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[*] “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this kind.” T. Roosevelt.
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[*] Robinson, Harry Perry. Black bear. [*]$2. Macmillan.
“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But ‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.
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[*] “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the end.”
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Robinson, Sir John Richard. Fifty years of Fleet street: being the life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy Thomas. [*]$4. Macmillan.
Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr. Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals, jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty years had been the personal friends and associates of the great journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant, Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes, Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan, Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.