Two Gentlemen of Virginia and Other Book News
Boston notices George Cary Eggleston novel confirming Virginia types across three figures in 1861. Autumn titles include The Mystery of Golf and works by Henry James Smith and Sophie Swett. Publications feature Aunt Jane of Kentucky and Six Girls Growing Older plus Fabian Essays and Silas Kerkendown's Sons and The Trail of the Go-hawks. Stephenson Browne.
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Mississippi
Voughton-Mifflin Company
William Garrett Brown
Marion Ames Taggart
New York
C. M. Clark Publishing Company
Silas Kerkendown
Margaret Holmes Bates
E. B. Shepps. Stephenson Browne
Books Received and New Titles Listed
A long list of new books across poetry travel fiction and reference from Harper Brothers Doubleday McClurg Duffield Lothrop & Shepard and others. Notable authors include Dora Sigerson Shorter E F Benson Rob ert D Jones Amy Brooks Martha James Kate E Carpenter Alice Turner Curtis Herschel Williams Stewart Edward White Grace S Richmond John W Harding and W H Fitchett. Prices range from 50 cents to $2.50 with many titles illustrated and several series entries.
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Sister Prue
Amy _ Brooks
Boston
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company
Pigeon Camp
Martha James
Frederick the Great
Kate E. Carpenter
Illinois
Alice Turner Curtis
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Herschel Williams
New York
Moffat, Yard & Co
Myrtle Baldwin
Charles Clarke Munn
Boat Club Boys
Lakeport
Edward Stratemeyer
Randall Parrish
Allen T. True
Chicago
A. C. McClury & Co
Guy Hunter
William Weldon Stark
Cochrane Publishing Company
Henry Longan Stuart
Doubleday, Page & Co
Stewart Edward White
N. C. Wyeth
Clarence F. Underwood
the McCluren Company
Warrens OF
Virginia
George Cary Eggleston
William G. de Mille
G. W. Dillingham Company
Round Tile Corner
Gay Street
Grace S. Richmond
Maude Thurston
Charles M. Relyea
Mertrand W. Sinclair
Fergus Hume
Will M. Hough
Frank R. Adams
Gordon Grant
John W. Harding
Wyoming
William MacLeod
Clarence Hi. Rowe
Tyler de Saix
Eden Phillpotts
Arnold Bennet
Moffat
Yard & Co
Peter
Hopkinson Smith
A. I. Keller
Charles Scribher's Sons
W.H. Fitchett
Maton & Mains
J.J. Belt
the Luker & Taylor Company
Desert
Adeline Knapp
The
Century Company
Zane Grey
the Outing Publishing Company
Old Dominion
George Cary Lggleston
Frank T. Merrill
Novelized Kaleidoscope Aims to Tie Music Hall Lore
A book adaptation by John W Harding turns last year's musical piece The Time the Place and the Girl into prose. The volume strains with a chorus of stage specialties including organ grinder and soubrette, centering on a young man whose noisy escapades unfold amid a theatrical milieu.
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John “W. Harding
Dillingham
Broadway Kaleidoscope of Gags and Ladies Enthrall
Evening on Broadway follows a prizefighting friend fleeing police and a Summer rest cure where a young man finds love among many women. The piece dances through adventures, ballets, clogs, gags, and jests set on Broadway with tangled comic complications.
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Broadway
Two Gentlemen of Virginia reviewed as didactic fiction
A Virginia themed critique notes George Gary Eggleston's didactic novel presents a theatrical, melodramatic view of Virginian life before the war. The reviewer argues the characters are false to life, with a New England audience in mind, and highlights a convent rescue plot and two unsuitable suitors as the central elements.
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Virginia
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
George Gary Eggleston
Eggleston
Old Dominion
Virginia Hills
Mr. Eggleston
Sciof
West
North
New England
Dark
Potomac
New Orleans
Benson's tale on building and breaking of intricate evidence
A lively E F Benson review notes his shift from sensational earlier work to sober storytelling. It praises Capsina and Paul while critiquing overreaching mystery tension and the moral blindness of a murderer who wanders unnoticed, yet still keeps reader interest high.
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E. F. Benson
Benson
Literary Critique Notes on Mr. Twain’s Recent Story
The passage praises the story for its crisp swift progress and tight construction and calls out a minor error blamed on summer printer fatigue. It emphasizes the author’s typical strong writing style and notes a single grammatical blunder near the threshold of the tale.
Arthur Smith’s The Game of Go Introduced in Popular Book
The author promotes a Japanese pastime in his book The Game of Go published by Moffat Yard & Co. priced at $2.50. The volume presents an exhaustive, more complex view than chess and features attractive illustrations and a handsome binding.
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Arthur Smith
Moffat, Yard & Co
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Amedée
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Quilcote
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Saco
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Sophie Swett
Wide Awake
Ella Farman
Princess Wisla
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co
Maine
Aunt Jane
Kentucky
Mary
Ball Publishing Company
Bernard Shaw
England
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Harper Brothers
Atlantic
Pacific
Robert D. Jones
Seattle
the Harrison Company
J. Rogues de Fursac
M. D
John Wiley & Sons
the Brotherhood OF Wisdom
Frances J. Armour
John Lane Company
Caroline French Benton
Dana, Estes & Co
Vivian B. Lewes
D. van Nostrand Co
Frank Sidgwick
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Fina
Gimignano
Fra Giovanni di Coppa
M. Mansfield
Duffield & Co
Balbees
Dr. Furnivall
Edith Rickert
Jane Austen
Richard T
the Mayhew Publishing
Comppany
Caroline L. Hunt
Whitcomb & Barrows
A. C. McClurg & Co
W. G. Boswell-Stone
F. W. Clarke
M. A
FE. F. Benson
J. J. Bell
Robert Barker
Baker-Taylor CO
17Th Street
International Studio
Dixon Scott
Post. Soc
Fiddler
Saya
Boston Transcript
Edwin George Pinkham
Maynard & Co
Robert Herrick
Little, Brown & Co., Publishers
Alice Brown
Rose- Macleod
Indianapolis Sta
Brooklyn Eagle
By Hubert Wales
New York Press
Mitchell Kennerley
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