Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-03
LITERARY NOTES.
COMMENTS ON NEW BOOKS AND ois.
TiNGuIsAeD AUTHORS.
GIimpses at shs Latest 0stDus Of sAs
Great PubiishinR msssss
Of America.


months. having succeeded the lats Mr..
a. b.. Starey. Mrs. Stuart In q successful
writer OF humorous short stories. md b
therefore. in this respect, ut least. m ex.
ceptional woman.
III. c. Burners series OF short sto-
ries. entitled Made In France" which
have been published In Puck. WIN
Schwartzman. Mr.. Bunner will soon
begin a new series, to BE- called Short
Skies"
Rev. DIR. VIM. Weight has written q
boot on the Bronts family. which viii
soon be published by the Appletons. A
portion of the work was published In Nc
Clure's Magazine for August.
Mr.. Clement Scott Is going to make
a book Of his recent trip around h
world. which the London Daily Tele.
graph will publish under the title Of
Round tho World to the Worlds Fair"
The May number of the Sewanee Re
view, the excellent quarterly Issued
by the University OF the South. contains
an Interesting note on Elegtac Poetry
by Prof. William p. Trent. the etog-
rapher of william Gilmore SiGSmx- MI.
Trent is a native Of Richmond. The
New York Critic speaks Of him a.
zone OF the most promising Of Southern
literary critics"
The hcxt issue in Whitaker's Library
OF Church Teaching and Defence VIII
be a volume OF sermons by the Rev.
Arthur Brooks on the Life OF Christ
In the World"
A phillips Brooks Yearbook" con-
tanning appropriate selections from his
writings for every day OF the year..
* Co.
The J. b. Lippincott Co.. announce an
clifton OF DR.. A. Conan Doyle's 1.-The
Sign Of the -Four Clinical Gynaecoi-
ogy." by ID. Thomas. More Madden:
ITO Let" by Mrs. *. NJ. Croker. and
w. II. Hudson's BIRDS in a Village"
Francois Coppee's new book. True
Riches" Is issued in Appleton ) summed
%sries.
Among tire contents OF the September
Century will be an article on the Fair.
with sketches by Castaigne; THE Taor-
nina Nota Book" Of life near Mt. Etna.
by Prof. George F.. Woodbury.; the first
instalment OF a novelette, by Bret Harte.
and Mrs. ELEPHANTS opinion of Daniel
DeFoe.
An important monograph on Henrietta
Duchess OF Orleans. better known as
'Niadame" from the pen OF Julia Cart
wrsh CIrs. Henry Ady, will be pub
lished by Messrs. Sceley & Co, OF London.
in the autumn. 1t will give a full account
OF the romantic career of this daughter
Of Charles /. and sister-in-law OF Louis
XIV, and sill include sc geral hitherto I'M
published documents from the French
and English state papers OF the period.
Besides a series OF letters addressed TO
Madame ny Charles III. her brother.
and now nrst published In their original
form.
The American Society for the Preven'
ton Of Cruelty 10 Animals has Just Issued
a manual tor use in schools and FAINT
lies, entitled Kindness to Animals ~
Ia In the form OF a catech!sm divided
into hfty-twO weekly tasks.
The !ast Nineteenth Century contains a
readable paper on Charles Baudelaire
and Edgar Poe: "A Literary Afnnity.
also a practical paper telling How to
| Catalogue Books" "A discussion or the
SITUATION at Washington by Prof. Gold
win smith. and the a oostlea' Creed"
by Professor Harnaci;. with an intro
duction by Glrs. Humphrey Ward.
Ths life aad letters of the ate Sir Rich
ard owen. Oh which his grandson. the
Rev. X. owen. has been engaged during
the past six months, VIII be published
BY Nj. John Murray Ia two volumes.
4 statement recently published, that
Miss BraddOn had made SV0,0U by her
pcn. WAS much questioned. but Mr.. La
bouchero editor of London Truth,
declares thu those figures are within the
mark. and that this authors books stu
sell at d great rate. They were prob
ably made TO sell, or else Miss Braddon
made a very lucky hit. a superior article
would have been far less profitable: IL
pays to strike the popular taste, winch
IS not for the best in literature.
4 new edition of Hazlitt's Converse
lions with Rorthcote" is being prepared
by Mr.. Edmund Gosse. The volume, orna-
mented with n portrait OF Northcote.
VIII be brought out in the autumn.
The official documents relating 70 the
fleet commanded by Lord Howard oil
| Eringham IN l5oEo VIII AoiIh ."N N
publication Of the new English Navy Re-
cords society.
I, has been decided by the Macmillans
IN print hereafter no more large paper
| c,pies Of any book than the advance or
| ders call for.
II +, the opinion otProfessor Arlo Bates
| that Boston Is giving itself over to musi-
| cal affairs rather than TO literature as
heretofore.
Andrew Lang considers "Moredun. 1.-THE
Mss. brought out In 1855 by II. de saint
Maurice Cdbany. Director General de In
| Soci.te ies Archivistes de France" the
most elsyerly coniriyed OF literary for
reries. The story which this man told
OF the MSS. OF this pseudo Waverley
novel was most cleyerly put together.
his dates were accurate beyond q'sstion.
But the book bears not a trace OF SCOTS
style.
Dr. !. c. Egbert, of Columbia College.
IL preparing a work upon Latin Epigra-
phy." which will soon bc ready for pub
ucation. II viii be a careful and convch-
lent introduction TO the study OK Latn
inscriotions. The work will be completed
by n comprehensive photography and an
index TO the various volumes OF the Cor
pus Inscriptiorum.
A tiny prayer and hy nm book and Bibie.
printed upon Indian paper, has Just been
ISSUED by Eyre a Spottiswoode. the size u
only 5%tx2is by q Inches.
The concluding and eighth volume or the
prose Works OF Heinrich Heine." edited
by &. G. Leland, has just been published.
The poetical works, In four voiumes. are
10 follow.
"LEpopee Mystique de William Lang
land" is the title Of the new volume In N.
j. ]. Jusseraud's valuable series dealing
with the English Of the middle ages.
Ibsen contributes and interesting auto
biographical notice OF his earlier WORK 10
81. Anne Llteraire," published In Paris.
Mr.. Hamlln Garland. a western poet. u
about 10 bring out his frat volume o.
poems IL vii be called prairie songs,
and win be Illustrated by a western
artist. 1t is to be hoped that his poeocai
work will display better taste tnan 70
shown In his article on Eugene Fieid VI
McCIure's Magazine.
Mark Twaln's eldest daughter. VINO y
not vet twenty, has inherited the literary
faculty. She has written a play OF an al
legorical character. which Is said TO %
charming and clever.
Andrew Lang has written for d new