Questions and Answers on Biographies and Poems
A reader seeks authentic details on Ed Orton Monson and Mary Shelton Mackenzie, plus background on Edward Wortley Montagu and Henryk Sienkiewicz. The column provides biographical sketches, publication notes, and references to works and translations, including quo vadis and the life of Lowell.
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Edward Wortley Montagu
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Thomas Noel
Lowell
Shelton Mackenzie
Ed Orney
Mary
Robert Shelton Mackenzie
Drews Court
Limerick County
Ireland
Philadelphia
Dr. Maginn
London
British Museum
Edward Vaughan Hyde
Kenealy
Orton
Montagu
J. M. Rigg
Padua
East
Venice
Wola Okrzelska
Poland
Warsaw
United States
Mme. Modjeska
Los Angeles
Cal
Africa
England
Jeremiah Curtin
Iza Young
Question of Authorship of The Sack of the Gods Poem
Floyd Owen notes no answer to C F M’s query about the poem The Sack of the Gods in The Naulahka Chapters XVII. He suspects Kipling authored it and cites Kipling’s style and anonymous verse links. J A responds about the blue Canton China legend and recalls Mrs Burgess of Brooklyn as earlier author.
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Floyd Owen
Rudyard Kipling
Wolcott Balestier
Kipling
J. A
Burgess Brooklyn
Readers seek author and text of forgotten poems
A column invites readers to identify poem titles and authors from memory. Submissions request lines from an early poem about memories of Ireland and a piece on the opening of a pyramid tomb, plus fragments referencing Maryland, stars over the sea, a shore scene, wedding vows, and other verses.
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Jurdhy
Thomas Noel
Dana
Bliss Carman
M. W
Columbia
Enniskilien
Lough Erne
Bophia Ladd
P. H
Maryland
Maryland Union
Upton
Readers respond with poems about Kipling and love
A section presents reader poetry and responses to Kipling's The Vampire. Poems express themes of deceit, lost vows, unshared grief, and hopes for publication. Readers discuss romance, fidelity, fear, and wooden records of sentiment amid editorial notes.
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Earth
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John P. Titgeland
Charles H. Kerr & Co
East Kinzie Street
Chicago
Co. of
Ee Sen King
India
Charles U. Cate
Statin
L. O
the Vampire
You
TIMES
Bert
Darling
Leseline Tee Bagren
Eoy New
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Nanteuil
Drevet
Edelinck
Rembrandt
George van Nest Baldwin
New York
Anderson Auction Company
East 46Th St
Maiden
Fulton St
John
Cochrane Publishing Co
Tribune Building
New York City
THE
NEW York Times
Dumas
Morocco
Stoddard
Encyclopaedia Americana
Library of Historic Morocco
Warner
Secere
Vomprocec
Serueen
Vis
West
Dickens
Plato
Ree
F. Peterson
West 21St &T
America
West Indies
Texas
Autens
Address Latin-American Book Co
Front St
Old Curiosity Shop
Saratoga, N. Y
Rollins
Copees Poor’s
Er Pub. Co
U. S. Express
Reliance Book Shop
East 14Th St
Moody’s
Dixie Book Shop
Liberty St
Bishop Carmichael
R. James
Station
Montreal
Lincoln Books, Portraits, &c
F. D. Tandy Co
East 21St St
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Auk
Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitholical Club
American Historical Review
American Journal of Er
de Bons Review
Cassier’s Magazine
Brary Journal
Forum
New York Genealogical and Biograph
Poor's Railroad Manuals
Magazine of
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Political Science Quarterly
Journal of Political Economy
Yale Review
J. W. Cadby
Grand St
Albany, N. Y
Pa’ &c
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Miden
Conn
Easton St
Teles
Charles Anderson
Box
Dress Box
C. Gould
Manchester
John the Baptist
Duncan, N
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Appleton, Au
Boys of
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Times Square
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