Wagner's Letters to Minna Show Love Amid Struggles
A portrait of Richard Wagner and his wife Minna Planer through their letters reveals a gifted couple pressured by poverty, travel, and delayed performances. Wagner’s devotion shines as he sends money, pleads for patience, and recalls triumphs like Der Fliegende Hollander amid harsh early years.
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Richard Wagner
Minna
Germany
Wagner
Minna Planer
Dresden
Paris
Vienna
Belloni
Wagener
Weib
Charmantingen Richel
Minna Wagner
Character Study in the Shoulders of Atlas
A Harper and Brothers review of Mary ER Wilkins Freeman's ERE novel. It praises the main elderly New England heroine for her moral courage in denying a hoped for inheritance and reveals the allegory of bearing burdens. The article notes a flawed love plot but emphasizes conscience and duty as core themes.
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Mary ER. Wilkins Freeman
New York
London
Harper& Brothers
Atlas
New England
Each in His Own Tongue by Carruth: Poem's Rise
The piece by William Herbert Carruth, head of Germanic Languages at the University of Kansas, was written in 1891 92 and has gained world wide recognition as a short poem of merit. It was printed first in The New England Magazine after editors declined it. The State Penitentiary Kansas prints copies for inmates.
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William Herbert Carruth
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Kan
State Penitentiary of
Kansas
New England
A Close View of Army Life By Summerhayes An Army Memoir
A New England woman recalls life with Lt John W Summerhayes in frontier posts across Arizona California Nevada Texas and beyond. The memoir, frank and humorous, portrays soldier life from a wife’s perspective, with vivid travel hardships and frontier routines. It notes political critique elsewhere in the text.
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RS. Summerhayes
New England
John W. Summerhayes
David's Island
Long Island Sound
Fort Slocum
Martha Dunham
Nantucket
Eighth Infantry
Fort Russell
Cheyenne
Hanover
Wyoming Territory
Elend
Jack Summerhayes
Heine
Arizona
San Francisco
Colorado
Summerhayes
Philippines
Pacific Coast
Gulf of California
Gulf
Colorado River
Fort Mojave
Fort Whipple
Counterfeit Citizen sparks debate on immigration bias
A review of A Counterfeit Citizen from Broadway Publishing condemns its anti alien stance, especially toward Italians, and argues the author generalizes harms in the immigration service. It notes claims of wholesale fraud in passports and naturalization papers and contrasts with the decent foreign-born populace. Also mentions Recollections of My Army Life by Martha Summerhayes from Lippincott Philadelphia.
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Broadway Publishing Company
Immigration Service
Scudder
Arizona
Martha Summerhayes
Philadelphia
Press of J. B. Lippincott Company
Famous French Salons Through Charming Women
A New York Brentano's edition reviews Frank Hamel's Famous French Salons. The book profiles Mme de Rambouillet Ninon de Lenclos Mme Récamier and nine other women. It classifies salons by theme and explores their social and human value with balanced judgments.
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Frank Hamel
New York
Brentano's
Mr. Hamel
Mme. de Raumbouillet
Ninon de Lenclos
Mme
Mme. Récamier
Mme. du Deffand
Old Mr. Davenant's Money in Elmhampton Tale
A review of a novel featuring Pauline Davenant who visits wealthy cousins in a Hamptons like enclave. Lena a simple country girl withstands plots and spurning rich offers, choosing the humble but true partner. The piece praises gentility over idle wealth and notes moral hints and attractive country life depictions.
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Pauline Davenant
Elmhampton
Long Island
Hampton
Lena
Hamptons
Henry Ward Beecher
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Larry
Zwei Baende
G. E. Stechert & Co
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Law Courts
MR. Davenant
Frances Powell
Charlies Scribner’s Sons
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