1884 BEATRIX RANDOLPH Julian Hawthorne 1st Drama RARE Romance Antique Classic

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1884 BEATRIX RANDOLPH Julian Hawthorne 1st Drama RARE Romance Antique Classic:
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Description

BEATRIX RANDOLPH

A Story

Author: Julian Hawthorne, Author of Fortune\'s Fool, etc. Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 21, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. As a journalist, he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine and the Spanish–American War for the New York Journal.

Illustrations: Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks - all Illustrated plates are protected with tissue guard paper

Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company, Boston

Pages: 280

Content - About the Book

Classic Americana Historical Vintage Book –

Beatrix Randolph\' Mr. Hawthorne has returned to his true sphere-the sphere in which he moves most freely-that of Romance.

Here, the atmosphere of romance obtains, and colours all; and the sense of unity is derived from the almost faultless character of the heroine, who is not the less interesting because of her pure womanliness and nobility.

We must not toll how it is that Beatrix Randolph, the American, comes to personate tho famous Russian prima donna, Marana, further than to say that it was to save the reputations of father and brother, and that thus, though she became the unwilling instrument of a New York speculator and could not draw back, she preserved her footing and exercised an admirable influence.

Her musical genius was at once her fate and the medium of her freedom ... sense of power came to support her love for Bellingham, and the causes which for a time separated them .... with a perverted realism and a quick insight into character. Here, the atmosphere of romance obtains, and colours all; and the sense of unity is derived from the almost faultless character of the heroine, who is not the less interesting because of her pure womanliness and nobility.

Mr. Hawthorne has written nothing finer, more true and subtle, and full of insight, than the passages in which he indicates her experiences as the sense of power came to support her love for Bellingham, and the causes which for a time separated them. When she sang, the glitter and movement of outward things did not disturb her: they were but an illusion; the story of which she sang alone was real. The scene in which Bellingham reproaches her on account of visits from Mr. Randolph are marked by compressed dignity, which is enhanced by the irony and humour of the misunderstanding which Beatrix cannot explain. The descriptions of places and scenes are inimitable, whether the scenes of Beatrix\'s earlier

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Book Condition

Color Boards: Light colored boards, vintage, black bordering and decorations, gold glit lettering and bands, nice decorations, outer boards slight smudging with spine darkening, Slight cracking at the inside front end page, Previous owner on the inside board, with date, slight cracking inside front board at the hinge area, otherwise nice ... Marbled Pages Edges all three sides - see photos

Corners / Outer Boards: Slight bumped corners, slight scuffing and rubbing, overall nice condition for the age of the book, see photos

Binding: Overall tight binding for the age

Pages: Overall appears to be clean good \"collectible\" condition.

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