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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1911
Page
9
A survey of book reviews including Greeley as a Dickens and Swinburne discoverer, Cortissoz on La Farge, Teignmouth Shore portraits Count d Orsay, Asia books, Harriet Beecher Stowe life, and summer romances. It notes Shaw anecdote and a Spartanburg remark on Yankee types.
The New York Times Review of Books previews titles with authors and prices including Harriet Beecher Stowe life by Stowe descendants Houghton Mifflin and Hart The Obvious Orient Griffis Ehina's Story and other works by Griffis Kemp La Farge Memoir Cortisson Scull Kirkham Stratton Porter de Vries Shone Quiller Couch Bacon Goring Thomas Roberts and more with publishers and price points listed.
The article notes Alfred Tennyson's eldest son Alfred visiting the United States to lecture on his father and Mrs Cora Harris preparing a Europe themed series for The Saturday Evening Post. Montague Guass sees his Abe and Mawruss fiction adapted for the stage. Kirk B Alexander offers outdoor writing tips with vivid stage props. Beloc-Lowndes imagines Ryecroft as London observer in her Jane Oglander. Alfred Noyles's The Forest of Wild Thyme may premiere in London with Tree and potential U.S. productions. Invine Bacheller delivered a college commencement address.
Rosebery opens by saying he will not praise Dickens works or seek a memorial but demand overdue payment. He cites vast numbers of Dickens editions and claims the public has given little in return while Dickens long ago died rich from readings and plays.
A commentator argues laughter is vital for English spirits and urges readers to turn to Dickens Pickwick Papers to lift mood. The piece extols humor’s social value and cites Frank Lockwood as an exemplar of merriment.
Littie Brown & Co. of Boston announce the fifth and greatly enlarged edition of Dillon on Municipal Corporations. The author, Judge Dillon, now a railroad attorney in New York City, reflects on a career spanning Iowa Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Court, and Columbia Law School. The work will be in five volumes with 2 034 878 words, and is presented as his final leave from a historic legal series.
The London Times June 1 prints a long critical piece on Henry Osborn Taylor's The Mediaeval Mind. The reviewer lauds Taylor as a capable classical scholar with broad Latin, German, Celtic reading and deep study of medieval political history and law, while noting the workload may overwhelm him and comparing him unfavorably to Ker’s The Dark Ages.
Henri Lavedan republishes his weekly chronicle in book form for the fourth time. The collection blends journalism and literature with reflections on Bidel the lion tamer, a Venice summer portrait, and an analytical piece on Pierre Loti. It also analyzes kingship amid Portugal’s revolution.
Clivia Smith Cornelius daughter of George C. Smith Pittsburg industrialist and rail executive discusses Pittsburg notoriety in a 3 column interview by Ada Patterson for the New York Evening Journal. The traveler sold 1,000 copies in Pittsburg in one day and a new edition will be ready next week priced at $1.50 from dealers or Broadway Publishing Co.
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