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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1908
Page
26
New York Times readers were informed they could receive Daily and Sunday Editions by mail anywhere in the country for 5 cents per month for Daily and 60 cents per month for Sunday. Orders could be placed through newsdealers or the Publication Office, telephone 1000 Bryant.
Page content reviews new novels by Mrs Ward and Agnes Lee with notes on Robert Hichens Coleridge and other authors. It highlights an adorable heroine, a mood piece, a revived old book interest, and dramatic lists of recent Boston and New York publications along with reviews and reader queries.
The editor commends contemporary verse and notes the delight in selecting a standout poem for the first page. It praises thoughtful conception and graceful tone, highlights Herbert French and a veldt soldier poem, laments poetry’s unpopularity, and urges wider reading aloud to savor metre and rhyme.
Minna Thomas Antrim publishes Donts for Bachelors and Old Maids and Jester Life and His Marionettes by The Henry Altcinus Company Philadelphia. The works blend witty admonitions with allegorical verse and decorative plates, offering world knowledge on manners happiness and disaster.
Christopher Hare offers a popular biography of Bal dassare Castiglione, praising the subject yet lamenting lack of vivid spirit and heavy emphasis on fashion. The piece highlights Castiglione as a noble Renaissance figure, his training and worldly reach, and notes Hare’s broader portrayal of court life and the Cortegiano.
Review praises Laura E. Richards tale The Wooing of Calvin Parks for its warm portrait of vanished New England. Calvin Parks a roaming candy seller and the lifelong twin sisters provide gentle humor and rustic character, with a slim plot but engaging narration and convincing local flavor down East Maine.
A concise appraisal of Kuhn’s The Sense of the Infinite, a study of the transcendental element in literature life and religion. The review notes its plain style and argues the work explains how the sense of the infinite elevates consciousness through contemplation of timeless being.
W C Morrow’s Len tala an adventure yarn from the South Seas fails to impress with a stilted simple style. Mystery around the heroine distracts, and the prosaic tone undermines overseas flavor despite engaging avatas and exciting chapter headings.
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