Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-04
The MAGAZINES.

The PhonoTam is the name of hand
some magazine that has just been issued as
the official organ Of the photograph CON-
panies of the United States. and that 1t has
begun under good auspices is indicated
by the original papers among the con.
tents of the first number from the pens OF
THOMAS A. EDISON, JULIA HAWTHORNE, and
the versatile Il. e.. INGERsoLL. The maya
zine is edited and published by V. II.
McRAH, Pulitzer building, New York. The
subscription price is 81 year and the price
of single copies ten cents.
V. II. McRAE. the publisher, is lady
one of that group of the worlds workers
who are demonstrating by their success
the capacity of woman to undertake grave
affairs of life not exclusively connected
with domestic economy.
Miss McRAE is the daughter Of the late
Colonel d. X. McRAE, one of the most dis
tinguished public men of North Carolina.
lake his father, he was on one occa-
sion a candidate for Governor of his State
and before the war was Consul General of
the United States to France. During the
war he was the representative of the Con-
federate Government In London. As was
the case with many southerners, the end
of the struggle found his fortune gone
while he had family dependent upon him
for support. Under these circumstances
Miss VIRGINIA, as soon as she became old
enough, Joined q sister in New York and
learned the art of typewriting. In little
while she organized bureau of her own
and for several years much OF the legal
work Of prominent lawyers passed through
- Of her assistants. She has thus
high degree successful.
levelopment of the photograph
new field for the exercise of her
Il aud entering it, has become one
.ci4 n. 20 active workers. Realizing that
the Introduction OF the useful little instru.
lnent would be followed by general into.
rest in all matters pertaining to electricity,
the telephone. and typewriter, and that in
time il would take the place Of the secre-
tary and private stenographer, she has be-
gun the publication of The monogram, as
a representative organ of all the interests
involved. Such pluck and ambition is
worthy of all praise and encouragement.
The Old and Nem Testament Student. A month.
ly magazine. Editor, WILLIAM X. HAIR
PER, Phi. D., professor in Yale University
of Sacred Literature. Subscription price
$3.50 . year IN advance. The Student
Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn.
Harpe's Magazine for January, 1ss1.-Con:
tents: Frontispiece:s 'War-war he 'ouaintei
with emmy Of 'em :" illustrating Charles Eg-
bert Craddock's new novel, (" IntheStranger
Peoples Country; The Outlook in South
ern California. by Charles Dudley Warner,
with fifteen illustrations; School-Boys, q
poem, by Richard Z. Burton; London Music
Halls, by +. Antsey, with eight illustra-
tons: Dream-Iand, poem. by 8. Weir
Mitchell, NJ D.; In the Stranger Peo-
Plies" Country. by Charles Egbert Grad.
dock, first instalment; At the Cash Napo-
leon, a story. by Thomas A. Janyier, with
seven illustrations; Impressions OF Peru, by
Theodore Child, with sixteen illustrations
The Awakening, o poem, by Mamie Mayo
Fitzhugh; Another Chapter of My Memoirs.
How Became Journalist, by Mr.. De
Blowitz; Sleeps Conquest. poem. by
Charles II. Crandall; Atonement, poem,
by Julian Hawthorne; AModern Legend, q
story, by Vida ID. Scudder. prose poem
SAINT Anthony. Christmas-eve ballad, by
Mrs. E. w. Latimer, with three illustra-
tons; Unlucky Speeches. full-page picture
kv Du Maurier; editorial department;
monthly record Of current events.