Back to the Land for a Livelihood
A review of Ramsey Benson’s A Lord of Lands, which recounts an Irishman’s move from wage labor to farming the Northwest. The piece analyzes themes of mobility, immigration, mixed blood, and the dream of owning land, noting Benson’s optimistic view of America’s evolving national character and the communal safeguards against shared land ownership.
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America
Ramsey ‘Benson
William Morris
Benson
Northwest
Henry James
Mr. Benson
Novels Publishings Show Vigorous Season Across Publishers
This week two New York houses issue ten new fiction titles. McClure Company releases six novels including Conrad’s The Point of Honor and The Great Miss Driver, while Moffat Yard & Co. offers four more such as Sappho in Boston and The Adventures of Lady Susan. Also in print are eight older works in Everyman’s Library from E. P. Dutton & Co., with introductions by noted scholars.
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New York
McClure Company
Joseph Conrad
Anthony Hope
Miss Driver
James Hopper
Fred R. Bechdell
Leonard Merrick
Lynch
Barry Gordon
Morocco
William Farquhar Payson
Ohio
California
Everett McNeil
Moffat, Yard & Co
Edgar
Notable Works and Introductions in a 19th Century Anthology
Katharine Tynan and Eliot collaborate on Mil on the Floss with Dr Robertson Nicoll’s intro. Dumas presents Marguerite de Valois with Ernest Rhys’s intro. Peacock’s Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey gain Dr Richard Garnett’s intro. Florence Converse contributes Long Will. Charlotte M Yonge’s The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest with Charlotte Hull’s intro. The Book of Golden Deeds includes an introduction by Honest Rays.
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Katharine Tynan
Eliot
Mil
Robertson Nicoll
Dumas
Marguerite de Valois
Ernest Rhys
Peacock
New African Travel Books Promised This Fortnight
Three travel books on Africa are slated for publication in the near term. The Jungle Folk of Africa by Robert H. Milligan appears this week from Revell and surveys native life with balanced comedy and tragedy. Longmans, Green & Co. will release Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa by Bishop Alfred R. Tucker, and On Safari by Abel Chapman with 200 illustrations.
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Africa
Revell
Robert H. Milligan
Mr. Milligan
Longmans, Green & Co
Uganda
East
Alfred R. Tucker
D. D
Safari
Abel Chapman
Chapman
British East Africa
E. Caldwell
Howells Revisits Italy Ahead of Roman Holidays
Forty years after his Rome visit Mr. Howells again traveled to Italy and gathered papers on modern Rome. Harper and Brothers will publish a book titled Roman Holidays next month, comparing current life in Rome with his memories from the early seven ties.
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Howells
Rome
Italy
Harper and Brothers
Builders of United Italy Portraits Eight Key Figures
Rupert Sargent Holland profiles eight leaders who shaped Italian unification in Builders of United Italy. Alfieri Mazoni Gioberti Manin Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel are examined for their roles in fusing the Italian states into a single kingdom.
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United
Italy
Henry Holt & Co
Rupert Sargent Holland
United Kingdom
Alfieri
Mazoni
Gioberti
Manin
Venice
Mazzini
Cavour
Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel
Holland
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Peter
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New York Tribune
Chicago Record-Herald
Boston Herald
New York Evening Mail
Charles Scribner’s Sons
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