The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-29

Vie AdHlS VI GOEuOll, WIZ 10 tue Plo-
prietor of big department store,
where THE Bonnie Brier Book" is sold
for cents and THE Reveries of
Bachelor" for II cents, makes Win
throp university the gift of $50000O.
Henry Worthington, q young professor
in the university, opposes the accept
ance of it and is expelled from his po-
sition on account of his views.
Annie Gordon, the rich mans daugh-
ter, has doubts as to the way her
fathers money is made, and incognito
goes to work in the mammoth shop as
a saleswoman at the toy counter.
Henry and she meet, with a result that
may be guessed. Winthrop is clearly
Boston, and the university Harvard.
Should university accept money that
comes through a trust or a department
store? Have We any responsibility for
the way in which we earn our money?
Is it right to accept money that is
iniquitously made? These are the ques-
lions around which this novel is con-
structed. 1t will be a surprise if
Henry Worthington" is not widely
read and discussed.
The Swiss Family Robinson. BY Jo-
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This famous story written originally
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One vol, 16no, 1853 pp. 10 illustrations
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The frontispiece of this convenient,
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"The GentIeness of Jesus" by Mark
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A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing. By Lillian Whiting, author of The
World Beautiful" kate Field, After
Her Death" From Dreamland Sent,
etc. With portrait. Cloth, gilt. Price
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Seldom has the genius of any poet
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Browning, and the study Of her life and
art written by Lillian Whiting, owes
much. as the writer herself insists, TO
a series OF fortunate circumstances, FOR
two summers Miss Whiting fingered IN
Florence. held under it's spell OF en-
chantment, amid the scenes which Mrs.
| Browning had known and loved; visit
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on which the windows of Casa Guldi
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heights of Bellosguardo, where Mrs.
Browning's dearest friend, Miss Rlag-
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Aurora Leigh; and in Rome, Venice,
and England, Miss Whiting followed
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and wanderings There was, indeed, a
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that revealed to the writer phases OF
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not heretofore been chronicled, and If
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Mrs Browning's life in Florence was
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poured tea for a little group of guests
on lisa Biagden's terrace, with gem
! like Florence lying in the purple valley
| below, or lay on her couch in Casa
| Guidi, writing like spirit" or climbed
| a hillside with her husband, laughin5ly
| bidding HIM not boast of it, "as If a
| wife with a pair of feet were mir
acle," or saw (and defended) Dumas
| Camille" in Paris; whether she sat ur
| half the night with her husband, while
| both listened to Tennyson's reading OF
| his latest poem, or wrote her vogum-
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