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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1908
Page
15
Poem evokes summer scene with bees, locusts, breezes, and a couple wandering through golden weather. Vivid nature imagery frames a nostalgic journey to youth and Arcady. Reading from Everybody's Magazine July issue, the verse captures tranquil rural bliss.
The discussion chronicles Linda Glyn’s verdict that Mark Twain ranks as the most distinguished citizen, with her memory-based report of private remarks by Clemens, and notes Twain’s quotation as a controversial addition to contemporary genius. It contrasts Roosevelt’s reception and Glyn’s popularity.
Cheramy edits the unpublished memoir of French actress Mlle Josephine Marguerite George covering 1802 to 1808 with anecdotes about Napoleon Bonaparte and Talma. The work, written in 1857, is presented as harmless but notes reveal the actor and era, with Napoleon as the central figure and remarks on his impulsiveness and childishness.
John Salkeld died in London aged 81. A renowned second hand bookseller, he began collecting and selling books in youth and befriended eminent literary figures such as Macaulay Thoms elder, Dilke and John Forster. He ran a notable shop on Clapham Road for over thirty years and contributed rare finds to modern historic book collections.
The Cowper house in Olney Buckinghamshire England was given to the town in 1900 and runs as the Cowper and Newton Museum. It preserves autograph letters manuscripts Cowper’s watch mirror and walking stick a rich library and rooms tied to his life. The parlor holds his hymns and The Task while John Gilpin and the Loss of the Royal George were written there. It survives on 90 dollars a year and trustees appeal for more donations.
A rare first edition of Homer sold in London for 1650 dollars, matching a prior record of 1900 dollars for the 1488 Editio Princeps. The Huskier Library from New Jersey supplied the Homer purchase at Sotheby’s. The note mentions other works linked to Lance Falconer, the pen name of Mary Elizabeth Hawker, who died June 16.
This week brings two weighty new novels: Together by Robert Herrick from Macmillan and Redemption, a translation of Bazin's De Toute Son Ame from Scribner's. Herrick’s work, his first in three years, begins with the marriage of the central couple and extends about six hundred pages exploring their life after marriage.
A collection titled Views and Reviews gathers Henry James early papers revealing singular clarity of view. The volume compiles criticism on literature and art, illustrating James’s developing sensibility and distinctive critical voice.
A critical note on Henry James early papers gathered by Le Roy Phillips. The essaying reviewer praises James for mastery of language across Eliot Browning Morris Arnold and Kipling with praise for his later subtlety and mature style. It notes the balanced critiques of Eliot Whitman and Browning and highlights James as a precocious talent at age 22 with enduring poised judgment.
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