Views of Readers on Poetry and Aristocracy in Letters
A reader's letter discusses the role of poetry and democracy, contrasting aristocracy of government with a democracy of citizens. The writer cites poets from Milton to Browning, argues leisure enables culture, and contemplates society’s preoccupations and the place of poets in modern times.
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Saturday Review of Books
Jome
Lowell
Longfellow
Austria
C. Auringer
Poetry and the Milieu of Reading in American Thought
A New York Times letter discusses how poetry survives and thrives through reading aloud and intimate engagement with place. It contrasts Homeric and modern poets, notes the role of environment in shaping verse, and reflects on readers discovering poetry via vivid descriptions of landscapes and daily life. The piece cites personal anecdotes and contemporaries like Browning and compares contemporaneous tastes with enduring literary values.
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Grant
Homer
The
Atlantic Monthly
God
Coppée
Kipling
Lowell
Pery
Ely
Swin
Possin Sappho
Pindar
Fragmented notes on a novel's dates and settings
The passage analyzes inconsistencies in a New York Times review about a novel, noting mismatches of dates, events, and locations from Isabelle’s marriage to 1911. It questions whether events align with historical figures like McKinley and Czolkgosz and remarks on London and Manhattan references, ship cargos, and rooms in a hotel as depicted in page fragments.
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New York
Isabelle
Vermont
Florida
Florida East Coast
H. S. Adams
Wethersfield
Conn
New York Times
Robert Herrick Rathe
Czolgosz
Buennance
Isabelle An
Margaret Pole
Margaret Lawton
Marian Lane
Lanes
Manon
Manon Lescaut
Manhattan Opera House
Barrow Street
In Praise of Diana Mallory from The Times Review
The Saturday Review of Books praises Mrs. Humphry Ward and The Testing of Diana Mallory. It notes how vividly Ward’s characters inhabit the reader’s life, especially Oliver Markham and Diana. The piece argues love ignores a lover’s flaws and credits Ward with nuanced character portrayal. Virginia Kitabjian signs the essay.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Diana Mallory
Humphry Ward
Oliver Markham
Diana
Oliver
Fanny
Ferrier
Lucy
Virginia Kitabjian
New York
Whistler Memorial funds urged for Rodin piece
In a letter from Joseph Pennell honorary secretary of the Whistler Memorial Committee, requests for subscriptions to fund a Rodin sculpture replication for the United States and France are urged. He notes London and Paris have seen support and urges further gifts to Hanson Morris in Philadelphia or Pennell himself in New York.
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the Times
Roly
Whistler
London
London County Council Art and Public Gardens Committee
Rodin
Paris
France
England
United States
Hanson S. Morris
Annex
Milestown
Philadelphia
American Committee
Joseph Pennell
The
Century Association
West Fortythird Street
New York
Quotations and Reviews From Cambridge to New York
A fragment discusses Joaquin Miller and earlier sentiments in Fiorace with a translation about heirs and generosity. Helen Leah Reed notes precedence in Miller’s ideas. Herbert Trodch’s poem I Heard a Soldier is reprinted amid praise, with New York Times Book Review also highlighting its lingering sentiment.
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Joaquin Miller
New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Fiorace
Helen
Leah Reed
Mauss
Herbert Trodch
New York Times Saturday Eee OF Books
Spanton Seeds
New York
Saturday Review of
Ifiake
Revival plan for The Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond
An issue of Sept 26 outlines the formation of a company in Richmond to revive The Southern Literary Messenger. It states the magazine will be published by the Lip pincotts. An officer of The Southern Literary Messenger, Incorporated, confirms the company will publish.
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New York Times Saturday Review of Books
Richmond
Southern Literary Messenger
Lippincotts
Southern Literary Messenger, Incorporated
Messeng er to be printed in Richmond
L. B. Smyth announces in New York on September 30 that The Messenger will be printed in Richmond to boost Southern business. He notes funding comes entirely from Southern men and that the Richmond Chamber of Commerce endorsed the plan with this understanding.
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Richmond
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Smyth
An Original Gentleman and Other Anne Warner Stories
Anne Warner collection titled An Original Gentleman includes previously published tales set on both sides of the Atlantic. The author’s humor and skill in character delineation shine as she lets her characters talk and reveal themselves amid clever plots and surprising situations.
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Lhcen
Anne Warner
Littie, Brown & Co
Atlantic
Susan Clegg
Hanover
New England
Miss Warner
Gossip About Authors Spends Summer at East Gloucester
Elinor Macartney Lane writes a new novel in Massachusetts while Mary E. Waller takes a Newport cottage for winter. Charles Hugh Stevenson wins $500 for fisheries regulation treaty. Frank Chapman announces a new ornithology book with 250 illustrations from 69 000 miles of travel. Edgar Allen Forbes rumored Africa trip denied. Viereck sails to Germany. confusion clears between W Mor rows and publisher Morrow.
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Elinor Macartney Lane
Nancy Stair
East Gloucester
Mary E. Waller
Lympus
Newport
D. Appierton & Co
Charles Hugh Stevenson
George Frederick Kunz
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Frank Chapman
American Museum of Natural History
Kermit Roosevelt
Edgar Allen Forbes
Africa
Roosevelt
A Common Sense View of the Mina cure reviewed
Laura M Westall reviews A Common Sense View of the Mina cure Fun k and Weenalls catalog 75 cents The book explains the physiological basis of umino curists beliefs and describes how the mind can affect bodily illness The final chapter offers directions for treating ailments including obesity and weight loss in a Christian Science context
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Laura M. Westall
Funk & Weenalls Co
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Poetry
the Eye
Alou
Byron
Wordsworth
P Allan
New York City
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Browning
Shelley
Yegraff
Akening
He County
Exen
Mr. Pennell
New York Times Saturday Review of Book
Amico
Cambridge
the Southern Literary Messenger
Anthors
George Sylvester
Viereck
Germany
W. C. Morrow
South Seas
William Morrow
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Mr. Morrow
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