Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-20
THE RICHMOND DIsPATCH-SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1898.

| Messrs. Chapman q Hall in two large
| volumes, and IN this country by Messrs.
ID. Appleton Il Co.
London T,1.a has jumped on Rudyard
| IL describes him rs "a Philistine of the
/ Philis,ines. but with oil the brute power
Of Goliath of Gath. He IL q braggart.
too. like Goliath" There Is also" II
saws. lin many of his stories a note OF
personal as we'll as OF patriotic arrogance
which CRATES upon You, suggesting that
Mr. Kipling is intoxicated with his sudden
success" This is rough on Rudyard. put
he can probably stand it while the pub
fishers continue. as now, to elamor for all
| he writes.
Chicago is making great claim to being
" literary centre. A literary centre
would be more nearly correct. IL has GER
tainly been twelve months ut least since
tho floor Of its post-of1ice was swept.
A book for the times. although written
eighteen months ago. is Mr.. J. Howard
Covperthwnit's Money, Silver. and
Finance" which attracted considerable at
tention on its first appearance. 1t is said
10 be an exhaustive review OF the money
question and that 1t contains an accurate
forecast Of the present financial situation.
In the August Ladies Home Journal Mr..
Edward W. Box, the editor. discusses the
question of modern housekeeping and Its
effect upon women.
In the opinion of Lord Chief-Justlce
Coleridge the best books" are the fol-
loving: Poetry Shakespeare. Milton,
Wordsworth. Gray. Shelley. Keats. Scott,
Ben JonsoD, Massnger. Pope. Dryden,
and Young. Prose-Lord Boingbroke,
Lord Erskine. Burke, Bacon. Bishop
Hooker. Jeremy Taylor. Sir Thomas
Browne. Cardinal Newman. Nathaniel
Hawthorne. and Southey. IL looks strange
10 see an Englishnan include Hawthorne
and exclude Thackeray and Dickens from
| list of this sort.
In the August Colorado HGqd,ine Rabbi
Edward n. Calisch gives sketch of the
learned men who will represent Judaism
at the Worlds Fair, at the jewish Con-
gress. which meets in Chicago in Septem-
Der. Mr.. Calisch is himself delegate.
Swinburne is one of the living authors
whose earlier works are extremely rare.
First editions of his "Atalanta in Caly-
dom" The Queen Mother and Rosa
mond." and his Poems and Ballads are
all in great request.
Vide Quake mas been merged in 81.
Nicholas. The September No. will be the
first to issue under the new arrangement.
Olive Schreiner. author OF that success
full book, " A Story of an African Farm"
is said 10 be now engaged in writing long
novel. which is mentioned as "a study in
the comparative ethics mems treatment
of men and their treatment of women"
1t is published that the Archbishop of
Canterbury has q son only q years old
who has lately made an astonishing sue
cess with first novel. It's title IS Dodo,"
and IL is the story OF q woman of society.
1t went into q second edition within three
weeks. and Is soon TO be published in
| French. The young author Is about to
bring out a volume of short stories and is
preparing another long novel and play.
He is Just the age at which Dickens
achieved his first great success.
Rudyard Kipling has written new
story called The White Seal" which deals
with seal life in the neighborhood OF the
| PrIbylOv Island.
The Harper5 will soon publish "Child's
History of France"
A comprehensive work on European
colns-gold, silver. and bronZe-has been
prepared By Dir. W. G. Hrzlitt, and will
soon be published. II is to have about $50
illustrations.
A book of travel to be entitled a Lazy
Tour in Spain and Other Lazy Tours" is
soon TO brought out by Mrs. Louise Chan
der MoultOn.
Worthing'on'S Magazine for July contains,
among other things. crltique on the
Poetry of Henry Timrod," by Eliza Cal
vert Hall. The article ia very laudatOry
of the South Carolina poet. whom Richard
Henry Stoddard calls the best OF south
ern poets" The author says that she
"once echoed this opinion 10 the accom-
plishcd author of Marse Chan He smile 1
in a deprecatory way and shook his head,
saving, Won forget Laner.'" Timrod.
like Lanier. had TO struggle with poverty
and privatlon. and never met with that
popular recognition which his genius de-
served. His poetry has a more under
standable quality than Laniers, and sur
passes il IN delicacy and purity.