Readers’ Queries on Burgess Carcassonne and Rare Books
A selection of reader questions and notes: whether Burgess’s Deluge fables are genuine or fanciful, who wrote the Carcassonne stanza, and the origin of a witty line. Also inquiries about rare German pamphlets by Olfert Dapper, a 1782 Kaschau work, and the market value of scarce editions and firsts in Jeffersonian and Dickensiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R
Gelett Burgess
Methusaleh
Eusebius
Eisenmenger
the Midvik
Colin de Plancy
Burgess
Metruselah
A. L. Bogan
Syria
Palestine
Oliver Or Olfert Dapper
Africa
Asia
Holy Land
Mesopotamia
Arabia
Amsterdam
Nuremberg
Walter Metzner
Kensington
England
Library of Washington
Amerika
Johann Rudolf Binner
Zinner
Berne
Readers Answers on Hymns Poems and Literary Lines
A letter column round of literary queries cites Edward Henry Bickersteth and Harriet Beecher Stowe as sources for lines and hymns. It notes authors, translations, and poem attributions to Lear, Longfellow, Kipling, and others with clarifications on titles and origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Davis
Edward Henry Bickersteth
England
Birmingham
Ripon
Exeter
Longfellow
Dog Mourns Heaven Absence and Parish Reverberations
An elderly minister consoles a grieving boy whose dog refuses heaven without Don. The scene draws shock from parishioners as deacons question the man. He cites Wesley and Kingsley to shield his beliefs, then shares how companionship and love from his dog shaped him, noting L Clark as author and Crowell publication details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dog
Don
Wesley
Kingsley
L Clark
T. Y. Crowell & Co
West Broadway
New York
Readers Seek Poem Authors and Passages From Muddled Notes
A letters page item invites readers to identify authors of the poem Love's Shop and the verse Ashes of Roses, and to name the source of other quoted lines. It requests the full text of a missing poem and clarifies fragments about Fontainebleau and kite imagery, reflecting a readers’ inquiry column.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Inquirer
Gustave Nadaud
Carcassonne
Rome
H. H
Bartlett
Horace Walpole
Horace Mann
California
Charles Dickens
Rogera
Italy
Hugh W. . Williams
Grecian Williams
F. Mitchell
Perri
John F. Cramer
Maria Lovell
Ingomiar the Barbarian
Ingomar
Parthenia
John McCullough
M. D
Friedrich Halm
Louis Bettman
The
Highlander
J. F. Chester
W. Gile
Walter Beverley Crane
Peavers
Diast
Neptune
Christ
Horn Books
Edward Eggleston
Gibbon
Gregory II
Leo
H. M H
Iolanthe
Yolande
Gilbert and Sullivan
Rene
Henrik Hertz
Provence
Hertz
Jolanthe
Aunt Comfort
Ernie
Doubleday, Page & Co
Rudyard Kipling
J. A
F. G
Thomas Moore
Theodore F. Wolfe
H. J. FE
Brooklyn
Byron
Lady Byron
RF. Carter
Fall River
Saturday Review OF Books
Frank L. Stanton
Chamber of Peace
Earth
Thyenebjid
Paolo Testh
Sethi
Mary
A. McB
EB B. Robinson
Fontainebleau
TRE Anderson Auction Company
Bargs & Co
West 29Th Street
Am. Navy
Kentucky
Abram Lincoln
Presa
Lincoln
Daniel Boone
Si ‘Mon Kenton
Levi Todd
Benj. Logan
North
Carolina
James
Moore
Henry C.“Bowen
N. Y
Independent
Whittier
Walt Whitman
Sarah Helen Whitman
Clemm
Grant
Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Holmes
Riley
le Gallienne
Zang‘will
Edith Wharton
Abraham Lincoln
Howard
Fifth Ave
29Th St
Madison
Deere Catalaste
Studi East
St. Bet
Aves
Alanson Hartpence
York & CO
Broadway
H. R. Huntting CO
Springfield, Mass
L. Codemo
E. Ni
G. Mazzoni
Carlo Goldoni
Dee Selsonian
Francesco Toe
Soc. Post Pesti
Small, Banard , CO
Bescon St
Tegal
Arthur Caran Las x
Grafton
Edinburg
Stiphiant Ghesten
iMustratios
Railton
McDevel Wilson
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