“Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 756. My. ’06. 230w. R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Gilliam, Charles Frederic. Victorious defeat: the story of a franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.
A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes. Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.
Gillman, Henry. Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.
A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.
Gilman, Daniel Coit. Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.
A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library building.