Dumas as D Artagnan in a powder plot tale
A review doubts Dumas's memoirs claiming epic courage and drama in a Soissons powder expedition tale. It notes Dumas narrates a dangerous mission to seize powder for revolutionaries, aided by a youth, a postillion dispute, and a bold pistol bluff, ending with 3000 pounds of powder brought to Paris.
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Alexandre. Dumas
D’artagnan
D'Artagnan
Dumas
Three Guardsmen
Soissons
la Fayette
Charles X
Paris
la Fére
Postillion
Villers-Cotterets
Hutin
Bard
Jumas
Messieurs
Monsieur
le Moniteur
Gen. la Fayette
Notable Insights on Russia’s Revolutionary Movement
The review critiques Wallings study of the Russian Revolution arguing the defection of the Constitutional Democratic Party weakens the revolutionary drive and that the movement spreads among workers and priests. It notes the Czar’s oppression of church and state and calls the work essential for understanding modern upheavals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Walling
English Pastoral Drama from Restoration to Lyrical Ballads
Jeannette Marks surveys the pastoral as a literary form from its ancient roots to English stage practice 1660 to 1798. She traces Italian and Spanish influences, notes early English dramatists using pastoral tones, and analyzes the shift toward farce and theatre over literature. The study highlights a list of pastoral dramatists and concludes with a critical bibliography.
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Iss Marks
Mount Holyoke College
Stesichorus
Theocritus
Bion
Moschus
Virgil
Calpurnius
Baptista Mantuanus
Spenser
Poliziano
Tasso
Spain
France
England
Peele
Paris
Lyly
Fletcher
Jonson
Bartholomew Fair
Miss Marks
London
Cibber
Congreve
Shakespeare
Houghton, Chettle
Samuel Daniel
Fletcher Samuel Brooke
Walter Montague
Thomas Goffe
Ben Jonson
Ralph Knevett
Jeannette Marks, M. A
Wellesley
Methuen & Co
The Iliad of the East in a Modern Verse Collection
New York edition presents Frederika MacDonald’s selection from Valmiki’s Ramayana rendered through French translation. The review highlights quaint yet majestic poetry with ethical themes and lasting imagery, noting Rama and Ravana, Hanuman, and scenes like Ganga’s descent as notable passages.
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Yvalmiki
Sanscrit
Frederika MacDonald
J. Lockwood Kipling
New York
The
John Lane Company
Valmiki
Rama
Ravana
Hanuman
Sita
Lanka
Indra
Mediaeval Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter Promised for October
The Baker & Taylor Company announces the October release of Arthur Kingsley Porter's major work on mediaeval architecture. Porter has spent years studying the subject with Asiatic and European travels, producing a book of over half a million words and more than 200 illustrations. A simultaneous edition will be published in Britain by Batsford of London.
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Arthur Kingsley Porter
Baker & Taylor Company
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Russia
Antry
Constitutional Democratic Party
Milyoukov
Duma
Alexandre Dumas
E. M. Waller
Andrew Lang
York
Macmillan Company
Jeannette Marks
John Aubrey
Carleton
Crowne
Tutchin
Motteux
Oldmixon
Anthony Aston
John Gay
Dibdin
Lewis Theobald
the Bellamys
Allan Ramsay
Linley
Henry Carey
Hoadly
Garrick
Aaron Hill
Hannah More
Jack Burgoyne
Arthur Murphy
O'Keefe
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