French edition of Shakespeare sonnets by Fernand Henry
French littérateur Fernand Henry translates Shakespeare's sonnets into French with notes and an introduction on the poems’ problems. His edition includes a bibliography and English originals printed beside the French text. Published in Paris by Ollendorff. available in the United States from The Shakespeare Press, Westfield, New Jersey.
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M. Fernand Henry
M. Henry
America
Paris
Paul Ollendorff
Shakespeare Press
Westfield
N. J
The American Tourist in France book review
A Paris publisher released The American Tourist in France a compact 125 page guide praised for practical phrases and idiomatic French. The preface claims it helps beginners and seasoned scholars order in cafes and study pronunciation, with flexible approaches for grammatical oral or natural use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Libraire Briquet
Paris
United States
Tourist Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Tyre
Trench
Balzac
Victor Hugo
Byron
Tennyson
Chautauquan History Contest Announces Winners
The Chautauquan history competition crowned Dora M. Townsend for The Treason of Benedict Arnold, Etchelbert Dudley Warfield for The Repulse of Vickett's Charge at Gettysburg, and Tudor Jenks for The Declaration of Independence. Sixty plus incidents judged from 205 manuscripts with Lincoln assassination a common theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauquan
Dora M. Townsend
Newburg
Ni Y
Benedict Arnold
Etchelbert Dudley Warfield
Easton
Penn
Vickett
Gettysburg
Tudor Jenks
New York City
Lincoln
Boston
Arnold
Manila
Cervera
Reading tastes in Hawaii mirror U S fiction trends
The Honolulu Public Library, founded in 1879, is largely self supporting after an initial 1500 grant and free utilities. It owns its building funded by English and American residents and houses about 14000 volumes. American fiction dominates reading, led by To Have and to Hold and Richard Carvel with Janice Meredith waning and David Harum nearing decline.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Islands
United States
Miss Johnson
Virginia
Richard Carvel
Janice Meredith
David Harum
Books on finance and public franchises reviewed
Philip A. Robinson and the Neale Company publish Coin Currency and Commerce a finance volume explaining coin currency and commerce for the average citizen. Gustavus Myers History of Public Franchises in New York City covers local finance in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs.
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Philip A. Robinson
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Neale Company of
Washington
New York City
Manhattan
Bronx
Gustavus Myers
Reform Club Committee On
Municipal Concessions Across Colonial to Modern Era
A historical survey traces how a town gained and refined concessions from colonial governance to current administration. It outlines charter origins, contractual shifts, and key milestones in the municipality's rights over land, markets, and utilities, highlighting evolving public bargaining power and policy impacts.
New Books in Autumn and Summer Releases
Kipling’s new novel to be Kim of the Rishti announced by McClure Phillips & Co. James Lane Allen’s The Reign of Law set for June 29 by Macmillan Company after earlier delays due to illness. Quackenbos’s Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture is near publication at Harper as Roots writes for Harpers Magazine. Frederick Stanley Root’s What is the Matter With the Church? to be issued by Abbey Press, promising debate over its pessimistic facts framed optimistically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
McClure, Phillips & Co
Kim
The
Rishti
James Lane Allen
Macmillan Company
John DB. Quackenbos
Harper & Brothers
Frederick Stanley Root
Abbey Press
New Books and Editions in American and British Publishing
Publishers announce several children's titles and reissues. Alice's Visit to the Hawaiian Islands by Mary H. Krout heads a list, with new editions of Paris and Walks in Rome from Macmillan. Harper & Brothers issue 50,000 copies of Sherlock Holmes upcoming cover portrait. Other titles include Pine Knot from Appleton and The Last Sentence from Maxwell Gray. The Studio and Collier's Weekly feature art and war reportage. Page previews Sunningwell and The Black Terror mislabel, with Heart's Highway by Mary E. Wilkins and Bird Neighbors in new editions from Doubleday, Page & Co.
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Alice
Hawaiian Islands
Mary H. Krout
Hawaii
London
American Book Company
Pacific
Chicago
San Francisco
Sherlock Holmes
Harper & Brothers
William Gillette
Pine Knot
William E. Barton
D. Appleton & Co
Maxwell Gray
Doubleday, Page & Co
Mary E. Wilkins
Spencer
Hector Macpherson
I. Oliver Asche
Kimberley
Ellen Glasgow
New Books in the Latest Issue Listings
The notice highlights forthcoming editions and new titles from publishers. An enlarged edition of Rock Climbing in the English Lake District by Owen Glynne Jones is announced with memoirs, appendix, and new illustrations. Other works include With Lawton and Roberts by Elbridge S. Brooks and The Moank's Log by William O. Stoddard.
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Owen Glynne Jones
English Lake District
Messrs. Abraham
Keswick
Longmans, Green & Co
Lawton and Roberts
Elbridge S. Brooks
Lothrop Publishing Company
Moank
William O. Stoddard
Orison Swett Marden
Success
Churches and Clergy of This City in 1800
At the New York Historical Society meeting Rev. Dr. Daniel Van Pelt delivered a paper on churches and clergy in 1800 New York, detailing city life, church sites, buildings, and pastor leaders. A memorial sketch of Robert Schell’s life was read by Hon. John Alsop King, noting a $25,000 bequest to the society for its new building.
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New York Historical Society
Daniel van Pelt
Robert Schell
John Alsop King
Schell
van Pelt
New York
The Monitor and the Navy Under Steam
Lieut F M Bennett has completed a volume on steam power in naval warfare. Published by Houghton Mifflin & Co early fall, it traces steam motive power and iron armor from Merrimac and Monitor to Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba, with numerous illustrations.
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F. M. Bennett
New York
Naval Marine
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Monitor
Navy
Merrimac
Manila Bay
Santiago de Cuba
Mr Budgett Meakin Set for Morocco Study and June Marriage
Mr Budgett Meakin author of The Moorish Empire plans a new book The Land of the Moors the manuscript has gone to Morocco for Arabic reading and critique Meakin will travel to Morocco for revisions He is to wed Miss Kate A Hellinen of Oak Park Chicago on June 15 and then sail to America for a brief visit.
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Budgett Meakin
Morocco
Meakin
Kate A. Hellinen
Oak Park
Chicago
Ill
America
Mabie Shakespeare Series to Be Published in Book Form
The Shakespeare Mabie series now running in The Outlook will be issued as a book. Mabie will contribute an article on the University of Virginia in The Outlook August number. Dodd, Mead & Co. will issue a library edition of Mabie’s works and related titles. William Aspinwall Bradley releases Imaginary Lectures in a limited edition for private circulation. A new Stockton serial A Bicycle of Cathay begins in Harper's June number. The Kentucky Campaign by Hughes, Schaefer, and Williams surveys Goebel Taylor politics with portraits. Shakespeare Society of New York tightens edition limits and prepares A Catalogue of Words Used But Once in Shakespeare. The only authentic Walton portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery. Louis Rhead’s etching is inspired by it.
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
Mabie
University of Virginia
Dodd, Mead & Co
William Aspinwall Bradley
Brander Matthews
George E. Woodberry
Jackson
Columbia University
Frank R. Stockton
Cathay
Harper's Magazine
Orson Lowell
Kentucky
Goebel- Taylor
Robert Clarke Company
Cincinnati
Messrs. Hughes
Schaefer
Williams
Louisville
William Goebel
W. S. Taylor
Shakespeare Society of New York
Shakespeare Press
Westfield
Union County
N. J
Izaak Walton
Houseman
National Portrait Gallery
South Kensington
Louis Rhead
Limited signed etchings by Louis Rhead on Japan paper
The artist signs limited prints numbered to 250, a fine etching showing strong feeling. Louis Rhead of the Brothers Rhead, known for Bunyan reprints, sells the piece by subscription via Mr. Rhead in Flatbush, New York. Also noted, Frank L. Stanton: The Man and the Poet appears in The American Methodist Magazine June issue.
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Japan
Louis Rhead
Brothers Rhead
John Bunyan
Rhead
Flatbush
N. Y
Frank L. Stanton
Man
Lucian L. Knight
American Illustrated Methodist Magazine
Hale Edits Classics for Heaths Library Series
Edward Everett Hale has edited four classics in Heaths Home and School Library to begin publication soon. Other editors include Mrs Mary A Livermore Prof W P Trent and more. The Webster Free Circulating Library runs with public schools to help readers view books through children eyes. A minerals collection with labeled and unlabeled specimens is in the library with three prizes offered by Everett P Wheeler for the best unlabeled catalogue. Submissions close June 15 to librarian E W Gaillard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
Heath
Mary A. Livermore
W. P. Trent
W. V. O'Shea
C. F. Dole
T. M. Balliet
Charles Welsh
Webster Free Circulating Library
Seventy-sixth Street
East River
Everett P. Wheeler
E. W. Gaillard
The Carlyles The Very Humanest Love Story
The July Delineator features Clara E Laughlin in Stories of Authors Loves with The Carlyles The Very Humanest Love Story. The piece draws interest for readers of English literature alongside The Love Story of the Hawthornes and Brave Hearted Thackeray in the same illustrated series.
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Carlyles
Clara E. Laughlin
Hawthornes
Thackeray
Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington review
The critic praises Booth Tarkington’s Monsieur Beaucaire for brisk dialogue and intrigue. The 100 page novel unfolds a masked hero’s bold barbery plot in Bath with sharp, clear prose and lively character sketches, predicting Tarkington’s rise.
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Hare
Rome
Walter Winans
Routh
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Robert Grant
William de Morgan
W. Shaw Sparrow
Glasgow School of Art
Walter R. Watson
Louis Morin
Henry Boucher
Mme. Paul Errera
Brussels
Octave Maus
Miles
Collier’s Weekly
Klondike
Tappan Adney
Cape Nome
Sunningwell
F. Ware Cornish
E. P. Dutton & Co
Wakefield
Crawford
L. C. Page & Co
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Hilda Wade
Grant al
Len
Prof. Raymond
Elizabeth Knight Tompkins
Barbara
Paul Leicester Ford
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Monsieur Beaucaire
Tarkington
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