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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
25
A Baltimore writer rails at editors who prefer celebrity names over merit, recounts how Blackwood and Dickens sought fresh talent, and urges rewarding essays on Ruskin and Arnold. He mocks vanity patrons, praises honest criticism, and calls for renewed focus on literary quality.
A republication argues essays remain vital as magazines launch a record for “the men who do things.” It rejects claims essays are out of fashion and urges renewed interest in belles lettres and criticism, noting a shift toward urgency in reviving serious reflective writing.
The author responds to J Lee Phillips criticism in The Saturday Review about rarity claims of maps and engravings. He notes Phillips found two of seven rare items and urges continued examination of LOC holdings to reveal more rarities such as the Duyckinck map and Burgis Prospect. He cites Fiske's Dutch and Quaker Colonies misstatement as part of the motive for his brochure on the Bradford Map.
The Evelyn Nordhoff Bindery held its second annual exhibition of books and leatherwork at 114 East Twenty-third Street on Dec 14 and 15. Florence Foote exhibited bindings from Cobden-Sanderson inspired designs in brown pigskin and brown levant morocco on works by Morris Rossetti Browning and others with blind tooling and gold accents.
John D. Barry writes to The New York Times Saturday Review exposing edits by editor Arthur Grissom in The Smart Set January issue. He cites numerous verbal changes, some minor and others absurd, noting a Har vard graduate line altered to It looks like it's all over and asking for withdrawal that was refused.
George from New York writes to The New York Times Saturday Review arguing a quotation attributed to Wordsworth likely comes from The Solitary Reaper. He notes it is the first four lines of the third stanza of that poem.
January issue date of The World's Work described with reader subscriptions and pricing. Highlights include The Monthly Review article by the Earl of Robesbury on William Pitt letters, Mrs Seton-Thompson book A Woman Tenderfoot, J L Gilder autobiography The Tom Boy, and a new edition of Our Forefathers furniture book with price and formats. Doubleday Page & Co. advertises.
A historical note discusses Routledge edition poems from 1889 titled Tour in Scotland 1803 and the confusion over Solitary Highland Lass Reaping and Singing versus The Highland Girl. It cites Wordsworth quotations with possible word variants such as perchance and perhaps, linking to old and unhappy far-off things and battles long ago.
Jane Marsh Parker of Detroit writes to The New York Times Review praising William Vaughn Moody's Gloucester Moors. She asks readers to name the December leading monthlies poem and to share their favorite line. She expresses surprise at little public mention of Moody and calls for reader input.
The December number of Pets and Animals offers pet keeping hints and accompanying illustrations. Bertha E. Ashby designed the attractive cover with a jingle by Minnie Francesa Brown. The issue includes a Clara B. West story The Thief Who Won the Prize and Olive Hyde Foster essay A Zoo Conducted by a Woman describing a typical New England Christmas.
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