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Jacob A. Riis • 129 Items / 17 Books, 109 Articles, 1 Visual, 1 Review
The Old Town (1909)
by Jacob A. Riis
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    Bret Harte's Veracity Attacked (Review)
    The Old Town, by Jacob A. Riis
    1. The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis
    The Literary Digest, November 6, 1909, p. 786
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    The New Books (16 Reviews)
    The Gateway to the Sahara, by Charles Wellington Furlong
    1. The Gateway to the Sahara by Charles Wellington Furlong
    2. The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third by Alice I. Perry Wood
    3. Roses by Hermann Sudermann
    4. The Ruinous Face by Maurice Hewlett
    5. Daphne in Fitzroy Street by E. Nesbit
    6. Beechy, or The Lordship of Love by Bettina von Hutten
    7. The Beggar in the Heart by Edith Rickert
    8. The Title Market by Emily Post
    9. The Dominant Dollar by Will Lillibridge
    10. Priscilla of the Good Intent by Halliwell Sutcliffe
    11. The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis
    12. Memoirs of an American Lady by Anne MacVicar Grant and James Grant Wilson
    13. Short American History by Grades by Everett Barnes
    14. A History of Christianity in Japan by Otis Cary
    15. Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland
    16. Home Letters of General Sherman by M.A. DeWolfe Howe and William T. Sherman
    The Outlook, November 6, 1909, pp. 558-568
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    Fifty of the Year's Best Books (48 Reviews)
    A Political History of the State of New York, by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
    1. A Political History of the State of New York by DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
    2. The American Egypt by Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Frost
    3. Retrospections of an Active Life by John Bigelow
    4. American Prose Masters by William C. Brownell
    5. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
    6. The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
    7. Artists Past and Present by Elisabeth Luther Cary
    8. Longfellow Country by Helen Archibald Clarke
    9. Cathedral Cities of Spain by W.W. Collins
    10. Old Boston Days and Ways by Mary Caroline Crawford
    11. My Quest of the Arabian Horse by Homer Davenport
    12. Holland of Today by George Wharton Edwards
    13. One Hundred Country Houses by Aymar Embury
    14. The Great Wall of China by William Edgar Geil
    15. The Bretons at Home by Frances M. Gostling
    16. A Hunter's Camp-Fires by Edward John House
    17. Italian Hours by Henry James
    18. Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson by Eugenie Paul Jefferson
    19. The Picturesque Hudson by Clifton Johnson
    20. Paul Verlaine: His Life, His Work by Edmond Lepelletier
    21. The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
    22. Introduction to Notable Poems by Hamilton Wright Mabie
    23. Travels in Spain by Philip S. Marden
    24. The Spell of Italy by Caroline Atwater Mason
    25. The Expansion of New England by Lois K. Mathews
    26. Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by Francis Miltoun
    27. Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories by Yei Theodora Ozaki
    28. Recollections of Grover Cleveland by George Frederick Parker
    29. The Education of the Will by Jules Payot
    30. Through the French Provinces by Ernest Peixotto
    31. French Cathedrals by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
    32. The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton by Jane Gray Perkins
    33. My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor
    34. American Inland Waterways by Herbert Quick
    35. The Land of the Lion by W.S. Rainsford
    36. The Old Town by Jacob A. Riis
    37. Manors of Virginia in Colonial Times by Edith Tunis Sale
    38. From My Youth Up by Margaret E. Sangster
    39. The Heart of the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton
    40. An Autobiography by Shailer Mathews
    41. Home Letters of General Sherman by M.A. DeWolfe Howe and William T. Sherman
    42. Famous Cathedrals as Seen and Described by Great Writers by Esther Singleton
    43. Something of Men I Have Known by Adlai E. Stevenson
    44. Garibaldi and the Thousand: May, 1860 by George Macaulay Trevelyan
    45. The New New York by John C. Van Dyke
    46. History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
    47. Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Wiggin
    48. A Book of Precious Stones by Julius Wodiska
    The Literary Digest, December 11, 1909, pp. 1071-1073