Book notices and literary reviews across Cassell and Co publications
A roundup of recent titles including Macfie's Romance of Medicine from Cassell Co and The Royal Family by Pen and Camera with photographs from 1865 onward. Francis Arthur Jones's Edison biography is praised as complete and authoritative. First Folio Shakespeare volumes and Bernard Shaw's The Sanity of Art are noted, along with translations of anarchism works. A miscellaneous fiction excerpt features Ferris, Honoria, and a river accident at Routledge College.
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Macfie
Cassell & Co
Sarah A. Truoley
Shas
Otain
Thomas Alva Edison
Francis Arthur Jones
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Edison
Tessa
Ferris
A Cripple and Two Women Walled In
A critical notice reviews Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's novel where Bryton Ferris, a college professor crippled by an accident, struggles with love between Honoria Tryde and his wife. The piece critiques character depth, moral framing, and the novel's Sunday school tone.
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
the Gates-Ajar
Charles F. Underwood
Newai
London
Harper & Brothers
Honoria Tryde
Bryrton Ferris
Routledge College
Honoria
New York
Ferris
Tessa
Bonaparte in Egypt in an Orientalist English view
A 1907 review of Haji A Browne’s Bonaparte in Egypt outlines the book’s aim to explain modern Egypt to English readers. It notes Egypt’s history from Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, and Turkish rule, the shift from Pharaoh religion to Islam and Christianity, and highlights Cromer’s benevolent despotism. The reviewer praises Browne’s sympathy for Egyptians and warns that withdrawal of England would harm Egyptian governance and progress.
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Tlis
Isda
Valley of
the Nile
Haji A. Browne
Egypt
Mohamed Ali
England
Lord Cromer
Mr. Browne
Browne
Comrade John a Fanciful Tale of a Doomed Cult
Merwin Webster offers a light satire on religious charlatanry in Comrade John. Beechcroft, followers of a quack religion, hire John Chance to build a grand temple fed by hypnotic leader Herman Stein. The tale blends Beechcraft Zion City East Aurora and Coney Island influences with a lath and plaster finish.
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John
Merwin Webster
George E. Burr
New York
the Macmillan Company
Beechcroft
Catskill Mountains
Herman Stein
John Chance
Stein
Beechcraft
Chance
Zion City
East Aurora
Coney Island
The Settlers of Karossareek by Louis Becke
Tales of Australian life depict eastern coast settlements twenty to thirty years ago. The volume contrasts small farmer contenders with squatters who guard vast grazing runs and follows a refined smugglers’ clan amid bush fires shipwrecks and various misadventures.
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Louis Becke
Karossareek
J. B. Lippincott. Company
Australia
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Pytint A Browne
Charles Berliner
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Wiggin
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Philad
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Harold M. Kramer
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
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Etarre
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Natural’ Science
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Kentucky
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