Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-03

story. There Is also > GLOSSARY Of proper
|, names. with . list Of words and phrases
not IN general use. College professors
will ind Professor HALLs translatton lusi
what they need for their initial work IN
English literature. and many will doubt.
less prescribe 1t a. parallel reading fos
their advances classes.
But why. il may be asked. waste time On
Anglo-Saxon WRITER'S Are not tue Gree s. :
and Romans our intellectual hnces.oIs
No; they are rather our schooimasters |;
our venerated teachers. But for our true
progenitors-thosef from whom we have IN
herited our character, our moral tempers.
our restless earnostness, orr conceptions
OF honor. OF loyalty TO plighted WORD. our
reverence for woman--we must look 10
those pagan heroes who live for US IN the
songs of Beowulf. 10 those who have
seen how in the pages Of Sir Henry Maine.
Bishop Stubs, and Edward A. Freeman,
the customs Of our Teutonic ancestors
have been made to shed light on the oo-
scurities of our own political institutions,
we commend as an entertaining and profit
able recreation the careful reading OF the
oldest historic poem Of our race.
The Household Idol. BY MARIE BARNHARp. au-
thor of 1.-The Rector OF st. Luke's."
Translated by ELISE l.. LArHeoP. Illus
trated. New York: Worthington Com
pany. TAT Broadway. Price, rs cents.
This Is q refreshing story. 1t Is pure,
bracing, ami captivating. IL is placed
chiefly IN Rome and Hamburg, and its
characters are painters nnd sculp;ors,
merchants, and princes; but the central
figure is a girl Of radiant loneliness, vino
is the idol Of her fathers household and
the beauty of the city.
The author and the illustrator have
both done their work well. and il 10 fit
number of o series (the Rose Library that
reflects great credit upon the publisher
in other words, il is q lovely romance,
printed on beautiful paper and illustrated
with many handsome pictorial designs.
Early Revolutionary History Of Virginia,
l773-177I. The COMMITTEES Of Core
spondence and the Cali for the First
Congress. paper read before the Viz
gina Historical Society Monday, De-
cember 81. 1891. by JLMEs MLRcEa GAR
NETT, NJ. A.. III. d., Professor in the
University of Virginia. Reprinted from
Virginia Historical Collections. Volume
NJ. 1892. A pamphlet OF twentS-three
pages.
The Great IngersoH Controversy, containing
the Famous Christmas Sermon by Colo
mel ROBERT I. INGERsoLL. the Indignant
Protests Thereby Evoked from Ministers
OF Various Denominations. ana Colonel
ISGERsoLL's Replies TO the Same. Re
printed in Full from the Correspondence
on the Subject by Special Permission of
the Ecening telegram. New York: Ed
WARD BBANDUs 4 Co., Publishers. Price,
Is cents.
A Guide TO Electric Lighting for Tie Use o.
HouSeholders aud Amateurs. BY 5. X. Boz
TONE, author of The Dynamo Elec-
trcal Instruments Electric Bells,
and Electromotors." New York: MAC
MILAN & Co and London. 1892.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON Go.
Hoe 10 Get Married Although Woman on
the Art of Pleasing Men. BY "A Young
Widow New York; j. S. OdnyIE
Publisher. l4i pages. Is cents.
Spabfngs Base Bal Guide and Official Leagu'
Book for 1892. Published by A. q
SpALDIxG & BRoIHFRs, Chicago and New
York. Price 10 cents.
Grdnia. The Story Of An Island. By the Hon
EMTY LAwLKss, author of Hurrish, 9
Study" etc. Cloth. Price, 81.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON Il Co.