Jay Cooke the Financier of the Civil War Portraits
A critical review of Oberholtzer's two volume biography of Jay Cooke, noting its ambitious scope and dramatic portrayal of the financier who funded the Civil War. The piece traces Cooke's bond campaigns, public influence, and the rise and fall of his firm with emphasis on publicity, patriotism, and the 1873 panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Cooke
Eis Paxton Oberholtzer
Sva
Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Co
Jay Cocke
Oberholtzer
Tennyson
Cavour
Sandusky
Ohio
Treasury Department
McCulloch
Treasury
Jones
Butler
Fort Fisher
Inguineness
Louis Napoleons Court in the Second French Empire
A review of Le Petit Homme Rouge’s history of the Paris court from 1852 to 1870. The Little Red Man portrays Louis Napoleon as sincere yet flawed, praising peace and public works while noting his flaws and exile. Empress Eugenie is shown as charitable but politically meddlesome, with real skill in caring for the Prince Imperial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second French Empire
le Petit Homme Rouge
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Tuileries
St. Cloud
Biarritz
Complégne
Louis Napoleon
France
Little Red Man
Little
Red Man
Italy
Switzerland
Enziend
America
Arigins
Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Montijo
Paris
Marie Antoinette
Eugenie
Prince Imperial
Empress Eugenie and Court Life Under the Second Empire
The excerpt discusses Empress Eugenie’s role as a mother during her husband Napoleon III’s reign, contrasting attitudes of French society with foreign views. It notes gossip, nursing efforts, and the central figures around the regime, mentioning aging figures and references Dayot’s portraits of the period as a useful companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Red Man
France
Shades
Eugénie
M. Armand Dayot
With the Border Ruffians and Other Late 19th Century Notes
A survey of new books and authors includes R H Williams memoir With the Border Ruffians about 1852 68 Kansas Texas experiences. Anatole France anarchism tale. memorial plans for James Wolfe. Thackeray’s Virginians portrait praised. Mentions Apologia Diffidentis by W W C Leith and Lettres Inédites Hortense Allart de Meritens. Landor Hellenics and Gebir in Temple Classics. Coleridge Biographia Literaria new edition. Napoleon at St Helena anecdotes. Grove music dictionary republished. Gray Newton bibliography second edition forthcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
R. H. Williams
Kansas
Texas
England
E. P. Dutton & Co
James Wolfe
Westerham
Kent
Thackeray
Wolfe
Plains of Abraham
Vnter
General Lambert
Greenwich
James
Abraham Heights
Charley
Chartreaux
France
Société du Mercure de France
Walter Savage Landor
Arthur Symmons
Athenæum
Landor
Simois
Aphrodite
Athens
Hero
Ares
Notable Books and Authors in Modern Letters
The column notes Susan Hartley Swett's death and her verse and short stories, cites A. W. Pollard's new "Books in the House," and references Kipling on Canadian tours. It previews Galdos's two historical novels and a play, Sedgwick's "A Fountain Sealed," Goethe biography via Bielschowsky, and Putnams' translation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Bradstreet
Susan Hartley Swett
Miss Swett
Bielschowsky
Goethe
W. A. Cooper
The
Putnams
The Magnet and Other Titles: A Tudor to Modern Navyworks
A catalog snippet lists novels and histories with designers and illustrators. Mentions Alfred C. Crozier’s The Magnet, Elizabeth Hazlewood Hancock’s Betty Pembroke, Harriet T. Comstock’s Janet of the Dunes, plus The Royal Navy by Swinburne and Wilkinson. Also notes Peter Pan Picture Book and Petrarch and the Ancient World in period publishing lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
Harriet T. Comstock
Carle Michel Boog
I2mo
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Long Island Shore
Royal Navy
Norman L. Wilkinson
H. Lawrence Swinburne
Charles N. Robinson
R. N
J. Jellicoe
Soc
the Macmillan Company
The Political Opinions of Thomas Jefferson
A catalog of book listings with titles and authors including The Political Opinions of Thomas Jefferson by John Walter Was A Ph D with introduction by Ri Heath M A Ph D and other works on politics history and literature from Neale Publishing and Scribner's Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
John Walter
Ri Heath
Neale Publishing Company
Anna Monica Pla
Duchess OF Saxony
Countess Montignoso
Ida Kremer
Mitchell Kennerler
Philippine Islands
Manila
Robert B. Westcott
I2me
John R. Edgar & Co
United States
Henry A. Wise Wood
G. P. Putnam's Sons
America
Americans
Nicholas Gortris
Virginia
Maryland
Maude A. Bomberger
Elmer Wissis Serl
BOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTES IN SURREAL MIX
A fragmented catalog of new titles and authors including John Chinaman at Home by Hardy and Stained Glass to Hitchcock Sherrill, listing publishers and page counts with scattered editorial notes and references to periodicals and journals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Chinaman
China
EB Hardy
Svo
Charles
James Roscoe Day
Ll.d. de le Igmo
Appleton & Cup
Trey Drewitt
Lonemans
Green & m
West
Hitchcock Sherrill
Lady Urs
France
Chartes Tlustrated
John Lane Company
A Coincidence In A London Spectator Poem
The London Spectator notes a verse ending matching an 1876 anonymous poem. The piece suggests a pure coincidence, since Mr. Munby likely never read the earlier line or has forgotten it. No plagiarism implied, but the similarity raises questions about memory and authorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennyson
The
London Spectator
Mr. Munby
Books of the Week Art and Drama Selections
A catalog listing new titles across art and literature. Includes Rembrandt etchings introductions by Hind, English homes series edited by H Avray Tipping, and works on heraldry, Sheffield Plate, enamelling, Coke of Norfolk, Mirabeau, Who's Who 1908, Stuart, drama The Silver Blade, and fiction The Great Secret and At the Foot of the Rainbow with publishers Scribner's Sons, Macmillan, and Little Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rembrandt
A. M. Hind
Charlies Scribner’s Sons
England
Charlies Latham
H. Avray Tipping
M. A.oxon
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Adlington Hall
Cheshire
Aston Hall
Birmingham
Bolsover Castle
Derbyshire
Welbeck Abbey
Nottinghamshire
Hy G W. Eve
Lewis F. Day
Svo
Charles Scribner's Sons
W. R. H. Trowbridge
The
Macmillan Company
J. E. B. Stuart
Cavalry Corps
Army of Northern Virginia
Theodore 5
Garnett
Neale Publishing Company
Stuart
Richmond
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Tfllustrated
I2mo
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Gene Stratton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stinmilus
New York
Jar Cooke
Cooke
Day Cooke & Co
Lincoln Tankette
Henry
Chase
Henry Cooke
Washington
Wture
Linesin
Likalle
Jay Coke
General Grant
Jesse
Land Department
Vermont
Compiégne
M. Anatole
W.W. C. Leith
Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Oxford University Press
St. Helena
Napoleon
Major Gorreguer
Bonaparte
Island of
Sir George Grove
Iimerick
Sir George
C. J. Gray
Isaac Newton
Scarlet Cardinal
A. W. Pollard
Rudyard Kipling
Canada
South Africa
Sefior Galdos
Spain
Prim. Galdos
Anne Sedgwick
Valerie Upton
Henry James
London “Chronicle
Macmillan
Mr. Crawford
Margaret
Jack London
Robert Herrick
Mr. W. de Morgan
H. G. Wells
Robert Hunter
Europe
ALL Newsdealers
Press OF the World Pub. CO
Flatiron Building
Alice B. Woodward
Daniel O'Connor
Petrarch
Pierre de Nothac
Merrymount
Humanists’ Library
Lewis Einstein
Giosue Carducci
Maud Holland
Anthea
Heine
William Stigand
London
Kegan Paul, Trench
Acanthia
Time
Trubmer & Co
Sociology
Seamee
Communist Party
X Kart
Frederick Engels
Frederice ——O Léme
Chicago
Charles H Kerr
Tribune
New York City
Silver Blade
Herman Hagedorn, Jr
Sve
Berlin
Alfred Unger
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