Inquiries on Books and Authors From The Review Readers
Readers ask for short biographies of Jarrold Besant and Hichens and queries on Blake Barrie and Morford. Responses note no full Jarrold sketch, list Besant and Hichens works, and discuss editions and values of cited books and magazines.
Readers Ask About Poems and Novels in The News
Readers in New York City Strathcona and Newark seek help locating a missing poem stanza, a novel about an artist and adopted son in New England, and Anstey’s work. The letters request titles, authors, and where to find the works, reflecting readers’ literary inquiries.
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J. H. Wike
West Twenty-third Street
New York City
M. Y. Thompson
America
New England
Request for source of ballad lines and earlier passage
A reader asks LONGMANS about a ballad titled Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene and seeks the book or magazine containing the piece. She also requests the lines preceding the passage about worms creeping in and out and the decapitation of the eyes and temples.
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Bessie Orrey
Gouverneur
N. Y
The Life of Bach in a Little Book Review
A critic notes the scarcity of satisfying Bach biographies and praises Lach by C F Aldy Williams as a concise guide blending Bach’s life with musical analysis. The review emphasizes Bach’s modest, largely unglorified life in Leipzig, the rise of his posthumous reputation, and the book’s accessible approach to his musical contributions.
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Williams
Bach
Spitta
Wanted and exchange notices in early New York ads
George C Hoffner seeks to buy a one volume Robert Elsmere in large clear type with illustrations and offers volumes III and IV of Syrian and Babylonian letters from the British Museum 1906 Ziemmsens Cyclopedia of Medicine 21 volumes and Britannica Stoddards reprint 23 volumes with Americana. W W Canfield wants to purchase or exchange Times Illustrated Supplements from 1896 to 1899 including specific dates and issues.
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New York City
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Putnam Avenue
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British Museum
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Broadway
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Uly
Plain Printing Types by Theodore L De Vinne
Theodore L De Vinne prepares a 400 page work to be published next Wednesday by The Century Company. The volume is the first in a series on typography and covers tools processes and methods of typemaking type sizes history of typefounding and examples of letter styles for printers editors and typography students.
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Mendelssohn
Europe
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