The Magnificent Lorenzo and Two Daring Histories
Review of four new historical memoirs from G P Putnam on Lorenzo the Magnificent Margaret of Austria and Chaucer and His England. Horsburgh presents Lorenzo with balanced social context and humanism while Tremayne portrays Margaret as a wise gracious regent, and Coulton offers a sober, fact grounded Chaucer portrait.
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Netherlands
Margaret OF
Austria
Eleaner E Tremayne
Hiustraers
Sho
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Chaucer
England
G. G. Poulton
M. A
Sro
Horsburgh
Lorenzo the Magnificent
Lorenzo
Fiorentine
Savonarola
Florence
Machiavellian
Mr. Horsburgh
Destruction
Mr. Hersburgh
South America in Modern Light Through Ruhi’s Pages
Review of Arthur Ruhi’s book The Other Americans detailing South American cities like Buenos Aires Lima Santiago and Caracas. It notes open minded travel humor and its contrast of old Spanish civilization with modern energy, citing Lima’s modern youth and commerce and Brazil’s lagging pace amid lush landscapes and social issues. The piece highlights a daring Cordillera crossing and quotes a poem hinting at revolutionary fervor.
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South America
Ruhl
Cordilleras
Santiago
Buenos Ayres
Ruhi
Chicago
Rio
Valparaiso
Lima
Caracas
Ciudad de Los Reyes
Chamber of Commerce
Callao
Chevilles
University of San Marcos
Charles V
La Montee Signals A New Departure In French Fiction
Paris October 20 M Villetard a rising author debuts La Montee a novel described as an unsensational tragedy. It departs from traditional melodrama adopting Depressionist aims to show modern life with subtle tragedy absent sensational crime. The book centers on Louis a peasant brought to Paris by his mother and his romantic and financial entanglements revealing Parisian life through vivid characters and social realism.
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Chaucer
England
Old England
Coulton
M. Pierre Villetard
France
M. Bernstein
Israel
Gottlieb
Honor
Paris
M. Villetard
Lfe
Louis
Marie-Rose
Whistler
Pennell
Mr. Whistler
Notable new novels and book notices
A compact list of new novels including F Marion Crawford The Divas Ruby and H G Wells The War in the Air with brief critical blurbs. Also mentions Iona Gales Friendship Village and Agnes Castle Wrath with cloth prices. A fuller list of new books on history politics and law offered free by mail on request.
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F. Marion Crawford
Wells
New York Tribune
Eric Pape
Agnes & Egerton Castle
the Public Ledger
Philadelphia
Mysticism and Romance the Angel and Lentala of the South Seas
Book notices review two novels by Guy Thorne and W. C. Morrow. Mysticism and romance guide Joseph Bethune from atheism to prophetic healing under Welsh mystic Llaellyn Lys, amid conspiracy and danger in London. Lentala of the South Seas follows American castaway Joseph Tudor and survivors from the shattered harkentine Hope on a Pacific island.
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Guy Thorne Eime
G. W. Dillingham Company
South Seas
W. C. Morrow
Maynard Dixon
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Guy Thorne
The
Matthew Arnold
Joseph Bethune
Mary Lys
Llaellyn Lys
Wales
Joseph
Llaellyn
London
Mimi
Lentala
Mr. Morrow
Heela
Beela
Bevla
Joseph Tudor
Harkentine Hope
Pacific
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Sax
Horsburch
Tremayne
Major Hume
Maximilian
Margaret of Austria
Philibert I
Savoy
Brov
Charles
Brandon
Ragacious
van Eyck
Nelions Gallery
Jan Arnolfini
Arthur Ruhi
Minstrated
Charles Scribner's Sons
Brazil
Mr. T. Kh. Yharra
Mr. Ruhl
Mercedita
Revolucionario
Macmillan
Alfred Ollivant
Cloth
James Morgan
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
John R. Spear
New England
Marblehead
Nantucket
New Bedford
Atlantic
Charles Major
Tom Andy Bill
Blue River
Eversley
Tennyson
Macmillan Company
Austin Dobson
Crown &Ve
E. V. Lucas
Eve
Iomo
Frederic Harrison
Stephen Phillips
Faust
Ulysses
J. Comyns Carr
Ella Higginson
Alaska
Great Country
Clifton Johnson
Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
John P. Jones
D. D
India
Rivieras
Italy
Gordon Home
Venetia
Cecil Headlam
5Th Ave
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Holy Land
Henry van Dyke
Palestine
Richard Mansfield
Man
Paul Wilstach
George Barton Cutten
John Fox, JR
Lonesome Pine
June
North American
Mr. Fox
New York Times
Thalassa
Brentano
Fifth Avenue End
Mith Street
New York
James McNeill Whistler
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Joseph Pennell
J. B. Lippincott CO
Calvert’s Valley
Margaret Prescott Montague
Alderson Cree
Union Square
Baker & Taylor CO
E. P. Dutton & Co
West 23d Street
the Tribune
Broadway
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Vic
12Th St
Emst
Bath St
25Th St
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