Christmas Punch on the Trail
In a Yukon camp, Malemute Kid hosts a Christmas gathering with punch and tales while Jack Westondale arrives with a doomed run to rescue his passworded dogs. The night reveals hard grit, loyalties, and a man’s push to reach his wife and child across the ice bound wilderness.
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Christ Das
Big Jim Belden
Mary May
Stanley Prince
Mason
Ruth
Stu
Louis Savoy
Malemute Kid
Lochinvar
Southland
Yukon
Nuklukyeto
Father Roubeau
Gar
Bettles
Henry Ward Beecher
Prince
Sam
New World
Savoy
Meyers
Alsace
Lorraine
Verity
Malemute
Reiden
Dawson
Belden
Jim
States
Sal
Jove
Jack Westondale
Sitka Charley
Dawson Way
Harry McFarland
Seattle
Siwash
Babette
Jack Westendale
Joe Castrell
Dominion
Circle City
Castrell
McFarland’s
Jack
Moods Of Negro Folk Songs And Their Religious Vein
A New Republic writer notes that the enslaved black painter found an artistic outlet in religion brought by missionaries or taught by masters. Spirituals reveal a full emotional range from dances to lament, joy, and majestic anthems, expressing buoyant humor and tragedy under a religious veil.
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New Republic
Hat mystery unsettles Jagsbys at home
Mr Jagsby demands to know where his hat vanished while Mrs Jagsby confirms it was not on his head last night. The quarrel centers on a missing hat and unspecified disappearance.
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Mr. Jagsby
Dickens Escorted Americans on London Tour with Howe Mann
The note recounts Doctor Howe and his bride sharing a European voyage with Horace Mann and Mary Peabody. Dickens invited the Americans to dinner and offered to guide them through London and its grim districts. A June 1843 message shows Dickens plan a mysterious night tour from St Giles Church.
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Doctor Howe
Europe
Horace Mann
Mary Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Laura Bridgman
England
Dickens
London
Mary E. Perman
St. Nicholas
Howe
St. Giles’ Church
Browning the Premier Victorian Talker in England
A Manchester Guardian writer names Robert Browning as the era’s best talker among Victorian literary men. He notes Browning’s vigorous, inexhaustible gossip and compares him with American James Russell Lowell as a worldwise poet in England.
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Browning
Manchester
England
Guardian
James Russell Lowell
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