Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-14
Ltterar, Notes.

According TO a correspondent OF the
London literary World a new poet has
arisen in italy, of whom all the country
from end to end is reading and talking.
Ada Negri is her name. aud she IS said to
be a poor girl. who has lived and is still
living " the miserable and laborious life of
a teacher in the national schools, which
barely supplies the necessaries OF life to
her and her invalid mother
The French publishers will have'a fine
exhibit at the Worlds Fair. There will
be displayed some 1900 volumes ct a cost
TO the publishers OF $4,000 francs. Victor
Hugo's works Will occupy o prominent
place in the exhibit.
Rev. ". S. Rainsford, d. d., Will have an
article in the May North american EeU'elc
on his temperance plan of opening saloons
under church patronage.
For William Watson's new volumes, his
poem. The Eloping Angels" end his
prose work. Excursions in Criticism"
the London demand was so great that the
first edition was entirely sold during the
first week.
The Christopher Lower Company. Phila-
delphia. a series OF books by
modern French authors, to oe printed IN
French and edited for use as reading
books by students.
Professor William 4. Scott has written
for Professor Ely's Library Of Economics
and Politics a volume on liquidation Of
State Debts in the United States" which
T.. Y. Crowell d Co. viii publish this
mouth.
Some of Houehton, Miflin & Co.'S re-
cent announcements nre The Life and
Works of John Ruskin." by VI. q. Colling-
wood: sally BOWS and Other Stories"
by Bret Harte, and Prom Chattanooga to
Petersburg Under Generals Grant and
Butler" by William Farrar Smith.
Robert Clarke d Co. have il preparation
The History of Illinois and Louisiana
Under the french Rule" by Joseph Wal
lace, and in press a limited edition OF three
companion volumes-"Donn PIatt. His
Work and His Ways" by Charles Grant
Miller; Colonel Piatt's SUNDAY Media
TONS" md his plays and Poems"
Over the Lawn to the White House" ia
the name OF a book written in rhyme by
Mrs. VI. B. Lincoln and illustrated b.
Emma Maynicke and published by these
| two ladies.
Anna Katharine Green. the author of
the famous "Loavenvorth Case" has an
| other novel ready. It is to be issued ST.
simultaneously in Paris, London, Stuff
CART, Milan, and in the Bohemian Ian
guage hers and IN Prague. The I~eaycn-
worth Case" had been published for years
IN Prague before the author heard of it.
"A Study Of Walt Whitman" by the late
J.. a. symonds, is coming out in London
from the press of John G. NImmo. 1t is o
small quarto containing a portrait and
-four other illustrations.
Mr.. Francis II. Underwood's Builders
Of American Literature" has made SUCH
progress that Vol. l.. including authors
born before 1925, is nearly ready, and Vol.
H., including later writers, viii probably
appear within a year.
new novel by William Black will be
begun in the June No. of Harpsr's MqyG-
zine. which issue will begin the eighty
seventh volume Of the monthly.
Mr.. John Drew has written for Scrtbaer's
a paper entitled THE Actor" which gives
the human aud social side OF thea,rical
life. and is 70 be one OF he series on meas
occupations opened 10y Mr. HoWells n
The Country Printer" in the Nay No.
MIR. Hail Carne. the novelist, has written
An article on tho Russian Jew question for
an early No. OF The RAJ Nai Magazine.
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