Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-15

complete work On the subject In the Eng
ilsh language.
Thomas n. Martin. editor OF the Elec-
tricai Engineer has written book called
electrical Boats and Navigation, as .
complementary volume to his book on
the electric motor and electric railway.
The volume will treat Of electric propui-
sion an applied to all kinds Of boats, and
will be- profusely illustrated.
A second edition of Robert Bridges
"Overheard In Already" IL announced by
the Scribners.
A collection of Quaker IdylS' Is about
to be published by Henry Holt Il Co
The sketches are said to have q family
resemblance to Miss Wilkinss stories OF
domestic life.
John Kendrick Bangs, editor Of THE
Drawer" in Harper's Magazine, recently
ran for Office Of Mayor OF Yonkers. where
he lives. He was defeated, but not cast
down. as Is shown by the fact that he has
written UP some OF his experiences, which
are published in Harper's BLACK and
White Series" under the title Three
Weeks In Politics" Bangs poses as 2
funny man." but 1t Is safe to say that
1.-THE boys got more fun out OF his can
vass than he did, especially IL he had q
''barl"
Francis Thompson Is the name of a
ewly-discovered poet, Of whom II Is said
that he Is the son Of practicins physi-
clan, was educated at Catholic col
lege. studied medicine. acquired the opium
habit, lived In obscurlty, and when dis
covered after having contributed a
striking poem to a London magazine, was
holding horses in the Strand. At present
he is living in a Franciscan monastery,
in Wales. We have seen but few Of
his lines. of which here are two:
Days dying dragon lies dropping his
crest,
Painting red pants into the West"
This Is undeniably poetry. but Mr..
Thompson runs great risk In writing
such. IL Mr.. Dana, of the New York
dying dragon. does not take cognizance
of these red pants" II will be because
they do not come under his notice. A
red flag TO a bun Is nothing TO red pants.
or pants OF any other color, for that
matter, to Mr.. Dana. Let Mr.. Thompson
beware.
Marion Crawford Is said to have written
on an average 1000 words OF original
matter a day during the past year. Per.
haps this explains why his latest novel.
katharine Lauderdale," made the critics
tired.
Rudyard Kiplng Is said TO stand a
"show" to be appointed poet laureate
We hardly think that THE Widow,
who is the subject and the title OF one OF
Rudyards most nippant ballads, will thus
reward his rash familiarity. Besides, he
Is now an American citizen, having mar
ried Yankee girl, and built nome
in the Green mountains.
A publisher In Chicago thought he want
ed a book about Coxey and his various
fnI Ia
sent for a Mr.. Stanley Waterloo, q news
paper man, on Monday morning, and told
him to go ahead" There was no limit
of expense set so, as Il writer In the
Publishers Weekly tells the tale. "a staf
OF writers was organized. specialists were
engaged for the historical part OF tho
work. photographers took the field, type
writer's clicked day and night, and Mr..
Waterloo himself hardly ate or slept. The
result was that on Thursday night fol-
lowing the copy for a book OF over
10000 words. with forty Illustrations was
in the hands OF the printers" This, IL
true, probably breaks the book-making
record. Maybe after a while Armour or
Swift will enter this field, and, reversing
the hog and beef-killlng process. Will
start in an idea at one end. and produce
a complete volume. bound in calf, at the
other in a few minutes. Everything Is
possible in Chicago, and II you want a
record broken. that is the place to go to
get 1t done. Ii was fortunate, though,
we think, that that publisher met his
Waterloo, and no doubt he had often TO
cry, ION, Stanley, on"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward Is reported to be
seriously out OF health, and complete
rest has been ordered for her for an in
definite time
They are guessing in London that Rud.
yard Kipling makes some $4,000 a year"
by his work. 1t is not unlikely that Rud-
yard would be glad II there was not so
much guess-work about 1t.
William Black is now reported to be
Queen Victoria's favorite novelist. short
time ago 1t was said to be Marie Corelli.
Perhaps il Is neither.
Mr.. Eugene " Debs, who Is just now
filing such large space in the public
eve, IS, according to Mr.. Eugene Field,
the Chicago poet, not at all the sort OK
man one would fancy him 10 be. He Is,
gays Field, "a mild-eyed and mild-man-
nered man, and sentimental TO degree
He Is an omnlvorouS reader, and he mas
committed to memory yards and yards
OF poetry. He is a particular friend OF
James Whitcomb Riley" IL Is to be re-
GREETED that such an amiable character
should have also committed TO ruin miles
and miles Of railroad lines and equipment
which are of more value than much
poetry. Should he now be committed 10
prison 1t Is to be hoped that In the seclu-
sion of his dungeon cell he Will commit
forever to memory some OF the valuable
lessons to be drawn from his recent ex-
citing experiences.
A new quarterly journal OF practcai
hygiene is to be published in New York
city by the Health Publishing Company.
Ii will be under the control OF Mr.. Albert
Turner. who has been for nearly thirty
years connected with the Fowler &c Wells
Company.
Professor Ely's Socialism and Social
Reform" has gone into a second edition.
Mr.. Swinburne has made nautical
translation Of the fragments OF the hymn
20 Apollo recently discovered at Delphi.
1t appears in the July Nineteenth Cen
fury.
Four books for boys. by Gordon Stables,
will be published by +. y. Dutton & Co.
in September.
Lippincotts for July contains an anus
ing story of negro superstition, entitled.
"a Case OF Hoodoo." by William Cecil
Elan