Modern Travel Books Offer Practical, Lively Guides
A critic surveys recent travel works including Italian Highways and Byways by Mittoun, Florence impressions by Vernon, Sicily by Monroe, The Ship Dwellers by Paine, and The Mediterranean Cruise compiled by Millard. The pieces balance practical detail with engaging narrative and rich illustrations, noting humor and vivid scenes across Italy, Sicily, and the Mediterranean.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
Bruce Millard
CG Putnam's Sons
Baedeker Aione
Miltoun
Italy
Mittoun
Miscellany notes on literary figures and Sheridan relics
A wide ranging miscellany reports an eighth volume of Justin McCarthy's History of Our Times covering Edward VII, Basil Duke's reminiscences, and W D Howells Europe trip. It mentions M Bourget's novel plot borrowings, Kipling association with Carmell Price, and a noted Arabian Nights edition. It also recalls King Edward's taste for Meredith and Renard, and a Sheridan theatrical relic auction with the School for Scandal manuscript.
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Justin McCarthy
Edward
Carmell Price
United Services College
Kipling
Stalky & Co
Price
Willam Morris
Morris
Advancing Ethics and Science in Roosevelt Oxford Talk
Former President Roosevelt argues that American ethnic mix enriches the nation and that science and literature must jointly guide history. He cautions scholars to blend biological insight with humane narrative, urging readable science and enduring literary form for future historians.
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Polybius
Tacitus
Gibbon
Macaulay
St. Louis
Joinville
Marbot
Walter Scott
The Silent Call The Squaw Man's Son follow up title
Hal, son of the Squaw Man, is a half breed with noble English lineage. Educated in English schools and trained for a career, he returns near his birthplace ranch after hearing a so called silent call.
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Mr. Monroe
Sicily
Garibaldi
Mr. Paine
Mark Twain
Genoa
Malta
Constantinople
Holy Land
Egypt
Petrie
W. D. Howells
Europe
M. Jules Renard
Poil-de-Carotte
Paris
America
Oxford
Elizabeth
Asia
North America
South America
Noah
Hal
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Doubleday, Page & Co
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J. C. Madrus
George Meredith
Sheridan
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William Chetwynd
Theatre Royal
R. B. Sheridan
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Fairburn
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