The Mystery of the Yellow Room reviewed
A lengthy critique lauds Leroux after comparing him to Conan Doyle. It details Rouletabille's investigative feats, notes structural cleverness, and highlights Bazin and Diver among other authors while judging the collection of recent literary offerings.
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Gaborian
Conan Doyle
M. Gaston Leroux
Yellow Room
Joseph Rouletabilie
Sherlock Holmes
M Leroux
M. Stangerson
Stangerson
Mlle Stangerson
Mlle Stangerson Is the Gole Person Found In the Yellow Room
Rouletabilie
M. Leroux
Rouletabille
The Little President Life of Alice Freeman Palmer
A review of George Herbert Palmer's biography of his wife Alice Freeman Palmer, praising her as a born educator who built Wellesley College into a strong institution. The piece highlights her leadership style, selfless devotion, and the brave, modest daughter of a village doctor who supported education and family. It notes her intellectual achievements and the enduring influence of her methods and spirit on students and faculty.
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Palmer
Wellesley College
Jesus Hope
Alice Freeman
Eliot
Wellesley
Professor Palmer
Mr. Durant
Kent
Lear
New England
Ovey
Books and authors in the era of Coppie and modern works
A survey of Coppie’s posthumous portrait, Delaplanche’s bust, and a wave of new publications. Scribner releases include Peter and Olympic Victor by Smith and Connolly, Kinkaid’s Battery by Cable, Waldo Trench and Others by Fuller, with later works by Jacobs, Grahame, and Wharton. Sjern Einar’s ballads appear in English, and Maxims Flying Machines nears. Emily Brontë’s 188 unpublished poems join The Complete Poems.
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Scribners
Peter
F. Hopkinson Smith
James B. Connolly
Kinkaid’s Battery
George W. Cable
Waldo Trench
Henry B. Fuller
W. W. Jacobs
Kenneth Grahame
Edith Wharton
Hatshepsut praised as Egypt's most gifted woman in era notes
The article defends Queen Hatshepsut against family rivals and lauds her artistic taste and moral energy. It also reports on James H. Moffatt's Shakespeare dictionary, Rider Haggard and Anthony Hope fiction plans, Skeat debunking Dame Juliana Berners, a Julian's Barnes misnomer, a new periodical The Highway, and The Nation's call for democratic university reform.
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Hatshepsut
Egypt
Rider Haggard
Anthony Hope
London
Juliana Berners
Doubles in Life and Literature Across Names and Nations
The essay muses on doubles or doppelgängers in public life, from Matthew Arnold and Sir Edwin to George Meredith and Carlyle. It traces mistaken identities, genealogical puzzles, and misattributed works, noting echoes in America and Europe, and ends with examples of personal doubles from dentistry to nods from guards at a London house.
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Sir Edwin
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George Meredith
Lord Lytton
Owen Meredith
Lucille
Thomas Carlyle
Cheyne
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Michael
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Thomas
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T. Carlyle
Berlin
Graham
Atheneum
Germany
Catholic Apostolic Church
Rome
Paisley
Paraclete
Society of
Edward Irving
Miss Cartyre
Robert Bridges
Winston Churchill
Hull
Sammy
Citoyennes
United States
Andreas
Andrew Lang
Henrietta Lang
al l the Langs
Ammergan
St. Peter
Liverpool
Albany
Blobs of Wad ham Reveals Names and Mistaken Identities
A narrator recalls comic misidentifications in social encounters. A stranger asks about a brother in Liverpool who is said to be improving Nature's prospects in Australia, prompting a mistaken pardon. A railway carriage encounter exposes a tangle of similar names and false assumptions, ending with the line that the narrator's blobs are legion, echoing James Payn.
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Liverpool
Austa
Jane
Ross Thomas
Books of the Week highlights Diana diaries and theater
The column spotlights The Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting by Lady Charlotte Bury with letters from Queen Caroline and others, edited by A Francis Steuart in two volumes, plus Beaux Brummell a play for Richard Mansfield. It notes The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux and The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart among fiction items.
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George the Fourth
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Francis Steuart
John Lane Company
Yellow Room
Joseph Rouletabilie
Gaston Leroux
Brentane’s
Marry Roberts Rine
The Orient in London Mission Exhibition Review
The Orient in London exhibition by the London Missionary Society drew vast public interest with hundreds of thousands attending across sixty showings. Its centerpiece The Pageant of Darkness and Light prompted debate over theatre use in church work, while plans floated for similar missions expositions in New York Boston and Chicago. Noonday mass meetings and a week of prayer led by multiple denominational brotherhoods will accompany the mission focus with noted preachers including C P MacGregor Len G Broughton and James M Gray.
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New York
Italy
Ecumenical Missionary Conference
the Orient
London
London Missionary Society
England
Boston
Chicago
Anderson
Wiliams
Nebraska
Webb
Milwaukee
Brent
Philippines
Rows
Alaska
Weller
Fond du Lac
Woodcock
Kentucky
Hubert Carleton
Brotherhood
Robert E. Gardiner
James L. Houghteling
John W. Wood
Episcopal Board of Missions
Len G. Broughton
Evangel
57Th Street
Broadway
Millard A. Jenkens
Jenkens
James M. Gray
Moody Bible Training School of
Bible School Commencements Across Five City Districts
The Daily Vacation Bible Schools at No 130 Stanton Street the old Pro Cathedral Spring Street Neighborhood House and No 175 West 63d Street close a summer of earnest ministry to children on Tuesday. Commencements occur at 9 30 a m 11 a m and 2 p m. The San Juan Hill district school has united children of different races reducing past quarrels and riot risk. The Brotherhood of St Andrew convention program for Protestant Episcopal Church in Milwaukee October 14 to 18 has just been announced with some speaker names omitted.
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Spring Street
West 63d Street
Tenth Avenue
D Street
San Juan Hill
The Car and the Lady by Sartwell Mason
A tale of motor racing and romance unfolds in a crime story illustrated by Ralph s 340. The narrative follows Percy F and Grace Sartwell Mason’s work about an accident and involvement of many innocent people presented in a dashing 12mo edition from vee Taylor Company.
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Indianapolis
Thokte. Merrill Company
Percy F
Grace Sartwell Mason
Vee & Taylor Company
Books and Battles in Review The British Fleet and English Law Works
A late 19th or early 20th century review summarizes several new historical and legal books. Charles H. Owen presents The Justice of the Mexican War, Fraser covers The Londons of the British Fleet, Maitland’s Constitutional History of England appears, and Draganas’ Macedonia and the Reforms is translated with Victor’s preface.
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G. P. Putnam
England
F. W. Maitland LE
G P. Putnam's Lane
Macedonia
Draganas
Br M. Victor
London
The Works of Anatole France in English Translation
The John Lane Company publishes two volumes edited by Frederic Chapman The Garden of Epicureanism translated by Alfred Allinson and The Red Lily translated by Winifred Stephens.
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Anatole France
Frederic Chapman Src
John Lane Company
Epicurua
Alfred Allinson
Winifred Stephens
The Naturalization of the Supersatio El Prank Podmore
A fragmented notice discusses a work on spiritualist movements, exposing frauds. The text references pagination and a scan of the material, noting a history of diverse movements and a critical examination of claims. Names and context are unclear due to OCR issues.
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Seepente
Pleasure and Problem in South Africa by Cecil Harmsworth MP
Describes South Africa's natural landscape and social questions with political commentary by Cecil Harmsworth MP. Illustrated from photographs, 24 pages, issued by The John Lane Company.
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I2mo
John Lane Company
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