Readers' Views on James and the American Scene
Readers debate Henry James in the New York Times Saturday Review. Elizabeth Nunemacher of New Albany criticizes his new Scribner edition and his take on American manners, while Florence Vaulx Henderson comments on a title poem and gendered appeal.
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New York Times Saturday Review of
Henry James
United States
James
Scribner
Concord
New York
San Francisco
Christopher Newman
West
Middle West
Jim
Bill
Mr. James
Jand
Roderick Hudson
Woman’s view on Stringer poetry
A reader in the New York Times Saturday Review of Books contests a letter by G F W about Arthur Stringer’s The Woman in the Rain and Other Poems saying the work may appeal to women. The writer argues the poems offer poignant sympathy for women and touch the woman heart with gentleness and understanding.
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New York Times Saturday Review
Boeks
Igned G. F. W
Arthur Stringer
Stringer
Mr. Stringer
Sappho
Demeter
Aphrodite
Do We Need Ibsen
The Times Saturday review discusses whether American literature today needs the Ibsen spirit a sharp portrayal of inner history over surface trappings and questions the plausibility and value of adopting such a voice within contemporary writing.
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Ork Times
New Missioner
Mally
Bklyn
Feb
Mare
Poets Faith and Inspiration Shape Romantic Shifts
The writer argues that faith is essential to poetic inspiration and notes a shift from Romantic personal introspection to universal humanitarian themes. Citing Heine and contemporaries, the piece suggests a new heralding era as the century turns. New York, Feb. 5.
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Heine
Times
M. Hess
New York
Essays on Art and American Short Story Form
A critical review of Charles Sears Baldwin's Exising Out of Hours and Ellen Burns Sherman’s Words to the Wise and Other Wise. The essay collection by Baldwin features deep literary criticism on Sterne in France Bunyan and Poe and frames the short story as a distinct art. Sherman's volume showcases humor and a broad range of topics from literary style to ghosts with a generous defender of American short fiction.
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Charles Sears Baldwin
New York
Longmans, Green & Co
Ellen Burns Sherman
Henry Hott & Co
Yale University
Atlantic Monthly
Contributors’ Club
Putnam's Monthly
Baldwin
O Sterne
France
Jo Bunyan
America
Raskin
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Gentile Gayety
Comédie- Humaine
Phillis and Corydon letter excerpt from Newburg note
In a Newburg letter dated February 4, BD. CRAIG SCOTT discusses Mr. Arthur Colton and Mr. Meserve works on Corydon and Phillis. He answers Colton’s question about which book is preferred, noting the rose, a kiss, and the affectionate moment as the query’s focal point. The piece reflects literary debate in local reading circles.
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Ork Times
Arthur Colton
Mr. Meserve
Natural History of the Ten Commandments noted in Times review
James T. Bixby from Yonkers comments on Ernest Thompson Seton's book in the New York Times Saturday Review of Books. He notes the work supports a theory of moral inheritance from life’s lineage and cites earlier authors while praising the book as a literary master piece.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Ernest Thompson
Jin
Lyman Abbott
Seton
Eieuraned
Harker
Subje
Uman
Obligation
Guyan
Miss Buckley
Darwin
Prince Kropotkin
Thompson Seton
James T. Bixby
Yonkers, Te Es
Poetry and Faith in Heine Reflected in Barry Essay
A New York Times Saturday Review piece on Dr William Barry's Keralis of Revolt highlights Heines early works as Germany captivation and cites an extract noting how the many seek poetry aligned with their religion and loves, with references to Homer Shakespeare and Dante.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
William Barry
Keralis
Heinrich Heine
Heine
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Cory
Hon
Florence Vaulx Henderson
Phillis and Corydon
Craig Scott
Newburg, N. Y
Natural History of the
NEW
Macmillan Books
H. Fielding Hall
Ovail
Tennanyson
Eversley
Haslam
Lord Tennyson
Henry C. Lea
Ll.d
Spain
Nail
Fairlie
Hutton Webster
E. B. Huey
Agnes & Egerton Castle
Jack London
London
H.G. Wells
St of March
Henry Drummond Wolff
the Macmillan Company
St. Ave
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