Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-29
Literary Notes.

Robert Louis Stevenson is dying OF
consumption. It is to be hoped, for the
sake of English literature, that the re-
nor. is not true. We should be reloiced
70 know that many more years are
voucbsafed to so excellent writer.
General Buffers death, 1t is said'
has greatly stimulated the sale OF his
book. which fell rather fiat on its pub
lica,ion. 1t would perhaps be unknd
to say that the General may be more
popular dead than alive.
We notice that the phrase "in the
circumstances is taking the place oil
the old and serviceable "under the
circumstances" Come to think OF 1t,
il should have done so long ago. Per
haps among the circumstances will be
the next.
The Century will publish collection
Of letters written by Walt Whitman to
his mother while he was nursing soldiers
during the war;
Philadelphia is to have q new weekly,
which will be called The Point of Yer.
Miss Agnes Repplier will probably be
the editor. Miss Repplier, like Miss
Murfree. writes a hand that may be read
across the street.
The late Anne Reeve Aldrich's volume
OF poems, "Life, Love, and Death,
noticed in these columns recently. has
passed into O second edition. The poems
possess decided merit and should COM
mend themselves to persons who take
melancholy views Of the subjects treated.
They indicate a diseased mind, the re-
suit probably of foreknowledge OF an
early death-and perhaps something
more. The Scrlbners are the publish
ers.
The popular French short-story writer,
Guy dc Maupassant, who has been in
sane from overwork, is said to be recOv-
ering. His mother states that his inter
walls Of lucidity occur oftener and his
memory is growing stronger.
Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke will con
tribute to the next century another arti-
Gle on Tcnnyson. It will be called "Ihe
Voice of Tennyson, and will be "critI-
cal estimate of the poets influence upon
life and letters" and incidentally relates
the impression produced upon the nearer
by Tennysons reading OF MAUD" An
engraving of the poet 10y T. johnson viii
be the frontispiece-the original portrait
Of which is considered by the family the
best ever made.
G.. L. Putnam's Sons are about to be-
gin in their subscription department o
Misunderstanding edition of the works
of Fenimore Cooper which will be
limited to 1000 copies. 1t will be IL
thirty-two octave volumes, printed from
new type, and Will he illustrated. The
first group, comprising six volumes, vii
be ready next month.
a Dictionary o. Every Day German
and English by Martin Krummacher
Pin. D., is pub ished by D. Appleton y
Co.
Mr.. Henry James has written an en-
tirely new comedy with part specially
designed for Miss Ada Rehan. 1t vii
be first introduced in London by Mr.
Augustin DAILY.
Mime. Juliette Adam, Of the NOurcU
Peruc, thinks, it is said, of proposing
herself for the French Academy. Thu:
we see the example of Mrs, Lease al
ready spreading.
Some Of Ho1ghton, Miiilin d Co. T
latest publications are 1.-The Dawn o.
Italian Independence, by William r.
Thayer; "Ihe Interpretation OF Ma
ture," by Professor n. s. Shaler
"Susy," by Bret liarte, and "Americar
Marine" by William W. Bates, late
United States Commissioner Of Naviga
ton.
A careful reading of the manuscript
OF Mr. Charles Poindexter's lecture or
Captain John Smith suggests to rs thai
it would DO well for the Virgins
Historical Society to publish it for dis
tribution among its members.
The state librarians of Mississippi
Kentucky, Tennessee. and South Caro-
lima arc women. West Virginia has 8
woman as assistant custodian of Public
Buildings, and in that capacity she ha'
charge Of the State Library.