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Replying to your inquiry of recent date, we report that

we shall not print an index for The Literary World of 1904.
We have word from L. C. Page & Company, the publishers of that
magazine for last year, that they also have decided not to
print an index. We regret for the sake of any subscribers
who wish to bind the 1904 volume that they will be unable to
secure an index, but as we purchased The Literary World and
consolidated it with THE CRITIC at the beginning of 1905, we
do not feel that we should be called upon to make any outlay
in connection with the issues of 1904.

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L. C. PAGE & COMPANY.

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AAN 5 1904

Literary World

"Books, we know, are a substantial world, both pure and good"

200 Summer Street

Terms, $1.00 per year, Ten cents per copy

BOSTON JANUARY 1904

Vol. XXXV. No. 1. Whole No. 703 Copyright 1904 by L. C. Page & Company (Inc.)

Of The WORKS of

ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

Nearly Three Hundred Thousand Copies Have Been Sold
OF MR. STEPHENS'S LATEST WORK

The Mystery of Murray Davenport (30th Thousand)

The Boston Transcript says: "The mystery is the most ingenious to be found in any novel of the year."
OTHER TITLES ARE

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Mr. Stephens was a dramatist before he reached his present high rank as a novelist. His own dramatization of his first great novel, "An Enemy to the King," had a very successful run of two seasons with Mr. E. H. Sothern. Under the title of "Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner," the dramatization of "The Continental Dragoon" is now being played with William Faversham as the hero.

The publishers take pleasure in announcing for publication this spring, a new novel by Mr. Stephens. It will be called The Bright Face of Danger," and will be a sequel to "An Enemy to the King."

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY,

BOSTON

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Byron

Sold in complete sets only

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Edited and Introduced by

HENRY STODDARD

Illustrated with nearly one hundred original Etchings and Photogravures from drawings by EDMUND H. GARRETT and FRANK T. MERRILL The popularity of the writings of Lord Byron is unquestioned. Since his death, seventy-five years since, edition after edition has appeared; but with this edition, which presents his entire work, notes, letters, poems, and journals, and his life by Thomas Moore, is inaugurated a new era of enthusiasm and admiration. The eminent authority, the late Richard Henry Stoddard, had just completed the labors of editing this exhaustive edition only a short time previous to his death. He brought into the labor thereof the culmination of years of study and analysis of Byron's writings.

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Text.-Set in old pica faced type. Illustrations. In photogravure and etching. Paper. Soft antique, specially manufactured for this edition. Format.-12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top, uncut edges. Price. In complete sets only. Sixteen volumes.

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A contribution to poetic literature of unusual interest, and perhaps the most perilous and the most alluring venture in the whole field of recent poetry, is that which Mr. Carman has undertaken in giving us, in English verse, those lost poems of Sappho of which fragments have survived. A task of imaginative and, at the same time, interpretative construction.

The volume is produced in sumptuous form, designed and printed by the De Vinne Press, from special type which is afterward distributed. No pains have been spared to make this one of the most beautiful books of the year, and the editions are strictly limited as follows:

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The Reign of Queen Isyl, The Awakening of the Duchess,
The Story of the Foss River Ranch, Place and Power,
The Holladay Case, Sally, Mrs. Tubbs, The Little People,
The Sword of Garibaldi, An Ocean Mystery, A Touch
of Sun, A Sequence in Hearts, The Red Poocher, The
Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton, The Memoirs of
a Child, The Masterfolk, Uther and Igraine, The Mis-
Rule of Three, Christian Thal, Katherine Frensham,
Dr. Xavier, The Pine Grove House.....

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As a general rule," said one of Shelley's friends,

"it is wise to avoid writers whose works amuse or

delight you, for should you see them they will delight

you no more."

There is enough truth in the observation to make

it a general rule, but an exception to the rule is John

Fox, Jr.

The fact is, Mr. Fox has all the traits of a born

actor. We do not mean the public pose, the salient
mannerisms, the eccentric dress often noticed in actors,
but a natural aptitude for mimicry and an ease and
grace of manner suitable to the impersonation of any
dramatic character.

To a friend of his who knew him intimately at Har-
vard we are indebted for the following information:
"While at Harvard, Mr. Fox displayed histrionic
talent of a high order, having been 'leading lady' of
the dramatic society of his class. There has been made
a college sketch of Mr. Fox, showing him in a quaint,
old-fashioned woman's garb, with odd little ringlets
hanging down all over his head, and a most absurd
bonnet perched upon its top. It is the portrayal of the
character of Madame Perrichon in that familiar com-
edy, Papa Perrichon.' T. Russell Sullivan translated
the work for the Boston Museum, and it was his ver-
sion that the famous Harvard society to which he
13 belonged used on its travels, for Fox and the other
boys made a trip down East' to Exeter, Portland,
Bangor, and Augusta, having a great amount of fun,
a vast deal of experience, and a rather unpleasant
financial loss in the mock theatrical excursion. A
sturdy, square-shouldered young fellow would seeni
to be an odd figure in petticoats, but every one who
has seen the Harvard theatricals knows how cleverly
athletes are often turned into buxom young maidens."

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Mr. Fox's success on the college stage has been

repeated on the wider American platform. Not since

Mr. Cable's ablest days has the American platform

held so delightful a reader of his own writings as

Mr. Fox.

As for his ability as a twofold interpreter of

Kentucky mountain life, the foremost Kentucky
writer, James Lane Allen, has said: "Not only is
he a very beautiful reader, but he is the first public
reader of the dialect of the Tennessee and Kentucky
mountaineers that has yet appeared. Now, in no spe-
cies of American short story has there been greater
need of an interpreter of the dialect than in that of
the Cumberland Mountains; and this interpretation
Mr. Fox is admirably prepared to give. For he has
lived several years among the native folk, has talked
with them, has studied them, and become himself their

30 literary interpreter through his splendid work in the

magazines."

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