The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-02

following sonnet TO Blsckwo0d's Maya
zinc in memory OF Robert Browning:
Gone from our eyes, a loss for evsrmors.
| Gene 10 pursue within an anpier sg>ners
The aims that wingea thy soaring spirit
G)ns vhsre she waits thss. who whca living
| bore
A heart Ike thine, veinsd with loves puress
| Ofci
Gone to behold. with eyes serene and
The world. that TO thy life was ever near
In CLEANS now perfect dawn, Of Heavenly
Gone ~" our eyes, that noble, gracious
The 1.'sk. keen glance. the welcoming
An.hsd' too he voice. with ito strong
nut not the strains In which our souls are
Win thoughts. that life Of hnif lie pain
Andhop,s Of wh., the great Beyond
shall bringi
The second part Of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne's Elixir OF Life appears in the
February number Of Lippincott's Maya
zine. This Is a version OF the theme Of
The Bloody Footstep. also treated by
Hawthorne in "Dr. Grimshawes Sc
cret, y "Septimius FELTON,. The Dolli-
yer Romance, - etc. Mr. Julian Haw-
thorne, who edits the manuscript. by
drawing attention to the similiarities
and discrepancies between this aud
other venions. presents an interesting
study OF the great romancer's methods
OF work, and. by paraphrasing such
portions of the manuscript as are re-
peated in the published stories above
named. imparts TO the whole the char
acter Of a complete and rounded tale.
The publication Of the first part Of this
Iong-buried manuscript in the January
Lippincott gives, as It were, the his
tory of an idea.
Richard Hodgson. LID, the secre-
tary OF the American Society for Psy-
chical Research. has paper in the
Arena for February on Ghosts Of the
Living and the Dead Ii is ably writ
ten, exceedingly interesting, and pos
sesses positive scientific value. Mr.
Hodgson, who is one of the charter
members OF the English Society for
Psychicai Research, has given every
phase OF this them0 his patient aud
critical examination, and the fact that
ne has earned the name Of being an
oyercatious investigator will add to the
interest and value Of his paper as a
scientific contribution.
|
Here is clever scrap from letter
written to John Lothrop Motley by Oil
yer Wendell Holmes Il sat by the side
of Emerson, who always charms me by
his delicious voice, his fine sense and
wit, and the delicate way he steps about
the words Of his vocabulary il you
have seen a cat picking her footsteps
m wet weather. you have seen the plc-
ture OF Emerson 5 exquisite intelligence
feeling for It's phrase or epithet. Some
times | think Of an ant-eater singing
out his insects, as | see him looking
about, and at last Selling his worm or
adjective, the best, the only one which
would serve the need of ms thought
Mr.. John Hogg has in the press new
edition, in one volume, of II. 4. Pages
Thomas de Quincy: his Life and
Writings. With Unpublished Cores
pondencc. This new edition will fur
nish new matter, and will be thoroughly
reysed-in great part rewritten. Mr..
Page having once more, with Mr.. DC
Quncey's family, gone over papers and
letters hitherto unexamined. The
volume will include portraits OF De
Quincy, Professor Wilson and Sir Will
liam Hamilton, from originals in poses-
sion Of Mr.. John Hogg.
y searching examination OF Henry
George S taxation doctrine, by Horace
White. will appear in the February
Popular Science Monthly, under the
title 4" agriculture and the Single Tax"
Mr.. White maintains that the interde-
pendsnce Of all industries disposes Of
the claim that agriculture has enough
advantages over other occupations to
warrant laying the burden Of all taxa
ton upon It. aud he asks whether the
scheme Of economic rent would in
clude paying a bounty TO farmers whose
profits are minus quantity.
DR.. Charles Mackly has died at the
same age as his old friend DR.. Robert
Carruthers, Of the Inverness Courier,
the doyen in his day Of Scottish proyin-
cisl newspaper editors. DR.. Mackay's
latest wOrks-"Through the Long Day
aud "A Dictionary Of Lowland Scotch
undertaken ecsuse the authors
stationed OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES neither
of them financial success. "A Thou
sand and One Gems OF Poetry" which
he compiled good many years ago for
Messrs. Routledge, has had h much
larger sale than any other work con-
uecEed with DR.. Mackay's name.
With the year 1890. now feries OF
THE Antiquzry,n under new editor
ship, will oegiu. The editor states that
he has not only secured tho cO-opera-
ton OF many Of the tried and valued
contributors TO the twenty volumes
OF the first series, bat has also had the
promise OF much assistance from many
gentlemen OF considerable reputs 40
able srche )logists. who have not hith
erto made use Of the columns OF the
"Antiqusry.n
Lord Sherbrooke, who ha. gone
with Lady Sherbrooke TO Torqusy fer
the winter, intends TO publish somc
"reminiscences Of his journalistic. colo
NAL. and political career, which he Is
debating to his wife. Lord sherbrooke,
during the most brilliant DAYS Of De-
lanes editorshlp Of the Times. was for
some time one Of the principal leader
writers Of that Journal. In conjunction
with Mr. A. Knox aud the Rev. Thomas
Motley.
Two OF Professor Richard T. Eiys
works Problems OF To day Tho
Labor Movement in America, , are al
ready out Of print, and his publishers.
T.. Y. Crowel & Co., Of New York. are
about 10 issue new, revised and en-
larged editions OF each. Social Aspects
Of Christianity" il having a large sale
and attracting wide attention by It's fear
les' uLlerano-3.
Wilkie Collins's posthnmous novel.
Blind Love, will shortly be publish
ed by Messrs. Chatto and Windns, with
a preface by Mr.. Walter Besant. IL