| Edgar James Banks (1866-1945) | |||
| Bismya: Or, the Lost City of Adab ~ A Story of Adventure, of Exploration,
and of Excavation Among the Ruins of the Oldest of the Buried Cities of
Babylonia (NY, Putnam, 1912); 174 illustrations
Online eText with illustrations: http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DS70.B2  |
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Edgar James Banks specialized in digging up the ancient secrets of the Middle East. Banks (1866--1945) was a dedicated explorer of the Middle East and devoted student of its past. He was very active in the first few decades of the twentieth century, and is responsible for most of the small cuneiform collections at universities, seminaries, and museums around the country. Banks led an interesting life, a summary of which can be found in the excellent article, "The Forgotten Indiana Jones," by Dr. Ewa Wasilewska in The World and I Magazine Online. Web Refs:
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| Ralph Henry Barbour |
Fourth Down ~ 1920 ~D. Appleton and Co.
 
Number 8 in theYardley Hall series 1. Forward Pass. 1908 2. Double Play. 1909 3. Winning His Y. 1910 4. For Yardley. 1911 5. Change Signals. 1912 6. Around the End. 1913 7. Guarding His Goal. 1919 8. Fourth Down. 1920 OTHER:
SERIES BOOKS
Ralph Henry Barbour was a popular turn-of-the-century novelist who was famous for writing boys sports stories. |
| S.M. Barrett |
| Geronimo's Story of His Life ~ 1907 ~ NY: Duffield & Co.
This was one of the books ERB used to gather background information for his Apache novels. Online eText Edition
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| S.M. Barrett: During 1905 and 1906, Geronimo, the legendary Apache warrior and honorary war chief, dictated his story through a native interpreter to S.M. Barrett, then superintendent of schools in Lawton, Oklahoma. As Geronimo was by then a prisoner of war, Barrett had made appeals all the way up the chain of command to President Teddy Roosevelt for permission to record the words of the "Indian outlaw." Geronimo came to each interview knowing exactly what he wanted to cover, beginning with the telling of the Apache creation story. When, at the end of the first session, Barrett posed a question, the only answer he received was a pronouncement-"Write what I have spoken." |
| J. M. Barrie 1860-1937 |
The Admirable
Crichton ~ Hodder & Stoughton 1916
  The Admirable Crichton deals with the questions of social hierarchy and personal loyalty, and with the problems of human behavior and the ordering of human society. Barrie's suggestion that the British social structure might be flawed, that the lords and ladies might in some ways be inferior to mere servants, seemed subversive to Barrie's audience, and caused minor sensation. The theatre-going public saw his portrayal of weak, foolish aristocrats as a critical attack on the British social system. STAGE: Four postcards showing scenes from the Edwardian production of the J.M.Barrie play The Admirable Crichton, featuring H.B.Irving, Henry Kemble, Irene Vanbrugh, Sybil Carlisle, and with two of the cards including Gerald Du Maurier as the juvenile lead. Pubd. by Tuck in their Play Pictorial series eleven (III). Unused and in very good condition. I have 80-or-so lots of theatrical postcards (and a few Victorian programmes) on   Other:
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  James
Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir (Forfarshire), the "Thrums" of
his fiction, on 9th May 1860, the seventh surviving child of a hand-loom
weaver. Educated at Glasgow Academy, Forfar Academy and Dumfries Academy,
he took his MA at Edinburgh University. He worked as a journalist for the
Nottingham Journal before moving to London in 1885 to freelance. Success
came with a series of sketches of life in bygone Thrums contributed to
the St. James's Gazette, published in 1888 as Auld licht idylls, followed
by When a man's single (1888) and A Window in Thrums (1889). These works
and the novels The Little minister (1891), Sentimental Tommy (1896) and
its sequel Tommy and Grizel (1900) have been regarded by George Blake and
others as examples of the Kailyard School. Leonee Ormond's J.M. Barrie
(1987) argues that it is more rewarding to assess Barrie's regional fiction
beside that of Hardy and George Eliot. Barrie's dramatised adaptation of
The Little minister was enormously successful, persuading him to write
increasingly for the stage. Notable among his early plays are Quality Street
(1902), The Admirable Crichton (1902) and What every woman knows (1908).
In 1894 he married the actress Mary Ansell. The marriage was childless
and ended in divorce in 1909. However, he had befriended and was ultimately
to adopt the five boys of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a relationship
brilliantly explored in Andrew Birkin's book, J.M. Barrie and the Lost
Boys (1979). Out of stories he spun for the Davies boys came the material
for Peter Pan (1904), probably the most famous children's play ever written.
It is a complex work, perceptive and unsentimental about childhood. Peter,
"the boy who would not grow up", the conceited leader of the Lost Boys
of Never Land, forever dodges the world of adulthood. Like Sherlock Holmes
he seems destined for greater immortality than his creator.
Honours followed - a baronetcy in 1913, the Order of Merit
in 1922, the Rectorship of St. Andrews University, to whom he delivered
a moving address on Courage (1922), and the Chancellorship of Edinburgh
University. His later plays include Dear Brutus (1917), Mary Rose (1920),
and The Boy David (1936). A final work of fiction, the ghost-story Farewell
Miss Julie Logan, appeared in The Times in 1931. Barrie died on 19th June,
1937. Despite the celebrity attaching to Barrie thanks to Peter Pan, there
has been scant critical interest in the remainder of his prolific output,
in particular his essays and letters, although R.D.S. Jack's The Road to
the Never Land (1991) persuasively describes his genius for stagecraft.
Barrie's grave is in Kirriemuir Cemetery, and his birthplace at 4, Brechin
Road is maintained as a museum by The National Trust for Scotland. Many
of the localities in his fiction may still be identified in Kirriemuir.
A statue of Peter Pan stands in the town square, a smaller version of that
in London's Hyde Park, and a pavilion housing a camera obscura which he
gifted to the town in 1930 on being made its only Freeman. ~ John
MacRitchie
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| Elizabeth Barrington ( - 1931) (Pseud of Elizabeth Louisa Beck a/k/a Lily Adams Beck) |
The Divine Lady
 Film:
Barrington's
novel, The Divine Lady, filmed in 1929 and was an Oscar winner (Frank
Lloyd for Best Director) This film was a joint preservation
project of
the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Museum of Modern Art Department
of Film in cooperation with the Czechoslovak Film Archive. It was restored
in conjunction with the project American Moviemakers: The Dawn of Sound.
The restored version has seen numerous screenings on TCM.
The film tells the story of the romance of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. OTHER
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| English historical and mystical novelist. Barrington was born, Lily Moresby Adams -- the Daughter of British Admiral John Moresby, and granddaughter of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Fairfax Moresby. |
| John Bartlett |
Familiar Quotations - A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs
Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature ~ 1919 ~ Bartlett
(10th Ed.)
 This tenth
edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the
first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death
in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise
the work of the first name in quotations. |
 John Bartlett
"I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own." |
| L. Frank Baum 1856-1919 |
| Glinda
of Oz
Rinki-Tink in Oz The Yellow Hen (Ozma of Oz)
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 L(yman)
Frank Baum (1856-1919) American journalist and writer,
whose best-known book is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Baum's stories
about the imaginary Land of Oz belong to the classics of fantasy
literature. The Oz series was long shunned by librarians, and neglected
by scholars of children's literature. Baum has often been compared
to Lewis Carroll - they both had a girl as the protagonist in their
most famous works. Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York.
His father was the oil magnate Benjamin Ward Baum and mother Cynthia (Stanton)
Baum, a women's rights activist. Baum grew up with his seven brothers and
sisters on a large estate just north of Syracuse. "The cool but sun-kissed
mansion... was built in a quaint yet pretty fashion, with many wings and
gables and broad verandas on every side," Baum later wrote in DOT AND TOT
IN FAIRYLAND (1901). The house, although it was large, did not have running
water. Until the age of twelve, Baum was privately tutored at home. In
the late 1860s he spent two years at Peekskill Military Academy, where
he learned to loathe the rigid discipline. In 1873 Baum became a reporter
on the New York World. Two years later he founded the New Era weekly in
Pennsylvania. He was a poultry farmer with B.W. Baum and Son and edited
Poultry Record and wrote columns for New York Farmer and Dairyman. Baum's
father owned a string of theatres and Baum left journalism to become an
actor. In New York he acted as George Brooks with May Roberts and the Sterling
Comedy in plays which he had written. He owned an opera house in 1882-83,
and toured with his own repertory company. In 1882 he married Maud Gage;
they had four sons.Baum returned in 1883 to Syracuse to the family oil
business and worked as a salesman in Baum's Ever-Ready Castorine axle grease.
His own endeavor was not successful - Baum's Bazaar general store failed
in South Dakota, and the family's fortunes took a downturn. From1888 to
1890 he ran the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. He moved to Chicago, and tried
sales positions. In 1897 he founded National Association of Window
Trimmers and edited Show Window from 1897 to 1902. Baum made his debut
as a novelist with Mother Goose in Prose (1897). It was based on stories
told to his own children. Its last chapter introduced the farm-girl Dorothy.
In the preface of the book Baum wrote that he wanted to create modern fairy
tales, and not scare children like the Brothers Grimm did. "Modern education
includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment
in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident."
Over the next 19 years Baum produced 62 books, most of them for children.
In 1899 appeared Father Goose: His Book, which quickly became a best-seller.
Baum's next work was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story of little
Dorothy from Kansas who is transported with dog Toto by a 'twister' to
a magical realm. The book, which was illustrated and decorated by W.W.
Denslow, was published at Baum's own expense. The book sold 90,000 copies
in the first two years. Baum moved to California and the rest of his life
he produced sequels. Under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne" he published
24 books for girls, and as "Floyd Akers" he wrote six books for boys.
As "Schuyler Staunton" he wrote the novels THE FATE OF THE CLOWN (1905)
and DAUGHTER OF DESTINY (1906).
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lfbaum.htm |
| John Edmiston Bauman |
| Out of the Valley of the Forgotten (2 volumes) or, From Trinil to New York ~ 1923 ~ Easton, Pa.:Chemical Publishing Co. (subjects: Man, Evolution, Comparative Anatomy) |
| Beckwith, E.G.A. |
| The Soldier's Language Manual: Military Expressions in English, French and German; Organization, Material, Personal, Operations, Works, Aero Words, Etc. Including a Complete Course of Instruction for Learning French ~ a World War One book intended for solders in the field. It consists of two parts. Part one consists of military expressions in three languages; of particular interest are the "aero words, " air combat being a new aspect of warfare. Part two is a complete course in French, by C. A. Thimm. . 72 + 120 pages |
| David Belasco San Francisco July 25, 1853-1931 |
The Girl of the Golden West (a play)
 
The Girl of the Golden West A silent film directed by Cecil B. De Mille, 1915. (The first and best of the four filmed versions of Belasco's play) Others
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   NY, 1923, "A Souvenir of 'The Merchant of Venice' as produced by David Belasco". Privately Printed by David Belasco, New York, 1923. There is a frontispiece photograph of David Belasco by Arnold Genthe. This Souvenir Booklet is profusely illustrated with photos of the cast in various scenes. At the end, the author adds numerous critical revues and testimonials of newspapers and critics. He was portrayed in the 1940 film, The Lady with Red Hair. Biography David Belasco (right) was probably as comprehensive a theatre practitioner
as could be – actor, stage manager, pioneer of stage lighting, director,
playwright, manager – Belasco did them all. He also discovered Mary Pickford.
From 1900-1930, Belasco produced over 80 shows on Broadway
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The Half-Back
~ 1899 ~ G&D ~ 267 pages
Geronimo,
a Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, led his people's defense
of their homeland against the U.S. military after the death of Cochise.
In the early 1870s, Lieutenant Colonel George F. Crook, commander of the
Department of Arizona, had succeeded in establishing relative peace in
the territory. The management of his successors, however, was disastrous.
In 1874, some 4,000 Apaches were forcibly moved by U.S. authorities to
a reservation at San Carlos, a barren wasteland in east-central Arizona.
Deprived of traditional tribal rights, short on rations and homesick, they
revolted. Spurred by Geronimo, hundreds of Apaches left the reservation
to resume their war against the whites. In 1882, Crook was recalled to
Arizona to conduct a campaign against the Apaches. Geronimo surrendered
in January 1884, but took flight from the San Carlos reservation in May
1885, accompanied by 35 men, 8 boys and 101 women. Crook, along with scouts
Al Sieber, Tom Horn and Mickey Free (the white child Cochise was falsely
accused of abducting) set out in pursuit, and 10 months later, on March
27, 1886, Geronimo surrendered at Cañon de Los Embudos in Sonora,
Mexico. Near the border, however, fearing that they would be murdered once
they crossed into U.S. territory, Geronimo and a small band bolted. As
a result, Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles replaced Crook as commander
on April 2. During this final campaign, at least 5,000 white soldiers and
500 Indian auxiliaries were employed at various times in the capture of
Geronimo's small band. Five months and 1,645 miles later, Geronimo was
tracked to his camp in Mexico's Sonora mountains. At a conference on Sept.
3, 1886, at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona, Miles induced Geronimo to surrender
once again, promising him that, after an indefinite exile in Florida, he
and his followers would be permitted to return to Arizona. The promise
was never kept. Geronimo and his fellow prisoners were put to hard labor,
and it was May 1887 before he saw his family. Moved to Fort Sill in the
Oklahoma Territory in 1894, he at first attempted to "take the white man's
road." He farmed and joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which expelled him
because of his inability to resist gambling. He never saw Arizona again,
but by special permission of the War Department, he was allowed to sell
photographs of himself and his handiwork at expositions. Before he died
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Feb. 17, 1909, he dictated to S.S. Barrett his
autobiography, "Geronimo: His Own Story."
