The Rubicon Poem Excerpt by William Winter
The speaker contemplates crossing the Rubicon into death and rebirth, fearing both triumph and loss in the afterlife. He imagines a lucid second birth beyond grief where sages’ insights are revealed, then prefers action and indifference to fate, sin, sorrow, love, or hate. From Putnam's Magazine October.
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Putnam's Magazine
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Maria Beadwell
David Copperfield
Dora
David
Maria
Dorrit
Copperfield
Mrs. Winter
Dickens and Ferrero in America and the literary scene
A weekly column surveys Charles Dickens and Maria Beadwell’s romance myth versus reality, previews Guglielmo Ferrero’s New York visit and his Rome studies, and notes Robert Louis Stevenson’s realism in a Scribner’s profile. It also mentions Rodin and Whistler memorial plans, and a new preface for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables unveiled by Gustave Simon.
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Century Magazine
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Lombroso
Ferrero
University of
Turin
Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson
Scribner's
Will H. Low
Ballantrae
Stevenson
Victor Hugo
Gustave Simon
Paul Meurice
Hugo
M. Simon
Les Annales ‘Politiques Et Littéraires
Life of Whistler Biography and Rodin Memorials in Time
Biographers Joseph Pennell and the Whistler circle discuss the delayed life of James McNeill Whistler and a London Rodin memorial. Plans for American replicas emerge as public subscriptions open at 2900 dollars, with Pennell detailing Whistler’s data and access from his family and friends for the two volume Life of Whistler.
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Joseph Pennell
International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers
Balzac
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Embankment Gardens
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George Meredith
Kipling
Bernard Shaw
Maurice Hewlett
Satturpday
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France
United States
America
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Times Saturday Review
Mr. Pennell
Arthur Severn
Ruskin
Allan Cole
South Kensington Museum
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