Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Douglas Sladen's new book, A Japanese Marriage, which has had an immense run in England, no novel except Trilby being more in demand at the libraries, has just been issued in America by Macmillan and Co. In it Mr. Sladen advocates the most advanced hedonistic theories, and declares himself a strong advocate of the "New Woman" movement. "Any age," he says, "is golden in which women are as freed...
...Novel Presentation," S. H. Pillsbury...
...announced from London that twenty-five thousand copies of Marie Corelli's last story, "The Sorrows of Satan," have been sold previous to the day of issue. The Lippincotts, who publish the novel on this side, are prepared for a proportionately large demand for this powerful story...
...publication by the J. B. Lippincott Company of Owen Hall's first novel, "The Track of a Storm," has developed the fact that this gifted magazinist has been masquing under a nom de plume. He is an Englishman who has been for many years a traveller in the far east, has been a member of the New Zealand Parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the Orient...
...appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy to do so. It is true that attempts...