Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-25
Some Literary Notes.

From book just published by Mr..
HENRY SWEET. the distinguished Oxford
scholar, it appears that the best English Is
spoken in and about London. From the
examples given Virginian speech must be
the next best.
The war is not over yet. ]. I. TRow-
BRIDGE, the Yankee writer of juvenile
stories, has Just written another in which
all the southerners are ignorant, base, and
INSCRIPTIONS scoundrels, who whip
women, tar and feather Yankee school
marms, murder, rob, and burn and do all
sorts Of deyiltry.
Mr. HoudHToS, the Boston publisher, has
Just admitted that he and others declined
a manuscript which q New York house
published and sold to the extent of 10000
copies. This is another crumb of comfort
for the disconsolate rejected.
ELAINE GooDALE, the New England
poetess, is shortly to be married to full
blooded Sioux. who is also, however, a
graduate of the Boston University and an
NJ. d.
The life of JoHN BOYLE O'REILLY, by his
friend JAMES jeffrey ROCHE. will be issued
in February by the Cassell Publishing
Company. Cardinal GIBBONS will con-
tribute eulogistic preface.
II. RIDER HAGGLRD, the author of "She,"
king Solomon's Mines" and other wild
romances, arrived in this country from
England on January 10th. He has gone to
Mexico to obtain material for another
blood-curdling romance.
IL is said that RUDYARD KIPLISG, the new
est literary light in England, is writing
himself out. The contents of many pub
locations would seem rather to indicate
that he is writing himself in.
Mrs. AMEIIB RUEs- CHAYLER is reported
to have written another book, in which the
freedom of treatment displayed in 1.-THE
Quick or the Dead" is far exceeded.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS is the name of
the latest American literary success. His
short stories have won him fame and po-
sitlon on Harper's Weekly as assistant to
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. He is only twen-
'y-six years old.
MoNcURE d. CONWAY is writing life of
THOMAS PAINE, the inhdel.
G. P. PUrNAMs Sons will soon publish
1.-THE Battle of Manassas: A Reply to
General Joseph Z. Johnston" by general
BEkUREGARD.
IF. w." writing from Washington to
the New York critic, claims that the two
yirginianisms raised" and tote" are
really good old English words, which were
imported from the mother country GEN.
turtles ago.
MIR. CLIFFORD LANIER. brother Of SIDNEY
LAN1KR. the southern poet, has decided to
devote himself hereafter entirely TO lite
nature, fiction and poetry being the parti-
cular branches he intends to cultivate.
He has a novel completed, and will shortly
publish a poem entitled ''Antinous to
Hadrian" in the Chd,lidilqldn.
A young lady of Richmond has had ac-
cepted by HARPER & BROTHERS a short
story for publication in their Young People.
1.-THE Colors of Dalzell" is its title. The
authors verses constitute a regular fea-
ture of the Philadelphia Weekly Times.
A writer in recent number of the Ne,o
England Magazine says that President
DAv1s's residence in Richmond during the
war is now used as a negro school. This is
about as near to the truth as northern
tourists in the South usually get.
Mr.. CEEED L. DAVIS, of Richmond, has
written a history of slavery in the South
which, although it has not been published,
has been highly commended by those who
have had the privilege of reading the
manuscript. II contains much rare and
curious information, and many of the
authors views possess the merit of origi-
nality.
The New York Critic. in q review of
American literature of the last decade, be-
slows high praise upon Miss BAYLoRs
Behind the Blue Ridge" and THOMAS
NELSON PAoE's stories.