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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
25
John W. Harding reviews dramatized stories and plays from Kipling to modern novels as he surveys critics and public reception. He argues that turning novels into plays or plays into novels can be art or hack work, depending on originality and method. He notes the public’s appetite for dramatized storytelling despite high-brow scorn.
A review discusses Galusha Anders Story of a Border City During War. The author notes Missouri’s clash of pro slavery and Union factions and St Louis as a microcosm of wartime tensions. Anderson depicted emancipation bias and secession debates with calm, judicial objectivity.
Edith Livermore provides an English translation of Angelo Neumann's Personal Recollections of Wagner. The piece offers an extensive review of the original German work as featured in the Saturday edition.
A late year publication gains value from a strong index missing in the German edition. The edition retains the same illustrations that appeared in the original, enhancing its appeal for readers and collectors.
A critical look at the Lippincott biography of Daniel Boone aimed at young readers. It highlights Boone early career frontier life, his adopted son Hardy Goodfellow and scout Simon Kenton, and notes the blend of fact and fiction in the narrative.
The review applauds the International Encyclopedia of Rose and Poetic Quotations by William Walsh as a thorough reference with topical indexes and cross references. It notes notable omissions from American and English writers such as George l, Henry James, Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, and others despite the book’s claimed comprehensiveness.
The piece reviews Amédée's Sons a quiet village tale by Harry James Smith from Houghton Mifflin. It follows Amédée's half orphaned son born just after his father dies and his mother soon after, then his growth with his grandfather in Port l'Evé amid ordinary village life.
Fragments indicate Saint Gaudens prepared an autobiography in his final years, with notes suggesting ongoing revisions and reflection on his life and artistic career. The text references a personal manuscript and the artist’s introspective statements.
The piece highlights a artist’s vivid account of life in New York during the Civil War when he was an apprentice and ambitious art student. It notes severe poverty and argues his hardships formed the stepping stones to a later, notable sculpting career, offering a unique city art history chapter from forty years ago.
Mrs Rosa Newmarch issues a statement denying any share in a recent revision or reissue of a Tschaikovsky book. She confirms only the authentic life and letters drawn from the Russian edition edited by M Mo deste Tschaikovsky and published by John Lane Company in New York in 1906. She notes confusion over an earlier work she authored, out of print for eight years, rumored to be reissued with material from others.
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