Truth and Fiction in Crime Stories Review
A critical survey of Crime literature noting Arthur Train True Stories of Crime and competing works by McIntyre Davis Walk Stringer. Evaluates realism, motive, coincidence, and narrative craft across eight stories with emphasis on truthfulness and literary merit.
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Arthur Train
I2mo
Charlies Scribner’s Sons
John McIntyre
Frances Gers
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
Vera
Richard Harding Davis
Frederic Dorr Eteele
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Edmonds Walk
A. B. Wenzell
Chicago
A. C. McClure & Company
Arthur Stringer
the McClure Company
Sherlock Holmes
Raffles
Conan Doyle
Mr. E. W. Hornung
Poe
Geberian
Mr. Train
New York
America
Train
Stevenson
Dodge
Texas
Botts Stradivarius
Miller and
Ammon
Patrick and
Hummel
Antonio Strollo
Broadway
Stephen
Stephen Austin
Ocey
Mr. McIntyre
Kenyon
Davis
Harpiee
Mr. Walk
Mr. Stringer
Law and its origins in the common code debate
A scholarly portrait of the feud between David Dudley Field and James C. Carter over codifying the common law. Carter, opposing Field’s Civil Code, authored lectures later published, arguing law flows from custom and society’s evolving conduct. Carter’s death in 1905 frames a lasting defense of traditional legal development.
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New York
David Dudley Field
James C. Carter
Field
Assembly
Senate
Bar Association
David Klem
Carter
Dudley Field
Jeremy Benthm
Lewis C. Ledyard
Eliot
Harvard University
Law School of University
Mr. Carter
England
America
Paka the Cat From Swahili Tale Translated for London Nation
Paka the cat tale follows her hunger leading from a serval to a leopard a lion and an elephant with each predator offering food then a man ends the sequence by killing the elephant and the cat notes the man is the true hunter then the tale turns to a husband and wife scene with deception and anger in the village river drift ends with Paka reflecting on the man’s manliness but the narrative fragment breaks mid thought
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C. H. Stigand
London
Paka
Adam
Germany
America
England
The Story of Paka the Cat and the Woman
Ancient tale explains why a cat leaves a man to follow a woman. A woman invites the caller to sit in her house, and the dialogue reveals the cat’s fondness for the female figure.
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Paka
Books and Authors in the Current Review
Crawford completes a Margaret Donne trilogy with The Diva's Ruby while The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform debuts from Funk and Wagnalls. The International Studio highlights Winslow Homer. Halévy's death opens a French Academy vacancy. Biographical works, Virgil translations, Tudor architecture, and German life are reviewed, with vivid anecdotes on German women and male authority.
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Crawford
Margaret Donne
Margaret
M. Ludovic Halévy
New Henry James Edition and Major Everyman Library Update
A Prince Consort note introduces Queen Victoria as I Knew Her to a wider audience. Le Roy Phillips edits Henry James papers into Views and Reviews Now First Collected. Everyman Library adds 53 volumes to reach 318, with varied divisions in history, biography, poetry, travel, fiction, and youth titles. Bren tano to publish Le Mystére de la Chambre Jaune translation. R. E. Lee Company announces The Debate of the Body and the Soul with Kittredge intro. Fortescue translates Thibaudeau memoirs Bona parte and the Consulate for Macmillan.
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le Roy Phillips
Henry James
Mr. James
Ball Publishing Company
Boston
Matthew Arnold
Walt Whitman
George Eliot
Swinburne
Tennyson
Whistier
Ruskin
Everyman's Library
Dent
London
E. P. Dutton & Co
New York
Rollo
Tacitus
Prescott
Peru
Parkman
Pontiac
Creasy
Carlyle
Cromwell
Voltaire
Charles XII
Lewes
Goethe
Emerson
Thoreau
Macchiavelli
Dante
Chaucer
George Herbert
Herrick
Wordsworth
Hakluyt
Marco Polo
Lane
de Foe
Goldsmith
Balzac
Thackeray
Dickens
Charles Reade
Charlotte Bront
R. E. Lee Company
Professor Child
Kittredge
Books of the Week in Biography and Fiction
A selected list of new books across biography education fiction and travel including Lamar Fontaine My Life and My Lectures Alfred W Porter An Intermediate Course of Mechanics Emery Pottle Handicapped Inez Haynes Gillmore June Jeopardy Cooke Don Carlos and more with brief notes on authors settings and editions.
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Lamar Fontaine
Ph. Db
Neale Publishing Company
Alfred W. Porter
EL P. Dutton & Co
Emery Pottle
I2mo
John Lane Company
Inez Haynes Gillmore
B. W. Huebsch
Cooke Don Carlos
R. F. Fenno
R. F. Fenno & Co.) A romance of men#val England. THE GREAT AMULET. By Maud Diver
India
Harold MacGrath
Harrison Fisher
Karl Anderson
Indianapolis
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Jack Spurlock
George Horace Lorimer
F. R. Gruger
Doubleday, Page & Co
Clara Viebdig
H. Raahange
Princess Dehra
John Reed Scott
Richard Harding Davis
Frederic Dorr Steele
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Cambridge History and Works on Language and Life
A catalog style summary listing several readings and translations from major publishers. Includes The Cambridge History of English Literature Vol II The End of the Middle Ages Bayard Taylors translation of Faust Home Life in Germany Wisdom of the Bast Series Letters of a Business Girl My High School Pays Tales Out of School Naval Officers Why Worry The Strenuous Career and The Small Country Place with publishers Macmillan Putnam Laird Lee Gotham Press and J B Lippincott companies.
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Cambridge History OF
A W. Ward
F. B A
A R Waller
M. A
Bro
Putnam's Sons
Bayard Taylor
Juliana Haskell
the Macmillan Company
Germany
Alfred Sigwick
L. Cranmer Byng
A. Kapadia
FE. P. Dutton & Co
Sa'di
Lao Tzu
Ptah-Hotep
Florence Wenderoth Saunders
I2mo
Chicago
Laird & Lee
L. J. Bridaman
Svo
H. M. Caldwell Company
Mary E. Hitchcock
Roswell D. Hitchcock
the Gotham Press
George Lincoln Walton
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincote Company
Succes
C. Peters
Samuel T. Mar
Books in Brief: New Works on Arts and Science
A catalog of recent titles including Remodelling of Old Buildings Chapters of the remodelling of old buildings the tanning of vegetable and flower gardens fruit growing poultry keeping and more. Also Inspired Millionaires A Forecast by Geral Stanley Lee Religion and Medicine The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders by Worcester et al Houdini The Unmasking of Robert Houdin a study of the conjurer’s character and art Lawless Wealth The Origin of Some Great American Fortunes by Charles Edward Russell The Appreciation of Music A practical guide by Thomas nee Surette and Daniel Gregory Mason
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Tsadorre Coriat
Moffat
Robert Houdin
Avy Houdini
Charles Edward Russell
Lime
B. W. Dodae & Co
Bird study and nature books for young readers
A catalog of nature and history titles including The Sport of Bird-Study for Active People by Herbert Keightley Jod, Verses by Mary Moffat Cunningham, Barham Abach a poem by Julia Ditto Young, The Government of England by A Lawrence Lowell, Early New England Towns by Annie Bushmean, and Private Freight Cars and American Railway by H Weld.
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Herbert Keightley
Sro
Outing Publishing Company
Mary Moffat Cunningham
Bonnell, Silver & Co
Barham Abach
Julia Ditto Young
Svo
England
A. Lawrence Lowell
Wift
The
Macmillan Company
New England
Annie Bushmean
Ph. D. &Co
Longmans, Green
Faculty of Political Science
Columbia University
LL. D. H Weld
Ph. D
Longmans, Green & Co
Book notices and catalog listings excerpt
A fragment listing new and forthcoming theology and social reform works. Includes ANGLICAN LISFRALISM, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL REFORM, THE COMPLETE POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPE, and STATUTORY REVISION OF BANKS. Notes publishers Funk & Wagnalls and Putnam's Sons, with editions and page counts.
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Twelve Churchmem
G P. Putnam's Sons
Crown
Samuel T. Carter
D. D
Funk & Wagnalls Company
William D. P. Bsuss
Rudolph M. Binder
Europe
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Thomas L. Stedman
Iomo
WR Jenkins
New York
Banking and Trust Companies
Andrew Hamilton
Charles J. Halles
Swo
Albany
Banks & Co
Book notices on socialism travel and history trends
A catalog listing several titles: The Case Against Socialism with a speaker handbook and prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour, The Rise of Man by Colonel Conder, A History of Man's Social Development, Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker.
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A. J. Balfour
The
Macmillan Company
R. Conder
EP. Duttom & Cup
Ireland
Michael Myers
Putnam's Sons
Furm
NEW STYLE SKYSCRAPERS PROPOSED HEIGHT RULES FOR CITY
A report by famed city architects to the Building Code Commission urges skyscrapers over one hundred feet resemble stepped towers to improve light and air. The plan, chaired by Ernest Flagg and F Brainard, allows flexible heights on non corner plots with curb limits and adjoining-property options.
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Building Code Commission
Board of Aldermen
Manhattan
Society of Beaux Arts
American Institute of Architects
Ernest Flagg
Beaux Arts
A F. Brainard
Carrére & Hastings
Flagg
Record Day at Auction Sale at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries
A record day at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries saw James P. Silo close the season by selling 300 lots from the Carrel and Graef collection in 1 minutes. The sale grossed 14621 with total sales for the entire auction reaching 353706. Notable pieces included an emerald and diamond brooch with pearl pendant and a diamond corsage piece. Buyers list features G T Rafferty Henry W Ranger Mrs M Carmichael Colonel W Crosby and others. J P Silo and his son J P Silo Jr plan a Baltic steamer voyage on June 11 for several months of rest before fall business resumes.
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Fifth Avenue
James P. Stile
Carrel and Graef
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Petruchio
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