The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-11-04
Literary Notes.

Mr.. Elliot Stock recently published .
new edition of Thomas a kempls. n
favorable review was cut out by a n Thos
cutting agency, and addressed TO nos
A Kempis. ESQ.," care of his publisher,
intimating that on receiving a guinea ne
could be supplied with all references TO
his writings. estmlnster Gazeue.
In speaking OF the eighueth birthday
of the eminent Greek scholar and MS
torian, Ernest Curtius, Berlin paper
reports that he has among his meme lireI
randa a paper in which he was ceheuLeu
while a schoolboy for being backward III
Greek. -Independent. ,.hosa
OF Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, whose
American blood is mixed OF french anu
English Mrs. Spofford says in the bo OK
BUYER: when you see her with her
lofty carriage. her dark eyes, her hlgh
bred and beautiful features, you renenl-
Der the royal significance OF her naiIe ~ ~
Scripture and you are hali lhcliheu
wonder how 1t is that princess OF the
old repime IL writing stories that are the
accurate transcript OF the lives Oh Pe.lS,
ants. But when, IL by rare fortuhe' yV Vt
hear her read from her own pages, VII
a voice like a soft south WIND anu ~,
a ouaint and lovely air that Is an ~
own then YOU know that these sloiIe.
of hers are written from he heart thdt
heats for humber homeher people, ~
IL with the same tlood. Hon ~ re-
Rebecca Harding Davis. writer ~ ~ IL
IMITATION. finds In her husband NIdi ~,
Davis a ready sympathlZer III me- ~,
erary work. He is one of the nrst eI,-
tors OF the country. Phi i',1itiPrs ~
Knotty editorial points, and questions Ul
literary Judgment find the two heads III
counsel" in true Tennysonian iashio ~,
Thus literary was the atIiosPnete CO.. 80
which Richard Harding Davis, the SOL
found his early mental nourishment,
and was enabled to become. as he Is
"the prince of shor. story writer's
Ji,orarv people have often great mu-
steal talent" remarked literary woman
recently, "and 1t Is often hard to tell
which course the greatest talent runs ,
Beatrice Harraden, the auIhor o, ' tSa
clever book, ships that Pass In tne
Night is as much devoted 10 music as 10
hooks ard Is said TO be splendid per-
former on the violoncello, her faVorite
instrument Another great lover OF i,d
sic and a clever musician is Gladys Dud-
lev Hamilton. the young author. a WISH
tor at her beautiful home In Newark
describes II as being an idea one. There
Is everything there TO MAKE slrl ,ie
happy. A lovely devoted mother and
brother two years her junior form the
household in which Gladys Hamilton
takes such an active part. Every thlng
about the writer has the wonderful charm
and attraction that have become so IA
mihar in her writings
Mrs. Frances Albert Doughty, the clever
Womans Study of Boston" which re-
Gently published In a leading periodical,
has attracted such wide and fiatterinS
attention, is at present in New York city:
1t is Mrs. Doughty's intention to spend
the winter in the metropolis. BY birth
she is very much OF Southerner, as the
melllhuous r-dropping of her speech soon
atteJts. For the past few years, how
ever. she has made her home i'm Wash
ington and Baltimore, with long-inter-
vening sojourns In Boston.
Tolstoi has a discriminating auditor in
his wife. But IL was not always so. She.
a first, did not approve of his course in
antagonizing the Russian rulers nor OF
his severe views of life. But her conser-
vatism yielded after a time TO his radi-
cal convictions. And now. the evening
lamp finds them bending together over
the plain wooden table, while the count
reads aloud. for comment and criticism.
his freshly written pages.