The King's English and the Grammarians’ Quest
A review rails at modern writers and editors for misusing words and clumsy phrasing. It defends The King's English project as serious grammarians exposing errors in Edward VII era prose and newspaper style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RS. Nickleby
Scott
Edward VII
the Times
Crockett
Corelli
Benson
Dr. Bronté
Flaubert
Henry James
Pater
Stevenson
James
The Acorn in America review
The Acorn quarterly aims to attract American readers with essays stories poems and art by writers including Yeats Benson Chesterton Todhunter and Smedley It notes themes of culture in poems and prose and highlights illustrations in etching drawings and mezzotints with reference to Watteau and Wagner fantasies plus the Indian poetess death by her own hand.
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Acorn
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
I. K. Lloyd
B. Yeats
Arthur C. Benson
G. K. Chesterton
John Todhunter
Constance Smedley
Watteau
Laurence Hope
Acorn Quarterly Displayed For Its Literary And Artistic Quality
The Acorn represents a phase of English literary and artistic life, intensely interesting to examine. Its typographical and pictorial appearance sets a high standard, though its permanence is uncertain amid today’s ultra-dillerantism. Yet there are imanent things in it, beyond momentary appeal.
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Acorn
Madeline Island Girl tale reviewed in Sunday school style
A retrospective note on Hope Daring's Madeline The Island Girl set on Mackinac Island. It centers on a young girl who loses her parents, moves in with grandparents and an ambitious guardian, and confronts family suspicion and schemes about a hidden fortune.
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Madeline
Raton & Mavis
Hope Daring
Mackinac Island
The Girl with the Blue Sailor in the Catskills
A young newspaper man on vacation becomes entangled with an old college chum and his bride at a Catskills hotel. The plot includes a milkmaid routine, matchmaking schemes, and early Browning quotes, plus a Boer War stint that earns him a notable reward on his return.
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Dodd, Mead & Co
Burton E. Stevenson
Catskills
Browning
South Africa
Greece and Constantinople in the Beautiful Books series
Two new volumes in London and New York editions present Greece by John Fulleglove and J A McClymont with Goble’s Constantinople. McClymont emphasizes the past yet Fulleglove favors impressionistic ruin views. Goble depicts present Constantinople while van Millingen’s description remains current though not a guide.
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London
Black
Macmillian Company
Greece
John Fulleglove
J A. McClymont
Constantinople
Warwick Goble
Alexander van Millingen
McClymont
Fullegrove
Grote
Pausanias
Fulleylove
Stures
Goble
Shining Ones and the Realm of the Maker
Charles Hallock of the Washington Biological Society reviews a compact volume titled Lum inous Bothes Here and Hereafter The Shining Ones. He explains ties between earthly celestial and intellectual realms and man’s unity with his Maker in a rigorous Biblical frame.
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New York
The
Metaphysical’ Publishing Company
Charles Hallock
Washington Biological Society
Hs Maker
The Story of a Cafe Singer
A fragment chronicles Lucky Jim hearing dice in a roaring street scene with elevated trains, subway rumbles, trolley clanks, clattering wagons, and drivers' oaths. The vivid urban cadence hints at a larger narrative about a cafe singer amid city noise.
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Lucky Jim
The Song Of Joy And Peace And Eternal Love
A brief illustrated piece notes a crowd of five thousand faces and a street’s strain fading as a solitary figure perceives a personal song of joy and peace. The fragment hints at romance or inner revelation within a larger public scene.
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Mr. Gladstone
E. T. Benson
William Lamb
Lord Byron
Byron
Spencer
America
Montaigne
John Morley
M. P
Society For Psychical Research
Green Jean
John Knox
Joan of Arc
Miss Corelli
Charlotte Bront
A. J. Balfour
Miss Bronté
Acorninamerica
Shining Ones
By Ernest Poole
Cuhapp. I
A. S. Barnes & CO
York
Cottontown
John Trotwood Moore
Tennesser
Sunn Southland
Ol ‘ Bishop
Ben Ffur
John C. Winston CO
Desigas
Japan
Clark Engraving
Milwaukee
New York Times
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