Pett Ridge and Kipling Sit for Literary Gossips
London gossip notes that W Pett Ridge has a fictionalized portrait in Alphonse Courlanders Eve’s Apple and a forthcoming novel Sixty nine Birnam Road. Tolstoy Meredith anniversaries invite international celebrations while Genevieve Ward recalls the Brownings. Arthur Kipling’s The New Dominion imagines US Japan and Germany wars with a Paris peace commission scene. GALBRAITH.
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INDON
W. Pett Ridge
London
Kipling
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton
Sixtynine
Birnam Road
Meredith
Tolstoy
Windsor
Russia
England
Aylmer Maude
Genevieve Ward
Fun From Father Tabb Brevity and Wit in Verse
A selection titled Fun From Father Tabb presents short humorous poems and preparatory rhymes poking fun at critics and publishers. Wordplay and punning dominate, with pen and ink drawings decorating the pages for decorative effect. A sample quip imagines a woman who wakes after taking quinine wearing rings in each ear.
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Father Tabb
Boston Wag
Palestine Today by H. W. Dunning A travel summary
The Holy Land To-day in Palestine presents ten journeys by H W Dunning. It is not a guide book but a condensed survey for travelers with illustrations. The author notes readers may find it helpful for sightseeing and recalling visits, with a commendable make-up overall.
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Galbraith
Holy Land
Palestine
Story of an Inventor's Life and Edison Biography
The book by Francis Arthur Jones traces Thomas Alva Edison from a troubled schoolboy to a prolific innovator. It chronicles his telegraph and telephone work as well as the phonograph, kinetoscope, and ore separator, highlighting a life of relentless invention and progress.
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Francis Arthur - Jones
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Mr. Jones
To the Front by Gen. King grapples with Graham's frontier trials
The Harpers tale follows West Point graduate George Graham into a miners riot in the Rocky Mountains and a Sioux uprising in the Bad Lands. Bold adventures test the young officer as he defends his father’s mine fortune and fights for justice.
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Harpers
Charles King
George Graham
West Point
Rocky Mountains
Graham
Gen. King
Yrig Graham
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Pett Ridge
Shoreditch
New Dominion
Francis Griffiths
Arthur Welesley Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
the McClure Company
Eugene Wecgod
Edgar Jepson
Tinker
Noggs
Iseult
Marquesa
Aspen
Saa
East 23d Street
New York
R. R. Havens CO
West 23d Street
Baker's Great Book Shop
Birmingham
Eng
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Se R. Benjamin
Fun
Qutips
John B. Tabb
Boston
Small, Maynard & Co
H. W. Dun-ning
Yale University
Nile
James Pott & Co
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