Henry McClure's Rise From Waysville to Power
The tale follows Henry McClure from a boy tending goats and reading Acts of the Legislature to a pragmatic worker in an Indianapolis agricultural implement firm. He seizes opportunity, drives horses, handles a carriage sale, and rises to a formal, high-status office, while brother James remains a quiet, watchful figure in the crowded backstory.
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McClure
James
Henry
Fenry
Indianapolis
Mr. Rawlins
Waysville
Henry McClure
Dad
Auite
Liam Blackstone
United States Supreme Court
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
James McClure
Meeting With An Anaconda in Amazon Valley
New York Post reports a New York lawyer’s tale of passing through the Amazon Valley where a large white mule and a deadly anaconda created a perilous roadside encounter. The rider, armed only with a knife, spurred his beast as the serpent loomed, then regained his party and retrieved a rifle to continue.
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New York
Amazon Valley
New York Post
Anaconda
Matteo Grosso
Woes of a Writer and the Value of the Personal Element
A reflective piece by Edwin L. Sabin in the Boston Transcript discusses the writer as a blend of craft and life. It contrasts idealized leisure with the real burdens of rejection, unpaid tasks, and social expectations, noting how writers are pressed to furnish gratis work for church fairs and school events, yet rarely rewarded fairly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin L. Sabin
Boston Transcript
Antheus
Tie
Tom
Harry
Toto
Googia
Zion Chapel
Podunk
Signed or Unsigned Why anonymity survives in periodicals
A discussion on whether modern papers should sign articles or keep anonymity. It argues that signed pieces link readers to authors and enhance authority, while unsigned work remains valuable as part of collaborative journalism. The piece cites Swinburne and Howells and notes editorial policy, news reporting, and reviews as collective efforts.
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New York Times
England
Punch
Quarterly Review
Swinburne
Dickens
ECE Review
Howells
A Writer Worth Reviving Mayne Reid Forgotten by Generations
W L Alden notes the £1000 yearly pension to authors and widows, highlighting Captain Mayne Reid’s widow as neglected. Reid’s adventure tales once drew a vast juvenile audience, but his American failure and magazine venture sunk his popularity. A publisher could revive Reid with new editions and ads. many youths remain unaware of his work and the moral impact of his writings.
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W. L. Alden
New York Times
Mayne Reid
Henry
Reid
America
Charles Reade
Collier’s Weekly
Henry Labouchere
Austin Dobson
Tennyson
Dobson
Ike Edmund Gosse
Maurice Hewlett
Board of Trade
Lamb
India House
Mr. Labouchere
Lord Tennyson
George Meredith
London
Reading Books Through Their Books in Atlantic Monthly
The Times-Democrat notes Gerald Stanley Lee’s essay on reading habits as printed in Atlantic Monthly. It discusses wandering library walks, their lure, and warns that such aimless browsing can dull ambition. It contrasts Thackeray and Scott with George Eliot and cites authors’ need for purposeful reading and character depth.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Atlantic Monthly
Gerald Stanly Lee
Mr. Lee
Lee
Antiquary
Thackeray
Scott
George Eliot
Americans Buying Books Across the Atlantic Tide
Among summer visitors are renowned book lovers who buy from London second-hand shops for American libraries. A dealer notes that English literary treasures increasingly migrate to America as London sellers cater to American demand, transforming the U.S. into a vast depository for rare volumes.
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London
America
Atamea Contin
Seacnes
Notable 19th Century Authors Plan New Works and Reissues
A survey of forthcoming publications and posthumous works reveals Mr. Zangwill’s new novel likely to appear next year and Mr. Hall Caine’s next production exploring commercial life, including a bank failure in the Isle of Man. Darwin and Carlyle materials, plus John Fiske’s posthumous Essays in autumn, are announced.
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Zangwill
Hall Caine
Isle of Man
Thomas Carlyle
T. W. H. Crosland
Bliss Perry
the Atlantic
Princeton
Darwin
Carlyle
Palser Her
Chelsea
John Fiske
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Oyster Bay
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Kodak
W. H. McNairn
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A. P
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United States
Kansas
Oklahoma
Pope
Illinois
N. A
Gulf
Atlantic States
Chicago
Little Rock
Joan of Arc
D. A
F. B
Sumatra
Siam
Borneo
J. L
Y. C
Braxi
R. E. M. Charles Kingsley
William Austin Burt
Detroit
Mich
Anna
Sis
Sigwin Arnold
C. L
Rochester
Oxford
Sanskrit College
Poona
India
London Daily Telegraph
W. H. Channing
Boston
Americas
J& Ws
George Eliot White
Mr. Lewes
John Walter Cross
George
Eliot
John Blackwood
Panama
L. S
Indiana
Ayres
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg
Bostos
C.aneshaensel & CO
Ohio Street
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Princtor
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Yale University
New Haven
Conn
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell College
Mount Vernon Ia
Princeton University
N. J
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