends fact and fiction about orphanages and reform. The critic finds it dull and preachy and urges clearer factual information and actionable steps to spur public reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Sands
John Lane
Miss Sands
New York
Potter
Dickens
Charles Reade
Bishop Potter
Louis Beck
Lippincotts
California
South Seas
Karossa Creek
Mr. Beck
Southern Literary Messenger gains South wide cooperation
Philadelphia literary page notes strong Southern backing for the Southern Literary Messenger with Colonial Dames and Daughters of the Confederacy joining efforts. Veterans leaders and editors outline departments and material, with Richmond editors and Lippincotts Philadelphia as publishers guiding plans and forthcoming biographies and editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Literary Messenger
South
Colonial Dames
Daughters of the Confederacy
United States
Messenger
Clement A. Evans
Luke E. Wright
C. Irvine Walker
John William Jones
Richmond
The
Lippincotts
Philadelphia
From Libau to Tsushima Ro estvensky’s voyage told anew
Publication expands the memoir of Eugéne S Politovsky Rosestvensky’s chief engineer aboard the Russian fleet from Libau to Tsushima. The new edition cites his day by day letters revealing de moralization and panic as the armada neared Japanese forces and the Dogger Bank incident context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugéne S. Politovsky
Rojestvensky
Libau
Tsushima
Politovsky
Rosestvensky
Kniaz Souvaroff
Dogger Bank
London
New York Times
North Sea
Togo
By Wild Waves Tossed Traces Naval Romance Amid War at Sea
A lively nautical romance set during the early 1812 period narrated by a British lady kidnapped at first and joined by a mysterious man. The plot follows her voyage aboard the American ship Potomac and encounters with HMS Porcupine and the Constitution, including boarding actions, a duel, a burial at sea, a marriage, and wartime intrigue.
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Sir Walter
McClure
United States Navy
Jack Brand
Potomac
H. M.S. Porcupine
Porcupine
Constitution
Isaac Hull
Hal
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Scott
Kenilworth
Ivyanhoe
J. B. Lippincott Company
Maxwell-Scott
Lockhart
Walter
Henry J. Ford
Maurice Grieffenhagen
Simon Harmon Vedder
Sydney George Fisher
England
Rosa Nouchette Carey
East Putney
Sunny Side of the Hill
Miss Carey
Henry Artemus Company
Mary H. Morgan
Booklovers Library
East 250 ST
ATF
George Pinkham
Lester Ralph
Kansas City
Small, Maynard & Company
Bostoy
George L. Walton
J. B. Lippincott Co
Anatole
France
Epicurus
John Lane Company
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