Saddle Horses and Gaited Masters in Kentucky Style
A detailed look at saddle horse culture highlighting Miss Elizabeth Perry Pret Sullin and Miss Hagel Backus alongside Miss Joy Brown and Mrs. English. It describes breed origins from Kentucky and southern Indiana, riding gaits, training practices, docked tails debated, and color preferences like gray, bay, and blood bay.
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Elizabeth Perry
Pret Sullin
Hagel Backus
Kentucky
Dodiana
Ike
June
Miss Joy Brown
Illinois Street
Miss Brown
Equestrienne
English
Horace Wood
Sidirect
Gentry Brothers
Mr. Wood Bold
Captain English
Ringling Brothers
Circus Ring
Indiana
Mrs. English
General Wilkes
New York
Clinton Hare
England
Liverpool
Germany
Young Busch
Busch
Brewery
St. Louis
Gray
The Benefits of a Pest in a Curio Collector Life
The piece notes a curio collector’s complaint about mail volume from dealers nationwide seeking trades while also highlighting the pleasure of reading catalogs. It discusses how publicizing a collector’s name attracts lists of possible buys and offers to swap surplus items, tracing how catalogues reveal national tastes in curios.
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Maine
California
Curio
Paith Cure Tale in Faith vs Science
New York Times recounts Dr. Herbert W. Spencer’s encounter with a Christian Scientist who quotes faith moving mountains while neglecting medical care. The scientist suffers a swollen jaw from a toothache, admitting pain after boasting of faith.
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New York Times
Herbert W. Spencer
Why She Makes Good Coffee
Bridget, a skilled Philadelphia cook, serves coffee that her mistress calls good. She explains it is a mixter made of one quarter Mocha, one quarter Java, and one quarter Rio, with no other quarter added, illustrating her opinionated ways in the kitchen.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Bridget
Where Four Leaf Clover Grown Poem Excerpt by Ella Higginson
A lyrical verse describes a sunny, cherry blossom laden place where four leaf clovers grow. Each leaf stands for hope faith love and luck with a call to search, hope, work and wait to reach that place.
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Ella Higginson
Critics on Historic Novels and the Story First
The London Saturday Review argues historic novels succeed when they tell a story not a strict history. It praises Dumas Scott Hugo for the story, faults Thackeray for overemphasizing fact, and notes true greatness lies in storytelling over exact chronicle. It laments American and Ohio works turning literature into mere demonstrations.
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Dumas
Scott
Hugo
London Saturday Review
Thackeray
Esmond
Monte Cristo
Fontenoy
Stevenson
Green
Hall Caine
Baedeker
Shakspeare
Henry
Novels Not Literature in Ohio Contempt of Modern Prose
A Columbus Journal analysis decries Indiana writers as inferior to James Whitcomb Riley and argues that contemporary authors produce not novels but sensational journalism. It cites George Eliot, Henry Alden, Hamlin Garland, and Leslie Stephen to claim feminine perception shapes true art, noting Eliot's women as central and men as incidental, while contrasting stylistic outcomes with Stevenson.
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Columbus Journal
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Columbus
Indiana
Ohio
Ella W. Peattie
Chicago Tribune
Henry Alden
the Tribune
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Prig Deronda
Mr. Alden
Hamlin Garland
University of Chicago
Garland
Longfellow
Leslie Stephen
Lydgate
Christy
Weir
Hermiston
Robert Louis Stevenson
London Mail on English books and critics
Colonel Harvey of Harper & Bros. visits New York and condemns most modern English books save Meredith and Mrs. Humphry Ward. He cites Sherlock Holmes as entertainment, not art, notes Baskervilles sales in America, and contrasts American and English literary art. Mabie urges honesty and individual reading tastes over chasing trends.
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London Mail
Harvey
Messrs
Harper & Bros
New York
Meredith
Humphry Ward
America
W. D. Howells
Henry James
The
Atlantic
The Tyranny of Classics and Honest Reading Choices
The essay argues readers should not be forced to love every classic. It notes that taste, culture, and aptitude vary, and readers should honestly face what they value. The Divine Comedy and Faerie Queene are discussed as examples of when youth or later life changes understanding.
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Hamilton W. Mabie
Ladies’ Home Journal
Reading
Hunt for the distinguished phrase in Henry James review
In the New York Times Literary Review, F M Colby criticizes Henry James for masking his real self behind a verbal hedge, arguing he is a slave to style rather than master. The piece contrasts James with Howells, cites Saint Gaudens on Logan, and jokes about Longfellow’s fate as Garlands critique of editors and audiences.
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New York Times Literary Review
F. M. Colby
Henry James
James
Mr. Howells
Dean of
American Letters
Saint Gaudens
Logan
Chicago
Lake Front
Reductions Hit Popular American Wash Goods Prices
The article notes prices on popular priced American wash goods have fallen while remaining imports of foreign cottons have been cut by nearly half. Read the full story to see the details of the reductions and their impact.
Arnold Knit Gauze Drawers Advertisement
Arnold promises satisfaction with Kuit Gauze Drawers offering comfort in warm weather. One purchase aims to create a permanent customer, with a money back guarantee after a week if not the most comfortable garments. Several styles and qualities offered at 60 cents a pair. An Arnold catalogue detailing many items for woman child and babe is free.
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Arnold
A Woman’s Book and a College Dream Amid Scandal
The passage reflects on a young woman seeking to expiate guilt with an ironic sense of emotional distress. Her motive to convert profits into a college education is viewed as wholesome, and the narrator suspects her "devil" will not endure such restraint for long, hinting at reputational consequences.
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New York Post
West
The Writer Waits for What Comes Next in a Sea of Change
The author Aloysius Coll laments changing tastes as publishers spurn new works The quest for adventure romance and historic novels fades amid fickle readers and a market that swings from sea tales to lovelorn plots The writer, overwhelmed, wonders what to write next
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Ethelred
Charles
Enall
Aloysius
Literary notes on unpremeditated music and The Virginian
The literary editor of the New York Tribune invokes the phrase unpremeditated music, likely recalling Shelley's In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Thackeray authored The Virginians, and Owen Wistar now presents The Virginian, with apropos remarks.
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The
New York Tribune
Shelley
William M. Thackeray
Virginians
Owen Wistar
Virginian
Melomaniacs and notes on famous writers
A digest of eclectic literary items. Sir Edwin Arnold celebrates his seventieth birthday and long tenure at the London Daily Telegraph. Gabriele D Annunzio signs fewer autographs, preferring a notice for future requests. Mark Twain recalls a playful lecturer’s stunt with a moustache. The New York Post views Bret Harte as a chronicler of social conditions whose characters may become California legends.
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James H
Joseph Co. Nealy
Edwin Arnold
Oxford
London Daily Telegraph
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italy
Europe
Bologna
Mark Twain
New York Post
California
Bret Ware
Jack Hamlin
Miggles
Colonel Starbottle
Bill
Miss
Buromer Smith
The
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New York Sun
Oscar Lovell Triggs
Badger Tolstoi
Harper's School
Cambridge
Mr. Riggs
Historians of Advertising
Mary McLane
L. S. Ayres@ Co
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