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An excerpt from The Woman in the Rain depicts snowy attire and a theater audience watching a mock romance. The speaker notes the contrast between stage love and real life, with a lingering, unresolved farewell as the curtain falls.
Topics of the Week in The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly contributors debate literary West versus popular press depictions and cherish precise English yet defend everyday speech. Emily James Putnam criticizes classical education while praising culture and future Putnam's readership combines with The Reader to form a new Putnam's Sons publication. Ellen Glasgow's The Ancient Law and Samuel Hopkins Adams's The Flying Death arrive from publishers as notable new works.
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Disraeli’s Borrowings and Lear in English Society
The London Spectator notes Disraeli’s habit of borrowing from others and cites an exchange about Gladstone’s cabinet. It discusses Edward Lear known for Nonsense Books whose Travels in Greece inspired Tennyson verses, and Lear’s Knowsley Menagerie drawings that helped him enter English society around 1882.
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Race of Destiny Four Books on Race and Civilization
A critical examination surveys four volumes exploring how Black, Yellow, and Brown peoples fit into European created social orders. The work argues the White man’s civilizational project shaped definitions of civilization and racial hierarchy across nations.
The Duty of Optimism in the White Man's Burden
A critical review of Leonard Alston's The White Man's Work in Asia and Africa argues the book mixes ethnology with optimism about Western influence. It contrasts liberal reform with theories of racial hierarchy, noting calls for assimilation over displacement and acknowledging nature’s role in human progress.
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