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    President Roosevelt, In his letter to the public printer, requesting the adoption of the reformed spelling, made out a strong case for the innovation. ...

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  3. BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

    Elizabeth, as everyone knows (says the London "Evening News"), is the most delightful and arresting of recent literary creations. We met her first ...

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  4. A STEVENSON LETTER.

    A good many admirers of Stevenson may be not familiar with a characteristic and playful letter he wrote in his Samoan home in the summer of ...

    Article : 363 words
  5. MR. W. D. HOWELLS

    Mr. W. D. Howells, the American novelist, was appointed American Consul in Venice in 1860, by Abraham Lincoln, and has left an amusing account ...

    Article : 316 words
  6. MR. A. W. PINERO.

    Arthur Wing Pinero is a Londoner by birth, the only son of Mr. J. D. Pinero; a solicitor. His successful plays include "Dandy Dick," "Sweet ...

    Article : 463 words
  7. LEARNING AND SPECTACLES.

    It is a well known fact that spectacles give a man an appearance of great wisdom and learning to which he' may ant be entitled. Frank ...

    Article : 408 words
  8. UPTON SINCLAIR'S STORY.

    Upton Sinclair told at a dinner in New York, apropos of the purefood laws, a story of four flies. "Four flies, four brother flies," he ...

    Article : 364 words
  9. A FEW MAXIMS.

    Every man Is at once a socialist and an individualist —a socialist with regard to the property of others, and an Individualist with regard to his own. ...

    Article : 356 words
  10. MR. G. K. CHESTERTON.

    Mr. G. K. Chesterton is surely too much with us, late and soon. His obtrusiveness is pathetic. He was born too late. What Johnson said of ...

    Article : 346 words
  11. CONSTANCE NADEN

    The humor of the poetess—rare enough in itself—generally seems to be In the nature of an exercise. As a proof of this, the work of the late ...

    Article : 453 words
  12. MRS. BROWNING GREATER THAN BROWNING.

    This year is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who first saw the light on March 6, 1806. ...

    Article : 350 words
  13. ABOUT-GHOSTS.

    It is really wonderful how old things persist under new names. Few people now-a-days believe in ghosts, and yet the belief In spirits and spiritualism is ...

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  14. IN PRAISE OF IBSEM.

    Mr. W. D. Howells, himself a writer and thinker of no mean power, thus eulogises Henrik Ibsen:—The great and dreadful delight of ...

    Article : 525 words
  15. WEIRS TITLES FOR DEVOTIONAL DOCKS

    "A Moat Delectable, Sweet Perfumed Nosegay for God's Saints to Smell At" is the title of a pamphlet published in 1626. Quaint titles were the rule in ...

    Article : 289 words
  16. THE MYSTERY OF G.B.S.

    [Mr. George Bernard Shaw has taken a prominent part recently in a newspaper discussion. We notice, with much amusement, that his hostile ...

    Article : 256 words
  17. A VISIT TO SUDERMANN.

    Some Americans who called upon Sudermann, "the German Ibsen," give In the American "Bootanan" the following pen picture of the celebrated ...

    Article : 263 words
  18. A SONNET ON A KISS.

    What smouldering senses In Death't sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissittude Can rob this body of honor, or denude. ...

    Article : 120 words
  19. OUT OF THE RIGHT.

    Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. ...

    Article : 117 words
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