Ganton & Co and Western Realist Fiction in Chicago
A review of Arthur J. Eddy's Ganton & Co a Western realist novel set in Chicago showing the rise of a meat packing empire, its two sons and labor strikes. The piece contrasts serious realist fiction with sensational romance, noting Eddy's focus on life, character, and business without preaching reform. The article also references Powell’s forthcoming works on insomnia cures and drug movement from Putnams.
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West
Zola
Vertheless
Arthur J. Eddy
Chicago
Ganton & Co
A. C
McClurg & Co
Creed
John Ganton
Ganton
Eddy
Though Life Us Do Part in Elizabeth Stuart's Fictio n
A review notes Elizabeth Stuart's novel Though Life Us Do Part centers on a feminine heroine whose gentle strength sustains a wealthy woman and a young physician amid poverty, drink, and infidelity. The story ends with a hopeful revival of the couple after marriage separation and a symbolic return from hardship. The reviewer calls the narrative patchy but praises the heroine's appeal and the emotional arc.
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Elizabeth Stuart
Houghton Mifflin Company
Cuba
Critical view of a novelist's incomplete fiction
The critique argues the author writes too early without fully shaping the plot. It notes the heroine is known before others are developed, causing the work to lack the significance its strengths and serious intent would imply.
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Lewis Rand
Cooper Republished Offers Cooper Classics At Reduced Prices
Cambridge Classics republishes three James Fenimore Cooper novels The Prairie The Pioneers and The Pathfinder with Susan Fenimore Cooper’s 1872 introduction. The $1 editions aim at library shelves and readers seeking calmer, less brisk narratives than contemporary thrillers.
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Cambridge
James Fenimore Cooper
Pioneers
Pathfinder
Houghton Mifflin Company
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
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America
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Ayl
Boston Herald
Ewis Rand Watch
F.C. Yohn
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
the Century CO
John Keats
Albert E. Hancock Agees
Park Street
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Eva March Tappan
Chaucer
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Miss Brown
Anna M. Upjohn
Boston
Maude B. Dutton
New York
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