Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-04
IIicrnrr Nnins.

4 volume OF selections from the WORKS
Of Il. Daudet has been compiled for class
room use. Professor Frank ". Freedom.
Of the Boston Latin School, viii specially
annotate. and CHM & CO. will publish 1t.
Anovel of Texan life has iuss been com
pletel by Howard Seeley. which the APP
pletons will shortly publish Ia thcr sum-
mer series.
Professor Howard \. Ogden. Of the Uni
versitv Of West Virginia, has in prepara-
ton The Literature Of the Nirglnians,'
in two volumes. over 200 Nirginlan writers
are included IN the work.
Mr.. William /. Stone. Of Vt. Vernon. n.
Y, announces Ballads of the Bursoyno
Campaign annotated by himself The
volume viii include new poem (not'a bal
lad by the Roy. q. c. Aurnger, entitled,
Tho Episode of Jane McCrea.'
Hup9-s for August will contain story
by the wife Of negro preacher residing
near Charleston, s. c. This IS said TO be
th. first tlme hat q colored woman has
appeared among the contributors to
leading American magazine. II ought ~
be Che lest.
Lady Burton's long-oxpectel biography
of her husband. SIR Richard. Is sad 10 DO
nearly ready. Ito writer Is also bring ne
ont a Uniform edition OF her husband
writings.
In ne C,qfpJy for June there viii be n
critical paper ga Christina kossettI by Mr..
Edmond Go-se. The article Will contain
q portrait of Miss R0ssetti bY her brother.
Dante Ghbriel. Mr.. T.. G.. Stedman and
col @
the laureatcshlp.
Or. Won Icnfe. husband Of Blanche
Willis Howard. is dead
Mr. Charles Dudley Warner il quoted as
saying: The news paper OF the iuturo
should give Us news that IL important
give u impartilily and falrly-aud th3n
dismiss literature 10 its proper place. IL
was not originally Intended that the news
paper should b. "a magazine. l, was IN
tended 90 inform Us day by day OF
tho progress OF tho world and any news
paper which vii do that faithfully.
with any conscience At all. will have
all that u can do, and Will fill all the space
M lts disposal" OF course Mr.. Warner
would not bo so understood, but one
would be- justified IN nterring from this
utteraucs ot his that he docs not consider
that literature has anythin: % DO with
the progress Of the world. The news
paper OF the future will be moro likely 10
cover the entire tcil Of human interest
aud endeayor, rs IN fact u very nearly does
now.
The New York critic has been taking
% vote amongst ITO readers on the |
" best ten American books" with the fol |
lowing result: Lmers9u's Essays, 5l2 |
uawthornes "Scarlet Letter" 4t3; Long |
follows Poems. az: Mrs. S,owe's "UncIo |
Toms Cabin" 4}f Dr. Holiness Auto |
crat." 3sS. lrvng's "Sketch-Boo6," 3J7; |
Iowells Poems. .G9; Winters Poems. |
20: Wallace's ben H1r." 2jO Motley'5 |
Rise OF the Dutch Republic 2i5.
Ia the Her. jerome *. Jerome's new pc |
riodlcd. Ruiyard Kplinr thus describes |
how his first book WAS produced, he him
self being the publisher:
Men ~ the army and the civil service |
and tho railway wrote - NE saying that |
the rhymes might b, made into book. |
Some OF them had be-. u sung 10 the banJo5 |
around camp-hTc-. aud some had run Is |
far down coast A. EanEOon and MOulmein,
and up - Mandaiay 4 real took was out
Of the question. bur ] know that Rukn-
DIN and the oi'ioe plant were AZ my dis
?Osal 81 a price, If | dIi not use the Office
tine Also. had handled IN the previous
year \ coupe OF small books. Ot which |
was part-owuer, and had lost nothing. So
there was built q sort OF q book. u lean |
Obloug docket. wlre-s,ltchei, 10 initiate "A
u. o. Government envelope. printed on |
one side only. bound u brown paper and |
secured with rcl-tap9. II was address, ii |
to all heads of departments and all
government officials, and among a
pile OF papers would have de-
ceiyed clerk OF twenty yesrs' SER
wee. OF these books We made some
hundreds. and as there was 10 necessity
for advertising, my public being - NV
hand. / took reply postcards. printed the |
now5 OF the birth of the book on one side,
the blank o-ier form on the other, and
posted them no and down the empire from
Alden TO Singapore. and from Quetta TO Co
lOmbO. There was no trade discount, no |
tWclyes as thirteens, no COmmls- |
sion. and no credit Of any kind whatever.
The money came back n poor out honest
rupees. and was tranfeEred from the pub
Usher, the lett-hand pocket, direct to the
author. the rIght-hand pocket. Every
copy sold IN a few weeks. and the ratio of
expenses 20 profits, as | remember Il. has
SINCE prevented my InjurIng my health by
with publishers VINO talk Of
their risks and ADVERTISEMENTS. he down
country papers complained of the form OF
the thing. The WIRE binding cut the
pages aud the rel tape tore the COW
ers. This was not Intentional, but Heaven
helps those who helps themselves. Con-
sequeutly there arose q demand for a new
edition. and this time / exchanged the
pleasure OF taking IN money over the
counter for that of seeing q real publish
ar's imprint on the title page. More verses
were taken out and put III. and some of
hat edition travelled az far "a Hong Kong |
IN the map. and each edition grew a little
after. and OF last the book came to Lon
Ion with gilt top and stll back. and
vas advertised in the publishers poetry
department..