Night meadow mating verse from March Metropolitan
The excerpt depicts a lyrical meditation on night sounds and Nature as the speaker reflects on unity with a chosen partner in a meadow. It presents imagery of crickets, dawn, corn, wheat, and stars as a symbolic bond between two souls.
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Life and Letters of Bancroft hailed as major study
A forthcoming biography by M. A. De Wolfe Howe promises a definitive portrait of George Bancroft drawing on diaries and papers. It situates Bancroft amid Goethe, Humboldt, and Bismarck while noting his roles as minister and cabinet officer and his travels with contemporaries. The piece also highlights John Bigelow’s advanced years producing Tilden letters and canal writings, Frederick Van Eeden’s Dutch reformist literature, and Yeats era Irish theatre development with The Unicorn from the Stars forthcoming from Macmillan.
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West
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Lord Byron
England
Germany
von Moltke
Emperor William
Bismarck
John Bigelow
Samuel J. Tilden
Panama Canal
Baker & Taylor Company
Isthmian Canal
New York
William Butler Yeats
Mr. Yeats
Lady Gregory
Dublin
London
Yeats
Macmillan Company
Memoir notes and writers highlighted in a funeral scene
British Vice Consul Mr Montgomery Carmichael recounts a unnamed French lady donor offering funds for a lasting grave monument to Ouida. He notes two quills placed at the deathbed as symbolic tribute and recalls Carmichael’s Tuscan writings and a famed fake biography. He also mentions Prof H J Church and his works including Stories from Homer.
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Linkenorn
Mme. de la Ramée
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Tuscany
John William Walsh
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H. J. Church
Church
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Maurice
Heine Letters Promise to enrich German Library
Baron von Embden left at his death a notable collection of Heinrich Heines letters and manuscripts. German authors and students such as Ludwig Fulda and Paul Lindau have appealed to friends of German literature to help secure the collection for one of the major German libraries.
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Baron von Embden
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The Wheels of Anarchy and Belloc on Nothing
Max Pemberton prepares a novel The Wheels of Anarchy told as the secretary’s narration of an assassin’s papers set across Holland Venice England and Spain. Hilaire Belloc scarce exhausts topics with his forthcoming On Nothing and Kindred Subjects.
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Max Pemberton
Harry Orchard
Holland
Venice
England
Spain
Hilaire Belloc
More de Boigne Memoirs Portrait of Orleans Restoration Role
Vivacious Comtésse reveals for the first time the key part she played in the Orleans restoration. The memoirs recount political intrigue and personal influence shaping events during a pivotal period in French history.
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne on Louis XVIII and Charles X
The third volume covers 1820 to 1830 and extols the Comtesse de Boigne as mediator in Paris court life. It recounts the Duc de Berry assassination outside the Opera, Napoleon’s death at St Helena, and France’s fragile balance as Louis Philippe rises.
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Louis XVIII
Charles X
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St Helena
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Gen
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Mma Bertrand
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