Truth About Port Arthur by E K and Iain A D
Review of an eyewitness Russian war correspondent account on the Port Arthur siege. It indicts General Stoessel for surrender and mismanagement while praising Smirnoff and Makharoff. The narrative cites court martial condemnation and emphasizes internal faults, logistics, and leadership failures shaping the fortress’s fall.
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General Stoessel
Port Arthur
Russia
Putnam Weale
Stoessel
Kondratenko
Stoesse
Japan
Smirnoff
Smirnnof
Smirnof
Makharoff
Etreshny
Bie
Lars
Old Town
Arthur
Nofine
Breestel
Nogi
Fock
Stoensel
Kuropatkin
Cear
Preas
Victoria and Her Queenly Quiet Strength
Victorian biography highlights the early training of Queen Victoria, her austere upbringing by the Duchess of Kent, and how her boyhood simplicity shaped a disciplined reign. The author praises her decisiveness, moral clarity, and the enduring partnership with Prince Consort, noting the shift in court life and her firm stance against excess after coronation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lecky
Victoria
Feodore
Leiningen
Duchess of Kent
Baroness Lehzen
Abbey
Georges
Mr. Hird
Prince Consort
England
Queen's Quiet Judgment Revealed in Reminiscences
The article recalls how the Queen, bound by a rule never to discuss politics in youth, learned to read character with keen blue eyes. Her guarded yet polite bearing hid thoughts, while her devotion to work and deep sympathy emerge in reminiscences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hird
Books of the Week: Elizabethan and Stuart Era Works
A gallery of recent books listed with authors, editors, and publishers. Titles span history, science, travel, and fiction from John Lane, Dutton, Neale and others. Notable items include Vallance on English art, Gray on Lord Kelvin, and Wall and Ayscouth fiction set in Scotland and Kentucky.
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England
Aymer Vallance
Malcolm C. Salaman
Wilfrid Ball
Harry P. Clifford
Arthur Rowe
William Twopeny
Charles Holmes
The
John Lane Company
International
Louis XVI
Marie-Thérise- Chariette de France
Duchesse d’Agouléme
G. Lerotre
Lewis May
Lord Kelvin
Andrew Gray
P. Dutton & Co
J. Reynolds Green
Hubert Wales
Mitchell Kennerley
Scotland
Marotz
John Ayscough
G P. Putnam's Sons
Blue Grass
George Creswell Gill
Neale Publishing Company
Kentucky
Virginia Dare
Mary Virginia Wall
The Tragedy of Korea by F A McKenzie review
A concise historical account detailing the collapse of the Corean government and the Japanese occupation of the peninsula. The volume surveys political decay, foreign intervention, and the sequence leading to Korea’s subjugation, presenting a dated colonial-era perspective in 312 pages with illustrations.
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Korea
F A McKenzie
Soc
P. Dutton & Co
Peninsula
Clubrooms for Boys by St Vincent de Paul Society in City
The St Vincent de Paul Society plans to open boys clubrooms across Manhattan and the Bronx and later in every parish of the New York archdiocese. Led by banker Thomas M. Mulry, the Ozanam Association will run the clubs modeled on lyceums for adults, with early openings in three locations. A spiritual director will be Monsignor McGean, Archbishop Farley backing the project upon his return. Contributions welcomed from all, with officers and directors named, including Mulry and O’Keeffe in leadership roles.
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St. Vincent de Paul Society
Manhattan
Bronx
Monsignor McGean
Rome
Farley
Mulry
John G. O'Keeffe
Mrs A E Tower Wins Suit in White Plains Court
Justice Keogh grants Mrs Mary B Tower a separation from Albert E Tower of Poughkeepsie. He orders $709 monthly alimony and suit costs. She alleged humiliation and abuse on a Poughkeepsie Newport yacht trip, with frequent drunken episodes. He denied abuse or pursuit of another woman. The couple married January IMG in Poughkeepsie and have no children.
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Keogh
Supreme Court
White Plains
Mary B. Tower
Albert E. Tower
Poughkeepsie
Tower
IMG
Batcheller’s Body Arrives From Paris for Burial
The body of Judge George Sherman Batcheller, who died in Paris on July 2, arrives in New York this morning aboard the Philadelphia. Daughter Catherine Batcheller will meet the body at the pier and accompany it to Saratoga Springs for burial Tuesday. He was 71, served in the New York Legislature at 21, was appointed to Egypt’s mixed courts by Grant, and later named to the New York Supreme Court of Appeals by Roosevelt.
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Batcheller
George Sherman Batcheller
Paris
France
New York
American Line
Philadelphia
Catherine Batcheller
Judge Batcheller
Saratoga Springs
Batchelier
International Tribunal (Mixed Courts
Egypt
Grant
Roosevelt
Supreme Court of Appeals
Ina
Baldwin arrives with airship for army tests at Fort Myer
Captain Thomas S. Baldwin lands an army airship at Fort Myer to undergo inspection by Lieutenant Lanm and prepare for a series of test flights starting August 1. Aeronaut W H Curtis arrives with mechanics to assemble the craft and gas plant. The design follows Dr Albert Zahn on gas bag shape with the blunt end forward and propeller at the front, a Baldwin concept for pull rather than push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Thomas S. Baldwin
Fort Myer
Lanm
Captain Baldwin
W. H. Curtis
Albert Zahn
Baldwin
Farman to Visit Aero Club Tonight in New York
Henri Farman, famed world wing flyer, is due to anchor off quarantine aboard La Touraine and be escorted to the Battery landing for arrival at the Hotel Astor. A reception committee includes Gen James Allen and Alan R Hawley among Aero Club officials. Farman’s wireless indicates contact with the Kroonland failed. He will later fly at Brighton Beach August 1 to 15 as the club explores model flying contests with prizes.
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Aero Club of America
Henri Farman
la Touraine
Farman Committee
James Allen
Signal Corps
Alan R. Hawley
The
Aero Club
Peter Cooper Hewitt
A. Holland Forbes
J. Christopher Lake
Melville D. Chapman
Charles A. Munn
Homer W. Hedge
A. N. Chandler
Charles Jerome Edwards
Augustus Post
Charles J. Glidden
Farman
Mr. Hawley
Kroonland
Antwerp
Fenri Farman
Brighton Beach Racetrack
New Airship Tested at Aldershot
Aldershot July 4 The new airship for the British Army made the first trial today. The flight was brief but successful with a two mile circle over the common at about five hundred feet.
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Aldershot
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D. Appleton & Co
London
Henry James
Charles Scribner's Sons
Messrs. Macmillan
Gertrude Atherton
Island
Nevis
British West Indies
Isle
Lord Curzon
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University College
Monsignor Browne
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Malaysia
J. F. Daniel
Johns Hopkins University
Philippines
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Jane Austen
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Maria Edgeworth
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Abbott H. Thayer
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Macmillan Company
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Galway
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Martin Ross
Sedley Lynch Ware
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Italy
Genoa
Robert W. Carden
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Poe
Emerson
Thoreau
M. Bazalgette
Whitman
Blackmore
H. Snowden Ward
London “Bookman
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Doones
Joseph Conrad
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Eaton & Mains
W. H. Fitchett
Everyman
Montrose J. Moses
Tennyeons
Henry E. Shepheri
LL. D
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Francis Holland
Soo
George Savile
Lord Halifax
George Crabbe
Croker
Edward Bag
Henry
Herman Scheffauer
I2mo
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Richard le Gallienne
Travel and Topography
A. E. Tower
Robert Herrick
New York War
MR. Crewe
Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
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Sally Snape
Lady Kidderminster
Albany Argus
Barbara
Boston Transcript
Bach
the Macmillan Company
Ava
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Meredith
Philadelphia Telegraph
Springfeld
Maurice Hewlett
N. Y. Tribune
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Europe
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Ameri
Baker's Great Book
Jomo
Capper
F. S. Cody
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Chautauqua
N. Y
International Congress of Esperantists
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United States
Rockaway
Grand Republic
Rockaway Beach
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Palisade Avenue
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