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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
18
A compact digest from a 19th or early 20th century periodical listing items on Bonaparte women in review, society library in olden days, lyric drama in New York, Schurz’s view of Bismarck, books of verses, and editors drift in London literary gossip with readers’ notices and new york book announcements.
A survey of Christmas book ads shows British holiday offerings skew toward religion history biographies and serious fiction. Out of about five hundred titles in The Spectator issue, religion dominates at roughly one in six, with fiction and travel also represented and American authors appearing among a varied modern selection.
A review discusses The Ideal of a Gentleman by A Smythe-Palmer. The book gathers quotations from Ptahhotep to Mrs Deland to form a cyclopedia of gentlehood and suggests daily reading could improve manners and character.
The column notes three new Shakespeare works by Maurice Francis Egan Canon Beeching and Frank Harris with a future Harris volume The Man William Shakespeare and His Most Tragic Life Story Harris is a noted yet largely unread writer The piece also mentions W Robertson Nicoll English literature in the Victorian Era due next autumn across six volumes from Hodder Stoughton and notes sales of Ian Maclaren by 12 000 copies Andrew Carnegie among buyers It ponders first novel competitions inviting pseudonym submissions by Kipling Corelli Meredith and others Galbraith.
Boston notices announce publication of The Passing of the Tariff by Raymond L Bridgeman with comment on Andrew Carnegie opinions. January will also bring David Brant by Morley Roberts and a verse piece The Days of Long Ago by Warren Comstock, with Will Livezey artwork.
A Christmas Valentine themed volume from Bobbs Merrill priced at 2.50 features colored plates of beautiful women by Howard Chandler Christy and others. The quarto edition presents bold decorations and white or dashed boards with illustrations.
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