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New York Times

Location

New York, New York, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1908

Page

25

Queries on rare books and poets in a 19th century exchange

A reader asks for the value of a 1792 Whiston Josephus edition from Durell and related rare texts. Other inquiries seek values of a 1791 Collins Bible, Saint Francis de Sales Philothea, Lady Mary Montagu works, Benson Sheaves, and a Galeni Opera Omnia edition. Additional questions request publisher details for works by Grace Greenwood, Theodore Tilton poems, and identification of poems by Schiller and Symons.

Samuel C. Dunn Flavius Josephus William Durell Queen Street William Whiston Whiston Moses Temple of Jerusalem Palestine Brooklyn Philothea Saint Francis of Sales Geneva Dublin James Duffy Wellington Quay W. A. Atkinson Lady Mary Montagu London Richard Phillips St. Paul’s Church Yard Lady Mary Wortley Montagu James Dallaway H. M Henry Fielding New York William Durell & Co Thomas Scott Hartford Sheldon & Goodrich Simeon L. Loomis Scott Cardinal,Newman Anston Santos John Pucct Hieronymum Scotum Venice Andrea Lacuna Laguna Charles V Flanders Metz Rome Galen Hippocrates Claudius Galen Pergamum Mysia Hieronimo Scotto Greece John Thorold

Answers from Readers on Browning and Verses Notes

Readers discuss Browning’s At the Mermaid and Everyman translations, with references to Spitta’s Parting and Lyra Domestica. They review editions, authors, and related poets, and offer alerts on first printings and reprints for sought texts.

Readers seek sources for poems and lines in old cemetery verses

Letters request authors and locations for lines from various poems and tombstone inscriptions. Questions cover a tomb inscription about a hero, near work lines about helping, a 17th century quotation on dust and mind, a royal friendship poem, Cedars and Salem lines, Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Passage of Mohammed, The Battle of Busaco, a line about thunder and lightning, and a misattributed Joaquin Miller fragment.

St. Augustine Fra Edwin Arnold Mohammed Harper's Scribner's P. W. Latham Joaquin Miler

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