Jacques Damour and Zola’s Realism in a Short Story
A critical review of Emile Zola’s Jacques Damour from Copeland Day. The piece notes the tale’s vivid character drawing and historical setting from the Franco Prussian era, yet finds the plot dull and the theme uninspiring despite the author’s technical skill. It surveys additional literary notes and current reviews in similar tone and scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emile Zola
Copeland & Day
Boston
Jacques Damour
M. Zola
Felicie
Eugene
Beter
Louise
Berry
America
Jacques
Almple
Jacques Stevdily
Empire
Jacques Awears
New Caledonia
Paris
Felicite
Zola
MM. Zola
The Stark Munroe Letters by Conan Doyle
The reviewer notes Doyle overuses the price of words in selling his work. The Stark Munroe Letters describe a young physician's struggles to build a practice and his encounter with a quack. The critic praises character drawing but finds theological digressions and narrative form ill suited to fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Lytton
Thackeray
Dickens
Dr. Conan Doyle
Doyle
Stark-Munroe
Appletown
Dr. Doyle
Out of Due Season in Appleton’s Library
In No 176 of Appleton's Town and Country Library Adeline Sergeant reverses precedents with Gideon Blake a cross dark man who reforms after marriage to a vapid blonde woman. She runs away with a handsome man. Blake later saves a wife in a railway wreck, and both die when a house collapses. Blake’s conversion makes him a suitable Sunday school model while Mrs Blake is condemned as a poor compliment to her sex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appleton
Town and Country Library
Adeline Sergeant
Gideon Blake
Blake
London
The Mind and the Hand and the Moral Influence of Music
In the Metaphysical Magazine for September Chetro defends chetromancy as a scientific rite and Carl Levinsen opens a series on music science and psychic insight. Levinsen argues senses share common units and compares sight with sound to show neural links and perceptual thresholds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metaphysical
Chetro
Carl Levinsen
le Vinson
Plano
Mr. Lespond
Literary notices from a 1903 periodical column
A survey of recent books and authors including Gerald Campbell’s The Joneses and the Asterisks, Elizabeth Cureton’s Beautiful Thoughts on Life Eternal, Le Gallienne’s Robert Louis Stevenson: an Elegy and Other Poems, and forthcoming works by Ian Maclaren, Hall Caine, Andrew Lang, and Mark Twain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eigabeth Cureton
Copeland & Day
Boston
Robert Louis Stevenson
Richard le Galilenne
Stevenson
Pacific
Faery Deeps
Mr. le Gallienne
Charles A. Dana
Ian Maclaren
Hall Caine
W. W. Appleton
Andrew Lang
John Gibson Lockhart
Sir Walter Scott
Liverpool
John Morley i
Miss Laurie Imogen Gurney
Saint Ituth
Harper & Hros
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Professor Eber
HMS
Nuremberg
Quiller-Couch
John Vance Cheney
Helen of Y
Queen Helen
McClure
Jan Maclaren
Vytae
Anthony Pope
Osra
T. P. O'Connor
Abraham Lincoln
Mirabeau
Fener
Fae Hautt
Ha Walker
Nelson
Marie Joinette
Carlyle
Thorough study noted in a 16‑folio text preparation
The record states that the most careful and thorough studies were made and that the folio of 16 has been used in preparing the text. The line hints at scholarly diligence and preparation using a specific folio set.
Washington Star Dialogue Ends In A Griefful Rebuff
A woman gently declines a man's romantic pursuit and offers friendship. He responds with thanks and willingness to help, asking her to introduce him to Misa Hinkins to secure a marriage proposal, prompting her to storm off in anger and vow never to speak again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Washington Star
Misa Hinkins
Stories of Our Senators in Washington Chamber Gossip
A Times-Herald interview captures colorful senator chatter on Hoar Mills Lodge and others. Tales of tariff battles, Quay versus Mitchell, and witty jabs mix with reminiscences of Ingalls Voorhees and McKinley era debates on coal and protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Times-Herald
Senate
Hoar
Pickwick
Cruikshank
Dickens
Hfe
Mille
Milla
Mills
Texas
Massachusetts
Cleveland
Quay
Moston
Congress
Coa
Mitchell
Oregon
Bella
Palmer
Wagers and Odd Bets Through English History
A curious look at wagers from 18th and 19th century Britain and America. Bets ranged from beard vows tied to political outcomes to bets on tobacco smoke and even a midnight entry into Westminster Abbey with a forked coffin prize. Names include Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth, with anecdotes of Hodgson and Whitehead at York Castle.
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Walter Raleigh
Elisabeth
Elizabeth
Jali
Castle Yard
York
Thomas Hodgson
Samuel Whitehead
John Bull
Whitehead
London Bridge
Westminster Abbey
The Senate Duel Over Voorhees and Ingalls
A former senator recalls Ingalls attacking Voorhees in the chamber at Weehawken. Ingalls used letters and documents as daggers, aiming to destroy Voorhees’ credibility during a tense two hour session. Voorhees left weakened, more cautious and wary of every desk as if a new bomb might be hidden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Hamilton
Weehawken
Senate
House
Cullom
Ingalls
Voorhees
Voorhera
Congress
Ingalla
Language Shifts and Archaic Meanings From Old English Roots
The article surveys historical meanings of common words such as Willia from farm to house, Daisy as day’s eye, and Girl as a young person, noting shifts like Moonstruck from astrology and Shrewd from wicked, with examples including Acre and Meant to how phrases formed in religious and daily life, citing Wycliffe and Saint Louis Globe- Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Kentucky
Henry Clay
Harvard
Gilbert
Mark M. Sykes
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Mark
Scott
Willia
Daisy
Day
Peros
Gallon
Thomas Fuller
Acre
Wycliffe
Joan Arc
St. Louia
Globe- Rat
Men of Renown in European Affairs
The Times-Herald profiles Michael Tim o Healy a fiery Irish leader in opposition to Justin McCarthy, detailing Healy's early acts, clashes with Parnell, and turbulent parliamentary role. It notes his American connections, rhetoric, and enduring political persistence amid party divisions and ongoing leadership battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Herald
London
Justin McCarthy
Irish Parliamentary Party
Tim” Healy
Healy
Trieir
T. P. O'Connor
Chicago
League
United States
Canada
Michael
Timothy Healy
Bantry
Cork
Wexford
Ireland
Queen's Bench
Dublin
Parnell
Parnell Commission
London Times
McCarthy
Freeman's Journal
Irish National Party
South Kerry
Farrell
Murphy
Healylte
Party of Trial Nationalists
Redmondites
Dillon-McCarthy
Time and Space Mysteries Echo in Cosmic Speculation
In this essay, the author muses on measuring time and the vastness of space, contrasting astronomy geology and theology. He contemplates beginnings and endings, the limits of human understanding, and the impossibility of grasping the true extent of the universe, citing biblical references and astronomical distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creason
God
Gabriel
Daniel
Fingel
Solar System
Neptune
George Washington
Simulees Gulf
Thia
Spree
Aurora
Enra
W. LD. Owen
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine Marketed for Women’s Health
An advertisement promotes Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a tonic for weakness and nervous exhaustion. It claims to restore flesh, aid digestion, enrich blood, and provide lasting strength, marketed to women with mothers urged to buy for daughters, sold by Matthews Bros. in Scranton.
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Gilmore
Matthews Bros
Scranton
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W. W. Carrington
American Historical Register
Charles Hi. Browning
General Lafayette
Mary Jenkins Richart
Fort Jenkins
Wyoming
Elbert Hubbard
Philistia
Joneses
Gerald Campbell
New York
the Merriam Co
Nouiety
Senator Lodge
Lodge
New England
Wilson
West Virginia
McKinney
Cabot
McKinley
Erudite
Allenge Wilson
Dicken
Peffer
Aaron Burrald
Michael Timothy Healy
Mr. Healy
Iriah
Damocles
House of Commons
Healey
Arthur O'Connor
John Dillon
O'Brien
Sexton
Tanner
Tls
Lila Associates
Time and
Nickel Piatw Road
Penny Rovat
Munyon
Uyon
U. E. Crofut, Prop'r
Heart Lake, Pa
William S., Millar
Gas and Water Co
Wyoming Ave
Center ST
Baddal
New York Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
WM. Linn Allen & CO
Spruce Street
Telephone
Uy Mar
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