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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
24
Conten’s page highlights Percival Lowell’s interpretation of Martian canals and his prediction of Earth's drought fate. Also featured are selections on Rome and Egypt, the Dukes of Urbio, Napoleon memoirs, and arts topics. The issue includes book notices and literary commentary from New York publishers.
Obituary notes Donald G. Mitchell known as Ik Marvel and author of Reveries of a Bachelor and Dream Life. It chronicles his varied career from farmer to journalist, consul at Venice, and lingering popularity of his satirical sketches The Lorgnette and Dr Johns.
The review argues that Ik Marvel and Mitchell populate a distinct sentimental age in literature. Their reveries suit romantic, quiet soul searching by a fire, pairing with Elia Hawthorne Irving as neighboring spirit. Their work offers gentle, kind, forgiving tone even if few robust qualities appear.
Rev John Wright's Some Notable Altars in the Church of England and the American Episcopal Church surveys nearly a hundred and twenty American and British altars. It profiles history architecture and decoration with concise notes and full page half tone illustrations. It covers Trinity Church Trinity Chapel Cathedral of St John the Divine and many others in New York Philadelphia Washington and regions across the United States.
A damaged reputation is examined in a complex tale of Western Canadian ranching mining and promotion. A young Englishman seeks to retrieve his fortune after a land agent wrongs him. The narrative traces a hard trail toward personal justice with dogged resolve, though the author’s latest work falls short of previous novels.
In Paris literary notes Lole Fuller's Quinze Ans de ma Vie receives praise from Jules Charette and Anatolie France with a preface by France. New works include Bizet letters and Hanotaux’s Autour de Sainte Helene. Rageot’s Un Grand Homme is analyzed, detailing Bertier’s death and Francine’s inheritance, while Bordeaux’s Les Yeux Qui s Ouvrent praises family fidelity and Elizabeth Derize’s divorce reversal.
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