The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-28


gained additional lustre from the renown
OF a Macauley a Thackcray. a Dickens,
n Carlyle. q Stuart MIL a TennysoD, a
Browning. Bulwer, a Darwin, a Richard
owen. Ruskln and Newman. The
lives and writings OF five hundred liter
airy celebrities are passed under the
authors discerning review in these
volumes. which. likewise, contain the
history OF the inception and development
OF innumerable magazines, newspapers,
etc, more or less known to fame. The
book Is a most painstaking and able con-
spectus Of Victorian literature, such az
no student and no possessor of a library
can afford TO be without. The marginal
notes on each page will be found 20 be
valuable aids 20 the teacher and student.
STORIES OF A WESTERN TOWN. Oc-
tave Thanet. Illustrations by ABB. Frost.
12mO $l25 Charles Scribner's Sons.
New York. For sale by West, Johnston
& Co.
Octave Thanet, known already as one
OF the best writer's Of the short character
story that the last ten years have brought
forward. has I'm this book a completely
fresh field. in which she has done her
finest work. These stories do not deal
with the frontier Western town OF so
many writer's. but with the prosperous
anu RbpAibNA AoWu OF lNt 0fHlidi " est
such as Iowa or Illinois might furnish
and the types are as delightfully."- true
and recognizable as the stories them
selves are excellent human, and strong.
STORIES or NEW YORK illustrated.
Contents, From -Four TO Six, by Annie
Eliot. The Commonest Possible Story,
by Bliss Perry; The End Of the Begin
ming, by George a. Hubbard; a Puritan
Ingenue. By John S. Wod; Mrs.
Manstey's View. by Edith Wharton.
STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. Hlustra-
ted. Contents: AS the Sparks Fly Up
ward, by George a. Hibbard; How 1
Sent My Aunt to Baltimore, by Charles
S. Dawson; Run 10 Seed. by Thomas
Nelson Page; Flondroe's Mogul, by A.
G. Gordon
In preparation: Stories Of the South,
Stories of the Sea, Stories Of the Army,
and Stories OF Italy. Per vol. 16mo.
| paper 80 cents; cloth, 70 cents; half calf,
$50. Charles Scribners Sons, New York.
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under attractive subjects and are deco
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WAGNER AND HIS WORKS. With por-
traits. John b. Finck. Two volumes. 81.
Contents: A Theatrical Family. Ricn-
ard Wagner's Childhood. The First Ope-
ras An Imprudent Marriage, First Visit
10 Paris. Ricnzi in Dresden, The Fly
ing Dutchman. Wagner as Royal Con-
ductor. Tannhauser i'm Dresden, Revolu-
ton, Artistic and Political Lohengrin
at Wemar, Literary Pc IOd, Welding
the Nibelungs Ring, Was Wagner a
Great Conductor? Last Years Of Exile,
| King Ludwig Finds Wagner, Tristan and
! and Isolde i'm Munich. Political and Per-
! sonal Waguer's only Comic Opera,
! From Munich to Bayreuth, The Parsifal
| Period Wagner and Magnetism, etc.
etc. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
For sale boy West, Johnston & Co.
] Il think / may safely say that l an
| indebted TO previous bi0sraphers for less
| than a twentieth part of the material
/ contained in these two volumes; all the
| rest is based on my personal experiences
/ on Wacuer's own autobiography writ
ings. and other original documents, IN
| Guiding a collection of Wagneriana when
| 7 began seventeen years ago. and which
| / have found Of great use, especially IN
| the chapters relating 10 the critics
THE WOMEN or THE VALOIS COURT.
Imbert dc Saint Amanda. Charles Serb
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by West. Johnston g. Co.
Several new volumes are in preparation
I'm the popular series Of The Famous
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from their predecessors in that they will
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ready "The Women OF the Nalois Court,
are Marguerite d'Angouleme, Catherine
de Medicis Diane de Poitiers, Marie
Stuart. Elizabeth de France. Jeanne
d'Albret, Marguerite de Nalois, Elizabeth
d'Autriche. Louise de Naudemont
RECOLLECTIONs OF MIDDLE LIFE.
Francieque Sarcey Charles Scribners
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"Sarccys comment on himself as well
as on his friends is frank throughout,
and the volume ifs an interesting reyela-
ton to one who has any interest IN the
intellectual side Of Partisan life. II is
intimately personal. and yet 1t is not un-
pleasantly egQusuc.'
THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO. A
Military History. Second edition, with
mans. S volumes $3.50 net Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York. For sale
by west Johnston & Co.
Archibald Forbes, I'm The Nineteenth
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research and accurate PERCEPTION he has
LEI light I'm uDon not few obscurlues."