The Art of City-Making in Modern Civile Art
A Boston note reviews Charles Mulford Robinsons The Art of City-Making, praising its civic art focus and practical city planning ideas. It discusses the book’s structure, aims to persuade philistine readers of municipal beauty and efficiency, and notes illustrations and critique of urban design in New York and Washington.
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Charles Mulford Robinsons
Putnam's Sons
Bro
United States
Washington
Detroit
New York
Paris
Robinson
Couwhd
Sir Conan Doyle on authorship and longevity debate
The Authors' Club dinner features Sir Conan Doyle arguing that authorship is a dangerous trade and that writers sell their nerves, questioning whether novelists naturally live shorter lives. The column mocks apotheosis branding for Crockett and lampoons publisher stunts, ends with notes on Boswell tablets, Wilde, Stevenson, and Kipling previews.
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Ondon
Authors’ Club
Cohan Doyle
Conan
Meredith
Sir Conan Doyle
Sir Conan
Autobiography Of A Thief review in The Atlantic
A critical summary of Hutchins Hapgood's Autobiography Of A Thief highlights Jim as a thief and liar, praising its vivid, underworld portrayal while criticizing its moral stance. The piece compares it with Flynt and Crowe works, noting its readability and some factual slips. It concludes that the book offers a graphic life account, though morally troubling.
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Hutchins Hapgood
New York
Fox, Duffield & Co
Defoe
Fielding
Onlie
Jim
Jin
Josiah Flynt
Roderick
Underworld
East River
Blackwell's
Long Island Sound
Jack Sheppard
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Boston Notes
Miss Ticknor
Nora Perry
Prof. Shaler
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Mary H. Hunt
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Bowditch
Hodge
Caroline Ticknor
Europe
Miss Perry
Rhoda Broughton
Helen Mathers
Nora
Messrs. Lee & Shepard
Mary McCrae Cuiter
Wichita
New England
Mr.w. Reiff. Heiser
Oy Joe
Vierence
Washington and Lee University
Virginia Military Institute
Baroness von Hutten
Eliza Orne White
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Kate Douglas Wiggins
Rebecca
Shaler
Elizabeth
England
Essex
Stephenson Browne
Boston
MR. Alden
Mr. Crockett
Mr Crockett
London
Great Portland Street
James Boswell
Boswell
Balaam
The
Oscar Wilde
Oscar
J. L. Hammerton
Stevenson
Martin Hewitt
Sherlock Holmes
Hewitt
Holmes
Gaborian
Gabvrian
Mr. Mortison
Mean Streets
Kipling
W. L. Alden
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