New Volumes Preview in The Four Volumes Series
The four volumes planned treat French German Russian and Dutch rural life in towns. French Life in Town and Country by Hannah Lynch opens January. A Shakespeare primer Shakespeare Artist and Man by L A Sherman follows as an introduction to the plays.
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Hannah Lynch
Paris
France
Toric of the Week An Englishwoman's Love Letters
Doubleday, Page & Co. publishes An Englishwoman's Love Letters likely to be a season’s literary sensation. The letters claim authenticity and reveal a poignant love tragedy, prompting questions on coherence, engagement collapse, and the mother’s influence as readers seek explanations.
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Toric
Doubleday, Page & Co
History of Chinese Literature to Join World Series
Herbert A. Giles of Cambridge will add A History of Chinese Literature to the Literature of the World Series from D Appleton & Co early in January. It is perhaps the first trustworthy history in any language, including Chinese, with translations to voice the Chinese author. Native critics’ remarks help readers gauge Chinese perspectives on their own works. The volume offers insights into Chinese thought, culture, and expression during a time of global interest.
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Herbert A. Giles
University of Cambridge
D. Appleton & Co
Blashfield
Berfibrandt
Velasquez
Wells
Ducal
Harper & Brothers to publish twelve novels in 1991
Harper & Brothers plans a 1991 series of twelve monthly novels. Each volume features contemporary American life with new, vigorous writers. the January first release, Bastover Court House, is a Virginia story by Kenneth Brown.
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Harper & Brothers
Balzac
la Comédie
Américaine
America
Virginia
Kenneth Brown
Our Neighbors' Series Planned by Putnam's Sons
G. P. Putnam's Sons announce a forthcoming Our Neighbors' Series to be published in this country. The publisher outlines a coordinated program of books in this new series under development and release plans.
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G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Our Neighbors
The Mushroom Book joins The Nature Series
Doubleday Page & Co announces a new volume The Mushroom Book by Nina L Marshall. Following Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted Nature's Garden and The Butterfly Book it includes many color illustrations and numerous black and white plates from remarkable photographs. The work aims to help non scientists identify edible and poisonous mushrooms.
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Doubleday, Page & Co
Nina L. Marshall
Final Oxford edition of Berkeley works by Fraser in 1901
A revised edition of Bishop Berkeley’s complete works prepared for Clarendon Press by Prof. A Campbell Fraser. The four volume crown octavo edition updates the 1871 octavo, adding posthumous works, rewritten introduction and notes, a new brief biography, and fresh material from the last thirty years. Fraser’s edition reflects Berkeley’s influence on European and American thought.
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Bishop Berkeley
Clarendon Press
A. Campbell Fraser
Oxford
Europe
America
Campbell Fraser
About the Bible volume by Charles L. Hammond
A volume titled About the Bible by Charles L Hammond a West Point graduate and retired U S Army officer treats the Bible from various angles from King James and Revised Version criticisms to what public school students know. It includes a chapter on Dr St George Mivart and excerpts from Washington Gladden and Ambassador White. Cooke and Frye publish.
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Charles L. Hammond
West Point
United States Army
St. George Mivart
Washington Gladden
Ambassador White
Christendom
Cooke & Frye
Hoax Confucius Book From Detroit Creator
Readers question authenticity of Ye Wisdom of Confucius or Ye Mummy tyed Fynger by Lord Gilhooley. The publisher Frederick H. Seymour of Detroit is named as the builder of a humorous work presented as Confucian maxims with a sensational red Chinese style cover.
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Confucius
Lord Gilhooley
Frederick H. Seymour
Detroit
Books of the Season on Italian Art and Critics
Edwin Howland Blashfield and Evans Blashfield review Blashfield’s two volume study of Italian art and criticism. They praise the author’s trained eye and insistence on meaning over mere ornament, noting discussions of Sienese painters, Titian, Veronese, and the tension between visual pleasure and plastic achievement.
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Jancy
Titian
Flora
Veronese
Darius
Madonna
Bernhardt
Blashfield
Grille
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