National crusade for municipal art gains ground in Washington
A Washington meeting ignites a national push for city beauty. The American Institute of Architects backed by a nine member Municipal Improvements Committee seeks a Congress plan for Washington topography and architecture.
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Lessons in Love in Katrina Trask’s Stories
Mrs Sherwood reviews Katrina Trask's Lessons in Love lauding originality and quiet depth. The eight tales include Acts and Entr actes Hall Mark and Beyond with the standout tale Beyond pairing wit with honest toil and a dramatic railway crash. The reviewer notes beauty, suspense, and sharp English prose throughout.
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Trask’s Poetic Prose Glitters With Love’s Redeeming Light
A historical review praises Mrs. Trask for masterful poetry in After All and related pieces. It likens her work to an electric fountain of imagery, ruby and emerald showers, where love illuminates nature and lends patience, virtue, and resilience amid grief and disappointment.
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Letter criticizes Stringtown on the Pike for glorifying a depraved villain
Raymond Fuller Ayers writes to The New York Times Saturday Review to denounce John Lloyds Stringtown on the Pike for portraying Red-Hend, Red Nordman, the red headed boy, as a bloodthirsty Kentucky mountaineer. He contends the novel leans on gore and racist imagery, marred by a nauseating portrait amid claims of national injustice.
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Revised two volume edition of Stevenson letters announced
Methuen and Company announce an early publication of a carefully revised two volume edition of the Stevenson letters at 6 shillings each. The cheaper edition will include new letters to George Meredith and Kipling, marking the fourth English edition after the first sold for a premium.
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Equity and shared harvest in old verse
A terse moral verse by John B. Tabl about fair division of crops. It argues that if one man reaps another’s field only a portion should be kept, warning that taking the whole would provoke accusations of theft.
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