Chaucer and his Times in Coulton's Engaging Study
The article reviews Coulton's readable portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer, noting his Italian influences through Dante and Boccaccio, and discusses Chaucer’s career hardships under Richard II and Henry IV. It praises Coulton’s use of records and tradition, calling the work engaging though not profound, and highlights Canterbury Tales as Chaucer’s enduring fame.
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Dante
Boccaccio
Coulton
Dancer
Petrarch
Italy
Chaucer
Chaucer Society
Prince ‘Lionel
Violante Visconti
Milan
Richard II
Henry IV
Westminster Abbey
Geoffrey Chaucer
St. Mary’s Garden
Westminster
John Chaucer
World History in Tabloids Review
A look at The World's Great Events by Albert Payson Terhune from Dodd Mead. The book compiles about fifty brief narratives from a New York newspaper, each five to six pages, offering concise, decisive moments in world history from Marathon to the Chinese Gorgon and Egypt.
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Dodd, Mead & Co
Albert Payson Terhune
New York
Egypt
Norman Duncan’s Sea Tales Collected in Every Man for Himself
Norman Duncan’s volume Every Man for Himself collects his best Newfoundland fisherfolk stories. The Wayfarer centers on Tumm the trader clerk’s tale about Abraham Botecy of Jug Cove, illustrating Duncan’s unique maritime storytelling.
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Norman
Mr. Duncan
Lewis Rand the Veil of Ambition and Despair
A critical sketch of Miss Mary Johnston's Lewis Rand notes its somber, grim Virginia tale of ambition and betrayal. It portrays Lewis Rand’s rise under Jefferson’s patronage, his fatal flirtation with power, the murder he commits, and the costly aftermath affecting friends and family.
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Lewis Rand
Boston
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Mary Johnston
America
Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Rand
Audrey
Miss. Johnston
Miss Johnston
Ludwell Cary
Carys
Churchill
Adam
Gaudyiock
Mr. Pincornet
Jacqueline
Creation Defies History as Whimsical Goon Echoes
A fragmentary note mocks a figure as a creation beyond history and calls them a wistful little goon, hinting at dismissive contempt rather than a coherent event.
The One and I by Elizabeth Freemantle diary notes
A Canadian diary style novel presents a young woman's thoughts before marriage in the Far North Qu Apelle Valley. It records practical feelings, moments of doubt about her fiancé, then growing infatuation and lasting happiness as she envisions conjugal life amid field and forest adventures.
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Lizabeth Freemantle
Geo W._Jacobs & Co., publishers
Qu’ Apelle Valle
Three New Mediaeval Library Booklets Added
Duffield & Co publishes three new booklets in The New Mediaeval Library. The Chaste of Vergi is translated by Alice Kemp-Welch with French text and Brandin introduction. Other items include Gautier de Coinci miracles with notes and El Cid style illustrations. The Duke of True Lovers translated from Christine de Pisan. Ballads by Binyon and MacLageur. Introductions included. Sold at 2 each.
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Duffield& Co
Vergi
Alice Kemp-Welch
Raymond
L. Brandin
Gautier de Coinci
Boissons
Christine de Pisan
Lawrence Binyou
Eric R. D. Maclageur
Hyde Park: A Modern Look at England’s Royal Inclosure
A review notes James Pott & Co. publishes Mrs Tweedie’s Hyde Park history and reminiscences. The book surveys the park’s evolution from royal enclosure to a showplace for wealth and fashion, a rallying ground for agitators, with accessible prose and many illustrated prints.
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Ee Tweedie
Jery de
England
Little Brown Jug at Kildare mocks sober history
In Meredith Nicholson's spoof The Little Brown Jug at Kildare a playful tale links a contrived North and South Carolina feud over moonshine. The story portrays governors, their daughters, and two young men entangled in a farcical political romance with witty, irreverent tone.
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Meredith Nicholson
Kildare
Bobbs-Merrill Company
MA Olson
Nichol
Carolina Mountains
Mr. Nicholson
North Carolina
South Carolina
Osborne
Anne Commonwealth
Daushtlerc
Dangere Field
Old North
Bill Appleweight
Miss Osborne
Miss Dangerfield
Griseld
Mr. Ardmer
Griswell
Southern Sol
Nichols
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Grim
Virginia Aruthoress
Hyde 'Park
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