Katharine Wheel and St Katharine in Islington Portraits
Reading excerpts on Katharine of Braganza and the Katharine Wheel Inn Islington. Pepys mentions Hales portrait and Islington’s dairies and tea gardens. Includes inquiries about British publication agencies and references to Martinique and various authors and poems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katharine of Braganza
Great Britain
John Hayls
Hales
Peter Lely
Pepys
Thomas Pepys
Islington
London
King’s Head
Pitts
Katharine Wheel Inn
St. Katharine
Questioned authorship of an old English song debated
Readers dispute W P 4 Oliver on who wrote a famous stanza linked to Eugene Field and Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. The exchange traces the line to old English songs, noting The Gentleman's Journal and its motto, with claims of unknown authorship and modern rediscovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M
W. P
Oliver
E.G. B
Eugene Fiy'd
Cheaml
C. Wang
Eugene Field
Howard P. Arnold
Gentleman’s Journal
London
Pierre Antoine
Anthony Motteux
Rouen
Cave
Gentleman's Magazine
Gentleman's Journal
Monthly Intelligencer
da Simetiere
Europe
Harper & Brothers
R. L. C. White
Inquirer
Lomes
Sir John Lubbock
Lubbock
Field
Judge Methuen
Ireland
Readers seek sources for quoted Kipling lines and others
Inquiries request the origins and authors of quoted verses. Noted lines include Kipling’s The Court ing of Dinah Shadd and other fragments about youth, heaven’s gate, gold, and orthodox sentiment. Readers ask where to find these stanzas and who wrote them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
Dinah Shadd
Heaven
Inquiry on locating out of print book and magazine files
A reader seeks a copy of Wife Maid or Widow by Julia Brown S B Herrick and asks where to find a complete file or index of The Home Maker magazine from 1891 2. They request the author of a poem about town and country meeting and lines about factory smoke and clover sweet. They ask for author of a poem beginning To try is better than the thing you try for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B
England
Scotland
French West Indies
St. Pierre
Lafcadio Hearn
Harpers, Macmillan
Putnam's Sons
Great Britain
New York
International Publications, Limited
Fifth Avenue
Publishers’ Weekly
Broadway
Anglo-American Authors’ Association
Martinique
S. Carvalho
Harper's Magazine
North America
Daney
Guesde
la Guadeloupe
Julia Brown
S. B. Herrick
Jenny June
Croly
The
Home Maker
C. D
Jones Buckham
S. B
The Professor and the Poets
A critical review of William Morton Payne's The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century. The piece argues poetry resists prose translation and Payne's essays treat poets as life interpreters, praising some sensibly while critiquing the limits of criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Holt & Co
William Morton Payne
Wisconsin
Kansas
Chicago
Payne
Keats
Shelley
Byron
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Landor
Browning
Tennyson
Arnold
Rossetti
Morris
Swinburne
Matthew Arnold
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William P. Bacon
W. W. Wright
Kenneth Brown
Merk Twain
Longfellow
Elizabeth
G. C
Jamie
M. Co. L
RB. S
Stephen Hawes
John Heywood
Fox
George Tankerfield
Lysbeth Curran
William Herbert Carruth
Socrates
Ang Jesus
H. Brooks
Albany
Sing Sing
Tom Hallard
L. A
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A. F.V
Paul
Peter
J. Holzderber
Anderson Auction Company
Bangs & CO
West 29Th Street
New York Public Library
Lewis H. Bruttis
Henry Goldsmith
H. F. Vories
New Orleans
R. D
E. C. Benedict
Massachusetts
Grolier Club
William C. Hess
George M. Williamson
Association
Madison
U. S
Adams Studios
Ralph Randolph Adams
St. Bet
the Adams Bindery Books
Adams
Book Exchange
Reliance Book Store
East 14Th St
York
Nassau St
Wa Times
N. Y. American
L. Carr
Washington St
Brooklyn
Lincolniana
A. S. Clark
Peek_Bkill
N.Y
Magazine OF American History
Chester
Levant
Beacon
Stoddard
Appleton
Cyclopaedia of
Pepy
Davis
West 42d Street
West 42d
Bryant
W. G. Snow
Meriden
Onn
Manhattan
Durgeon
East 234
Gramercy
Guy de Maupassant
Walter Dunne
Nottingham
Edward E. Levi
Liberty St
Thomson- Pitt Book City Ltd
Essex House
Union Library Association
East
New York City
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