Lake Country Sketches Praised Amid 1906 Debates
M. H. Robinson writes from Springs May 28 1906 praising Ellen Louise Hooper Woolson for Bast Angels and Jupiter Lights as powerful novels with deep psychological insight. He compares her favorably to James Howells and Rhoda Broughton noting her humor and creative genius while lamenting the limited output of American writers of her day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Woolson
America
Americans
Milton
M. H. Robinson Springs
1906
Lady Baltimore review sparks readers’ Southern approval
From Readers section of the Saturday Review of Books praising Mr. Owen Wister’s Lady Baltimore. The critique notes sympathetic tone toward King's Port residents, with analysis of themes, character focus, and a few objections to plot and eavesdropping. Dated Charleston May 28, 1906.
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Mr. Wister
Baltimore
Rhoda Groughton
Owen Wister
Eliza le Heu
America
Lady Baltimore
Henry
King’s Port
Wister
Augustus
St. Michaels
H. BE. B
Charleston
Lady Baltimore review by PEN. CRAIG
The piece discusses Owen Wister's Lady Baltimore as a compelling mix of history love and character study. It argues the novel contrasts old Southern traditions with modern Northern pressures and critiques social pretensions exemplified by the Salic Scions. It notes humor and social commentary, concluding that money cannot buy a Southern ancestor. May 25 1906 New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Owen Wister
Lady Baltimore
Dryden
Tennyson
Hortense Rieppe
North
Newport
America
Pen. Craig
New York
Spelling Reform Critique Targets Board Tactics
W. P. Baker of Syracuse argues in the Times Review that the Simplified Spelling Board errs by aiming at too many words and by seeking officials to adopt new spellings. He urges focusing on core words like though and through and on newspapers to persuade readers and copyreaders, easing general spelling gradually.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
New York Times Satrurday Review of Books
Brander Matthews
Chicago
Proofreaders’ Association of Chicago
Chicago University
America
W. P. Baker
Syracuse
N. Y
Praise of Rhoda Broughton by an American Reader
A reader defends Rhoda Broughton praising her humor characterizations and insight into human nature. He notes limited American recognition and compares Woolson as another underappreciated writer while asking why her appeal seems restricted to a small audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Rhoda Broughton
Miss Broughton
Nancy
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Pan American Railway Critique by A J Lamoureux
A. J. Lamoureux of Ithaca argues that Pepper’s Pan American Railway Commission report reflects promoter bias and optimism not impartial analysis. He cites doubtful economic viability, limited productive outputs, and questions whether coffee cacao sugar alpaca wool rubber and minerals could cover huge freight costs.
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New York
Timea Saturday Review of Books
Bishop
C. M. Pepper
Pepper
Pan- American Railway Commission
Hinton Rowan Helper
South America
Mr. Pepper
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Amazon Valley
Argentina
Chile
A. J. Lamoureux
Ithaca, N. Y
Gabriel Tarde Essay in Sociological Theory reviewed
A doctoral thesis by Michael M. Davis Jr. analyzes Gabriel Tarde through five chapters on imitation its development limits influence and social suggestion plus a full bibliography. The review notes fairness clarity and balanced judgment acknowledging solidarity ideas born from the field of the special theorist. New York May 31, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Michael M. Davis, Jr
Gabriel Tarde
Tarde
New York
Menagerie Tales Review by Francis Metcalfe
The collection centers on a menagerie proprietor storyteller and a feisty Mina Morelli who handles leopards panthers and jaguars with bold theatrics. The tales unfold around a Coney Island tower as narrated by the Stranger and illustrated to resemble Bos tok. The press agent figure provides a lively afterpiece with vintage showbiz flavor.
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Bostock
Coney Island
Mina Morelli
Moral and Intellectual Entertainment in St Louis Notes
A fragment notes a so called highly moral and intellectual entertainment in St Louis that sounds amusing and suggests it might be a rus theme. The wording hints at public reception and uncertain identity of the event.
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St. Louis
Where Speech Ends in a Symphony Orchestra Tale
A review of a musical story focusing on two boys, Franz the violin prodigy and the flute-obsessed youth from Cleveland, within Herr Wolfgang’s Symphony Orchestra. The plot mixes melodrama, Bohemian scenes, and college life, but the reviewer finds the narrative devoid of real story or life, noting the author’s immersion in music over broader perspective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qmoffat, Yard & Co
Haig
Henry Vanone
Rpbert
Cleveland
Herr
Herr Wolfgang
van Dyke
The French in America by R Lucian Fosdick reviewed
A review notes Fosdick argues French Huguenot blood shaped American founders and culture, tracing lineage from Joan of Arc to Hamilton and Montgomery. The piece admires his vigor, finds fault with excess zeal, but credits the investigation of Huguenot influence as worthwhile and engaging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Lucian J. Fosdick
America
New York
Fleming H. Revell Company
Alexander Hamilton
Gen. Montgomery
Freneau and Thoreau
Longfellow and Whittier
M. Coquelin
Adam
Mr. Fosdick
Joan of Arc
Enthusi
Douglas Campbell
Canada the New Nation volume by H R Whates
English journalist H R Whates writes Can ada the New Nation to be issued in two parts by E P Dut ton. Part I asks Shall I emigrate to Canada and describes settler emigrant and political realities. Part II analyzes Canadian political thought and definitions.
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H. R. Whates
Canada
E. P. Dutton & Co
Dominion
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Panama
Patagonia
Menagerie Tales
Francis Metcalfe
Oliver Herford
Newee the Outing Publishing Company
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