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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1906
Page
22
A parade of letters answers questions on The National Magazine 1852 to 1858 its publication run and editors, sources on Robin Hood legends and Henry II translators, and notes on other historical works and their availability.
Letters discuss Kipling poems a possible source for a chapter heading, anonymous pieces in Werner's Readings, and readers seek modern origin theories from Ball Dawson and Shaler. They ask about Walt Whitman editions, Sudermann and Hauptmann works in German, a Scott quotation, and valuations of rare 18th and 19th century books with notes on Richard Hildreth and The New York Tribune.
Inquiries discuss Virtue’s Imperial Shakespeare edition edited by Knight with illustrations by several artists and published by Virtue & Co. in London. Questions cover date, value, editions dating to 1838 and 1871, and related biographical items, with price references for Pierce Egan’s Life in London and La Martine inspiration for Les Preludes.
The letter columns note multiple literary items and authors. John E Norcross reports poems by an unnamed author writing under nom de plume, plus prose works. Theodore Muegge author of Afraja Life and Love in Norway translated by Edward Joy Morris and Lincoln appointed minister to Constantinople. Harriet Martineau’s How to Observe cited. A Pack of Cards from Standard Recitations is listed with price. Lowell line cited from an Autograph poem.
Letters from New York readers request help locating the title of a French class book with Lafayette’s farewell address and a Boston poet’s verse with a lingering refrain. They also seek an English rendering of Turgeniev’s Hamlet and Don Quixote lecture and the words to two songs about Washington and New England.
The new Bernard Capes novel Bembo A Tale of Italy to be issued by the Duttons next week. The story opens in 1476 with a Milan setting and introduces Bernardo Bembo as a young, pretty child propagandist who embodies the spirit of love. Capes notes the tale is not based on fact though it reflects a fundamental nature.
Doubleday Books announces Part VIII of James Watson's The Dog Book covering St Bernard s Newfoundlands Great Danes and mastiffs. On June 15 the Incomplete Amorist by E Nesbit will be published and on August 1 Anthony Overman Miriam Michelson s San Francisco novel with illustrations by John Cecil Clay will appear.
In Brooklyn the reader E. F. Secor notes Mrs Hemans's poem The Better Land is in Poems of Childhood published by E Nister London. J B L of Richmond Va reports In Memoriam by Charles Emerson McPeek appeared in The University Magazine Lynchburg Va in November 1900.
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