Summer Reading Picks For Leisure and Travel Readers
Readers seeking summer solace will find a curated list of One Hundred Books chosen for light, entertaining reading and timely topics. The collection covers fiction and biography, with notable works on Roman history, the Japanese War, Alaska, and travel, aiming to accompany porch time, rail journeys, and vacations.
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Tom Book Review
Sir John Lubbock
Ferrero
Kuropatkin
Gen. Greely
Alaska
Richard Harding Davis
Arthur Stringer
Septimus
Cost of Living Study Finds $950 Income Needed for Decent Living
Robert Coit Chapin analyzes 400 New York City working families under Russell Sage Foundation. Incomes from $600 to $1 100 yearly. conclusion: at least $950 supports a decent standard for a five person family with three under age workers. Other city and European reports, a bibliography, and related topics are included.
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New York City
Robert Coit Chapin
Beloit College
Russell Sage Foundation
Charities Publication Committee
Europe
Geographical Society Names Dellenbaugh Librarian
F. S. Dellenbaugh, noted traveler explorer and author of A Canyon Voyage has been appointed librarian for the American Geographical Society. He brings wide field experience and literature knowledge to the post.
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F. S. Dellenbaugh
American Geographical Society
Roosevelt Admired in Germany Ahead of Berlin Visit
Theodore Roosevelt earns exceptional popularity abroad especially in Germany with hopes he will ride an elephant through Unter den Linden. Moeller van den Bruck lauds and questions Kaiser Wilhelm in Scheiternde Deutsche while other German writes discuss Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Benjamin Constant and education in Kultur und Erziehung.
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Erlin
United States
Germany
Theodore Roosevelt
Berlin
Kaiser
Unter den Linden
America
Europe
Roosevelt
William
Moeller van den Bruck
J. C
van den Bruck
William Godwin
Mary Wolkestone
Beck
Munich
Helene Simon
Shelley
Mary
Gilbert Imlay
Imlay
England
New World
Godwin
Josef Ettlinger
Benjamin Constant
Fleischer & Co
Constant
Weimar
Goettingen
William Munich
C. H. Beck
Union
Friedrich Paulsen
Paulsen
Erlangen
Hochschulen
Baron Tauchnitz
London literary gossip notes new works and authors
Mrs McMurrough Mulhall, the first woman in the Vatican library, writes Explorers in the New World Before and After Columbus, with Jesuit missions in Paraguay. William Stone Booth argues Bacon’s authorship of works credited to Spenser and others. Lieut Col Sydney Seife edits Tom Hughes notes from Rugby School. Madame Duclaux’s The French Procession surveys Racine to Rameau. Sir William Ware’s Letters from the Peninsula another Napoleonic era volume.
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Archibald Constable & Co
Bacon
Anthony
Spenser
Marlowe
Puttenham
Bodenham
Booth
Rugby
Tom Hughes
Sydney Seife
Tom Brown
Rugby School
Madame Duclaux
Mary Robinson
France
Unwin
Racine
Jean Rameau
Peninsula
William Ware
Murray
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New York Times Saturday Review
New York Times
New York
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Geographical Society
London Literary Gossip
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