Literary News of Philadelphia and Circle of November Magazines
Review of current literary topics including English poetry, Renaissance literature, travel volumes, and editorials. Notices highlight new books from New York and Philadelphia, questions about Mark Twain, and previews of November magazines with authors and themes.
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New York Times
Saturday Review OF Books
Europe
Keat
Middle Asia
Far East
Swe
Mark Twain Debate Sparks Questions On Greatness
The Saturday Review correspondent challenges Yale Professor Phelps and Columbia Professor Matthews who called Mark Twain the nation's greatest novelist. He argues Twain's field is grotesque humor and critic Benjamin Matthews overreaches. The piece defends Twain as lovable, uniquely American, and widely appealing, while noting controversy among critics.
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Saturday Review OF Books
Phelps
Yale
Matthews
Columbia University
Mark Twain
Matthew
Mr. Clemens
Margaret of Austria A Regal Life in a Romantic Biography
A review of Eleanor E. Tremayne's The First Governess of the Netherlands Margaret of Austria. The work draws on French and Belgian archives, offering a careful yet cautious portrait of a remarkable regent for Charles V. The editor and author are praised for accuracy but critiqued for lacking vivid, living imagination.
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Europe
Margaret of
Austria
Maximilian
Charles V
Netherlands
Margaret
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Eleanor E. Tremayne
Martin Humers
Tremayne H
France
Belgium
Berwick
Alba
Hume
Mark Twain as Humorist and True Genius of the People
The excerpt discusses Mark Twain as a master humorist whose stories like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn reveal serious significance yet defy narrow classification. It argues Twain’s genius lies in his narrative humor loved by the people, not by academic labels.
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Hadleyshore
Mark ‘Wath
Huckleberry
Finn
Mark Twain
Columbia
Yale
Egyptian Queens of the Pharaohs Reviewed in Janet Buttles Book
A review discusses The Queens of Egypt by Janet R. Buttles, praising its original research into the names, deeds, and personalities of royal Egyptian women. It notes periods of well documented female influence and gaps bridged by authorial interpretation, with a Preface by Prof Maspero calling the work a valuable les...
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Egypt
Janet R. Buttles
D Appiston & Co
Maspero
Missapetles
Busy London season foreshadows major literary releases
The October drift of London gossip signals key fall books from Murray and Sampson Low. Gen Kuropatkin memoirs, British Hunting with 400 illustrations, Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey on the George, and a Queen Alexandra Christmas Gift Book promise wide reach and charity proceeds. A Punch anthology and a tale plot tied to Prof. Churton Collins spark debate on authorship and ethics.
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QNDON
Murray
Sampson, Low, Marston & Co
Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Maria Stella
Louis Philippe
George
Knights of the Garter
Charles I
Edward
Punch
Queen Alexandra
Marie Corelli
Author Curwood Writes Letter to Readers
The item notes that James Oliver Curwood, an author not killed, has written a new letter or note to readers and mentions publishers Putnam's in connection with alt- pabtakers.
Essays of a Nature Lover in To the Open review
A favorable critique of Santon Davis Kirkham's To the Open noting the author’s keen sixth sense for nature. The reviewer praises his trained observer’s eye and Thoreau like lyricism, with vivid praise for the book’s literary charm and the quality of its illustrations by Rudolph Fickmeyer and Louis Cassin Fur.
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Nature
Santon Davis Whirkham
Paul Elder & Co
New York
Kirkhamp
Mosover
Althrough
Kirkham
Dam
Resn
Rudolph Fi¢kmeyer
Louis
Cassiz
Actors Birthday Book review notes omissions in Briscoe edition
The 1907 era Actors Birthday Book edited by Briscoe is critiqued for omitting many actors featured in earlier volumes. Review argues the omissions reduce the work’s value for collectors, noting biographies of Gillette, Frohman, Scheff, Tree, Sardou and others appear only in earlier editions. To obtain full information, readers would need multiple editions.
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Europe
Johnson Brisssine
Wiliam Gillette
EF. H. Borbern
Charles Frohman
James Kh.iackett
Fritzi Scheff
Beerbohm Tree
Victorien Sardon
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