Morris's Staten Island History Praised for Thoroughness
The two volume work by Ira K. Morris on Staten Island New York is lauded for its completeness and clear use of sources. It traces Dutch French and English settlement, Revolutionary era conflicts, and later island development as a borough with strong local families and noted figures.
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Morris
Staten Island
New York
Ira K. Morris
the Memorial Publishing Company
New Amsterdam
Flanders
Wis
de Vries
Wouter van Twiller
Oude Dorp
Fort Wadsworth
Arrochar
New Dorp
Green Ridge
New Springville
Washington
Elizabethtown
Island
Congress
Richmond County
Continental Union
Dorp
Black Horse
Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Weehawken
Burr
New-York
Vanderbilt
China
Brooklyn Eagle
Mount Omi A Record of Travel on the Tibetan Border
Archibald John Little chronicles a peaceful journey through Szechuan to Mount Omi beyond the Tibetan border. The diary style narrative, drawn from letters in The North China Herald, highlights hospitality, Chinese customs, and rare European travel along a route seldom trodden by outsiders.
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Mount Omi
Buddha
Thibet
Tung River
Ta Chien Lu
China
Little
Mount Omi Axp
Archibald John Little
F. A. Stokes
Szechuan
North China Herald
Mr. Little
Wen
Inc
William Martin Conway
Harpers
William
Cambridge University
Charles Waldstein
The Charm of Ceylon Golden Tips and Tea Industry
Henry W. Cave extols Ceylon from Colombo hotels to the Kandy tea country, praising the island’s landscapes and the Golden Tips tea. The book details plucking, processing, and cleanliness, highlighting the eighty-cent wage context, and the rise of the tea industry after coffee and cinchona declines.
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Ceylon
Nuwara Eliya
Henry W. Cave
Charles Scribner's Ons
London
Cave
Colombo
Kandy
Mr. Cave
India
Swallowfield and Its Owners and Other Books
The literary market sees Longmans and Green & Co publish Swallowfield and Its Owners detailing Berkshire English lore and Lady Russell’s research. Frederick Baron Corvo reexamines the Borgias for EF P. Dutton & Co, while Penn's Longmans initiates Selections From the Writings of Zwingli. Various biographies, travelogues, and novels from Hale to Arnold appear from multiple publishers with new editions and reprints.
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United States
Borgias
House of Borgia
EF. P. Dutton & Co
Frederick Baron Corvo
University of Pennsylvania
Longmans, Green & Co
Zwingli
Samuel Macauley Jackson
New York University
New Books and Series Announced by Major Publishers
A sweep of new publications is announced including Sports in Europe by multiple authors from E. P. Dutton & Co and a rare Rabiyat of Omar Khayyam by Yale Press. Other entries note Alfred the Great portraits in Century and the Town and Country Library series by Appleton. Additional works from Holt, Macmillan, Stokes, and Dutton cover physiology histories, fiction, economics, and social histories.
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E. P. Dutton & Co
Europe
Yale Press
Omar Khayyam
D. Appleton & Co
A. R. Conder
David Harum
Oxford
Henry Holt & Co
H. Isabelle Williams
Delphine Duval
Smith College
France
Saint Amand
Rambaud
Voltaire
Saint Simon
Sainte Beuve
New Amsterdam Book Company
M. Foster
D. C. Be
the Macmillan Company
Constantine
Osborne Ward
United States Department of Labor
W. H Lowdermilk & Co
Washington, D. C
Ensign Knightley
A. FE
W. Mason
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Mousme
Olive Holland
Frank Moore Colby
Harry Thurston Peck
Dodd, Mead & Co
John Fiake
Hedworth Lambton
EL P. Dutton & Co
A. N. Waterman
Chicago
M. A. Donohue & Co
Harold Owen
Duchess of Sutherland
Iimo
F. PB. Dutton & Co
Frederic Mistral
Charles Alfred Downer
Columbia University Press
ANKCH
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
I2me
Rodolphe Tipffer
Ascott R. Hope
Greater New York
John ©. Thomson
New-York
The
Lawyers’ Co-operative Pubiishing Company
the Abbey Press
the Temple Gates
Stewart Doubleday
Abbey Press
Dora Harvey Munyon
James W. Harkins, Jr
Mical al Nizmo
Alice Pierson
William Allison
E. PL Dutton & Co
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Omi
Ah Sin
Nathan Hale
H. P. Johnston
Hale
J. O. Brant-Sero
Joseph Brant
Canada
England
F. W. Halsey
New-York Frontier
Grand River Reserve
Pancoast
Edward Dawden
Edwin Arnold
Africa
Ithobal
G. W. Dillingham Company
Tyre
Neku
Egypt
Red Sea
Sydney Herman Preston
Scribners
Anna Fuller
Katherine Day
Putnams
Henrietta Dana Skinner
Harper & Bros
John Lane
Fifthave
Twenty
Eighth St
Truslove, Hanson & Comba
Theosophical Society
Annie Swan
John Doe
Frederick Warne & Co
Francis A. Gasquet
Henry VIII
Dr. Gasquet
Alfred the Great
Mathew
Paris
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Jules Verne
Michel Strogoff
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co
C. Fontaine
Washington High School
Sir John Tenniel
Alice
Lewis Carroll
Peter Newell
Doubleday, Page & Co
George Eliot
Romola
Italy
Macmillan Company
Michael Foster
Elia W. Peattie
Michigan
Ocean
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Mpania
Etruria
Servia
Campania
Vernon H. Brown & CO
Broadway
Cook & Son
31St-St
66Th-Ave
Macy's
14Th
Columbus-ave
66Th-St
6Th-Ave
47Th-St
76Th
77Th Sts
1St-St
Ist
S9th
Tremont-ave
3D-Ave
41St-St
Bleecker-at
Bieecker-st
Weil
Chicago Record-Herald
A. Henry Savage Landor
New York Tribune
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Smart Set
Papa Boltchard
Gibsoyn
Albrens
Molly Elliot Seavel
Mrs. Sherwood
Edgar Saltus
Elizabeth Duer
Erin Graham
Julien Gordon
Edgar Fawcett
Justus
Miles Forman
ESS Ess Publishing CO
Nathaniel Stephenson
Cincinnati
Abraham Lincoln
Fifth Avenue, New York
Quaritch
Piccadilly
Ject
Baker's Great
John Bright
Ocean Steamers
Gr Iy Odinion Line
OLD Dominion Steamship Col
North River
Franklin
OLD Dominion Line
Point Comfort
Fort Portsmouth
Pinner’s Fornt
Newport News
Petersburg
Richmond
Virginia Beach
Pier 26
N. R
Beach St
H. B. Walker
Porto Rico
RED
San Juan
S. Caracab
S. Maracaibo
Boulton, Bliss & Dallett
General Managers
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Londonderry
West 24Th St. Farnees
Rome
Ethiopia
Astoria
Henderson Brothers
American Line
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Antwerp
Kensington
Zeeland
É “Herbourg
International Navigation Company
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Waa
White Star Line
Liverpool
Cymric
Teutonic
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Germanie
Oceanic
Pier 48
N. 7
F.C. Clark
Bway
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LLOYE
Cherbourg
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Kaiserin M_ Th
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Lahn
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K. Luise
Th. H. Meter
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St. Hoboken
Bremen
Gibraltar
Naples
Genoa
Aes
Aller
Werra
tHoh'zoll
Hohenzollern
Congress St
Brooklyn
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Oelrichs & CO
Louis H. Meyer
South Third St. Phila
Plymouth
Hamberg
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Deutschland
Columbia
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Cherbov Hamburg
Waldersee
Phoenicia
Bulgaria
Hamburg
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Norway
Sweden
Russia
Denmark
Japan-China
Hawaiian
Philippine Islands
S. C O. Occidental
Oriental
S. CO
Toyo Kisen Kaisha
San Francisco
Honolulu
Yokohama
Kobe
Nagasaki
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Hongkong
Battery Place
Washington Bull
Maine Steamship Company
Portland
Maine
Horatio Hall
East River
Pike Street
Corner Street
la Guayra
Paerto Cabello
Curacao
Maracaibo
Roberts Pier
S. S
Caracas
Noom S. S
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
Havre
Foot
Morton
Ta Pitaine Mac - Jane
le Gascome
Etagne
Normandie
la Champagne
la Bretagne
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