Deepening Stream and Moonrise Hope in War Trauma
Dorothy Canfield's The Deepening Stream traces Matey Gilbert's life from childhood to midlife, highlighting family mistrust and enduring love. Carl Sandburg's Early Moon offers a charming poetry collection for youth with vivid James Daugherty illustrations and a hopeful homebound reception. Compton Mackenzie's April Fools delivers a witty, riotous tale of a birthday dinner and unexpected inheritances.
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Matey
Gilbert
France
Mrs. Fisher
Carl Sandburg
New York
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Sandburg
James Daugherty
Daugherty
Compton Mackenzie
Doubleday, Doran
Mr. Mackenzie
Secret Service
John Touchwood
America
Ambles
Blackthorn Winter by Philippa Powys review
A concise critique of Philippa Powys's first novel Blackthorn Winter highlighting its simple narrative, deep ties to English countryside imagery, and the author’s direct homage to sun rain and landscape. The piece contrasts Powys with other Powys family writers and notes the story unfolds without theatrical devices. It also references Kipling's The Biography of His Majesty King George V as a separate item.
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Philippa Powys
Smith
Powyses
Llewellyn Powys
John Cowper Powys
Dorsetshire
Theodore Powys
King George V
C. F .L. Kipling
Tramping Through Africa by William J W Roome
A traveler’s account of extensive journeys across equatorial Africa and the Sudan to Southern Rhodesia. The book records safaris into missions, visits to Lake Victoria Nyassa Zanzibar Dar es Salaam Mombassa Uganda Zonderland and the Congo with Victoria Falls ending at Chitambo where Livingstone died.
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Africa
William J. W. Roome
New York
the Macmillan Company
Equatorial Africa
Sudan
Rhodesia
Mr. Roome
Chitambo
David Livingstone
Bound to Happen by Elswyth Thane
A witty urban love triangle unfolds as Charles Gordon secretly loves Nancy while Cicely clings to her conquests. When Cicely's infatuation threatens Charles, the Prime Minister intervenes to avert a murder charge and preserve the couple.
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Elswyth Thane
Putnam
Charles Gordon
M.P
Cicely
Nancy
Charles
William Beebe
Biography War Letters of Fallen Englishmen
A bibliography list of books with authors and publishers including Lawrence Housman Englishmen war letters edited by Housman and others. It catalogs works such as A Wiltshire Childhood by Ida Gandy and Life of Lincoln by William H Herndon among many more titles and publishers.
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Lawrence Housman
Dutton
Wiltshire
Ida Gandy
London
Allen & Unwin
Hamlin Garland
Constance Garland
Harpers
Roger Valdon
Graphic
Lincoln
William H. Herndon
René Rapin McBride
H. Stadelmann
Jerome Cardan
Mme. D’epinay
E. G. Allingham
Dial
THE
Medici
G. F. Young
Modern Library
Richard Henry Tierney
Francis Talbot
New York
American Press
Lazare Saminsky
Domenico de Paoli
Leigh Henry
Leonida Sabaneyeff
Joseph Yasser
Leonballas Block
California
Sam Houston, Patriot. A juvenile biography by Flora Warren Seymour
Flora Warren Seymour presents a brisk two hundred page biography of Sam Houston, tracing his boyhood, Cherokee adoption, service with Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and rise to leader of the republic of Texas. The review notes Houston’s complexities and less immediately heroic traits but praises Seymour for a solid, sympathetic juvenile portrait and calls it the best available life for American youth.
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Sam Houston
Flora Warren Seymour
New York
Century
Kit Carson
Frémont
Marquis James
Houston
Daniel Boone
John C. Frémont
San Jacinto
Boone
Carson
George Washington The Son Of His Country Review
Paul van Dyke recounts Washington’s formative years focusing on Virginia background and early life. The book portrays him as a planter and frontier fighter, shaping the man before Braddock and the later commander. It ends in 1775 on his oath to defend the nation.
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George Washington
Paul van Dyke
Pyne
Princeton University
Ignatuius Loyola
Catherine de Médicis
Washington
Braddock
Army of Virginia
A Quaker Forty-Niner Charles E Pancoast Diary
Albert Charles Boni notes the diary of Philadelphia Quaker Charles E Pancoast as vivid source material on early midwestern life and the epic trek to California during the gold rush. His Missouri years and the long trail to the gold fields are highlighted.
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Charles E. Pancoast
Albert Charles Boni
C. E. Pancoast
Philadelphia
Pancoast
Missouri
California
Gold
Midwest
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Dorothy Canfield
Harcourt Brace and Company
Esther Gould
George
Major Kipling
George V
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