FAR AND NEAR AND OTHER BOOK REVIEWS BY John Burroughs
Review notes Burroughs new outdoor essays cover Alaska Jamaica and tropical impressions. It contrasts Riverby with Wild Life About My Cabin and discusses his shift from river views to woodland retreat and tropical observations. Also reviews Plays and Vagabonds and The Monroe Doctrine by Edgington plus Sherlock Holmes stories and other titles.
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John Burroughs
Houghton, Miflims Co
Boston
Ballantyne’s
Washington
Alaska
Bur- Troughs
Harriman
Hudson
Burroughs
Hudson River
Mr. Burroughs
Tropics
Viola Rosenoro
Clwth
Macmilan's
New York
Brentano's
Price
Sherlock Holmers
Conan Doyle
McClure
Holmes
London
Laker Street
Sherlock Holmes
Books and Authors News Sparks Diverse Publications
A feature on Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady's latest novel The Two Captains praises sea-fight descriptions. Carnegie's Life of James Watt, Myra Kelly in Bermuda, Foxcroft Davis Washington society novel Mrs Darrell, and many more titles from Doubleday Page Macmillan are discussed along with author profiles and upcoming editions.
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Battle of the Nile
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Myra Kelly
Bermuda
Macmillan Company
Washington
Foxcroft Davis
Tibet
Percival
Landon
Gyantse
Younghusband
Wiggs
Doubleday, Page & Co
Henry George
China
Japan
India
Richard
Hotel Astor
Periodical Arts May Enrich Readers With Rich April Issue
A survey of magazines and journals highlights Burlington, Burr McIntosh, World's Work, Atlantic, Reader, Harper's Bazar, and The Critic with notable essays on The Whistler Exhibition, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Associated Press. Notable contributors include Bernhard Sickert, Melville E. Stone, Hugo Munsterberg, Julia Ward Howe, and Elisabeth Luther Cary. The pieces emphasize art, literature, journalism, and civic issues across April issues.
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Burlington Magazine
America
Robert Grier
Codke
New York
Bernhard Sickert
James McNeill Whistler
Whistler
Associated Press
Melville E. Stone
Press Association
Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Associated
Presa
C. J. Bulléck
Hugo Munsterberg
Julia Ward Howee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Reader
District Library Opens Open Shelf Rooms with Wide Subjects
The public library displays science and arts books on open shelves covering physics mathematics electricity chemistry astronomy geology biology botany zoology medicine physiology hygiene mining metallurgy horticulture dogs cattle horses cooking masonry building marine engineering steam engines railroading motors and more. It appeals for gifts of books magazines and pamphlets especially materials on Washington District of Columbia and local associations. Duplicates of Shakespearean plays in the Rolfe edition are noted as convenient for study and performances.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Rolfe
Booklovers Magazine April issue highlights
The April Booklovers Magazine features special architectural and decor articles, facsimiles of Shakespeare signatures, and a two part story The Game illustrated by Henry Hutt. Tack London writes on Shakespeare and Australia labor politics with vivid portraits of the Watson cabinet and labor leaders.
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Amert¢sin
Tack
London
Henry Hutt
Booklovers
Orris Grahan
Australia
Watson
Europe
Monarchs of Private Islands Across the World and Isles
A Washington Post correspondent surveys private island rulers and owners. Geisler governs Cocos Island with a local title, while the Ross family rules Cocos Keeling and Christmas islands, maintaining private sovereignty, trade, and defenses. Anticosti Island in Canada is held by M. Menier, with governor Commettant overseeing improvements and farming, and other islands near the UK like Colonsay Oronsay and Scilly under private ownership.
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Mary Imlay Taylor
Lady Clancarty
Washington, D. C
Jerseys
Long Island
Apa
England
America
Washington Post
London
Geisler
Cocos Island
Oe Rica
Gelster
iMahy
Cocos- Keeling
Indian Ocean
Ross
Sarung
George Clunies Ross
Germany
Cocos
Andrew C. Ross
Straits
Christmas Islands
Pbirda
Rosses
Java
Anticesti
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Quebec
Henri Menter
Quired
Island of
Antitcet
M. Oscar Commettant
Anticosti
M. Menier
Nda
Azores
Canto
United Kingdom
Lord Strathcona
Oronsay
Scillies
Scilly Isles
T. A. Dorrien Smith
Tresco
Tresco Island
St. Michaels Mount
Confessor
St. Michael's Chair
Charles van Raalte
Brownsea
Poole Harbor
Marie Louise Hamilton
Duke of Hamiltona Shs
Igvety
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Monroe
Panama
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Paftow
Neale Publishing Company
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Russi
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Gorky
Dostoyevsky
Jash
St. Petersburg
Savelyev
Natasha
Kiev
Saveliev
Biberich
Anary
Wmiovement
Band
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North America
Toeps and Diagrame. Co
Zepgrapher
Antiles
mid-Atlantic
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E. 8. Martn
Martin
Mark Twain
San Francisco
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Marence
Goff
Florence
Tuscan
B. Steadman
Newark
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Bernard Shaw
John W- Luce & Co
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Cambridge Modern History
Amelie Rives
Virginia
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Herbert J. Turner & Co
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Columbia University
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Hakluyt
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Hart of Clancarty
Little, Browne& Co
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Miss Taylor
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Murray
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Moncure D. Conway
Paris
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South Place Ethical Society
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Jane Findlater
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Arthur Henry
Messrs. A. 8. Barnes & Co
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Rowland
Messrs. A. 8
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Yale
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St. Nicholas
New Jersey
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University of Virginia
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North
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Lacombe
EB. J. O. Alsop
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New International Encyclopedia
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Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Harry Thurston Peck
L.H.D
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New York University
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