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Imperial America

... Imperial America Tmperial America. By J. M. Kennedy. (Stanley, Paul and Co. 12s. 6d. net.) Uncertainty of purpose is as dangerous in literature as in war. And Mr. Kennedy's work has suffered the due penalty of this infirmity. He set out with the double ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

HOME LIFE IN AMERICA

... HOME LIFE IN AMERICA. This is a very big title. It might well be supposed to cover ground wider than the United States, to which the writer confines herself, or the Eastern States, which also are not everywhere. But even that not unlimited portion of ...

BIG GAME IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

... more plentiful, ranging through Mexico. Central America, and as far south as Patagonia in South America. In subsequent chapters we have some pleasant ac counts of sport in various parts of North America, beginning with a trip to Mexico. These include ...

A Great Ambassador's Book on S. America

... pression on the mind of the more thoughtful reader these are The Relations of Races in South America and The Two Americas and the Rela tions of South America to Europe. In the former the author, after tracing the bloody drama of the original Spanish ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1211 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

LITERARY LOUNGER: SHAMROCK IV. AND THE AMERICA CUP; War--and Peace

... SHAMROCK IV. AND THE AMERICA CUP.* War and Peace. Despite the excitement inevitably caused by a great war, there is yet room to chronicle the voyaging of the challenger Shamrock IV. to compete once more for the British lifting of the America Cup. Peace hath ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 999 | Page: 6 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN PARIS.; UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA; THE MOOSE.; MODEL YACHTING AS IT IS TO-DAY

... Across Unknown South America, by A. Henry Savage-La ndor. London Hodder and Stoughton, 2 vols., 30s. net.) Rubber tree showing incisions and the collar and tin cup for the collection of the latex. (From Across Unknown South America, by A. Henry Savngo- ...

A LITERARY LETTER: Unnecessary Biographies of Living Statesmen--A Remarkable Meticulous Novel--Mr. James Milne ..

... (Chapman and Hall). 8 This is the account of a journey across the gj Atlantic and through America and Canada. recall the fact that Mr. Milne's first trip to jj, America was my one and only adventure in w that great country. I remember that we met in Kj the ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1912
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2498 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: English History and Dr. Lingard--America's Two Great Men of Letters--New Books from Constable

... feel the apotheosis of Voltaire and Rousseau. The Avenue of Heroes at Berlin is more pro vocative of smiles than of tears. America has been the most alert of all countries in devising halls of fame. There is a Hall of Fame attached to the university in ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1910
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2331 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Literary Log: A Book About Ireland

... at From Ireland to °r dawn on the deck of an Atlantic America liner watching little groups of people disembark at Queenstown. They were returned emigrants. I knew that Irish emigration to America was great, but did not know that any of the emigrants came ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 793 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

NEWS NOTES: The Central Library for Students

... visit to America in 1915, and raised, through the generosity of the American people, the large sum of some £20,000 for the benefit of the British Committee of the French Red Cross. His really great services, both at the front and in America, and, later ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review