Terence and Menander in a New Edition
Terence offers high quality comedies rooted in Roman life while critics debate originality. Prof. Ashmore’s new edition presents Terence with Tyrrel’s Latin text and English commentary, detailing Terence’s life as a Phoenician-born Roman writer and the drama’s moral depth.
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Erence
Terence
Plautus
Terenca
Sellar
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Menander
Europe
Maeterlinck
Socrates
Plato
St. Paul
Germany
Phormio
Andria
Epicurus
Thais
Vatican
Metropoltan Museum of Art
Ashmore
Tyrrel
Rome
Davos
Parmeno
Mascarillo
Scapia
Jemmy
Trapanti
Leporello
Henry James as a critic in serious prose
A brief literary note compares Henry James to Kipling, praising his mature voice while noting his boyish facade. It also references Terence’s comedies edited by Sidney G. Ashmore with scholarly apparatus from Oxford University Press.
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Kipling
Mr. James
Terence
Sidney G. Ashmore
New York
Oxford University Press
Art of the Short Story in Ten Typical Specimens
Mabie's collection assembles ten classic tales by Dickens Hawthorne Stevenson Wister Aldrich Poe Austin Shorthouse and Allen to compare early and later short story styles and reading types The selections emphasize reading value and study rather than a definitive best ten with notes on each choice and its significance.
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Macmillan Company
Hamilton W. Mabie
Dickens
Hawthorne
Stevenson
Wister
T. B. Aldrich
Poe
William Austin
Br. John Brown
J. Henry Shorthouse
James Lane Allen
Ile
Austin
Peter Rugg
Man
New England Galaxy
Mr. Mabie
Dr. Brown
Rab
Aldrich
Shorthouse
Marquis Jeanne Hyacinth
St. Palace
Allen
Kentucky
Dr. Marigold
School Reports and School Efficiency
A New York committee led by Charles C. Burlinghan promotes school welfare records to reveal truancy, attendance, sickness and needs. David S. Snedden and William H. Allen analyze how to standardize reports for public insight and better funding, urging clear, comparable data.
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Charles C. Burlinghan
New York Board of Education
David S. Snedden
Teachers College
William H. Allen
Association For Improving the
Bureau of Municipal Research
Board of Education
New York Committee On Physical Welfare
New York
the Macmillan Company
The New East Lynne prompts literary revival debate
A review likens Clara Morris's The New East Lynne to a near replica of Mrs Wood's tale. It questions originality, warns of a growing trend to rewrite classics, and contemplates a new industry of revived works. The piece notes potential shifts in literature and risks of exploitation.
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East Lynne
Clara Morris
C. H. Doscher & Co
Mrs. Wood
Miss Morris
China
Tom Jones
Eugene Aram
Jane Austen
Artemus Ward
Petroleum V. Nasby
New edition of The Poet's Poet on Spenser edited by Dodge
Cambridge Poets series releases a revised Spenser edition by Prof. Rh A Neil Dodge. It updates the Shepherds Calendar Daphnaida and Faerie Queene texts with modern spellings and notes, includes a glossary of archaisms, biographical introductions, and a frontispiece. Price is $3.
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Cambridge
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Edmund Spenser
Rh. A. Neil Dodge
University of Wisconsin
British Museum
Spenser
Dodge
Earl of Kinnoull
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