The Search for Andree and Stadling in Siberia
J Stadling recounts a sober 1898 expedition from Sweden tracing Andree the doomed balloonist. He endures the Lena Delta to Yenisei journey, extreme cold, and tundra travel, noting Shamanistic Tungus, Yakut rescuers, and perilous ice as he doubts Andree landed on Siberian coasts while highlighting rare, vivid Siberian scenes.
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Stadling
Sweden
Andrée
Siberian
Lena Delta
New Siberian Islands
Mr. Stadling
Yenisei
Yakutsk
Lower
Lena
Yakut Androssoff
Jeannette
Noros and
Nindemann
de Long
United States
Siberia
Taimyr Peninsula
Yenisei River
Siberian Railway
Life at Harrow. Handbooks to the Great Public Schools
A summarized review of J Fisher Williams's Life at Harrow describing Harrow as a model English public school. It notes the school’s founder John Lyon in 1571, the early strict rules on play and archery, and Harrow’s evolution to a large institution with about six hundred boys, no dormitories, and extensive boarding houses.
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Mr. Williams
Harrow
Eton
Williams
J. Fisher Williams
M. A
The
McMillan Company
Fischer
Oxford
Cambridge
John Lyon
Elizabeth
London
Har- Tow
Lyon
Guessing at the Future Twentyeth Century Inventions
George Sutherland surveys predicted future power sources and devices including wind mills wave motors steam turbines and acetylene processes. He foresees electrification automation wireless tech and improved transport while noting uncertain outcomes for submarines bombs and universal peace.
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Sutherland
Ericsson
England
Authors Should Study Botany in Early Spring
From The London Daily News, an essay on matching months with blooming flowers and the value of careful observation. The writer recalls hawthorn blooming on April 9 in Torquay and notes how notebooks help capture seasonal detail, contrasting memory with catalog abuses and literary allusions.
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Shakespeare
Torquay
M. Zola
Books and Authors in the Southern Novel Boom
A survey of recent fiction on Southern life and a flood of Southern manuscripts. Winston Churchill’s The Crisis sells out its first edition. A H Lander’s China and Her Allies is set for next week release. Enamel plates at Windsor’s Knights of the Garter stalls attract study. St John Hope’s volume previews. Other notices include Brownell’s French Art update, Heron’s Karadac, and Mayflower studies.
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Charles Scribner's Sons
A. H. Savage Lander
China
St. George's Chapel
Windsor
Knights of the Garter
W. H. St. John Hope
E. P. Dutton & Co
Hope
American Book News Digest of New Works and Authors
A letter praises a critic’s taste in French drama and urges continued study from Corneille to Balzac. New York lawyer George Trimble Davidson writes a contemporary society novel The Moderns, paralleling The Expatriates with a Paris Charity Bazaar fire opening. Upcoming English poetry volumes include Deirdre Wed by Hubert French and a collection by Lady Margaret Sackville. Eden Phillpotts announces The Striking Hours, and Macmillan plans Encyclopedia Biblica volume three with volume four due next year. Nietzsche selections, compiled by E P Dutton & Co, forthcoming from a recently deceased German philosopher.
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George Trimble Davidson
New-York
New York
Charity Bazar
Paris
John Lane
England
Deirdre Wed
Hubert French
Dublin
Margaret Sackville
Earl de la Warr
The Crisis book praised by critics and public
Critics hail The Crisis as a powerful portrayal of storm and stress era. Boston Herald and New York papers note Churchill like character work and lasting impact. Publishers report 375000 copies of Richard Carvel sold, 100000 more printed, stock selling fast.
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Richard Carvel
Nietzsche as Critic Philosopher Poet and Prophet
Thomas Common presents a sweeping portrait of Nietzsche as critic philosopher poet and prophet. Henry Somerville’s Jack Racer to be published this month by McClure Phillips promises a thoroughly American story of ordinary Midwestern life and society unknown to older communities. E P Dutton prepares an autumn edition A Wonderful Duchess about Anna Amalia of Saxe Weimar and Eisenach with private papers and new anecdotes from Weimar circles. Harpers to publish The Strength of the Hills by Florence Wilkinson in September. Olive Thorne Miller’s Second Book of Birds due next week from Houghton Mifflin covering bird families habitats songs and localities. Macmillan Temple Classics next week Adam Bede as volume续
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Jack Racer
Henry Somerville
McClure, Phillips & Co
Middle West
United States
E. P. Dutton & Co
Frances Gerard
Ludwig II of
Bavaria
Anna Amalia
Saxe-Weimar
Eisenach
Weimar
Goethe
Schiller
Herder
Wieland
Charlotte von Stein
Corona Schragter
Olive Thorne Miller
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Some Fiction You Should Read by Melville D Post
A brief praise note from the Omaha World-Herald calling Melville D Post's book a near great tale. It highlights its excitement pace and stronger appeal in style characterizations and romance setting. The critic predicts the work will endure as literature beyond the author's lifetime.
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Post
Omaha World-Herald
The Forest Schoolmaster by Peter Roseccer
Authorized translation by Frances E Skinner priced at $1.50. The work is praised for its beauty and strength, its strange sombre mood, and its stand among high class literature. Noted for poetic feeling and broad human sympathy with tempered life views.
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Peter Roseccer
Frances E. Skinner
Detroit Free Press
Spectator Praises Miss Carr’s Original Literary Skill
A spectator comment hails Miss Carr for originality and literary talent, noting sharp wit and refined expression. The brief remark reflects admiration for her creative prose and distinctive style.
Dupes Novel Sparks Fresh Entertainment Says Critics
Critics praise the book as original and entertaining calling it refreshingly new. Buffalo Commercial hails it as one of the best stories in years while Chicago Times Herald notes its originality and freshness. Brooklyn Eagle adds that the story is good.
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Churchill
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
York
Buffalo Commercial
Chicago Times- Herald
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Macmillan Company
Quarterly Review
Queen Victoria
Leonard Scott Publication Company
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Claude and Poussin
Rodin
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Hesketh Prichard
H. Heron
Karadac
Gersay
Azel Ames
Thoreau
Sir Walter Besant
Henry Bourland
Albert Elmer Hancock
Poultney Bigelow
Berlin
Landor
Frederic Harrison
Professor Harper
Prince
Matthew Arnold
Corneille
Balzac
Eden Phillpotts
America
Great Britain
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mr. Churchill
Boston Herald
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
New York Mail and Express
Thomas Common
Nietzsche
Harpers
Florence Wilkinson
Melville D. Post
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Barry Pain
M. E. Carr
Europe
Dupes
Erne. Watts Mumrorp
Brooklyn Eagle
Hudson Library
Agatha Webb
Anna Katharine Green
S. R. Crockett
F. Marion Crawforp
James Barnes
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W. 23Rd St
Howard Chandler Christy
Fifth Ave
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Piccadilly
Baker’ Great
John Bright St
Birmingham
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