Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-29

omission is sometimes unfortunate. as YOU
are not always sure that you know what
the author Is talking about. Here Is one
OF the two:
Some starlit garden erey.with dew,
Some chamber nushed with wine aud fire,
What matters where, so and you
Are worthy our desue?
Behind. n past that scolds and jeers
For ungirt lOin and lamp unlit:
In front the manageable years,
The trap upon the pit;
Think on the shame OF dreams for deed9.
Tho scandal Of unnatural STRIFE.
Tho slur upon immortal needs,
Tho treason done 70 lie:
Arise no more Il living lie
Ana wth.me quicken and control
A memory that shall magnify
The universal soul.
That is both a sermon and an eXhorta-
ton. Here is the other, which is IN dlf-
fercnt vein:
You played and sang snatch OF song
4 song that al too well We knew:
But whittier had flown the ancient wrong,
And was il really and you 1.
O, since tho end OF life's 20 live
And pay IN pence the common debt,
What should II cost Us 70 forgive,
Whose daily task Is 70 forget?
You babbled In the well-known voice
Not new. not new. the words you said.
You touched me of that famous poise-
That old effect Of neck and head.
Dear. was IL really you and II
In truth. the ri idle's III 70 read,
So many are the deaths We die
Before We can be dead indeed.
These examples will. we think, show that
Mr.. HENLEY's work cannot be called orcl-
uary-is much above the average, He IS.
II we mistake not. bed-ndden cripple.
and Is the friend Of ROBERT Louis STEVEN
son, who discovered him.
This volume Is also neatly printed and
bound and is tor sale by WEST, JOHNSTON Il
Co. 81.
4 Tate Of Ione'y Parish. BY f. MARION
CRAwFogD. author of Mr. Isaacs," y" DR..
Caudius. "A Roman Singer "Zoro-
aster," "St. Ilario" &c. London:
MACMILLAN d Co. and New York. 1892.
In cloth 81.
For sale by WEST. JOHNSTON & Co.
THIS Ii another of the series of CRAw-
FoRD's works which the MAcsfILLASs are
publishing IN uniform style.
IL is in reality "a tale of lonely parish"
and the central figure III 1t Is young and
beautiful widow. who. with her little girl.
goes there and rents cottage and hives
a blameless life. Her secret she contides
only to the vicar. she has two suitors-
one a student Of 81: the other the squire,
aged 20. Neither one knows her history.
but the course Of events unfolds TO o Sc
lect few the fact that her husband was
forger and is a convict, and 1t happens
that after three years imprisonment he
kills his keeper and escapes.
Thereupon he seeks and finds his wife,
but the 'squire's great Russian bloodhound
seiZes him and kills him. Now the widow
is at liberty to marry again, and after a
wear or two she accepts the Squire. The
WIDOWS daughter by this time has become
a woman, and the student finds ont that it
is her that be loves. and her be marries.
IL is pastoral story. Tho ambition OF
Mr.. CRAwFORD Is to describe the repose OF
village life-tke still life" OF rural
England.
The characters are artlstcally common
Mace. and il is q book for the novel-reader
who despises sensations and who wishes
10 have "A calm. sensible. and interesting
studv of the progress of events IN quiet
village. into the tranquil current Of whose
events there enters an incident of dramatic
interest-albeit none of the villagers, ex-
cepting the vicar and his wife. the student
and the squire, even vet know that the
lovely woman whom the squire welded
was the widow of a convict.
The Old South; Essays Social and Political
Bv Thomas NELSON PAGE. New York {;
Ca,RIEs SCRiBsEg's Sous. 33i pages.
Price. rl.25.
For sale by WEST, JOHNSTON d Go.
Several of these essays were delivered as
addresses before literary alumni societies,
and are now given 10 the public in the
hone that they may serve to help awaken
INQUIRY into the trne history OF the south
erI people. and NAV aid in dispelling the
InisapprehensiOns under which the Old
South mas lain 50 long"
The table OF contents includes The
Old South" "Aut horship in the South Be
fore the War" "Glimpse5 OF Life Ill Colo
NAL Virginia" Social Lite in Old Viz
gjn,a Before the War. Two Old Colonial
Places" The Old Virginia LAWYER"
The Want OF a History of the Southern
People" and The Negro Question"
This Is a book that every Nirglnlan Will
u,ish 10 have IL embraces much OF the
ser,ous work OF DR.. PAGE and Is creditable
10 his research and scholarship.
The form of the addresses has been lit
Tie changed. but thew have been carefully
revised for this publication.
Ho,e 4 Vas; -Four Years among ne Re'els.
Bv Mrs. iRBY MORGsS, Nashville, Tenn.
Dedicated TO the Confederate soldiers.
Printed for the author. Publishing
House Methodist Episcopal Church,
u.
vile. Tenn. 1892. Price, 81.
10 any but southern readers the nara
tive of Pour Years Among the Rebels u
will be received with iEcredulitv almost.
Una. such herOism ana spartan fortitude
sbould have existed. and then told by the
noble sufferer and anthor with such
ouaint simplicity and answering truth
fitness, without trace OF rancor OF
malice, ~ worthy OF the highest admira-
ton. IL IL "a PLAIN. unvarnlshed thle. iree
f,om tedlOusness. and Is from the pen
- the sister-in-law of the distinguished
Confederate general. JoHs ii. MORGAN.
The book is bound appropriately IN gray
cloth and contains engravings OF Generais
Fopprsr. MORGAN, aud others.
4 Window in Tlrams. BY j. NJ. BABBIE,
author of 1.-The LATHE Minister. y
when Mans Single" Aud LIGHT
Idylls." Ny Lady Nicotine" etc. New
York: LOWELL. COGYILL & Co, A., 40. and
A. east Tenth street. 2Si pages. Prices
cloth. 81: paper, 80 cents.
yhose who have read The Little Min
;ster need no, be told that Mr.. BAhnlE Is
a Genius. His stories are OF Scottish NE;
AID this one is the history OF paralyzeh
woman who. from the window OF heI
humble home IN Ihrums, watcneu nuu
Commented on the outgoings and III
co,oines OF the townsfolk for more than
twenty year,. 40.
I, ia faithful picture OF the homelife OF
a Christian family, aud abounds IN the ";
and wisdom Of the plain people. IL
sbopnos also. in dialogue IN the SCOTTISH
,onoue which makes 1t all tho sweeser tc
those who cap master II. but Will prove
so,netbing of on obstacle 20 Others.
No recent work that we nave seen sur
,asses this as study OF human nature
l""'N" ..othafi~ and pOue we he,