Rembrandt Drawings Highlight Artistic Insight and Craft
A review of Drawings by the Great Masters images Rembrandt’s drawings as an essential facet of his genius. It notes his ability to convey meaning through simple pen strokes and washes, compares his work to Japanese art, and highlights studies from 1637 to a mosaic study for The Descent from the Cross.
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Rembrandt
Fromentin
Malcolm Bell
Tie
Amsterdam
British Museum
GOOD SHIPS LONDON ROM THE TIME OF CROMWELL TO PRESENT DAY
A review of royal ships named London from 1656 through the 1902 coronation fleet review. From the first London built under the Protectorate to the modern battleship, these vessels show changing design and fates, including battles, fires, and losses.
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Crormwell
Great Britain
Edward Fraser
John Lane
London
Protectorate
Cromwell
Middlesex
Thames
Loyall
Charles IT
de Ruyter
Deptford
Yoyall
Solebay
Edward Spragge
Dryden
Lim
Spragge
America
American
Zanzibar
Channel Fleet
International Documents book reviewed for law students
E A Whittecks In ternational Documents surveys major lawmaking pacts. Part I covers the Paris Declaration of 1856 the Geneva Convention 1864 with unratified articles and St Petersburg Declaration 1868 Part II lists acts from the first Hague Conference Part III those of the second Hague Conference. The volume provides French and English texts and a helpful introduction.
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E. A. Whitteck
Longmans, Green & Co
Paris
St. Petersburg
The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel reviewed
Randall Parrish spins a sea yarn about the Donna Isabel. The critic notes deliberate romanticized peril and unreal feats while praising world-building and suspense in a treasure hunt tale set in 1753.
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Randall Parrish
Literature of the South by Caroline Mays Brevard
Caroline Mays Brevard presents Literature of the South, her first work from The Broadway Publishing Company. The volume reflects considerable time and thought given to shaping a regional literary study.
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Caroline Mays Brevard
Literature of the South
Broadway Publishing Company
Patterson's Novel The Little Brother to the Rich
The work follows an Indiana parson's son who climbs into Yale society and New York wealth with athletic aid, while a country girl rises on stage as Nazimova inspired interpreter. The novel critiques fashionable life, stage circles, double lives, and bohemian excess, with a mixed verdict on accuracy and readability.
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Reilly & Britton Company
Chicago
Indiana
Yale
New York
Ibsen
Mme
Alla Nazimova
Mr. Patterson
Newport
Diana of
Fifth Avenue
Love
Jersey
Nazimova
Hermes
Joseph Medill Patterson
Jubilee Volume Announces Catholic Church History in U S A
A new commemorative volume marks the Pope's Golden Jubilee with a massive folio history of The Catholic Church in the United States of America. Published in New York by Catholic Editing Company under Cardinal Gibbons, it traces early religious orders and communities and promises later volumes on provinces, clergy, churches, missions, charities, education, literature, and social life.
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United States of America
Catholic Editing Company
New York City
Cardinal Gibbons
United States
Staltimore
New York
The
Republic
Works of C W Pearson Published After His Death
A three volume collection by Sherman French shows the Rev Charles William Pearson who died about three years ago. It includes sermons addresses and essays and a poetry volume. Pearson was once Northwestern University English professor and sparked debate with an essay on open inspiration and closed canon. He left the Methodist Church and joined Unitarianism and was pastor in Quincy Illinois at his death.
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Charles William Pearson
Sherman, French & Co
Pearson
Quincy
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Dulwich College
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A. C. McClurg & Co
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Stephens
Toby
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Trim
Mr. Parrish
Donna Isabel
Guayaquil
Cadiz
Southland
South
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