Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-22
LITERARY NOTES.
MARION HARLAND'S STORY
OF MARY WASHINGTON.
Rudyard Kipling's Yarn In 81.
Nicholas About Indian
Monkeys.

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OF Mrs TERHUSE's "The Story OF
Mary Washington" the New YORK
critic SAYS: "MARToS HARLASD res
cues the misty outlines of this noble
ladv's countenance from the oblivion
into which they had fallen and restores
and vitalizes them with the skilful tonch
OF the trained literary hand. Her
charming biography OF MARY BALL, So
cond wife of AUGUSTINE WAsHISGroN,
has all the distinctness OF newly bur"
nished silver" The critic, however,
doubts the genuineness Of the portrait
(prefxed to the book OF WAsHSdroN's
mother.
"In the Three Zones " is the title of n
new volume of stories by f. J. SrrMsoN
("J. 8. of Dale y, which will soon be
issued by the SCRIBNERs.
The first German book on which copy
right has been obtained in this country
is translation of HEMBURG's " Miss
Mischief" which Robert BONNER's Sons
will publish serially in the New York
Ledger.
The poems Of WILLIAM WATSON, the
most talked.of successor Of TENNYsoN
to the laureateship, should he recover
from his insanity, viii soon be issued by
MACMILLAN & Co. 1t will include his
"Lachryma Musarum.
DU MAURIER, so long the csrtoonist
Of Harper's, is said to be writing and
illustrating a new novel for that maya
zine, for which he will be paid twice
the price he received for "Peter Tibet
SON."
VI. Dr. CHAuLU is writing for the
ScRIBNER's q book TO be called "lvar,
the Viking.
Mr.. SwINBURyR has contributed to
the January Nineteenth Century" a
threnody upon TESNYsoS in the same
metre rs his verses upon the lsureate's
last birthday, which appeared in the
Athen@um"
A second volume OF Ten BRTNK's
"History of English Literature is
about to be published by HENRY HoLr
IL Co.
Mr.. c. p. HUNT1yGToN has given to
the Westchester library, which be
founded about a year ago, an unrestrlct-
ed gift of 100000.
Mr.. RCDYARD KIPLING will have a
story of Indian monkeys in the Febru-
ary "St. Nicholas" A daughter was re-
Gently born to Mr.. KIPLING ut Brattle-
boro', VT, where no is spending the
winter and where heis building $4,000
house. Mr.. KIPLNG married the sister
Of the late WoLCoTT BALEsrIEB about
year ago.
Speaking Of KIPLIYG, an unkind critic
calls attention to "aDother literary coin
cidence." The Indian writer had
poem in the December " Century called
"The GYPSY Trail" which contained
the following four lines:
The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky,
The deer to the wholesome void;
And tho heart of man to the heart OF maid,
As It was in tho days OF Old.
"Here again, says the critic, /" is the
refrain of +. c. Weatherley's song, The
Romany Lass -
The hawk unto thu open sky,
The red deer 70 the woli
The Romany las for the ROmsny lad,
As in the days Of Old.
LF1GH HUNTS answer to the question
"What is poetry" edited by Professor
A. s. Cook, is in the press of GNN d
Co.
The New York Critic " is conceded to
be the leading literary journal of this
country. We are, therefore, surprised
to read in Its last issue that Z" Mr.. BLACK
MoRE's Tess of the D'Urbervilles has
produced a deep impression in Russia"
Perhaps Mr.. Thomas HARDY's Lorna
Doone" would produce a deeper one.
Cold weather has soporific influence,
which fact may explain why the New
York World also has been mapping. In
a recent issue, referring to BLAINE, is
quotes SHAKESPEARE in this way
vex not his ghost. o, let him pass lie hates
him much
That would upon the rack Of this tough world
stretch him out longer.
This, as JOSH BILLINGS, or ARTRMUs
WARD, or somebody else said, is "2
mulch"
Who was CAsPAR HAUsER is a ques-
ton which, like who was tho author of
the letters OF JUNIUs or who wrote
Oslan, will not down. The latest con-
tribution to CAsPAR HAUsER literature is
by ELIZABETH +. Evans. She is a strong
believer in the theory that the mysteri
Gus individual was the abducted son of
the Grand Duke OF Baden, and while in
her argument she is unfair to those OF
contrary opinion. some of the recent
Undiscovered evidence she adduces
would seem to sustain her contention.