THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Volume 195 (January-June 1912)

George Harvey, ed

Published by North American Review Publishing Co, New York, 1912

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864p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in 3/4 brown cloth with marbled boards. Leather labels are crackly and chipped. Library stamps on endpapers and a couple of inner pages. Occasional small closed tears on page edges. Pencil scribbles on foredges and scattered marks in the margins, but majority of pages clean, and binding is tight. A good reading copy. Volume 195 of THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, the first literary magazine in the United States. This volume contains the issues for January through June 1912. Some features include early reviews of ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton, THE OUTCRY by Henry James, A PERSONAL RECORD by Joseph Conrad, A NEW CONSCIENCE AND AN ANCIENT EVIL by Jane Addams, and HADJI MURAT by Leo Tolstoy; an essay by Booker T. Washington on black farmers in the Jim Crow South ("The Negro as a Farmer"); an essay on the problems of immigration in the early 20th century ("The Real Significance of Recent Immigration" by W. Jett Lauck); an essay on prejudice toward Jews and the Chinese ("Jew and Chinaman" by William Trant); an essay debunking racial anti-Semitism ("Are the Jews an Inferior Race?" by Nahum Wolf); a pro-immigration essay arguing against race-based xenophobia ("American Ideals and Race Mixture" by Percy Stickney Grant); an analysis of Thomas Hardy's grandiose epic THE DYNASTS; a series of "Literary Recollections" delivered at a dinner by William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Franklin B. Sanborn; a tribute to Robert Browning upon the centenary of his birth (includes a full-page portrait); and an essay by naval architect Lewis Nixon about the implications of the Titanic disaster for the future of shipbuilding ("The Lesson of the Titanic"). Seller Inventory # 319013

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Title: THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Volume 195 (...
Publisher: North American Review Publishing Co, New York
Publication Date: 1912
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition.

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