Lorenzo the Magnificent and Other Renaissance Biographies
Review of four new historical memoirs on the Medici era, Margaret of Austria, and Chaucer’s England. Praises Lorenzo Horsburgh for vivid portrait and humanistic focus while noting occasional whitewash. Margaret of Austria is praised for resilience and governance. Chaucer and His England is admired for factual clarity and restrained portrayal of Chaucer against everyday life.
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Netherlands
Margaret OF
Austria
Eleanor E Tremayne
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Chaucer
England
G. G. Coulton
M. A
Horsburgh
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Lorenzo
Mr. Horsburgh
Volterra
Savonarola
Florence
Machiavellian
Destruction
Hersburgh
Fos
Mr. Coulton
Old England
Whistler
Pennell
Mr. Whistler
The Other Americans in South America vividly drawn
Arthur Rubi portrays modern South American life with travel notes on Lima Buenos Aires Santiago Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro. He blends humor with observation noting young Peruvians in libraries and a new Lima while contrasting old Spanish roots with emerging commercial progress and urban vitality.
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South America
Ruhl
Cordilleras
Santiago
Buenos Ayres
Chicago
Rio
Valparaiso
Lima
Caracas
Ciudad de Los Reyes
Chamber of Commerce
Callao
Chorillos
University of San Marcos
Charles V
La Montee A new departure in French fiction
Paris October 30 M Pierre Villetard’s La Montee marks a shift from sensational plots to a Depressionist style. The novel follows Louis and his mother from Vernon to Paris, blending quiet tragedy with truthfully drawn Parisian types and modern social changes.
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M. Pierre Villetard
France
M. Bernstein
Israel
Gottlieb
Paris
M. Villetard
Vernon
Louis
Marie-Rose
Novels and Illustrated Books New on Shelves
A catalog lists The Diva's Ruby by F Marion Crawford and The War in the Air by H G Wells with cloth prices. Also featured are Agnes Castle Wrath and Iona Gale Friendship Village. Illustrated titles Alaska The Great Country and Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast with prices. Mail-order list available on request.
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F. Marion Crawford
Janes Morgan
Abraham Lincoln
Straigt Senate
Lincoln
John R. Spear
New England
Marblehead
Nantucket
New Bedford
Atlantic
Republic
Charles Major
Tom Andy Bill
Blue River
Ella Higginson
Alaska
Great Country
Clifton Johnson
Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Cecil Headlam
Mysticism and Romance The Angel and Lentala of the South Seas
A literary summary notes Guy Thorne's The Angel as a fervent religious tale in which a former atheist, Joseph Bethune, gains healing powers through mystic guidance, while Lentala of the South Seas follows American castaway Joseph Tudor and a perilous survival among Senatra Islanders. The review highlights spiritual conviction, melodramatic plot twists, and exotic settings with Beela, Keela, and Heela as race-coded figures.
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Guy Thorne
The
Matthew Arnold
Joseph Bethune
Mary Lys
Llaellyn Lys
Wales
Joseph
Truellyn
London
Mimi
Lentala
South Seas
Mr. Morrow
Heela
Beela
Orix
Keela
Joseph Tudor
Pacific
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B. A
G. P Putnam's Sons
Plato
Tremayne
Major Hume
Maximilian
Margaret of Austria
Philibert
Savoy
Ife
Brou
Charlies
Brandon
Ragacious
van Eyck
Netione
Jan Arnolini
Arthur Rubi
Charles Scribner's Sons
Brazil
T. I. Ybarra
Mr. Ruhl
Mercedita
Merecedita
Macmillan
Alfred Ollivant
the Forum
Eversley
Tennyson
Macmillan Company
Austin Dobson
Crown &Vo
E. V. Lucas
Cloth
Frederic Harrison
Stephen Phillips
Faust
Ulysses
J. Comyns Carr
John P. Jones
D. D
India
Rivieras
Italy
Gordon Home
Venetia
5Th Ave
yeYon
the Angel
G. W. Dillingham Company
W. ©. Morrow
Maynard Dixon
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Holy Land
Henry van Dyke
Palestine
Richard Mansfield
Man
Paul Wilstach
George Barton Cutten
John Fox, JR
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Philadelphia
North American
New York Times
Thalassa
Brentano
Fifth Avenue
New York
James McNeill Whistler
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Joseph Pennell
Crown
J. B. Lippincott CO
Calvert’s Valley
Margaret Prescott Montague
Alderson Cree
Union Square
Baker & Taylor CO
E. P. Dutton & Co
Tribune
Broadway
6Th Ave
12Th St
Emstith St
25Th St
Rider Haggard
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