Whistler Biographer Defends Rights and Portrait of Artist
The executrix Miss Philip challenges my right to publish Whistler biography passages without permission. A chancery ruling prevents verbatim quotes from letters while allowing summaries. Pennell describes Whistler as sensitive, American at heart, and deeply devoted to art, with 200 illustrations planned for the Life.
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Whistler
Miss Philip
Chancery Court
Boswell
Philip
Pennell
Mr. Pennell
Benvenuto Cellini
West Point
Europe
America
Further Experiences of an Irish RM volume announced
E C Somerville and Martin Ross publish another collection of humorous Irish sketches aimed at the hunting set. The volume titled Further Experiences of an Irish RM features stories including a pug-nosed fox interfering with Florence McCarthy Knox's hounds and master, all illustrated by Somerville.
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E. C. Somerville
Martin Ross
England
Longmans, Green & Co
Florence McCarthy Knox
Somerville
Dickens and Dora Love Letters Revealed in Wales Visit
Dickens pursues Maria Beadwell in 1830s London letters later published as a Dora episode tie to Copperfield. He rebuffs and reconciles briefly, later courts and meets Maria again in Wales through 1855 letters, ending with fading affection and a money request that Dickens cannot grant.
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Httle
Bibliophile Society of Boston
Charles Dickens
Maria Beadwell
Dickens
London
George Beadwell
Maria
Catharine Hogarth
Henry L. Winter
Miss Beadwell
Dora
David Copperfield
Wales
Mrs. Winter
Mr. Winter
Porfirio Diaz A Portrait by Rafael de Zayas Enriquez
The book analyzes Porfirio Diaz from early career to current administration. De Zayas, Mexico’s poet laureate and Diaz friend, admires early actions but distrusts later policy. He argues centralization, a weakened judiciary and legislature, and public discontent threaten Mexico with revolution unless Diaz reforms.
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Mexico
Rafael de Zayas Enriquez
Porfirio Diaz
D. Appleton & Co
Sefior de Zayas
Diaz
Senior de Zayas
Republic
de Zayas
Art and Economy in Home Decoration reviewed
Mabel Tuke Priestman broadens home making guidance with color as the backbone. The book compiles magazine articles into a cohesive study of decoration covering rugs floors windows walls lamps and shades with practical, accessible advice for harmonious, restful interiors.
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Mabel Tuke Priestman
John Lane Company
Strange Sights Seen by Visitor
German traveler Mr. Willy Reichel reports in a travel piece about astonishing American marvels of the everyday, including talking flames and dematerializing wealth. He narrates encounters with phantoms, a trance-possessed man, and a troubling theory of teleporting possessions, noting doubts with a calm, scientific tone.
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Willy Reichel
United States
In & Co
Reichel
Mr. Reichel
Newark City
California
Egypt
Nile
Rameses
Sphinx
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