Boston Books Week highlights major literary treasures
The Bibliophile Society gains rare items from the Dickens Beadwell letters including Thorau’s original manuscript of Walden and Moore’s Lalla Rookh. New editions and translations appear from Little, Brown Co. and others. Notable works include Magdalena and The Gate of the Netherlands with added imagery and revised editions, while notices cover authors Emily Shaw Form and The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism.
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Oston
Dickens- Beadwell
Bibliophile Society
Boston
Concord
Thoreau
S. ‘‘ Walden
Brown
Atlanta
Moore
Ollis Godfrey
Edward
Es Grunwald
Frank Snapp
Godfrey
Chariss
Mary E. Waller
The
Netherlands
Messrs. Little, Brown Co
Magdalene
R. Pany
J. S. Macha
Thackeray
Thaceray
E. P R Oppenhei
National Hymn Committee seeks patriotic submissions
A long fragment describes a Boston letter proposing a national hymn at a contest run by a committee in New York. It outlines rules, prizes, and submission procedures, seeking poems and music to aid the Patriotic Fund with a ciphered, sealed-entry process and public release.
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Patriotic Fund
God
Maunsell B. Field
New
Popular October Novels From Dodd Mead Vo
Four novels promised for this month by Dodd Mead and Company feature humor and adventure romance. Jerome's Passing on the Third Floor Back offers gentler satire on boarding house life.
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Dodd, Mead & Vo
Jerome. Jerome
Josephine Daskam Bacer
Mthiten
Lever
Lippincotts Push New Shakespeare, MacDonald Titles
Philadelphia literary notes announce sixteenth volume of Variorum Shakespeare on Richard III edited by Horace Howard Furness Jr. and the completion of Macbeth edition. George MacDonald Princess and Curdie new dress edition, Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, and S Weir Mitchell Holiday gift book A Venture in 1777.
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Weird
Mitchell
Lippincotts
Variorum Shakespeare
Furness
Richard
Horace
Howard Furness, Jr
Macbeth
Cer
George Macdonald
Princess and Curdie
The
Mary V Polstoncraft
S. Weir Mitchell
George W.jacobs & Co
Giess
Hugh Wynne
Valley Forge
Novelized Play Strong Heart praised for depth and humanity
A reader lauds the work for more than entertainment noting scenes of deep depiction of life. The reviewer highlights moments on Columbia and in a silent night where a soul restrained by birth and race is expressive. The passage includes beauty in the Indian camp scene with women singing unseen in darkness.
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Strongheart
Columbia
The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Ward
A tense tender study of Diana Mallory on the eve of her betrothal, as she learns cruel truth about her dead mother. A great house suitor offers shelter in her time of storm. Eight paintings by W Hatherell, R I, are praised for unusual beauty.
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Diana Mallory
Humphry Ward
Diana
W. Hatherell
R. I
A Spirit in Prison Preview of a New Film
The review praises the film for its vivid portrayal of Italian scenery and character. An English woman, her husband, and daughter form a gripping love story with sunny affection and sudden storms reflecting the landscape.
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Italy
Hichens
Gilbert Neal by Will N. Harben
The author of Mam Linda and Abner Daniel offers a bold new take on love with a triangle centered in a Georgia village. Gilbert Neal is drawn with realism, showing him as fine and true.
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Linda
Abner Daniel
Mr. Harben
Georgia
Gilbert Neal
The Bachelor and the Baby
A lonely bachelor is invited to a holiday dinner by phone. He cannot recall the guests yet they seem to know him. On a train he meets an excited young woman with a baby and ends up taking the infant.
Magazine Writing and the New Literature by Henry Mills Alden
Henry Mills Alden reviews half a century of literary trends with a focus on how magazine writing shaped broader literature. He emphasizes the influence of periodicals on national letters and notes the completion of The American Nation’s multi-volume history.
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Henry Mills Alden
Alden
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