Book Reviews Highlight Mills and Pier in July Edition
New York readers receive brief critiques of F. J. Mills's A Mistaken Marriage set in South Africa with a sharp look at a deceitful husband and a melodramatic ending. Garrett Chatfield Pier's Inscriptions of the Nile Monuments offers translations, photographs, and a tourer’s aid with maps and notes for Nile excursions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garrett Chatfield Pier
Nile Monuments
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Nile
Valley of the
Pier
The
Old
Egypt
A Heroine from an Asylum in Anne of the Green Gables
The reviewer notes a mix up sending a girl from a Nova Scotia asylum to work on a Prince Edward Island farm. Anne stands out as highly educated for her age, yet the critic argues she spoils L M Montgomery’s tale by overwhelming the other characters with advanced speech and ideas.
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Prince Edward's Island
Nova- Scotia
L. M. Montgomery
Anne of the Green Gables
K. C. Page & Co
Bernard Shaw
Alfred Austin
Supreme Court
Asylum
SOME PARVENUS AT NEWPORT THE DUCHESS OF DREAMS
Edith Macrane chronicles Newport society as parvenus ride a social wave by hosting the Grand Duchess Varvara from Russia. Mrs Rumbold’s social rise rests on her husband’s wealth and her own brass. The tale unfolds with hotel intrigue and high society prestige.
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Parvenus
Newport
Grand Duchess
Varvara
Russia
Mrs. Rumbold
Stormcliff
A Strange Record by Mount Houmas recounts a single heroine
A Brooklyn woman marries or shifts roles across life as a surgeon to New Orleans. She assumes male dress and name, returns to being a heroine, and dies before revealing her true self. The tale follows love offers, emigration, marriage, and a shipwreck with a dramatic reunion on a sinking vessel.
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Mount Houmas
Neale Publishing Company
Brooklyn
New Orleans
Ireland
America
Ethel
Seth
West Indies
Nile Tourists Face Gaps In Hieroglyphic Writings
In the Nile regions visitors encounter monumental inscriptions that yield limited information. Scholars note the abundance of unreadable or damaged glyphs hampers understanding and interpretation of ancient texts.
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Nile
The Searchers novel reviewed in Los Angeles
A critical look at Stephen Szy manowski's The Searchers a Southern California Printing Company release about a lost Princess in Los Angeles and a series of philosophical debates on the earth's age featuring Dr Shringier and Mr Irving. The story's main plot is minor, but the discussions about science and philosophy dominate the text.
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Stephen K. Szymanowski
Southern California Printing Company
Mr. Szymanowski
Los Angeles
Dr. Shringier
Mr. Irving
Irving
Dr. Thringier
Earth
Paul
Gamaliel
Miss Celeste Miller’s Far East Travel Memoir Reviewed
A review of Celeste J. Miller’s The Newest Way Round the World notes the book centers on a recent Far East journey using common routes. It finds little new insight for seasoned readers and highlights a Japanese steamship purser who confuses Chicago with a mere dot on the map.
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Celeste J. Miller
Calkins & Co
Far East
Miss Miller
Russia
China
Japan
Korea
Osaka
New York
United States
Chicago
Gardens Old and New in The Lore of the Garden Volume II
A review of Gardens Old and New Volume II edited by H. Avray Tipping notes its broad survey of historic and modern gardens in England and abroad. It highlights examples at Hatfield House, Westbury Court, Castle Ashby, Easton Lodge, and the Deanery Gardens, with an introduction tracing garden lore from Pliny.
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H. Avray Tipping
M. A
Charles Latham
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
Hatflela House
Westbury Court
England
Castle Ashby
Easton Lodge
Pliny
Stories of the Four Million by O Henry review
New York City writer O Henry captures city life with wit and warmth in Stories of the Four Million. The collection spans Bohemia and Wall Street, with relatable characters from dry goods clerks to gamblers. The volume charms with pointed satire and wholesome realism, ending on The Memento about Miss Rosalie Ray.
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O. Henry
New York
the McClure Company
New York City
O, Henry
Bohemia
Wall Street
Harlem
East Side
Rosalie Ray
Lady Julia's Emerald by Heben Hes ter Colville
A charming tale about Lesley a girl who pursues art and love under the influence of the emerald. The heroine is likable and natural with a light touch of humor and an agreeable style. Summer reading in a solid, nonvapid manner. Jobin Lane Company New York $1.60.
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Julia
Heben Hester Colville
Field
Hill
Lesley
Miss Colville
Jobin Lane Company
New York
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John Lane Company
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Angelique Hooper
Jack Barridalle
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Duchess OF Dreams
Edith Macrane
Alonzo Kimball
Philadelphia
London
J. B Lippincott Company
Economy
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