Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-24
LifararY Notes.

Miss Frances Courtenay Baylor. author
OF that very clever book ION Botf
Sides" has written another novel, tn,
title Of which Is Claudia Hyde" II
Is said to be as good as her first book
The plot turns on the marriage Of a
Virginia farmers daughter to the he'll
of an English baronetcy. who had missed
the succession by the marriage OF an
uncle and the birth Of cousin. The
two latter are eventually drowned while
yachting in the Mediterrar can, and the
former succeeds to the title and estates
and the Virginia girl becc mes q baroness
of course.
The Appletons announce for immediate
publication George Washington" a new
volume In the Great Commanders series
by General Bradley T. johnson. who deal:
with the First Presidents military career
but adds also, 10 our conception OF
Washington. the man. The same firm an
nounces also Mr.. w. S. Lilly's The
Claims of Christianity"
Arrangements have been completed In
London for a uniform edition OF Thomas
Hardy's novels.
Charles Scribner's Sons offer prizes OF
$50. so. and SIS for the best three de.
signs for book-covers for a novel, book
of verse. and Juvenile book. The same
firm has in press Mr.. Gadstone's metrca
TRANSACTIONS of the "Odes OF Horace, -
Tales Of the Maine Coast" by Mr.. Noah
Brooks. and "a Pound OF Cure" by Mr.
William Henry Bishop.
Professor Sloane's Life OF Napoleon. u
which will soon appear in the Century
will be illustrated with many famous his
torical paintings, large number OF which
have never before been reproduced In this
country
The George William Curtis Memorial
Committee has resolved TO raise a fund OF
$4,000 for a monument TO the Easy
Chair" In New York city.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis will have
a series OF Paris papers in Harpcr's
They will be illustrated by Dir. c. d.
Gibson.
Flood & Vincent. Meadville. Pa, pub
fishers OF the Chautauqua textbooks, an
nounce the following volumes, constituting
the Chautauqua course of reading for the
autumn and winter OF ls94-'95: The
Growth OF the English Nation" by Pro-
fessors Katharine Conan and Elizabeth
Kendall. Of Wellesley College; Europe in
the Nineteenth Century" by Professor
II. z. Judson. Of the University OF Chi
cage; Renaissance and Modern Art" by
Professor William Goodyear. OF the
Brooklyn Institute. From Chauoer l..
Tennyson," by Professor Henry A. Beers,
the Geological Field" by the late Pro-
lessor Alexander winchell. OF the Uni
versity OF Michigan.
Rider Haggard has new tale Of mar
wells. called The Heart of the World"
A book on the Indian question will be
published this month BY E. p. Dutton
a. Co. 1t Is by Mr.. Price Collier, and
Is called "Mr. Picket Pin and His
Friends" II is said to view Indian mat.
tiers In rather a humorous light.
CHM & Co. announce Essays and Let
tiers Selected From the Writings OF John
Ruskin," edited. with introductions and
notes. by Mrs. Lois q. Hufford.
The double summer Uune-July) number
OF Poet-Lore contains. amongst other
good features. an article on Literature
and the Scientific Spirit: May There Be
a Science OF Aesthetics?' by Professor
l.. A. sherman; "A Brief Defence OF
Criticism" by Carolyn b. La Monte:
and "Clough and Emerson" by F. II.
Williams. q paper OF the Philadelphia
Browning Society.
Macmillan 4 Co. are issuing new book
by John Ruskin. Its title sis "verona.
and Other Lectures" and II II illustrated
with drawings by the suthos. II includes
"rhe Story Of Arachne." The Tortoise of
AeGina." Candida Casa" with an APP
pendix on Saxon money. and ''Aendins
ton Of ClunE Ths TAFT = Eivsn complete