Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-28
Literary Notes.

The first number of tho new Boston
magazine, Tlco Tales, which will soon ap-
pear, will have a story by A. G. GoRDoS OF
Virginia. under the title OF Halifax
Borough" The other OF the twain tales
will be by Miss Macy +. WILKINS. Many
noted authors have been engaged to con-
tribute 10 succeeding numbers. The en-
terprise is backed by large capital.
p, T. CoLLIsR, the publisher of Once
Week, claims for his paper, and apparently
with reason, a circulation OF 200, 900 week
": and as each subscriber receives a copy
Of the "Once Week Library" with every
issue of the paper, we have the startling
result Of 10. 400, 900 copies Of each publica-
ton issued in year. II this sort OF thing
keeps on some enterprising publisher will
soon be sending US novel every day and
begging us to take chrome with it.
PoE's cottage at Fordham, n. l.. is said
TO be going to ruin very rapidly, although
nearly a thousand people visit it each
wear. No one Will live in it on account OF
its unhealthy condition, and as the wealthy
neighbors look upon 1t as an eye-sore 1t Is
likely soon to disappear.
In DR.. II. II. FUBNEsss Variorum Edition
Of Shakespeare. the ninth volume, now in
press. contains The Tempest"
The diary of GEORGE 81. DALLAS while he
was United States Minister at ST. Peters
burg and at London is being printed by
the LlPPNcorrs. 1t has been edited by
SUSAN DALLAS.
T.. tx-s1l tru m IN ha
March North american that we 1--we too
fast. In Lent we do.
An edition OF BIsMARcK's speeches, in ten
stout volumes. is to be issued. The first
two are expected to appear this year. DR..
HORST KoHL will be the editor.
ToLsIofs latest work "EArgent ct le
Travail" with a preface by EMILE lola,
has just been published in Paris by L.
FLAMiARION.
Nine. MIcHELEr, widow Of the French
historian. Is about TO publish her hus-
bands notes of his journey to Rome, in
1880, taken from his letters to the Duchesse
de Berri and the Processes of the Orleans
family as well as from q diary.
The March Cosmopolitan will contain an
article by Professor GARNER on The
Speech of the Lower Animals" Preceding
articles and addresses by him on the same
subject have attracted considerable at
tentlon.
The total sales Of the General Book
Committee of the Methodist Church in
1891 were g., 2O2. lli.40. The total profits
were 1906, 4S5. 81, out Of which an annual
appropriation of sl25,OoO is made for the
benefit of superannuated preachers and
the widows and orphans of preachers.
| Colonel IsGERsoLL considers SHAKES
PEARE's line, Love is not love when 1t al
teration fnds,n the sublImest in the Eng
| lish language.
The most widely read of modern novel
lists is ALBERT Ross, whose publishers re-
port sale of more than half million
copies of his works. The most popular one
before him was 4. p. Roe. whose novels
have also sold up into the hundreds oil
thousands. The New York Word thinks
that the secret of these two mems success.
lies in the fact that they both deal exclu.
sively with commonplace lives; they de-
scribe such persons and such events as the
people see and know about, and they de-
pict the life about them as they see it." II
Mr.. Ross depicts the life that he sees about
him his neighbors have little cause to fee
complimentsd. We have read but one Of
his books, but that one was enough, and We
are no prude either. We agree with the
World that he deals with commonplace
people-yery common.
Among tho Lippincott Company's lates
announcements are "Typewriting anC
Business Correspondence" by o. X. PALM
En-; "Conntnian Marathon" a oountr,
romance. by CECIL GRIFFITH, and "Th,
Idealist." by HsSRY T. KING.
Harper's for March will contain, anon,
many other articles, the first instalment o
w. d. HowxLLs's new novel. 1.-THE worl,
of Chance; another article BY III. ID
Rzowyyx. the Paris correspondent Of th