Word: maurier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Higginson's address was upon "Literary Society in London and Paris in 1878" and took the form of an extremely interesting series of anecdotes of men and women of letters. In his fascinating way Col. Higginson told of Froude, Carlyle, Darwin, Ellis, Browning, Tennyson, Victor Hugo and Du Maurier; briefly describing the characteristics of the men and giving some account of his meeting with them...
...TRIBY, the Fairy of Argyle" translated from the French of Charles Nodier by the well-known writer Minna Caroline Smith has just been published in a beautiful Scotch plaid by Lamson, Wolffe & Co. of Boston. This work written in 1822 has been aptly termed the grandfather of Du Maurier's "Trilby." While one might not accuse Du Maurier of plagiarism, yet his familiarity with this most beautiful tale of Nodier's is unquestioned...
Nodier's Trilby is as much the fated lover as the Trilby of Du Maurier. And one reads with none the less pleasure the original Trilby, even though the new Trilby of Du Maurier seems to have won the public entire...
...MAURIER'S TRILBY gained a decided success and Sam. A. Beckhard's Trilby scarf, as worn by Trilby and the three "Musketeers of the Brush" is naturally all the go. See it at 70 Tremont street, Parker House...
...Copeland then spoke of du Maurier's earlier work, Peter Ibbetson, which, he said, is a far more delicate book, in an artistic sense, than "Tribly." And it has the added advantage of keeping up the interest...