Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-06

man with thin lips has ever become Ia
nous az poet, an eminent literary au-
thority gravely says: II do not know.
But this | do know-I have yet TO meet o
thin-lipped poet of even national reputa-
tion.n This is interesting. II true.n
but it seems to us to be too thin" Thick
lips arc generally taken to indicate sensu-
atty, but we are not aware that all poetry
Is sensuous. If thick lips are to be taken
as the sign of the possession OF poetic
ability. then, with the present educational
facilities. we must soon look 10 our Afro
American" citizen TO furnish us with o
modern rival TO SHAKESPEARE.
Amongst the new publications an
nounced by HAnPER 4 BRorHEEs arc Eng
lish Words.n by Professor CHARLES F.
JOHNSON. Of Trinity College. Hartford
"Glimpses of Nature" By DR.. ANDREW
Wusoy, Of Edinburgh, and Ruth the
Cleaner and Esther the Queen" by Rev.
DR.. WILLIAM 81 TAYLoB.
a Weeks Tramp in Dickens-Land."
| by WILLIAM II. HUGHEs. and holiday edi-
ticn of BULwER's Last Days OF Pompeii
have just been issued by Estes and LAU-
RAT. With reference TO the latter, as
THAoKERAY's use of the word damaged
instead of "damask" destroyed forever,
| TO TRoLIoPE's ear, 1.-THE music of one OF
the sweetest passages or SHAKESPEARE" so
the ear-splitting yell of the programme
seller of the Fall Of Pompeyeye at the
| Virginia Exposition has made it forever
impossible for us to regard seriously Bull
WINS great work again.
"Studies in Chaucer" is the title Of
book by Professor L. X. LoUssBURT, of
Yale, which the HLRPERs have just issued.
The fourth volume of the Memoirs of
Talleyrand" was published simultaneously
in Paris, London. and New York on De-
cember 1st. 1t brings the narrative down
to the close OF the Revolution of 1880.
The fifth and last volume is expected to
De ready in January.
"The Latest Literary ESSAYS and Ad-
dresses of James Russell Lowell was pub
lsbed by HoUGHroS, MHFLH Il Co. on No
vember Goth. The same firm announces
for immediate publication Masterpieces
OF American Literature" containing CON-
plete writings from the works Of thirteen
standard authors.
D1cKENs's daughter, Miss MAMIE"
DICKENS, has written for The Ladies Home
Journal "a Semi-Ghost Tale of the Ro-
nance of an Old English Manor" 1t is
evident from this awkward title that Miss
NAME" has not inherited her fathers
genius for names. And ghost story,
whether semi or demi.semi, by daughter
of Dickens must inevitably suffer by CON-
parison with the Deadlock ghost in
BLEAK House." We warn Miss DICKENS
of THE Ghosts Walk
d. APPLETON 81 Co. announce "A Widow
er Indeed" by RHoDA BRoUGHroN and
ELIZABETH BIsLASD. The latter lady Is the
rival of NELLIE BLY, in putting a girdle
around the earth" in about eighty days,
This feat is supposed to recommend her
literary work, but we can't see why it
should.
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT IS re-
ported to be well and at work again. She
SAYS that she was forty-two years old on
November oath, but it must be remember
ed tina. fiction is Mrs. BURyErr's forte.
Scri5ne,'s will soon print ROBERT LOUIS
STEvENsoN's gIandfathers "reminiscences
of his journey with SCorr, for which Il. l..
S. will write an introduction.
The library of the late Professor GUYor
has Just been presented to Princeton Col
lege. 1t comprises 1000 books, 1000 pam
phlets, and 1900 maps.
MARX TWAIN, says the Cincinnati Tolks-
bldt, has rented a house in Berlin. where
he intends to remain several months-pos-
sibly a year. He is said to suier much
from rheumatism.
Poet Lore for November is TO hand and
contains as leading articles Curio5.ties in
Sonnet Literature, by L. b. BRowNLow;
The Sonnet Sounetized, by HARRIET II.
Robinson; Pushkin's Boris Godunof,'
by n. II. Dole; The Allegory in " Ham
let" by w. W. CRANE; A Brief for Ophe-
liz, by CRANE WALTON, The Lesson OF
"Cymbeline." by II. p. GODDARD; Variants
of Browning's "Pietro Of Abano," by
CHARLOTTE PORTER; and Browning Study
Hints, by p. A. G. This magazine is unique
IN periodical literature, so far as we know.
and seems to be glowing in favor.