The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-24

r,ooyen, (,uinev, "The War as We See Il
| Now John g. Ropes; ''The Point OF view,
"Mr' Morley and Literature Legislation
and the Quack. p AN American Renaissance"
1.-The Matron in Fiction"
| HARPER's MAGAzrNE for June -, Us usual,
| full of interest and instruction. 10 contains
the following literary feast Indian scout
with Lost Troop Horse" illustration Tor
Some American Riders" from the pant
ing by Frederic Remington, engraved by r;
s. King. "Some American Riders" second
paper, Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge, u
s. A.; Peter Ibbetson." a novel. part trst.
George Du Maurier: up the River Paranh."
Theodore Child: The Closed Gate poem,
Louise Chandler Noulton: The Technique
of Rest" Anna @. Bracket; mo Answer"
poem. Elizabeth Stoddard I" The Failure OF
David Berry," a story, Sarah Orne Jewett
Brothers. a poem George Horton; Ia tne
Stranger Peoples Country" novel. part
sixth. Charles Egbert Craddock; The Royal
Chateaux of the Loire" Louis Frechette;
London-After the Romans Walter Be
SAINT; Town and Village Government" Henry
LOOMS Nelson; ''Wessex Folk" part ~,
Thomas Hardy; The Warwickshire Avon"
second paper. At CUTLER Couch; ladies
of Fashion and Their Doctors" drawn by
George du Maurier; Editors Easy Chair,
George William Curtis; Editors Study"
William Dean Howells Monthly Record of
Current Events: Editors Drawer con-
Quoted by Charles Dudley Warner; Literary
Notes" Laurence Hutton.
Beyond THE BoURN: Reports Of a Traveller
Returned from the Undiscovered Country"
by Amos X. Flske, author OF Midnight Talks
at the Club" New York: Fords, Howard ana
Hurlbert
There is always a fascination in specula-
tons as to the future life, if they are founded
on any reasonable basis and inspired with
some degree of lOftiness in those ethical and
aesthetic ideas-those conceptions OF spiritual
existence-which are demanded by the aspira-
ton of people who think about such things at
all About q year ago Mr.. Amos X. fiske, an
editorial writer on one of the chief New YORK
morning papers, issued charming little
book" Midnight Talks at the Club" series
of discussions of matters social. political, re-
religious, &C.. which showed a strong mind,
both thoughtful and candid. as we'll as one
gifted with the power of allurlng readers by
sweet temper and graceful wit 10 near inc
other side" of his divers topics. Ihe an
nOuncement of new book from his pen
new, in the sense Of being just ublished,
he gives the reader 20 understand
that it was in Its essential part written seven
teen years agO-will find clientage ready to
welcome it.
The Shakespearean suggestion of the title
Beyond the BOurn: Reports of a Traveller |
Returned from the Undiscovered Country
of course, the theme of the book, |
which purports TO give the experience of |
man who, after railway accident, had lain |
three days for dead but was resuscltated, and |
who, after those three days IN the other |
world. felt himself an exile in this. He is the /
mysterious stranger" of the Introductory /
chapter. and the manuscript which he con-
fdes TO the hands of the editor" constitutes /
the bulk of tie book. and purports TO give his |
experience during the three days.
The BELEoRD AMERICAN NOVELS: "Germinie |
Lacerteux' from the French Of Edmond and |
Jules de Goncourt. New York: Belford Com
pany, publishers
SIS SPITE OF HIMSELF: From the French of |
Dubut de La Forest. Bedford Company, New
York.
WIDOWED WIFE AND Welded MAID FROM
Company, New York.