Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bookman (New York, Dodd, Mead and Company) for February contains the usual pages of entertaining gossip of writers and books. There is an interesting article, biographical and critical, on the late Alphonse Daudet. The controversy over the hundred best books for a village library is continued in two communications, each holding a different view. Many recent books are reviewed at length by various critics...
...current number of "The Bookman" (Doda, Mead and Company) contains a characteristic portrait of Kipling by W. Nicholson, a poem by James Lane Allen, and twenty pages of interesting literary gossip. There are also articles on miscellaneous literary subjects, London and Paris letters, reviews of new books, and chapters of a serial story. A portrait of C. M. Flandrau is accompanied by a paragraph, which says: "Harvard Episodes is not to be hastily ranked with the college story-book, which, so curiously amusing to insiders, is as curiously deceptive to outsiders...