Dec 26, 2023
BÉBÉE, or TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES by Ouida (Boston: Knight, 1895) Illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry.
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BÉBÉE, or TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES by Ouida (Boston: Knight, 1895) Illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry.
I'm glad "Princess Sarah" and "Dog of Flanders" will show up on TV in our country starting next week. I never expected that both of them will be featured in HD format. It's also surprising that it will show the Nippon Animation version of "Dog of Flanders", not the Tokyo Movie Shinsha version of the same title like what many people expected. The last time I saw it on TV was around mid-2000s and I remember its intro was in German version.
I guess I'll have to wake early to see them again. It's great to see some World Masterpiece Theater anime on free TV again.
Temple of the Python, Ouidah, Benin (2023)
Publishers' Binding Thursday
It's time for another Publishers' Binding Thursday! This book was found by Max when it was pulled to have a barcode assigned to it. It is The Nürnberg Stove by Ouida, which is a pen name for English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (also called Maria Louise de la Rameé)(1839-1908). It was first published in 1895, but we suspect this is a later edition because the end sheets are dated 1902.
The novel is a strange one, in which a young boy named August who loves his family's stove (which was designed by a man named Hirschvogel) so much that he decides to stow away in it when his father has to sell it because the family is poor. August wants to stay with his dear "Hirschvogel" (as he calls the stove) and travels with it across Germany to the King's palace, where he is ultimately allowed to stay with the stove and will be sent to art school so he can become an artist like the man who designed his beloved stove. Weird.
The binding is quite nice, with thinly ribbed grey bookcloth with the title stamped in gold and white blossoms on green branches. I personally am disappointed that there isn't an ornate stove on the cover! The end sheets were designed by W.E.B. Starkweather and include an inscription with my name on it! It is signed "To Alice, with a Merry Christmas from Hilda & Elsa, 1908."
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
Ouida
—rivarez
translation of the inscription before the first chapter of ouida’s “moths” .
According to a New York Review of Books review of the re-issued 1969 Susan Taubes book Divorcing, the author committed suicide after receivi
It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all. Most men can meet ruin calmly, for instance, or laugh when they lie in a ditch with their own knee-joint and their hunter’s spine broken over the double post and rails: it is the mud that has choked up your horn just when you wanted to rally the pack; it’s the whip who carries you off to a division just when you’ve sat down to your turbot; it’s the ten seconds by which you miss the train; it’s the dust that gets in your eyes as you go down to Epsom; it’s the pretty little rose note that went by accident to your house instead of your club, and raised a storm from madame; it’s the dog that always will run wild into the birds; it’s the cook who always will season the white soup wrong — it is these that are the bores of life, and that try the temper of your philosophy.
Ouida, or Maria Louis Rame (1839-1908) English novelist