Mackaye's Mater Captures Campaign Humor and Heart
R P Mackaye new prose play Mater satirizes reform politics through Michael Dean a radical who accepts office aided by his mother Mater whose clever diplomacy helps secure his election. The work blends elegant language with witty banter and a lyric thematic thread The Best of Love is Laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Percy Mackaye
MacMillan &Co
Mackaye
Michael Dean
Mater
Dean
Michael
Mary
Arthur Cullen
Cullen
Wordsworth
Mr. Mackaye
Crossbanter
Books in Sale This Week By Moffat Yard Co
Sir Oliver Lodge’s Science and Immortality leads a list of new titles published this week by Moffat Yard Co. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Good Wolf for children, Will Irwin’s In Chinatown reminiscence of pre quake San Francisco, Eden Phillpotts Dartmoor novel The Virgin in Judgment, Cyrus Townsend Brady’s The Adventures of Susan, and a practical guide When Mother Lets Us Cook are also featured with photographs by Arnold in the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Lodge
F. R
Moffat Yard & Co
Good Wolf
Eldren
Frances Stodgson Burnett
Chinatown
Sanrancisco
Will Rwin
Arnold Enthe
Anther Dartmoor
Eden Phillpotts
Susan
Cyrus Townsend Brady
New Jane Austen Edition Added to St Martin's Library Series
St Martin's Library of Standard Authors adds Sense and Sensibility to its ten volume Jane Austen collection. Duffield & Co. imports the two volume set priced at $2.50. Rich color illustrations by A Wallis Mil, green cloth bindings, gilt lettering, and end paper motifs emphasize reader comfort on lightweight thick paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Martin’s Library
Jane Austen
Duffield & Co
A. Wallis Mil
Biography of Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman
A forthcoming biography of Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman, to be published by The John Lane Company, expands a prior study with new biographical material and includes letters from Grieg Liszt and MacDowell as part of a comprehensive critical biography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward MacDowell
Lawrence Gilman
John Lane Company
Gilman
Grieg
Liszt
MacDowell
New Novel by Gertrude Atherton Sets Sail for Nevis isle
Gertrude Atherton announces The Gorgeous Isle to be published next week by Doubleday Page. The tale uses Nevis in the British West Indies as its setting with a famed historic hotel where the hero and heroine reside. The novel blends historical and romantic threads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Connor
Nva
Theological Seminary of
Lincoln University
Seaton
Charles H. Parkhurst
Doubleday, Page & Co
Testing of es a 2 Diana Mallory
Mrs. Humphry Ward presents a powerful tale of a girl facing harsh truth on the eve of her engagement. The plot centers on a great house, a protective suitor, and the exposure of a mother’s death, delivering drama with grace and distinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diana Mallory
A Spirit In Prison by Robert Hichens
A vivid panorama of Italy and its people, the novel follows an English woman her husband and daughter in a gripping love story. The author paints sunlit skies sudden storms and emotional bursts as the characters live out their passions in luminous scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Crawford
Margaret Donn
Ruby
Aiea Ollivant
Macmillan Company
Qver Bemerton
E. V Lucas
Italy
Lina Duff Gordon
Venetia
G. Hdadlam
Jamep ‘Gairdner
Alfred P. Graves
Paul Dahlke
Geneva
J. Hardwicke Lewis
May Hardiwicke Lewis
Francis Gribijie
Alfred Austin
Herbert Osborn
Robert Hichens
Hichens
The Shadow World by Hamlin Garland
Garland presents a new hypothesis explaining spirit forces through actual records rather than living dead communication. The author argues this explanation may fit the phenomena without involving contact with the deceased and delivers what he calls convincing evidence in an entertaining narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlin Garland
Mr. Garland
Not available title due to fragment
Story of a strong proud woman in a new order resists being sidelined by her husband for a younger rival. Harben traces the truth, delivering a great, forward looking novel in advance of his other works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilt N. Harben
New Order
Youngirl
Mr. Harbén
Tfar
The Genial Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
Review praises The Genial Idiot as a sharp entertaining book of banter and wit. It notes Bangs as a keen speaker who can talk about anything and recommends the book for diverting the mind during busy hours. It also mentions the completion of The American Nation 27 volume history after seven years of scholarly work and offers a booklet about it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kendrick
Also Mentioned on This Page
Century Company
G. B. Lancaster
South Seas
Una L. Silberrad
Kipling
Charles F. Ak
B. W. Dodge & Co
Rob Lindsay
Het
Boos
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Anabel Channice
George Frederick, Kunz
Charles Hugh Stevenson
Carolyn Wells
Henry Hutt
Frances Ookous
Queen Cross
Endship Village
Gale
H. G. Wells
Albert Kinross
Paul Dubois
Ireland
Baker & Taylor Company
Charlies H
Caroiine A. Caffin
Helen A. Clarke
Growning
Calvert's Valley
West
West Virginian Life, ‘By Margaret Prescott Montague
Alderson Cree
John M. Tyler
Amherst College
D. Appleton
Philippines
Moses
Taft
United States
Philippine Islands
Leo S. Rowe
University of Pennsylvania
McClure Company
Anthony Partridge
H. de Vere Stackpoole
Crimson Azaelas
Ellis Parker
Dennisks
Eleanor Atkinson
Hanks
the Collector’ S Handbooks
Delftware
By N. Hudson Moore
New York
Arctic
Gjoa
Roald
Pethe Godfrey Hansen
Dial
North Pele
E. P. Dutton & CO
West 23d Street
Gertrude Atherton
The
Gilbert Neal
Ote Harpers
BAZAR _WEEKLY
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!