God of Clay and Other Napoleonic Tales Review
Bailey profiles Napoleon with brisk vividness, presenting him as a crafty Corsican adventurer, while Fitchett’s The Pawn in the Game follows John Lawrence amid Reign of Terror risings and Napoleonic echoes. Lost Goddess unfolds a perilous Amazon quest. A Woman at Bay surveys Italian marital oppression. The Car and the Lady imagines a transcontinental motor race with Betsy and rivals amid desert peril.
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Oregon
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GOOD COMRADES A CHRONICLE OF FRIENDSHIPS 1873 1900
Will H. Low recounts his Paris studio years under Carolus Duran with humor and warmth. He portrays friendships with Miller, Stevenson, and St Gaudens, and shares pranks, artistic growth, and ongoing devotion to a high ideal of work. The memoir blends anecdote with insight into an American artist studying in France and the close ties among his circle.
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St. Gaudens
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Miller
France
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Life in Italy and its people in a cottage fortress tale
A reviewing note highlights Lina Duff Gordon’s Life in Italy as a vivid, humorous study of Italian life seen through the Waterfields in a northern Apennine stronghold. It portrays castle life, peasant generosity and thrift, emigration, and the clash between old Italy and modern aspirations with affectionate irony.
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Aubrey Waterfield
the Macnillan Company
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Carrara
New Biographies and Editions Highlight Early 20th Century Literature
Dr J Holland Rose writes a two volume life of William Pitt promising new light on Pitt foreign policy from archives and letters. Stendhal memorials praise Rodin medallion and Ed Cheramy’s group edition of Stendhal letters. Yeats revises his Collected Works in Verse and Prose. New Thoreau Cape Cod edition features Clifton Johnson photographs and red gold cover. Geneva travel chapters by Gribble accompany watercolor sketches by Lewis. Yeats and Gaudens reminiscences prepare Century Magazine pieces. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables returns in new edition from L C Page.
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Cape Cod
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Geneva
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M. H. Lewis
Europe
W. B. Yeats
Montaigne Essays Edition and Notable Christmas Titles
A new edition of Montaigne Essays from Florio's 1632 text is announced with an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. Andrew Lang publishes The Book of Princes and Princesses with lively, true sketches of royal figures. Dickens remains popular. Caxton reports 180,000 copies sold in a year and Erasmus notes kisses as hospitality in England.
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Exeter
Stuart
Frederick
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Dickens
Caxton
London “Outlook
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England
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Solon
Halda
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The Seat of the Eighteenth Century in Scotland
The Rev John Watson writing as Ian Maclareg examines eighteenth century Scotland as a period of theological focus and perceived dullness, noting the era's cultural and intellectual climate and its publication by Armstrong & Son after Watson's death.
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Ian Maclareg
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