Readers Debate Civil War Legacies and Biographies
Letters discuss Lee as possibly the war’s greatest soldier and the North South split on causes of the conflict. Readers reference Lincoln, Lodge, Bryce, and Lincoln’s role, while debating biography writing and the influence of biographers on subjects. The exchange includes criticism of Roosevelt and Emerson ideas and cites 1908 opinions from Lynchburg Virginia New York Times and Philadelphia.
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Robert E. Lee
Page
P. Page
Lee
North
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas H. Benton
Appomattox
Petersburg
Abraham Lincoln
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
James Bryce
R. H. T. Adams
Lynchburg
Biography or Biographer. I. The Mansfield portrait
The biographer of Richard Mansfield presents him in an amiable light, echoing Samuel Smiles that biography shows what a man can be at his best. The writer hides himself to let the character shine, aiming for self-effacement as the measure of biographical art.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Richard Mansfield
Mansfield
Washington, D. C
Emerson
N. T.B
Wilstock
Stoker
Irving
Philip Vaux Carson
Philadelphia
Samuel Smiles
Yonkers, N. Y
Poem Found Between Leaves Teaches a Bitter Yet Tender Farewell
A pasted poem discovered in a book carries a heartfelt farewell from Tudor Jenke of Bronxville dated December 23, 1908. The speaker thanks a former beloved for lessons on vanity and devotion to the divine, noting sorrow but praising growth and reverence as the lesson’s end.
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Tudor Jenke
Bronxville, N. Y
Desert Island Book Choice Proposed by Readers
The Saturday Review of December 12 notes a literary journal’s reader challenge to pick one book that would best serve a castaway on a desert island. The editor suggests a dictionary as a clever, edifying pick.
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New York Times
Saturday Review of Books
Saturday Review
New York Times Saturday Review of Books Receives List
The week ended December 24 saw Putnam's Sons and other publishers sending new works to The New York Times Saturday Review of Books for review. The list highlights titles from P. Putnam's Sons and other publishers.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Fresh water from Dwell. the of the Bible moral lessons
A catalogish summary lists religious works and authors with publishers and formats. Notable items include The Bride of Christ, The Philosophy of Living, Irene Liscomb, The Kiss of Helen, Marion, The Book of My Heart, Each in His Own Tongue and Other Poems, and Fragments of Empedocles.
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Robert G. Seymour
New York
Griffith
Rowland
Paul Carus
Chicago
Open Ee Company
Ouitnth
Cincinnati
C. J. Krehbiel
Ludge West
Fleming H. Revell
Weel
Eilison
Broadway Publishing Company
Esmee
Broadway Pubiene
Ned Cents
IRENE _LISCOMB
Melanie Alice Weil
the Library Shelf
William Herbert Carruth
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Empedocles
William Ellery Leonard
Open Court
Laura Simmons
Boston
the Atlanta Press
STATE CONTROL OF COURSES OF STUDY
Public discussion on regulating school curriculums and religious instruction within systems. Authors cited include Brownscombe and Hyde. publishers in New York and Edinburgh. The list lists education and philosophy works with varied formats and prices.
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Brownscombe
New York
Bilver, Burdett & Co
Walter Rosen
The
D. van Nosane Company
J. E. Sampter
Robert Kerr Press
Will de Witt Hyde
Edward Howard Griggs
B. W., Huebsch
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ian Anthony M. Ludovici
Edinburgh
T.N. .Foulis
Horace Allen
D. van Nostrand Company
Herrmann L. Degener
George H. Stechert & Co
Singer
Scribeibe
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Journal
DR. Hamilton
Mary A. Fisher
Cochrane Publishing Company
Rudolf Cronan
Mitchell Kennerley
Chumsor
Gertrude Ogden Tubby
Charles Oliver Hoyt
Silver, Burdett & Co
Otto Eggeling
Frederick Ehrenberg
Henry Holt & Co
James Clayton Mitchell
Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Gus
Brohm
Isle
H. W. B. Kantner
Denver
Col
Book notices and new titles from a 19th century listing
A catalog of recent books and publications with authors and publishers including From the Anvil by Geneva V. elitcott, The Dark Corner by Zach McGhee, The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment by Horace Edgarde, and other works from Houghton Mifflin, Putnam, Grafton, Scribner, and Ball.
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Theogy
Sing
Gustav Konnecke
Follo
New Stechert & Co
Geneva V. Elcott
Charles W. Eliot
Boston
Houghton Mifflin Company
William Alexander Maccorkle
New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Zach McGhee
Grafton Press
Horace Edgarde
University Studies In
Baltimore
Johns Tee Tenes
Percy J.smith
Charles Scribner's
Eae Industrial Bolutyon
Bovan Boo
Eons Belt” Publishing Company
al Public Company
H. G. Wells
Ball Publishing Company
Toensy-W. Sauna
Han E. Roy
West 3Ven
Saun
New Fors
Books in Demand at New York Public Library
The circulating department lists the week ending December 22 with top adult fiction including Fox's Prall of the Lonesome Pine Chambers Firing Line and Ward Testing of Diana Mallory. Juvenile titles Wiggin Bird's Christmas Carol Dodgson Alice in Wonderland Lang Blue Fairy Book. Non fiction Ibsen Plays Monroe History of Education and Petrie's Egyptian Tales.
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New York Public Library
Fox
The
Lonesome Pine
Chambers
and Ward
Diana Mallory
Wiggin
Bird
Dodgson
Lang
Ibsen
Monroe
Dickens Fellowship Seeks Members Worldwide
The Dickens Fellowship invites true lovers of Charles Dickens to join. Send name to Freddie A. Lyons M D at 50 East 63d Street Manhattan Branch to receive information on the society’s aims and membership forms.
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Dickens Fellowship
Charles Dickens
Freddie A. Lyons
M. D
East 63d St
Manhattan
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Herbert A. Sargent
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Everyman's Library
New York Times Saturday Review
George D. Dutton
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