Parisian portraits of Count de Segur a man of many eras
Paris September 18 notes a new Calmann Levy portrait of Count Louis Philippe de Segur. Born after the Seven Years War and dying soon after the July Revolution, he held roles from colonel under Louis XV to diplomat under Napoleon I and pe er of France in the Restoration. His long life spanned Catherine the Great to Washington and Marie Antoinette, with memoirs and anecdotes famed though halted by the Revolution.
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Paris
Esquisses Et
Marquis de Segur
French Academy
DY Calmann-Lévy
Louis Philae Sigur
Count de Ségur
Eons
Louis XV
Rus
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Napoleon
Marquis de Ségur
Louis Philippe de Ségur
Maréchal de Ségur
Compiégne
Ségur
Sigur
Marie -Aguesseau
Mme. Vigée-Lebrun
America
Aigle
Delaware River
Prince de Broglie
Duc de Lauzun
Delaware
St Cur
Washington
Cuypon
France
Stgur
Frederick the Great
Russia
Fitzherbert
Catherine II
Potemkin
Chateaubriand
Joseph Chénier
Academy
Saint-Cloud
Monsieur
Académy
Cambacéres
Montaine
Vincennes
Saint Denis
Smilie
Rue de Bourgogne
Palais Bourbon
Chamber of Deputies
Philippe de Ségur
Corps Législatif
Louis XVIII
Mme. de Ségur
Eee
American Shrines in England by Alfred T Story
A review of Alfred T Story's book on American figures linked to England. Washingtons, Franklins, Brewster, Bradford, Miles Standish, Winthrop, Penn, and Penn s gravesites are explored through Sulgrave Brington Scrooby Austerfield Coolham Jordans and related historic homes and legends.
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England
Alfred T. Story
The
Macmillan Company
Atlantic
Washingtons
Sulgrave and
Brington
Story
Sulgrave
Lawrence Washington
Elizabeth
Sister Mary
Amee
Barrow Hill
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
William Brewster
Plymouth Colony
Brewster
Lincolnshire
Holland
Miles Standish
Plymouth
Duxbury Hall
Lancashire
John Winthrop
Groton Manor
Suffolk
William Penn
Coolham
North Wales
Elihu
New Haven
Southwark
Harvard
Books and Authors and the Modern Novel Scene
A survey of current and forthcoming books and authors from Little, Brown and other publishers. George Wharton James writes travel work Through Ramaona's Country. Tolstoy tributes circulate in France. diaries of Tolstoy appear in two volumes by Aylmer Maude. New novels and translations populate fall and winter, with Atherton, Conan Doyle, Galsworthy, Jacobs, Fox Jr., and Bazin among contributors. The Carnegie Institution releases The Fossil Turtles of North America by O. P. Hay, detailing Triassic to Jurassic fossils and turtle genealogy across major collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little, Brown & Co
George Wharton James
Ramona
Helen Hunt Jackson
Gertrude Atherton
Conan Doyle
Joseph Conrad
Stanley Weyman
John Galsworthy
A. L. Silberrad
Desire
Leonard Merrick
Lynch
Carnegie Institution
O. P. Hay
Smithsonian Institution
North America
Europe
England
Germany
America
Connecticut Valley
Edward Hitchcock
Hay
Cope
Osborn
Baur
American Museum of Natural History
New York
National Museum
Washington
Yale University
Stout
Lowell
Edward Porritt
The
Sunday Sun
James Bryce
Curious inscription blunder and Colonel Chester Ll D question
A discussion notes a mistake in the inscription on the Lowell tablet placed by English friends at Westminster. It then questions how Colonel Chester earned the title Ll D from Cambridge College in New York City.
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Lowell
Westminster
William Russell Lowell
Chester
Cambridge College
New York City
New Poetry Volumes and Reform Tales Noted
A shift in poetry criticism brings Upton's condensed history up to date while a new Pageant of Elizabethan Poetry by Arthur Symons debuts via H. M. Caldwell Company. Robert Ross prepares a study on Aubrey Beardsley with illustrations, and Katherine Conway recounts reformatory efforts of the Convent of the Good Shepherd detailing fifty years and thirteen thousand girls aided by nuns in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Symons
H. M. Caldwell Company
Robert Ross
Aubrey Beardsley
Katherine E. Conway
East River
Astoria
Miss Conway
BOOKS OF THE WEEK LISTS MANY NEW WORKS
A long catalog of books and authors with multiple publishers is presented, detailing editions and formats. Many items are described with brief notes on illustrations, subjects, and target audiences, highlighting Whistler in Venice and other works by various authors.
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Whistler
Venice
Otto H Bacher
The
Century Company
Delftware
N. Hudson Moore
F. A. Stokes Company
Literary reviews and criticisms by Prosser Hall Free
An item listing literary criticism books and authors including Balzac George Sand Thomas Hardy Anatole Franc and others with notices of works like I Counsels the Way by Henry Van Dyke and a Crowell collection of essays and addresses, noting format details and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prosser Hall
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Balzac
George Sand
Thomas Hardy
Anatole Franc
Henry van Dyke
Y. Crowell & Co
The Age of Mental Virility and Allied Works
A catalog listing works including The Age of Mental Virility by W A Dorland refuting Dr Osler, The American Jewish Year Book 5669 edited by Herbert Friedenwald, The Free Life by Woodrow Wilson, Road Preservation and Dust Prevention by William Pierson Judson, The Story of a Border City During the Civil War by Galusha Anderson, a history of St Louis 1858 1866, and The Standard Domestic Science Cook Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Newman Dorland
The
Century Company
Dr. Osler
Herbert Friedenwald
Philadelphia
Jewish Publication Society
Free Life
Woodrow
St. Louis
Templar Tactics and Mind Cure Works and More
Compiled and arranged listings of various books with authors, publishers, and formats. Notable items include Templar Tactics and Mental, A Common Sense View of the Mind Cure, Letters from a Workingman, Realities and Ideals, Richard Strauss biography, Poem Outlines, Poems by Sprague Smith, Julius Caesar edition, A Book of Limericks, and Cape Cod by Thoreau with publisher details and physical formats.
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William H. Lee
Tlinatrated
Svo
Jennie A. Hansey
Cage
Laird & Lee
Langdons
Chilcott
Imo
Laura M. Westall
Lomo
Punk & Wasnalis Company
Iomo
Fleming H. Revell Company
Frederic Harrison
the Macmillan Company
Edward Lear
Boston
Littie, Brown & Co
Cape Cod
Henry D. Thoreau
Clifton Johnson
T. ¥. Crowell & Co
New Travel and Missionary Works Noted in Reviews
A collection of contemporary books reviewed includes A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labra Dor by Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard jr from The McClure Company, The Other Americans by Arthur Ruhl from Scribner's, and The Jungle Folk of Africa by Robert H. Milligan from Fleming H. Revell Company. The works cover travels, cultures, and missionary activity across South America and West Africa.
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Miss Driver
Anthony Hope
The
McClure Company
Anne Warner
Alice Barber Stephens
Heston
Little, Brown & Co
Elizabeth Freemantle
Philadelphia
George W. Jacobs & Co
Canada
Hermit
James Hopper
Fred R. Bechdelt
Witt
Molnar
Ferenc
Harrison Grey Fiske
Belasco
Adriaan Schade van Westrum
Simo
W. Dillingham Company
Labrador
Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. Soro
South America
Arthur Ruhl
Charles Scribner's Sons
Africa
Robert H. Milligan
Fleming H. Revell Company
West
Cromwell’s Sword Set for Auction by Government
An antique sword reputed to have been worn by Oliver Cromwell will be auctioned by the government on October 6 to the highest bidder unless John D. Rockefeller pays the duty. The weapon was sent to Rockefeller by a English sender who urged him to accept and remit payment equal to its value. Rockefeller had the sword appraised, declined acceptance, and did not respond to the accompanying letter.
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Oliver Cromwell
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
England
Columbia Not In Trust Sparks University Tensions
Faculty at Columbia University discuss Chancellor MacCracken of NYU claiming New York's older, wealthier neighbors oppose a second metropolis university. President Butler returns from Germany as John Burgess acts. Burgess rebuts, saying no educational trust involves Columbia and asserts Columbia operates independently with cordial ties to sister institutions. Columbia maintains its independent path and mutual respect.
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Columbia University
MacCracken
New York University
Columbia
New York University School of Commerce, Accounts
Metropolis
Nicholas Murray Butler
Germany
John W. Burgess
School of Political Science
Burgess
John H. van Amringe
Lord Northcote Arrives in Manila Before China Trip
Lord Northcote Governor General of Australia reaches Manila with his party after a Sydney to China voyage. Governor General Smith welcomes them at luncheon in Malaca and tours the city and suburbs. The Yankton tender offered for a bay trip but the visitors were unable to go.
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Lord Northcote
Manila
Manta
Commonwealth of Australia
Sydney
China
Smith
Malaca
Yankton
Bay
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Count Tolstoy
Edmund Gosse
George Meredith
Henry James
Swinburne
Tolstoy
M. Anatole
Greece
Aylmer Maude
Prince Gortchakoff
Lfe
the Scribners
John Fox, Jr
Kentucky Mountains
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Emil Reich
the Tribune
Dr. Reich
George P. Upton
A. C. McClurg & Co
Chicago
Upton
Wiliam F. Draper
Bro
W._S. CALN
Topeka, Crane & Co
Abraham Lancoln
George Bancroft
A. Wessels Company
Edwin du Bois Shurter
John Milton
Harold Bindless
Oston
Richard Burton
Frank T. Merrill
Anne Boyle
Helen R. Martin
Pennsylvania
Barry Gordon
William Farquhar Payson
Harry Townsend
the McClure Company
Far East
California
Everett McNeil
Howard Heath
Adolph Treidler
Katherine Ruth Ellis
Sears Gallagher
Little, Brown &Co
Pinafore
Hm.s. Pinafore
Sir W
Gilbert
Alice B. Woolward
Harry’s Island
Ralph Henry Barbour
C. M. Belyea
the Century Company
Hakluyt
Edwin M Bacon
Soo
Alfred J. Church
M. A
FE. M. Wilmot- Buxton
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Rover
Lily F. Wasselhoeft
William Kirkpatrick
Freddie
Santa Claus
Olive Aye
Martha Spangler
United States
Prof
Archibald Cary Coolidge
Hervard University
Révue du Mois
New York Sunday Sun
the Government of England
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Sidney Lanier
Edward Sandford Martin
Haklust
Edwin M. Bacon
Edith Wharton
Mrs. Wharton
Richard Strauss
Ernest Newman
Alfred Kaliseh
Limo
John Lane Company
Charles Sprague Smith
Julius Caesar
Henry Norman Hudson
LL. PD
Ebenezer Chariton Black
Andrew Jackson George
Ginn & Co
Travel and Topography
J. D. Rockefeller
J. W. Burgess
Chancellor MacCracken
Moffat
Yard & Company
TRE
Edward Peple
Christy
J. W. McFall
Angel Esquire
Edgar Wallace
Mr. Wallace
Henry Holt & CO
International Studio
Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Casteagh
Baker's Eneat
John Bright
Birmingham
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