Hints From the Mailbag on Kipling Book Error
A. W. Leslie of Baylor cites an additional misprint in the Kipling Poems edition from George M. Hill Co Chicago. He notes page 155 misattributes Tennyson’s Palace of Art first stanza as Kipling original and quotes the passage in full, urging correction.
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A. W. Leslie
Baylor University
Waco
Texas
Saturday Review
Rudyard Kipling
George M. Hill Company
Chicago
Kipling
Tennyson
Palace of Art
An Explanation Asked by Robert Grant
A reader in Washington asks how authors keep track of character appearance across pages. He cites two descriptions from Robert Grant’s Unleavened Bread of Miss Flossy Price and later Mrs Williams, noting conflicting hair and eye colors and asks for clarifications. He also asks which Scott novel places the moon in an opposite sky quarter to a prior description.
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Washington, D. C
Robert Grant
Grant
Judge Grant
Scott
A Book Very Like To Have and to Hold Noted by Tufts Scholar
L F A Maulsby of Tufts College argues Maud Wilder Goodwin’s The Head of a Hundred, published 1897, closely parallels Elizabeth Johnston’s To Have and to Hold in setting, characters such as John Pry and John Rolfe, and the bloody Indian uprising, though with less slaughter and fewer pages.
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L. F. A. Maulsby
Tufts College
Mass
Maud Wilder Goodwin
Virginia
Miss Johnston
John Pry
John Rolfe
George Thorp
Correct Quotation Mark Usage in Book Titles
A critic argues against enclosing book titles in quotation marks unless quoted directly from the title page. He cites Penhallow and notes the proper title is History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians.
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Boston
Penhallow
New England
Le Gallienne Kipling Book Seeks West Market
Portland reader reports Kipling volume by Le Gallienne not advertised or on local shelves though published by John Lane in New York at $1.25. The piece notes severe criticism in The Saturday Review May 19 and hints Oregon booksellers should have received it. Alden’s letter references harsh press reception.
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le Gallienne
Kipling
Far West
W. J. Peddicord
Portland
Oregon
Richard le Gallienne
Saturday Review
John Lane
New York
Alden
NEW York Herald
NEW York Press
The
Boston Herald
Chicago Times:herald
Minneapolis Tribune
Social meetups for urban singles urged by reader
A LETTER about meeting congenial people in a big city appears in this issue. The writer notes many others face the same predicament and seeks to explore social ways to connect with like minded individuals.
Inquiry on Existence of Congenial Traveling Companions Bureau
A reader asks if a Bureau for Congenial Traveling Companions still exists in the city, recalling last summer's plan to match lonely people with companions for vacations. The letter seeks the bureau’s current address and status.
Shakespeare in Fiction Adds More Shakespearean Novels
The Shakespeare Press and readers discuss additional novels featuring Shakespeare as a character. Notable titles include Judith Shakespeare by Black, Will Shakespeare's Little Lad by Imogen Clark, It Was Marlowe by Wilbur G. Ziegler, A Gentleman Player by Robert Neilson Stephens, and When a Man's Married by Charles Falkner Jr. plus related works from James Payn and Landor.
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Truman Joseph Spencer
Hartford
Marlowe
William Gleason Zeigler
Shakespeare
R. N. Stephens
Charles Falkner
Shakespearean
Landor
Shakespeare Press
Westfield
N. J
James Payn
Harper Brothers
John Malone
Paradise Valley
Penn
Times
Dr. Shakespeare
Philadelphia
Edmund
Barnard
Thomas Hart
Joan
Book Record Guide notes new reader’s diary by Mural Book Co
A Boston notice says The Mural Book Company issues a reader record book at 79 Franklin Street. It provides space for comments and lists for wanted and loaned titles, plus a top five hundred books catalog and an alphabetical index. James Russell Lowell contributes a prefatory essay on choosing books.
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Boston
T. P. Bushnell
Mount Vernon
Mural Book Company
Franklin Street
James Russell Lowell
Reader letters praise Nixon Waterman's Book of Verses review
Waterman supporters from McCoy Oregon commend the May 19 Saturday Review critique of Nixon Waterman’s Book of Verses on page 385. The writer notes Poe cottage talk in The St Louis Mirror and comments on Dr E J Chauvet Fordham NY owning the building and asking high price for sale to New York City.
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E. H. Sellers
McCoy
Ore
Oregon
Nixon Waterman
Saturday Review
Michael Monahan
Poe
Fordham
St. Louis Mirror
Edgar Allan Poe
E. J. Chauvet
N. Y
City of New York
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A Bureau of Introduction
Tom Saturday Review
Waterman’s “Book of Verses
Mary Johnston
New York Christian Advocate
Robert Tournay
By William Sage
Crown
Brooklyn Eagle
Commercial Bulletin
Jack London
Tales of the
Far North
Brooklyn Times
Caroline Brown
Indiana
Brooklyn Standard Union
Houghton, Mifflin & CO
Louise Winter
Bayard Bendelow
Edgar Fawcett
Russ Carman
EdGar Lattus
Queen’s Chamber
Halliwell Suttcurre
Martha McCatver-Williams
Reginald DE Koven
Broadway
New York City
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