Inquiries on Literary Motto Origin in Kentucky
A reader asks for the author of the motto United We Stand Divided We Fall. The column notes the motto is part of Kentucky lore and cites Walsh's Handy Book of Literary Curiosities. It references John Dickinson as a probable origin.
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John Dickinson
The Times Review Praises Greverson Title That Affair at Elizabeth
The Times Review praises BBA Greverson's That Affair at Elizabeth calling it well written and noting Lester's methods. The critique highlights strong storytelling and period tone, with attention to character and plot dynamics.
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the Times Review
Bba Greverson
Elizabeth
Tantologia and Pantologia editions cited in 1813 inquiry
Reader asks about the 1813 edition of Pantologia by O G Gregory and John Mason Good, with Newton Bosworth. notes twelve volumes, about 400 engravings, price £20, London publication. Also seeks publishing house for Cecilia de Noel by Lance Falconner and author of In the Valley of Havilah by F T Clark.
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Gregory
London
Olinthus Gilbert Gregory
John Mason
Good
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Martha K. Wiggins
Cecilia de Noel
Lance Falconner
Macmillan Company
Fifth Avenue
A. J. Tormey
Valley of Havilah
California
F. T. Clark
John W. Lovell
Clark
Readers Answers Clarify Poetry Queries and References
Readers respond with citations to poems and authors. Notes discuss Sone Chester ton and Miss Repplier, with mentions of The Calf Path by Sam Walter Foss and Frederika Bremer as sources. Replies also reference a mistaken Lady Byron poem attribution and memory of verses about a dove and prayer.
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Genung
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Mr. Esterton
Thomas Morton
Sam Walter Foss
Broadway
Poems and songs linked to Day Star myth and music
A compiled clipping presents poems by Agnes Louise Davis and others, noting the song Speed Away and the Seneca tradition about a white dove at a grave. It cites Look Look Look Academy Song Look Ginn Co Favorite Songs hymns and credits L B Woodbury s. The pieces discuss faith, loneliness, duty, and divine guidance with period language.
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J. Otern
Academy
Ginn & Co
American Book Company
L B. Woodbury S
Readers seek sources for various old poems and lines
A reader asks for the origin and location of several verses and quotations from Civil War and earlier poetry. Questions cover lines about crimson footed storks, a lord defending Howard, a poem with violet imagery, lines about shadow selves, fears and doubt, a Shanty on a claim, and a child’s verse beginning I’m seven years old today, with requests for author, title, and place of publication.
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Lord Erskine
Howard
C. E. Tate
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