INDEX
Reading edition
A
Abbey, Edwin A., 274, 307
Accident, its part in literary work, 181-185
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 174, 191, 192
Alexander, Gen. E. P., 94
America. See United States
American authors visiting England, 265, 269
"American Idea," 296, 297
American life, 1840-50, 18-20
American literature provincial, 269-271
Americanism, birthplace of, 27
Amour, 117
Anonymous literary criticism, 203-205
"Appleseed, Johnny," 141
Appleton's Journal, 153, 181
Armitage, Rev. Dr., 113-115
Armstrong, Henry, 291
Army of Northern Virginia, 87, 93, 94
Arnold, Matthew, 268
Arthur, T. S., novels of, 25
Ashland, Va., 77
Associated Press, 180, 188, 302, 303
Astor Library, books mutilated, 271
Atlantic Monthly, 148, 149, 181
Authors, and editors, 167-172; Virginian, 66-70
Authors Club, organized, 272; presidency, 273; eligibility, 273; meeting-places, 274, 275; in Twenty-fourth Street, 277; social in character, 277, 278; women, 278-280; plainness of quarters, 280; Watch Night, 281, 284; diplomats and statesmen, 284; "Liber Scriptorum," 285, 286. Also 85, 176-178, 228, 232, 254, 258
Authorship, esteemed in Virginia, 66, 67
"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," Holmes's, 219
B
"Bab Ballads," Gilbert's, 137
Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, 220
Bar Harbor, 295, 320-326
"Barnwell C. H.," 242
Bates House, Indianapolis, 28, 29
Bath, American habits as to, 30, 31
Beauregard, Gen., 87, 237-241
Beecher, Henry Ward, 108
"Ben Bolt," 255
Benjamin, Judah P., 237
Bernhardt, Sara, 229, 230
Berry, Earl D., 290
"Big Brother, The," 181-183
Bigelow, John, 188, 228, 289, 303
Bludso, Jim, 160-162
Blunders, compositors', 241-243; literary, 222-227; telegrapher's, 238, 239
Bohemianism, 177
Book-editing, 234-237
Book notices, 190
Book reviewers, 190
Book reviewing, newspaper, 217
Book sales, predicting, 252-254
Book titles, 154-157
Books, mutilation of, 271; in Virginia, 66
Booth, Edwin, 275, 276
Booth, Postmaster of Brooklyn, 125
"Boots and Saddles," Mrs. Custer's, 252-254
Boston, literary center, 148
Boucicault, Dion, 153
Bound boys and girls, 14, 16
Bowen, Henry C., 100, 128
Boys' stories, 181-185
Bragg, Gen., 238
"Breadwinners, The," 165
Briars, The, 71
Briggs, Charles F., 100-107
British authors visiting America, 265, 268, 269
British condescension, 268
Broadway Journal, 100
Brooklyn. N. Y., 31, 99, 115, 117
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 126
Brooklyn Union, 99, 100, 105, 107, 110, 113, 115, 116, 128
Brooks, Elbridge S., 185
"Browneyes, Lily," 256-258
Bryan, Wm. J., and the World in 1896, 324-326. Also 335-337
Bryant, Wm. C., 68, 129, 143; conduct of the N. Y. Evening Post, 187-189; as a reviewer of books, 190; appoints G. C. Eggleston literary editor of the Evening Post, 192-194; character, 194-196; relations with Washington Irving, 196-198; consideration for poets, 199-202, 205, 206; views of anonymous literary criticism, 203-205; estimate of Poe, 207; Index Expurgatorius, 209-213; his democracy, 214; opinion of English society, 215-217; estimate of Tennyson and other modern poets, 219; his judgment of English literature, 220, 221
Bull Run, 78
Byron, quoted, 83, 84
C
Cairo, Ills., 96, 99
"Campaign of Chancellorsville," Dodge's, 208
Campbell, Thomas, 254
Cannon, Capt. John, 161
"Captain Sam," 183
Cary, Alice and Phœbe, 137
Carlisle, John G., 330, 331
Catholicism, 26
Cavalry life, 77-81
Chamberlin, E. O., 329, 330
Champlin, John D., 285
Chance, its part in literary work, 181-185
Charleston, S. C., 86, 164, 241
Checks, bank, in Virginia, 50
Children's stories. See Boys' stories
Church, Col. Wm. C., 204
Civil service system, 235
Civil War, changes wrought in Virginia, 73-76
Clay, Henry, 20
Clemens, Samuel L., 150, 160, 259, 265, 281
Cleveland, President, 214, 226, 330, 331
Coan, Dr. Titus Munson, quoted, 228
Cobham Station, 93
Cockerill, John A., 122, 308-312
Co-education, 57
Colman, Mr., 198
Collins, Tom, 89-93
Commercial Advertiser. See under New York
Compositors, 314, 315
Condescension, British, 268
Congress, U. S., in Tilden-Hayes controversy, 331-333
Constitution, U. S., 226, 336
Conversion, religious, 92
Cooke, John Esten, 59, 67, 69-72, 151, 240
Copy, following, 241-243
Copyright, 153, 154, 231-234, 268
Corruption, political, 124-126, 334, 335
Courtesy in Boston, New York, Virginia, 55, 56
Court-martial, 88, 89
Coward, Edward Fales, 291
Cowley, Abraham, 192
Craig, George, 13, 17
Creek War, 183
Criticism. See Literary criticism
"Culross," 338-344
Curtis, George William, 100
Curtis, Gen. Newton Martin, 85
Custer, Mrs., 252-254
Cuyler, Dr. Theo. L., quoted, 147
D
"Danger in the Dark," 26
Daniel, Senator, of Virginia, 85
Davis, James, 291
Davis, Jefferson, 164, 165, 237-241
Death-bed repentance, 93
Democracy, Bryant's, 214; Cleveland's, 214
"Democracy," 269
Dictation, 341
Dictionaries, 210
Dime novel, 275, 276
Dodd, Mead, and Co., 244
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 131, 132
Dodge, Col. Theodore, 208
Dranesville, Va., 83
Dress, Joaquin Miller on, 175, 176; men's evening, 175-178
Drinking habits. See Temperance
Dumont, Mrs. Julia L., 9
Dupont, Ind., 21
Dutcher, Silas B., 125
"Dutchmen," 3
E
Eagle, Brooklyn. See under Brooklyn
Early, Jubal A., 76
Editorial responsibility, 207-209
Editorial writing, 110, 313-315, 323, 340
Editors and authors, 167-172
Education, backwoods, 9, 10; modern, 75, 76; present and past in Virginia, 73-76; western, in 1850, 32-34. See also Schools and school-teaching
Eggleston, Edward, 21, 22; origin of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," 34-36; connection with Hearth and Home, 132; first to utilize in literature the Hoosier life, 145, 146; resigns editorship of Hearth and Home, 146; quoted on copyright, 232-234; relations with his brother, 266, 267
Eggleston, George Cary, early recollections, life in the West in the eighteen-forties, 1-20; first railroad journey, 21; free-thinking, 22; early theological thought and reading, 22-26; school-teaching, 34-45; Virginia life, 46-59; occultism, experience of, 60-66; creed, 75; army life, 77; cavalry, 77-81; two experiences, 81-85; artillery, 86, 87; Army of Northern Virginia, 87-96; legal practice, 99; Brooklyn Union, 99-129; New York Evening Post, 129-131; Hearth and Home, 131-135, 145, 146, 148, 151, 180; first books, 146; first novel, 151-155; New Jersey home, 180, 186; boys' stories, 181-185; financial troubles, 186, 187; connection with New York Evening Post, 187-231; acquaintance with W. C. Bryant, 192-228; adviser of Harper and Brothers, 231, 234, 236; literary editor of the Commercial Advertiser, 287; managing editor, 288; editor-in-chief, 289; health, 292, 306; editorial writer for the World, 306-337; retires from journalism, 337; literary habits, 338-344
Eggleston, Guilford Dudley, 184
Eggleston, Joseph, 96, 98
Eggleston, Joseph Cary, 9, 14, 15
Eggleston, Mrs. Mary Jane, 11
Eggleston, Judge Miles Cary, 8
Eggleston family, home of, 46
Election results, predicting, 326
Eliot, George, 255
Elliot, Henry R., 291
"End of the World," E. Eggleston's, 146
English, Thomas Dunn, 172, 255
English authors. See British authors
English language, N. Y. Evening Post's standard, 210-214; Virginia usage, 59; Western usage, 8
English society, 215-217
Evening Post, The. See under New York
Extemporaneous writing, 339-341
F
"Fable for Critics," 101, 106, 195
Familiarity, President Cleveland contrasted with W. C. Bryant, 214
Farragut, Admiral, quoted, 77
Fawcett, Edgar, 153
Fellows, Col. John R., 121, 122
Fiction, place in 1840-50, 25, 26; writing of, 341, 342
"First of the Hoosiers," quoted, 145
First Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, 77, 78, 81
"Flat Creek," 37
Florida War, 243
Folsom, Dr. François, 291
Ford, Paul Leicester, 278, 279, 334
Foreigners, American attitude toward, 1840-50, 2, 3
Francis, Sir Philip, 223-225
"Franco, Harry," 100, 106
Franklin, Benj., 1, 139
Free-thinking, 22
Free-trade and protection, 20
French Revolution, 108, 109
Fulton, Rev. Dr., 113-115
G
G., Johnny, 43-45
Galaxy, 181, 204
Garfield, Gen., 119
George Eliot, 255
George, Lake, 335, 337. See also "Culross"
Ghost story, 60-66
Gilbert, W. S., 137
Gilder, R. W., 172, 272, 273
Godkin, E. L., 230, 231
Godwin, Parke, 100, 188, 189, 227-230, 286-289, 295-300, 305
Gold coin in Plaquemine in 1886, 248-251
Gosse, Edmund, 177, 265-268
Gracie, Gen., 96
Grant, President, 93, 125, 126, 127, 244
Graphic, The. See under New York
Grebe, Charley, 37, 39-45
Greeley, Horace, 139, 167
H
Halsted, Dr. Wm. S., 294
"Harold," Tennyson's, 218
Harper and Brothers, 153, 154, 155, 167, 168, 231, 236, 241, 252, 257, 287, 307
Harper, J. Henry, 259
Harper, Joseph W., Jr., 154, 168, 252, 253, 267, 285
Harper's Magazine, 141
Hay, John, 157-166, 275, 276
Hayden's "Dictionary of Dates," 234
Hayes-Tilden controversy, 332
Hearth and Home, 35, 36, 131-135, 145, 146, 148, 151, 157, 180
Hendrickses, the, 8
"Henry St. John, Gentleman," 69
Herald, The. See under New York
"Heterophemy," 223-225
Hewitt, Mr., 291
Hill, A. P., 87
Hilton, Judge Henry, 121
Hirsh, Nelson, 291
Historical intuition, 47
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 177; Bryant's estimate of, 219
Home Journal, 140
Hoosier dialect, 8, 14
Hoosier life, 145, 146
"Hoosier Schoolmaster, The," 34-36, 37, 41, 145; in England, 233
Hospitality, 17, 320
Hotels in 1840-50, 28-31
"Houp-la," Mrs. Stannard's, 154
"How to Educate Yourself," 147
Howells, Wm. D., 1, 148-150, 204, 258
Humor, newspaper, 282-284
"Hundredth Man," Stockton's, 135, 136
Hurlbut, Wm. Hen., 177
Hutton, Laurence, 272, 274
I
Ideas, 297, 312
Ignorance in criticism, 226, 227
Illicit distilling in Brooklyn, 123-128
Illustration, newspaper, 179, 180
Imperialism, 336, 337
Independence, personal, 1840-50, 18-20
Independent, The. See under New York
Index Expurgatorius, Bryant's, 209-213
Indian Territory, 183
Indiana, a model in education, 10, 11
Indiana Asbury University, 11
Indianapolis, Ind., 28
Intolerance, 26, 251
Introductions, 255-264
Intuition, historian's, 47
Irving, Washington, relations with Bryant, 196-198
J
Jackson, Mr., 314
James, G. P. R., 67, 68
Jeffersonianism, 296
John, a good name, 42, 43
"John Bull, Jr.," O'Rell's, 282
Johnson, Gen. Bushrod, 96
Johnson, Rossiter, 285
Johnson's Dictionary, 210
Jokes. See Humor
Jones, J. B., 275
Journalism, 116, 292, 293. See also Newspapers, Pulitzer
Judd, Orange, and Co., 132
Junius letters, authorship, 223
K
"Kate Bonnet," Stockton's, 135, 136
Kelly, John, 234
Kentuckians in the Northwest, 9-11
Khedive, 244
Kossuth, Louis, 297, 298
L
"Lady Gay," steamer, 96-98
Laffan, Wm. M., 304
Lakewood, 328-330
Language. See English language
Lanier, Sidney, 262
"Last of the Flatboats, The," 185
"Late Mrs. Null," Stockton's, 135
Lathrop, George Parsons, 150
Latin, 33
Laziness, 17
Lecture system, 108
Lee, Fitzhugh, 81-84, 86
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 240
Lee family, 83
Letcher, John, 76, 91
Letters of introduction, 255-264
Lewis, Charlton T., 129, 130
Libel, 117-124, 272
"Liber Scriptorum," 285
Liberty, 296, 336
"Liffith Lank," 156
Lincoln, President, 84, 85, 334
Lindsay's Turnout, 88
Literary aspirants, 255-259
Literary criticism, anonymous, 203-205; of the Saturday Review, 206; ignorance displayed in, 226, 227
Literary work, 339. See also Editorial writing
"Literati," Poe's, 172
Literature, place in 1840-50, 23-26
"Little Breeches," 157-159
Local independence, 1840-50, 18
Logan, Sidney Strother, 291
London, and Joaquin Miller, 173, 174
Longfellow, Henry W., 208
Longstreet, Gen., 87, 93, 94
Loomis, Charles Battell, 283
Loring, Gen. W. W., 243-247
Los Angeles, Cal., 31
Lothrop Publishing Company, 185, 263
Louisville and Cincinnati Mail Line, 30
Lowell, James Russell, 101, 106, 195
M
McCabe, Gordon, 267
McKane, John Y., 120
McKelway, Dr. St. Clair, 126
McKinley, President, 162
Madison, Ind., 15, 21, 36, 43, 44
Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, 13
Mallon, George B., 291
"Man of Honor, A," 151-155
"Man of Honor, A," Mrs. Stannard's, 154, 155
Manassas, 71, 78
Mann, Horace, 33
Manufactures, 1840-50, 18-20
Manuscripts for publication, 171, 172
"Manyest-sided man," 143
Marquand, Henry, 251, 290, 294
"Master of Warlock, The," 155-157
Matthews, Brander, 204, 269
Maynard, Judge, 323, 324
Mazeppa, quoted, 83, 84
Merrill, Wm. M., 312-314
Methodism and literature, 23-26
Mexican War, 243
"Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War between the States," Roman's, 237
Military prisoners, 88
Miller, Joaquin, 172-176
Mims, Fort, 183
Mitchell, Donald G., 131
Model, artist's, 274
Money, its place in Virginia, 49-52
Munroe, Capt. Kirk, 257
Moody, Dwight, 168
Morey letter, 119
Morgan Syndicate, 1895-6, 327-329
Mortar service at Petersburg, 94, 95
Moses, ex-Governor, 262-264
Myths, 47
N
Nadeau House, Los Angeles, 31
Napoleon, Ind., 5
Nash, Thomas, 307
Nation, The, 231
New Orleans, 3, 4, 96, 98, 183
New York authors in 1882, 272
New York Commercial Advertiser, 251, 286-292
New York Evening Sun, 304
New York Evening Post, 68, 129, 131, 137, 140, 142, 143; character under Bryant and Godwin, 187-189; G. C. Eggleston literary editor, 192-194; use of English, 209-213; book reviews, 217, 218; Godwin editor, 227; writers, 228; change of ownership, 230
New York Graphic, 180
New York Herald, 162
New York Independent, 100, 107, 110
New York Sun, 291, 301, 304
New York Times, 101
New York Tribune, 105, 129, 159, 164, 165
New York World, 120, 121, 122, 185, 291, 292, 303-331
Newspaper book reviews, 217
Newspaper correspondents, 245-247
Newspaper illustration, 179, 180
Newspaper libel suits, 117-124
Newspapers, character, 189; earlier methods, 300-303; revolution in conducting, 303; emergency problems, 313-315; power in politics, 327-332
Nicoll, De Lancy, 122
Nineteenth Century Club, 296
North American Review, 223
Novels See Fiction, Scott. Dime novel
O
Occultism, 60-66, 299
"On March," Mrs. Stannard's, 155
O'Rell, Max, 287, 282
Osgood, James R., 306, 307
P
Pall Mall Gazette, 188
"Paul, John," 285
Personalities in newspapers, 189
Petersburg, 94-98
Philp, Kenward, 116-119
Piatt, Donn, 315-319
"Pike County Ballads," 157-159
Piracy, of American publishers, 231, 232; of English publishers, 233
Plagiarism, 137-144; Stockton on, 137, 138; Franklin on, 139
Planter's life in Virginia, 50-53
Plaquemine, 248-251
Platt, Tom, 319
Pocotaligo, 87
Poe, Edgar Allan, 100-102, 172, 207
Poetic ambition, 44, 45
Poetry, bad, 199-202, 205, 206; genuine, 221
Political corruption, 124-126, 334, 335
Political prescience, 326
"Poor Whites" in the Northwest, 11, 12
Potter, Bishop, 283, 284
Poverty in Indiana, 1840-50, 13
Preachers, stories of, 158, 162, 166, 167
Predicting election results, 326
Press. See Newspapers, Journalism
"Prince Regent," 67, 68
Princeton Review, 296
Printers. See Compositors, Copy
Prisoners, military, 88
Progress, 75, 76
Prohibition, 296
Proof-reading, 241-243
"Proverbial Philosophy," Tupper's, 208, 209
Provincialism of American literature, 269-271
Publishing, uncertainties, 254
Pulitzer, Joseph, 214, 303-305, 308, 311, 312, 314, 319-331
Punctuation, serious result of error, 238, 239
Putnam, George Haven, 147, 184
Putnam, George P., 146, 171
"Putnam's Handy Book Series," 136, 147
Putnam's Monthly, 101, 171
R
Radicalism after Civil War, 108
Railroad Iron Battery, 95, 96-98
Railroads, early, in the West, 20-22, 26, 27, 32-34
Randall, James R., 261, 262
Raymond, Henry J., 101
"Rebel's Recollections," 148-150, 240
Reid, Whitelaw, 143, 159, 164
"Reirritation," 213
Religious intolerance, 1840-50, 26
Restfulness of life in Virginia, 48, 49
Reviewing. See under Book
Revision of manuscript, 341
Revivals, 168
Revue des Deux Mondes, publishes "Hoosier Schoolmaster," 145
Rhodes, James Ford, 334
Richmond, Arthur, 316, 317
Richmond, Va., 67, 68, 69, 84, 85
Riddel, John, 42, 43
Riker's Ridge, 35-45
Ripley, George, 167
"Rise and fall of the Confederate Government," Davis's, 164, 165
Ritchie, Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt, 67
"Robert E. Lee," steamer, 161
Roman, Col. Alfred, 237
Roman Catholicism. See Catholicism
Roosevelt, Dr., 294
"Rudder Grange," Stockton's, 136
Russell, Charles E., 290
"Ruth," yacht, 295
S
St. Louis newspapers, 327
St. Nicholas, 132, 183
"St. Twelvemo," 156
Sanborn, Frank B., 150
Saturday Review, 206
Schools and school-teaching, 1850, 32-34, 45; Western, 1840-50, 10, 11
Schurz, Carl, 208, 230, 332-337
Scotch-Irish, 9
Scott's novels, 275
Scott, Gen., 243, 244
Sexes, relations in Virginia, 53-59
Shakespeare, 220, 221
Shams of English society, 215-217
Sherman, Gen., his March to the Sea, 280; quoted, on war, 80
Shiloh, battle, 238
"Shiveree," 14, 15
"Shocky," 41
Shooting, 14-16
Sidney, Sir Philip, 224, 225
Sieghortner's, 274
"Signal Boys, The," 183
"Skinning," 139, 144
Sloane, Dr. Wm. M., 296
Smith, Ballard, 309
Social conditions, 1840-50, 18-20
"Solitary Horseman," 67
"Son of Godwin, The," 220
"Song of Marion's Men," Bryant's, 196
Southern Literary Messenger, 68
Spanish-American War, 81
Sperry, Watson R., 191, 193, 208, 209
Springfield Republican, 208
Stannard, Mrs., 154, 155
Stapps, the, 8
Steamboats, 1850, 30
Stedman, E. C., 143, 144, 177, 178, 262
Stephens, Alexander H., 223
Stevens, Judge Algernon S., 8
Stewart, A. T., 121, 122
Stockton, Frank R., 133-139, 281, 283
Stoddard, Richard Henry, 202, 261, 262
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 131
"Stranded Goldbug," 251
Stuart, J. E. B., 70, 71, 77, 78, 81
Sullivan, Judge Algernon S., 8
Sumter, Fort, 164
Sun, The. See under New York
Supernatural. See Occultism
Surnames in fiction, 156
"Surrey of Eagle's Nest," 69
Swinton, William, 244
T
Tariff. See Free trade and protection
Taylor, Judge, of Madison, 15
Temperance, 104, 112. See also Prohibition
Tennyson, 143-145, 218
"Thanatopsis," Bryant's, 221, 222
Thompson, John R., 67, 68, 190
Thompson, Wm. Gilman, 294
Tilden, Samuel J., 228
Tilden-Hayes controversy, 332
Tile Club, 274, 275
Tilton, Theodore, 99, 100, 107-116, 125, 129, 259
Times, The. See under New York
Titles, book, 154-157
Travel, 1840-50, 20, 21, 28-30
Tribune, The. See under New York
"Tristram Shandy," saves life, 80
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 208, 209
Tuttle, Dr., 294
Twain, Mark, 150, 160, 259, 265, 281
Tweed, Wm. M., 226
U
Union, Brooklyn. See under Brooklyn
United States, lack of nationality, 1840-50, 6, 7
United States Government, bond issue, 1895-6, and the N. Y. World, 327-331; departments, 235, 236
United States Treasury, 327-331
V
Vevay, Ind., 2, 18
"Victorian Poets," Stedman's, on Tennyson's plagiarism, 143, 144
Virginia, home of the Egglestons, 46; life in, 48, 49, 72; present conditions, 73-76; in the Civil War, 76, 77
"Virginia Comedians, The," 69
Virginian English, 59
"Virginians, The," society, 82
Voice, Virginia girls', 59
W
Walker, Gen. Lindsay, 87
Wappoo Cut, 86
War, 70, 71, 80, 81
War correspondents, 244, 245
Warlock, Mr., 155-157
Warner, Charles Dudley, 283
Washington executive departments, 235, 236
Wason, Rev. Hiram, 8
Wass, Jerome B., 127
Waste, saving, 52
Webb, Charles Henry, 156, 285
Wedding customs in Indiana, 1840-50, 14, 15
West, the, homogeneity in eighteen-forties, 7; most representative of the country, 7, 27; remoteness, 1840-50, 4, 5
White, Horace, 230
White, Richard Grant, 222-225, 274
Wickham, Williams C., 77
"Wild Western Scenes," Jones's, 275
Wilderness, 93
Will, story of a, 61, 62
Williams, Timothy Shaler, 290
Willis, N. P., 68
Winter, John Strange, 154, 155
Wise, Henry A., 77
Wister, Mrs., 142
Women, deference to, 56, 57; in Virginia, 53-59
World, The. See under New York
"Wreck of the Redbird, The," 184, 185
Wright, Henry, 291
Y
Yachting, 294
Yerger, E. M., of Jackson, Miss., 105
Yerger, Judge E. M., of Memphis, Tenn., 105
Youmans, Dr., 274
Z
Ziegenfust, Mr., 247, 248
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Biographies of Washington, Greene, Taylor, Scott, Andrew Jackson, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Meade, Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston. With portraits. 1 vol. $1.75 net; by mail $1.88.
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"Performs a real service in preserving the essentials."—Review of Reviews.
"Very interesting.... Much sound originality of treatment, and the style is clear."—Springfield Republican.
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WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN
The story of the great love of "Blind Jim" and his little girl, and of the affairs of a successful novelist. Fourth printing. $1.75.
"William De Morgan at his very best."—Independent.
"Another long delightful voyage with the best English company. The story of a child certainly not less appealing to our generation than Little Nell was to hers."—New York Times Saturday Review.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S SOMEHOW GOOD
The dramatic story of some modern English people in a strange situation. Fourth printing. $1.75.
"A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction."—The Nation.
"Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America."—The Dial.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family. Seventh printing. $1.75.
"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."—Boston Transcript.
"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, over-crowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens's novels are remembered."—Springfield Republican.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S JOSEPH VANCE
A novel of life near London in the 50's. Tenth printing. $1.75.
"The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."—Lewis Melville in New York Times Saturday Review.
"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson,' he can find the two books in this one."—The Independent.
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"The most important biographic contribution to musical literature since the beginning of the century, with the exception of Wagner's Letters to Frau Wesendonck."
—H. T. Finck, in the New York Evening Post.
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Personal Recollections of Wagner
By ANGELO NEUMANN
Translated from the fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. Large 12mo. 318 pp., with portraits and one of Wagner's letters in facsimile. $2.50 net; by mail $2.65.
Probably no man ever did more to make Wagner's music dramas known than Angelo Neumann, who, with his famous "Wagner Travelling Theatre," carrying his artists, orchestra, scenery and elaborate mechanical devices, toured Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Russia, and with another organization gave "The Ring" in London. But the account of this tour, interesting as it is, is not the main feature of his book, which abounds in intimate glimpses of Wagner at rehearsals, at Wahnfried and elsewhere, and tells much of the great conductor, Anton Seidl, so beloved by Americans. Among other striking figures are Nikisch and Muck, both conductors of the Boston Symphony orchestra, Mottl, the Vogls, Von Bulow, Materna, Marianna Brandt, Klafsky, and Reicher-Kindermann.
It is doubtful if any book gives a more vivid and truthful picture of life and "politics" behind the scenes of various opera houses. Many of the episodes, such as those of a bearded Brynhild, the comedy writer and the horn player and the prince and the Rhinedaughter are decidedly humorous.
The earlier portions of the book tell of the Leipsic negotiations and performances, the great struggle with Von Hülsen, the royal intendant at Berlin, Bayreuth and "Parsifal." Many of Wagner's letters appear here for the first time.
ILLUSTRATIONS.—Richard Wagner: Bust by Anton zur Strassen in the foyer of the Leipsic Stadttheater.—Angelo Neumann: From a picture in the Künstlerzimmer of the Leipsic Stadttheater.—Anton Seidl: Bas-relief by Winifred Holt of New York. Replica commissioned by Herr Direktor Neumann.—Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann—Facsimile of letter from Wagner to Neumann, received after the news of Wagner's death.
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RICHARD BURTON'S MASTERS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
A study of principles and personalities by the Professor of English Literature, University of Minnesota, author of "Literary Likings," "Forces in Fiction," "Rahab" (a Poetic Drama), etc. 12mo, 331 pp. and index. $1.25 net.
"Noteworthy American volume of literary criticism ... a well-balanced, discerning and unhackneyed study ... delightfully readable.... In his judgment of individual books and authors Mr. Burton is refreshingly sane and trustworthy ... an inspiring survey of the whole trend of fiction from Richardson to Howells, with a valuable intermediary chapter on Stendhal and the French realists, all presented in a style of genuine charm and rare flexibility ... may be warranted to interest and inspire any serious lover of fiction."—Chicago Record-Herald.
"Rare sympathy and scholarly understanding ... book that should be read and re-read by every lover of the English novel."—Boston Transcript.
RICHARD BURTON'S RAHAB, A DRAMA OF THE FALL OF JERICHO
119 pp., 12mo. $1.25 net; by mail, $1.33. With cast of characters for the first performance and pictures of the scenes.
"A poetic drama of high quality. Plenty of dramatic action."—New York Times Review.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE'S THE GREATER ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
383 pp., large 12mo. $2.00 net; by mail, $2.15. Studies of Keats, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne. Their outlook upon life rather than their strictly literary achievement is kept mainly in view.
"The sound and mellow fruits of his long career as a critic.... There is not a rash, trivial, or dull line in the whole book.... Its charming sanity has seduced me into reading it to the end, and anyone who does the same will feel that he has had an inspiring taste of everything that is finest in nineteenth-century poetry. Ought to be read and reread by every student of literature, and most of all by those who have neglected English poetry, for here one finds its essence in brief compass."—Chicago Record-Herald.
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BEULAH MARIE DIX'S ALLISON'S LAD AND OTHER MARTIAL INTERLUDES
$1.35 net; by mail, $1.44.
Allison's Lad, The Hundredth Trick, The Weakest Link, The Snare and the Fowler, The Captain of the Gate, The Dark of the Dawn.
These one-act plays, despite their impressiveness, are perfectly practicable for performance by clever amateurs; at the same time they make decidedly interesting reading.
Six stirring war episodes. Five of them occur at night, and most of them in the dread pause before some mighty conflict. Three are placed in Cromwellian days (two in Ireland and one in England), one is at the close of the French Revolution, another at the time of the Hundred Years' War, and the last during the Thirty Years' War. The author has most ingeniously managed to give the feeling of big events, though employing but few players. Courage, vengeance, devotion and tenderness to the weak, are among the emotions effectively displayed.
CONSTANCE D'ARCY MACKAY'S THE HOUSE OF THE HEART And Other Plays for Children
Ten well-written one-act plays to be acted by children. A satisfactory book to fill a real need. $1.10 net; by mail, $1.15.
"Each play contains a distinct lesson, whether of courage, gentle manners, or contentment. The settings are simple and the costumes within the compass of the schoolroom. Full directions for costumes, scene setting, and dramatic action are given with each play. All of them have stood the test of actual production."—Preface.
CONTENTS:
"The House of the Heart" (Morality Play)—"The Gooseherd and the Goblin" (Comedy, suitable for June exercises)—"The Enchanted Garden" (Flower Play, suitable for June exercises)—"Nimble Wit and Fingerkin" (Industrial Play)—"A Little Pilgrim's Progress" (Morality Play, suitable for Thanksgiving)—"A Pageant of Hours" (To be given Out of Doors)—"On Christmas Eve"—"The Elf Child"—"The Princess and the Pixies"—"The Christmas Guest" (Miracle Play).
"An addition to child drama which has been sorely needed."—Boston Transcript.
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