The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-03
IIinrnrr Notes.

The American Association for the Advance
ment of Science will hold Its forty-hrst meet
ing in Rochester, Y. Y, August 1924.
marie Corelli,D who seems 10 be the
Queens iavOFite novelist, is really Miss
Marion Mackay, an adopted daughter OF the
late Or. Charles Mackay.
Dickens old publishers, Chapman Hall,
are about to issue new edition Of his novels,
in twenty volumes. at .. Cd. a volume ms
edition will be a reprint from that which was
corrected by the author in le61-o, and which
NAV be said 70 embOdy his final reyisions.
The library Of the late Mr.. r. 4. Cooke, a
partner in the publishing-house OF John
Murray, which is 10 be sold at auction, is rich
in the manuscripts Of Lord Byron.
A movement is on foot to erect a memorial
in some conspicuous position IN London IN
honor of the late Lord LyttOn, and a COM
mittee has been formed to carry out the pro-
iect Lord Salisbury IS prominent amongst
those who are interesting themselves in the
matter.
A dispatch from northampton, Mass,
dated June 10th, says that daughter has
been born to Mrs. Elaine Eastman, nee Good
ale. the poet. Miss Elaine GO0dale was mar
ried 10 DR.. Charles Alexander Eastman on
June Is, 1891, at the Church OF the Ascension
her husband being full-blooded Sioux edu-
Gated in the East.
Signor Crispi. the ex-Prme Minister of
Italy, discusses the Italian situation In an
important article ia the July number OF Ioe
North American Review. In the same maya
zine the curious difference between the
methods and reports Of English and American
reporters are described in an article by ID
ward Porrtt London correspondent OF The
Evening Post.
The ladies are TO be congratulated on the
journal Fashions of To-Day, of which Samp-
son Low IL Co. are the publishers. The colored
plates as we'll as the black and white draw
ings, are admirable, and prove that fashion
plates' may be pretty and picturesque, ana
need not represent women who wear fashion
able clothes as wooden things without eX-
preston.
Lord TennysOn, who is in exceptionally
good health, has not yet left FarringiOrd LOT
Aidworth, said The Athen@um OF June am
"Heis much interested in the Artillery fOlun-
teer Corps that his son has been raising IN the
Isle OF Wight. 'Rtiemen, Form II VIII De
remembered was one OF the nrst things 10 sur
Euglishmen 10 become volunteers IN lo05, and
it has always been great desire OF ms 70 see
the movement extend much more widely IMAM
IS has d0ne.n
Last year the Boston Book Company i'm
ported some old books that had been rebound.
The collector Of the port Of New York classl-
fed them for duty at % per cent. ad yalorem.
The importers protested ON the ground that
the books were free under paragraph OH as
books printed. bound or manufactured more
than twenty years at the date OF importation
and the collector has at last been Instructed
20 refund the duties eXaeted, and 20 apply the
ruling Of the court in other similar cases.
Mrs. Terhune ('Marion Harland") is at
work on THE Story Of Mary Washington"
which HOughtOn, Nifiiin 4 Co. are 10 publish
nextwinter. A good many readers have been
attracted by the quality OF certain articles
and verses which have recently appeared over
the name Of Virginia Franklin. A very few
peOple-less than half dozen-kn0w that the
author is Mrs. Virginia Terhune Van de
Water, daughter OF "Marion Harland," and
sister Of Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick.
Mrs. Van de Water lives at Pompton, n. D.,
near Sunnybank, her mothers home.
The object of the Rowfant Club, recently
established in Cleveland, Ohio IS primarily
the critical study Of books, and secondarily
the publication of privately printed editions
Of books for members. IL Is limited 70 slXty
resident members, and fifteen nonresident
the fee for membership being nifty dollars ana
twenty-five dollars, respectively, win ten
dollars for yearly dues. The Hon. John =.
Covert, editor of the Cleveland Leader, Is the
president OF the club. Mr. Charles Orr (for-
merry OF New York;, librarian of the Case
library, has been one of the leading movers
In the enterprise. The code OF regulations
has just been tastefully printed at the Uni
ver5lty Press Cambridge, Mass.