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When Patty Went To College
When Patty Went To College – Jean Webster Of all the college stories that have been published in the past hundred or so years, those gathered by Jean Webster into her book ‚When Patty Went to College‘ are among the best. Never before has that subtle and much-abused thing known as “ college atmosphere“ been […]
Flower Fables
Flower Fables – Louisa May Alcott We are no longer children, – but it is not long since we were; and remembering that golden time, when the sun was brighter, the flowers twice as many, the rivers larger, and everything fairer, than it ever has been since, we welcome this book of fables for children. […]
Dear Enemy
Dear Enemy – Jean Webster ‚Dear Enemy‘, by Jean Webster, is a novel the events of which are related in the form of letters by the heroine. A formal introduction, indeed, to one of the most intimate, realistic and thoroughly enjoyable pieces of fiction ever! How a charming young woman, all depths and tenderness under […]
Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster The books of Jean Webster, like ‚Just Patty‘ or ‚When Patty Went to College‘ have already shown her rare touch of humor. The letters which Judy writes to her anonymous benefactor might have been cut and dried formal reports of college work; but they aren’t, for Judy is an electric bundle […]
Just Patty
Just Patty – Jean Webster A book which relates some of the earlier adventures of the Patty who went to college. The adventures are of the happy, healthy sort in which every girl of school age will delight. Older readers, too, who have already made Patty’s acquaintance as a college girl will enjoy these stories […]
Much Ado About Peter
Much Ado About Peter – Jean Webster The reader that would have the delightful experience of falling- in love with the Carters‘ serving-maid must read ‚Much Ado About Peter‘ by Jean Webster. And, incidentally, she who would rather not fall in love with the Carters‘ groom had better avoid this collection of short stories about […]
The Four Pools Mystery
The Four Pools Mystery – Jean Webster Here is one of the best, if not the best, stories of mystery and tragedy of the 1900 years. To ‚Four-Pools,‘ a quiet stock-farm set in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, comes a worn-out New York lawyer for a vacation. He is a witness of many curious things and […]
Charles Dickens in America
Charles Dickens in America – William Glyde Wilkins In reading ‚American Notes‘ and Dickens’s letters from America, Mr. Wilkins was struck by two things: the almost bitter severity of his criticism of the American newspapers and his views on the subject of international copyright. To the end of satisfying himself of the justice of these […]
Goethe’s Literary Essays
Goethe’s Literary Essays – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Professor Spingarn has done students of literature a real favor; for he has gathered into a single and well-made volume, golden pages from one of the great masters of literature. As divergent-minded judges as Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Sainte-Beuve acclaimed Goethe the supreme literary critic of all […]
West-Eastern Divan
West-Eastern Divan – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This volume stands for the huge task of Dowden’s middle life-the translation of Goethe’s ‚West-Eastern Divan.‘ This is a poem, as Mrs. Dowden observes in the foreword, that is known to few English readers. It is the fruit of Goethe’s Indian Summer, the last word of his cheerful […]