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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
13
A fragment from Liliencron’s Balladenchronik recounts the 1757 Battle of Kolin with a youth guarding a holy book, dying on the field and a Bavarian grenadier taking the relic to a grieving father. The verse reflects on mortality and asks who among the living or dead knows where they will rest.
A discussion of the word honorificabilitudinitatibus, its appearances from Shakespeare to Nash, and a Pillerton Hersey parish register note by William Palmer suggests the term circulated in Warwickshire before its wider literary fame. The find hints the term was known locally at Pillerton and Stratford-on-Avon prior to Love’s Labour Lost.
The London Academy has pressed the publisher of a popular immoral novel to withdraw it. After weeks of public censure and warnings of serious steps, the academy says it gave every possible chance and consideration. Copies of the involved articles and correspondence were sent to Archbishop of Westminster and the Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard.
The passage questions what action, if any, the public prosecutor should take regarding the sending of copies of a widely sold book. It notes that simply mailing such copies would not likely be a serious step, implying concerns over potential legal or ethical implications.
The piece notes Dickens letters in a Bibliophile Society volume and recounts a shift in publishing toward pocket editions. It predicts Ibsen’s limp leather pocket format, appealing to a broader audience beyond libraries and scholars.
A French author M. Paul Dubois reviews Ireland’s social and political state and its future prospects in a new book on the Irish question. Translated and edited by T. M. Kettle, the work likely favors Irish national aspirations. Published soon by Baker & Taylor Company.
Sir Mortimer Durand, famed author in Washington, writes a biography of Nadir Shah the Turkoman conqueror of Persia in the seventeenth century. The work, though framed as romance, is said to adhere closely to historical facts. Durand gathered materials during his time as Minister at Teheran and is noted for his long service in the British diplomatic line.
A lively informal survey of Chaucer’s life and the fourteenth century. Coulton blends biography with literary analysis, tracing Chaucer’s career from squire to diplomat, and devoting chapters to the Canterbury Tales, London life, and the era’s influences.
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