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Morris, William. 92 M9182W
Warwick, Frances Evelyn (Maynard), countess of. William Morris;
his homes and haunts. 1912. Dodge Pub. Co.
Contents: Early years.—The craftsman.—The man of letters, 1865-76.—The political
period, 1877-86.—The dreamer of dreams, 1887-96.—His place in art and politics.
—His social philosophy.
Brief study (68 pages) of his character and work.
Napoleon I, emperor of the French. 9 2 Ni2grosp
Rose, John Holland. Personality of Napoleon; the Lowell lectures
delivered at Boston in February-March 1912. 1912. Bell.
Contents: The man.—The Jacobin.—The warrior.—The lawgiver.—The emperor.—
The thinker.—The world-ruler.—The exile.
These essays, by an eminent authority on the subject, are in no sense an exhaustive
analysis of Napoleon's character, but rather an estimate of the value of the personal
factor in his achievements.
Nogi, Kiten, count. 92 N39SW
Washburn, Stanley. Nogi, a man against the background of a great
war. 1913. Holt.
Mr Washburn was attached to Gen. Nogi's staff as war correspondent for an
American paper during the Russo-Japanese war, 1904-05. He makes no attempt to give
a history of Nogi's life prior to the war, but simply to show him as soldier, patriot and
samurai and the representative of ideals reaching back to feudal times.
Varnhagen von Ense, Frau Rahel Antonie Friederike 92 V2i82k
(Levin). .
Key, Ellen Karolina Sofia. Rahel Varnhagen, a portrait; tr. from
the Swedish by A. G. Chater, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis.
1913. Putnam.
"Bibliography," p.3o7-3' 2 - , „ . , ,, , ,
The salon of Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833), who has been called the Madame de
Stael of Germany, was frequented by such men as Humboldt Schleiermacher and Ranke
and other notables of the Napoleonic era. She was not only a great social leader but
a feminist as well, who anticipated many of the ideas for which women are contending
to-day.
Fiction
Allen, Frances Newton Symmes. 4 2 52i
The invaders. Houghton.
Story illustrating the contact of the old New England families with those of foreign
stock, especially the Irish and Polish.
Cooke, Mrs Grace (MacGowan). C7772J
The joy bringer; a tale of the Painted desert. Doubleday.
Story of a Kentucky girl who elopes and through a series of dramatic events faces
a strange new life among the Hopi Indians of the Arizona desert.
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Dickens, Charles. .
Mystery of Edwin Drood; the history, continuations and solutions
(1870-1912), by J. C.Walters. Chapman.
"Bibliography," p.255-264.
Title reads "Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Glasgow, Ellen.
Virginia [a novel]. Doubleday. .
This story of a Virginia woman from her girlhood through her married hfc^reproduces
with knowledge and understanding the point of v.ew of the Southern
"quality" in the years following the Civil war.