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The Book Buyer

 By Charles Scribner's Sons

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81 CHAMBERS STREET - Page 553
LEGGAT BROTHERS 81 CHAMBERS STREET jd door West of City Hall Park, NEW YORK WRITE FOR CATALOGUE JUST PUBLISHED. SIGN OF THE AHK. Rare, Old and Curious ...
Tampa - Page 615
He kept a diary of the voyage from Tampa, noting the capes and mountains as they passed ; lie looked every man in his command squarely in the face, ...
Boston - Page 10
Lee in his own person represents much of the history of Boston publishing. He was a partner in the firm of Phillips & Sampson, the first publishers of ...
New York - Page 158
The writer of these letters went on the steamer Daniel Webster on its second voyage from New York to.
Paris - Page 199
The French account of these travels by Hue was printed in Paris and afterwards translated into English,.
Quebec - Page 628
This is rendered the more probable from another tradition which says that when Wolfe was with his men in the boat going down to the attack on Quebec ...
Chicago - Page 120
Goodwin in Chicago, was declared by the critics of that city to be a dramatic effort of rare historical value ; while the brilliant success of "The ...
Rome - Page 240
These volumes are unlike any ol'the numerous books which have been written about Rome. The author begins wilh a brief historical study of the rise of ...
London - Page 604
But he was depended upon to fill up the closing paragraphs with some fresh news of genuine interest, gathered from that London world from which ...
Philadelphia - Page 193
Theodore Dreiser shows him sitting in the library of a friend in Philadelphia, at whose house he has been visiting. ...
Waterloo - Page 231
series of four volumes in which the author intends to give a general sketch of the sub ject of his title from Greek and Roman times down to Waterloo. ...
Cambridge - Page 28
entertained a bookbinder's daughter of Cambridge to learn of her the skill and art of book-binding and gilding, and grew very expert at it. ...
Baltimore - Page 597
and forced to make an effort to apply what knowledge he had already acquired to practical ends; and he decided to go back to Baltimore. ...
Benjamin Constant - Page 205
Under the statue of Jasmin, before a vast crowd of people, Benjamin Constant delivered the following address : ...
Bangor, Maine - Page 158
Prentiss, of Bangor, Maine, who now prints several letters of his to newspapers and societies upon the subject, together with some speculations upon ...
Venice - Page 208
The actual technique may have been introduced at Venice by the Greek and Arab workmen attracted there through commercial relations with the Levant and ...
San Juan - Page 611
Hemment was under fire with the Regulars nci Rough Riders at El Caney, San Juan, and elsewhere, and e shared in tie dramatic scenes preceding the ...
Whittier - Page 612
Why, for example, have Cooper and Bry-ant separate chapters while Whittier and Lowell are paired together and Longfellow and Holmes ? ...
Abbotsford - Page 335
and who linn h<nl access to all of the manuscript and other material noir at Abbotsford, st> that many new points of interest will be in this edition. ...
Moscow - Page 92
This brother, who is said to have had a fatal passion for strong drink. lived in a miserable quarter of Moscow, where he shared his bed and board with ...
Cartagena - Page 359
Lord Edward Vernon to reduce Cartagena, the citadel of Spanish power in America, and as it was fondly hoped, other cities in Cuba and elsewhere. ...
Albany - Page 603
Somewhere, I have a letter from President Cleveland (you know ho was a close friend of mine in old Albany days), in which he says : "1 have never been ...
Princeton - Page 400
the battles of Trenton and Princeton follow in quick succession, and bring the splen-did figure of Washington fully upon the stage. ...
Florence - Page 210
We will pass now to the type of ornament found on Aldine books, and those of other printers who, like Quinta, of Florence, imitated the ...
New Orleans - Page 180
ular types and places, like those of New Orleans by Mr. Cible of New England by Miss Wilkins and Miss Jewett, of the Northwest by Mr. ...
Munich - Page 598
Shortly after his return, to Munich he decided to try his hand again at American subjects, and he sailed directly for New York. ...
Jerusalem - Page 555
supplemented by diligent personal investigation, carried on during a residence of five years as United States Consul in Jerusalem. ...
Seattle - Page 280
The sensational reports of sickness and starvation sent out regarding him from Seattle had no foundation in fact. ...
Washington, New York - Page 177
Its letters from Washington, New York and Paris keep its readers in touch with metropolitan affairs. But, realizing that the true field of an ...
Ashbourne - Page 283
He is a graduate of Lafayette College and makes his home in Ashbourne, one of the suburbs of Philadelphia. He is a practicing lawyer in the latter ...
Bristol - Page 630
Dorothy brought about this emigration clings to her mother, and is willing to leave her pleasant home near Bristol, and snare her mother's fortunes in ...
Troy, NY - Page 583
a literary club in Troy, NY, in which he demonstrated that the resources of the North were ampio to finish fhs; war, if ...
Srinagar - Page 199
Wellby, an English army officer, who, under the title Through Unknown Thibet, tells the story of a trip from Srinagar, in Northern India, ...
Berlin - Page 23
a journalist on a promi-nent Berlin daily paper, until the power within him forced him to give up all other interests to that of literature. ...
Oxford - Page 605
totally different set of hands, for instead of the old-fashioned goody-goody writers you find smart young Oxford men taking up the task. ...
Neuchatel - Page 430
Lala studied in London and Neuchatel, and was banished by the Spaniards in 1887, on account of his outspoken sympathy From "The Philippine Islands. ...
Athens - Page 18
He could have had the patron-age of several influential families in his own region, but preferred to listen to a call from the northern Athens, ...
Brighton - Page 580
William Black, who died at Brighton last month in his fifty-eighth year, began to write at seventeen, doing his first work for a Glasgow newspaper. ...
San Francisco - Page 580
William Doxey, of San Francisco, gained widest fame in the East as the pub-lisher of the late (though never tardy) Lark, but in a photograph which he ...
Augusta - Page 593
Augusta obviously lacked, however, the degree of defiant courage that made Mrs. Prondie memorable ; and William I, however strongly he shared the ...
Milan - Page 180
The closing scene takes place in the cathedral at Milan, and the book is said to be as fine a piece of literature as has been written during recent ...
Edinburgh - Page 43
and Professor Saintsbury's suggestion that a lectureship in the Doric should be founded in Edinburgh seems to be put forward with the same desire as ...
Colorado Springs - Page 49
or only as much as Colorado Springs. All Europe has only forty-five pages, or six less than California, without any mention of the Caucasus Mountains. ...
Nashville - Page 31
Among the rewards which his work has won elsewhere than in Paris may be men-tioned medals awarded to him at the exhibitions at Atlanta and Nashville, ...
Trenton - Page 400
the battles of Trenton and Princeton follow in quick succession, and bring the splen-did figure of Washington fully upon the stage. ...
Atlanta - Page 31
Among the rewards which his work has won elsewhere than in Paris may be men-tioned medals awarded to him at the exhibitions at Atlanta and Nashville, ...
New Haven - Page 193
How- el Is spoke of New Haven as a "literary centre" because it was the residence of Colonel JW De Forest, the author of " Overland " and " Kate ...
Vienna - Page 235
Leopold Schenk, Director of the Embryologioal Institute in Vienna, is now available for American readers in the form of an authorized translation. ...
Vicksburg - Page 583
In 18C4, though Gettysburg had been won and Vicksburg taken, the financial ability of the North to prolong the strug-gle for any length of time was ...
Madrid - Page 431
LC l'âge & Co. writer's residence in Madrid. The story of this episode in Spanish history bears with considerable directness npon recent events. ...
Bonn - Page 372
ters on Thayer, the biog-rapher of Beethoven, the Beethoven museum at Bonn, and the influence of Goethe and Liszt as traced in a visit to Weimar. ...
Delhi - Page 641
The Sepoy Mutiny As Seen by a Subaltern from Delhi to Lucknow. By Colonel EDWARD VIBAKT. With a portrait, a plan and ю illustrations. ...
Liverpool - Page 568
Gilbert to the footlights, for he and his barrister confrère» met Marie Wilton's (Lady Bancroft's) company on tour at Liverpool in the early sixties. ...
Marl - Page 487
Her child-hood still echoed with the victories of Marl borough, and she witnessed the struggle of the American colonies. ...
Lima - Page 143
Nor •does he set down aught in malice concerning the fleas of Lima and the "reckless driving" of Damascus. At St. Thomas the ships were coaled by ...
Roanoke - Page 102
He came on the North American Trading and Transportation Company's steamer Roanoke, which, sailing from St. Michael's, Alaska, brought 240 passengers ...
Hanover, Pa - Page 283
Long was born in Hanover, Pa., of Southern parentage, about thirty-seven years ago. He is a graduate of Lafayette College and makes his home in ...
Portland, Me - Page 15
Mosher, of Portland, Me. In the same year the same publishers issued "The Masque nf I>ead Florentines," a poem, illustrated by Mr. JD Batten. ...
Damascus - Page 143
Nor •does he set down aught in malice concerning the fleas of Lima and the "reckless driving" of Damascus. At St. Thomas the ships were coaled by ...
Poughkeepsie - Page 136
He settled at Poughkeepsie in 1785 as junior partner to Gilbert Living-ston, and the same year married Elizabeth Bailey, who was a few years his ...
Kitchener - Page 631
A REHARKABLE BOOK FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION "With Kitchener to Khartum" An Account of the British Campaign in the Soudan By GW STEEVENS. ...
Tripoli - Page 375
the Tripoli- tans and held for several years as a servant of the Pasha, and finally es-capes to take part m the bombardment and downfall of Tripoli. ...
Lisbon - Page 30
The " Diario Ecclesiastico para o Keino de Portugal para o anno de 1829/' printed at the Boyal Press, Lisbon, with which we conclude our article, ...
Tunis - Page 276
Archaeological Walks in Algiers and Tunis. By GAS- TON BOISSIER, author of " Cicero and His Friends," " Rome and Pompeii," " The Country of Horace and ...
Algiers - Page 276
Archaeological Walks in Algiers and Tunis. By GAS- TON BOISSIER, author of " Cicero and His Friends," " Rome and Pompeii," " The Country of Horace and ...
Philadelphia, New York - Page 269
in Washington just before the War of 1812, and, later, the reader gains an insight into the contemporary life of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. ...
Aylesbury - Page 312
It is just twenty years since he was killed on the hunting field near Aylesbury. The most sensational hit in magazine literature that lias been made ...
Yasnaya Polyana - Page 89
Count Tolstoy was born seventy years asió at Yasnaya Polyana, which being in-terpreted means ""Clear Meadow" or "Plain Field," in the Krapivienski ...
Matanzas - Page 405
He was with the squadron that established the blockade off the Cuban coast, and was under fire on the flagship when Matanzas was bombarded. ...
Charlotte - Page 608
The two by Charlotte were as follows "The Wounded Stag, and Other Poems," consisting of twenty pages, is signed "C. ...
Malaga - Page 270
An interesting book of observation in Spain, especially in Malaga and Seville, by MIRIAM COLES HARRIS, author of " Rutledge " etc ...
Dublin - Page 132
Alfred Harmsworth, was born in Dublin in 1865. He began journalism in earnest at the age of seventeen. He started a penny rival to Tit fíif* (the ...
Bergerac - Page 201
To students of French literature the name of Bergerac is not unknown. He was a valiant soldier, a formidable duelist, a brilliant wit, and a scholar ...
Megara - Page 161
It was Stilpo, the philosopher oí Megara, when Demetrius captured the city.
Dublin, New Hampshire - Page 561
It was played last summer in the open-air theatre in Dublin, New Hampshire, and is now printed from type, on hand-made paper in blue paper hoards, ...
Seville - Page 270
An interesting book of observation in Spain, especially in Malaga and Seville, by MIRIAM COLES HARRIS, author of " Rutledge " etc ...
Greenfield, Indiana - Page 96
native town, Greenfield, Indiana, and thoroughly familiar with the local color of childhood as Mr. Riley paints it. The ...
Budapest - Page 591
The albums are kept in a big glass case, which was especially made for the purpose by the city of Budapest. lus entire studio, with all its furniture ...
Indianapolis - Page 96
Indianapolis firm in America. With the exception of Longfellow, no American poet has said so many things whicli sing themselves irresistibly into the ...
Portsmouth - Page 142
he had seen on the stocks at Portsmouth in his boyhood, wondering if ever it would be his fate to serve in the ship that bore his own name. ...
Amsterdam - Page 27
is upon "Het Вое k der Psalmen," printed at Amsterdam in 1777, and the book and the binding undoubtedly began the journey through life hand in hand. ...
Austin - Page 311
Austin except Sir Lewis Morris, whose pen has fallen idle nowadays. I am told that the best of the minor poets rarely ...
Northampton, Mass - Page 578
the Scribners have just issued is called the '• Tarrywliile Edi-tion," in honor of the author's place in Northampton, Mass., which bears that name. ...
Copenhagen - Page 52
Vincent, and he ends with Trafalgar ; he tells of the Heights of Abraham and the Battle of Waterloo : of bloody Badajos and of Copenhagen : of DEEDS ...
Caracas - Page 143
The drive from La Guayra to Caracas is "probably one of the most beautiful in the world." Subsequently, on an "off night'' in the Jardin МаЫПе, ...
Kansk - Page 318
For years Russia has carried out a fixed policy of Eastern development, and already the trans-Siberian RR has been completed to Kansk, 2800 miles east ...
Norwich, Conn - Page 584
He died at Norwich, Conn., in November last, in the 71st year of his age, baring shed lustre on the Republic by the potency of his work, by the purity ...
Buffalo - Page 19
Adam, of Buffalo, NY, by whom they are copyrighted in the present edition. It is probable that only about a dozen of the letters which ...
Luxembourg - Page 325
Luxembourg, where the young rogue chats with the aristocrat. " By St. Denis! my friend, you are like the great Chicot that was fool to King Henry of ...
Berkeley - Page 180
A capital story of Virginia in Ш13, when Berkeley was (lovemor. A Puritan, condemned fora crime of which he was innocent, was transported from England ...
Newark, NJ - Page 553
877 Broad St., Newark, NJ Libraries and small collections if books purchased from excculoi» and others. Please mention THE BOOK Витки in writing to ...
Downey - Page 310
Speaking of reprints, I may note that Downey is issuing a new edition of the Brontes' books named after Thorn-ton, the little Yorkshire village where ...
Torres Vedras - Page 443
are vividly and truthfully described, and the military operations around Talavera, Torres Vedras and Sala-manca are set forth with much graphic power. ...
Hartford - Page 100
Charles Dudley Warner's house on Fannington Avenue, in Hartford, and his library. The famous "garden" lies just beyond the house. ...
Santiago - Page 359
and with seven maps showing the position of the United States and the Spanish forces on different days preceding the surrender of Santiago. ...
Manila - Page 107
I have now been settled long enough in Manila to find out what it costs to live, and the general.
Mandalay - Page 580
Miss Blanche McManus has drawn half a dozen illustrations for " The Road to Mandalay," which Mr. MF Mansfield publishes with the poem in a pretty ...
Montevideo - Page 143
the Lloyd agent who drank two bottles of red wine at breakfast in Trieste; and, in Montevideo, the German who was proud of having lost a front tooth. ...
Honolulu - Page 102
It may be remembered that on his return a few years ago from his long Pacific voy-age lie expressed himself warmly in regard to Honolulu, and said of ...
Johannesburg - Page 153
but proves to be neither) who had lost both fortune and position, had vainly sought gold at Johannesburg, and had finally wandered into France, ...