Witchcraft and language reform in literature and schooling
Readers review a study of witchcraft from ancient to colonial times, praising John M. Taylor’s The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut and noting the book’s deep legal and literary scholarship. The piece discusses García’s legends, Roger Bacon, Bodin, and Hawker, plus critiques of Latin as a world language and advocacy for a phonetic international tongue to ease learning and foster universal communication.
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John M. Taylor
Connecticut
Ingersoll
Hubbard
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Hammurabi
Endor
Gadara
Greece
Rome
Simon Magus
Helen of Troy
Virgil
Giraldus Cambrensis
Martin Luther
Roger Bacon
Jean Bodin
Johann Wier
Reginald Scot
Shakespeare
England
Robert Stephen Hawker
Morwenstow
Cornwall
Baring Gould
Medea
Cherry
Grafton
Grafton Press
Goodwife Knapp
Annie Eliot Trumbull
Massachusetts
Roger Ludlow
Grand Jury
Alfred E. Richards
Princeton, N. J
An Indigestible Language and a History of Tongues
A fragment framing how future historians study the evolution of international language. It hints at linguistic confusion and the complexity of cross cultural communication across eras. The passage suggests that language develops, resists simplification, and shapes global interaction.
Ingersoll or Hubbard A Philadelphia query causes a literary note
A July 15 inquiry from Mr. Converse Cleaves of Philadelphia asks whether a quotation origin lies with Ingersoll or Hubbard. The writer notes lines echo Joaquin Miller and references a four stanza poem praising Peter Cooper printed at his 1883 death, with attribution confusion including R L Stevenson.
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Peter Cooper
R. L. Stevenson
R. G. Ingersoll
Cleaves
Philadelphia
New York
Paul Allan
Plagiarism Debate Over Epigram Cited by Hubbard Adress
William R Fisher of Swiftwater Penn writes in defense and cites Joaquin Miller on Peter Cooper’s death noting lines about holding only what you have given away. The letter questions Converse Cleaves claim that Elbert Hubbard plagiarized the sentiment.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Booka
Converse Cleaves
Elbert Hubbard
Robert Ingersoll
Joaquin Miller
Peter Cooper
William R. Fisher
Swiftwater
Penn
Neither Ingersoll nor Hub Bard In This Quotation
The writer replies that the quoted line in The New York Times Saturday Review of Books is not from Ingersoll or Hubbard. He attributes it to an older source and notes the citation remains unclear. The exchange appears in a letters section responding to a query about authorship.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Ingersoll
Hubbard
Converse Cleaves
Philadelphia
NEW York Times
Saturday Review OF Books
Review of Books
Times Review
Joaquin Miller
Mr. Hubbard
Deaths, Poets, and a Quotation Dispute Over Joaquin Miller
A letter exchange discusses who authored an oft cited line about what the dead hold in their hands. Claims attribute it to Fra Elbertus or Mr Leigh Mitchell Hodges, with Joaquin Miller named as the true source. Correspondents urge recognition of Miller and his poetry, noting misattribution in Eastern magazines and newspapers.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Stedman
Joaquin Miller
America
Miller
Boston
New England
Robertus Love
New York
Preservation plea for Hunt's Point graveyard of Drake
Harry A. Guiremand urges Bronx residents to preserve the Hunt's Point graveyard where poet Joseph Rodman Drake is buried. He notes century old tombstones, one dated 1772 warning of death, and calls for investigation into a promised $25,000 park project that never advanced.
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Joseph Rodman Drake
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Hunt’s Point
Drake
Bronx
Board of Estimate
Music in the Colonial Period in Grove Dictionary review
The Saturday Review of Books in the New York Times gives compendation to Mrs Woodehouse's article on Song in the revised Grove's Dictionary volume. It offers an interesting treatment of a subject with vast literature.
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New York Times Saturday Reviewo
Grove
New Edition Correction on Early American Music Claims
In a critique from New York dated July 23, the writer points out errors in a section on America in Grove The latest Sonneck research shows a thriving colonial music scene in the middle and southern colonies with Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon as early American composers. The author urges Grove to include these findings and to better reflect U S musical history.
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America
Boston
Oscar G. Sonneck
Ufe
Francis Hopkinson
Philadelphia
James Lyon
New Jersey
Grove
United States
R. A. New York
Books Received. Its History and Development
The Book Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport 12mo New York D Van Nostrand Company priced at $2. The Daughter of Louis XVI Marie Therese Charlotte de France Duchesse D Angoulems by G Lenotre translated by J Lewis Mayre published in New York John Lane Company priced at $1.
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Cyril Davenport
New York
D. van Nostrand Company
Louis XVI
Marie Therese Charlotte de France
Duchesse D
Travel and Description. Voyage of Rojestvensky to Eastern Seas
A narrative by Eugene S. Politovsky detailing the voyage of Admiral Rojestvensky's fleet toward the Eastern seas and a thorough account of the Doageser Rank Incident. Published in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co. 12mo edition priced at $1.50.
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Libai
Tsushima
Rojestvensky
Doageser
Eugene S. Politovsky
New York
E. P. Dutton & Co
Poetry listings and book prices in a 1920s catalog
A catalog page lists multiple poetry titles and authors with publishers and prices. Notable items include The Banners of the Coast by Arch Bald Rutledge, LOOMS OF LIFE by Herman Scheffauer, The Lilies by Henry Percival, and many others with various imprints such as Neale Publishing Company, Badger, Cupples & Leon, and George W. Jacobs.
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Archbald Rutledge
Columbia
N. C
the State Company
Herman Scheffauer
New York
Neale Publishing Company
Charlotte Packard
Boston
Richard G. Badger
Henry Percival
Spencer
Emily Shaw Forman
Brunhilda
Orr’s Island
William Jasper Nicolls
Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Co
Marotz
John Ayscough
G. P. Puttnan's Sons
Fram Stoker
Cupples & Leon
Croesus
Gerald Villiers- Stuart
Cupplce & Leon
Blue Grass
George Creswell
Gill
Morley Roberts
L. C. Page & Co
Maude Redford Warren
Harper & Brothers
Virginia Dare
Mary
Virginia Hall
Catalog of 1907 publishers and educational titles
A listing of multiple books and series with authors, publishers, formats, and prices. Items include LORDERLAND STUDIES by George Gould. STUDIES IN ENGLISH by Gilbert Sykes Blakely. FROM SCINNLER S BALLADS AND LYRICS by L A Rhoades. GULLIVER TRAVELS edited by James Baldwin. WHAT IS MAN by Judson Burns. TRAINING THE BIRD DOG by C B Whitford. HINTS ON MODELING by W Ganz. LITERATURE OF CHECKERS by W T Call. ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION by Edward Poulton. EDUCATIONAL SERIES by Martin Brumbaugh. STUDY OF NATURE by Albert Johnson. SPELLER by J H Wohl. LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott. NATIONAL TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE TEXT BOOK edited by H T Musselman. DIRECTORY OF PUBLISHERS listing 1903-1907.
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Lorderland
George Gould
Philadelphia
New York
Cochrane Publishing Company
C. B. Whitford
New Vt
Outing Publishing Company
Henry $S W. Ganz
J. B. Lippincott & Co
William Timothy Call
Hawthorne, N. J
Co. M. Patterson
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Oxford University Press
Ren
Martin G. Brumbaugh
Philadéthia
J. B. _Lippincott & Co
Albert Bushnell Johnson
American Book Company
J. H. Wohl
L. E. Rogers
Imo
Yonkers
World Book Company
Louisa M. Alcott
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
National Teacher Training Institute
H. T. Musselman
American Baptist Publication Society
Directory OF
United States
Publishers’ Weekly
Popular Books at New York Public Library Week Ended July 21
The circulating department lists top titles across adult and juvenile fiction and non fiction. Adult fiction includes Beach The Barrier and Churchill Mr Crewes Career, McCutcheon's Husbands of Edith. Juvenile fiction features Lang Blue Fairy Book and Drysdale Fast Mail. Non fiction highlights Ibsen Plays Whartons Italian Days and Ways and James Pragmatism.
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New York Public Library
Beach
Churchill
Mr. Crewe
McCutcheon
Edith
Lang
Drysdale
Fast Mail
and Dudley
Ibsen
Wharton
and James
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Charles L. Dana
Arcadius Avellanus
Mark
G. W
India
Emily Noble
N. B. Prentice
Englewood, N. J
Harry A. Guiremand
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