Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-30

| nsntteyx n whose magazine Il appeared
g 4 serial published u In . book ana
| g Vas 9 fInancial suocess from the start.
Rev. John b. TAhh whose poems ara
now attracting much attention. IL 9 Vfr-
| sinian, though living at present IN MAY
land. where he u a professor OF Eaglisn
at st. Charles College. ELLIOTT CITY.
which b for the ecclesiastical education
| Of Catholics. He was a Coufede-
rate soldier. ana was taken prisoner seve-
raj times. He n described as tall. thin,
ana raw.boned, ana OF q very nervous
/ Temperament. He spends most Of his
spare time In the open air, ana thinks
little of q walk Of twenty miles.
James Payne says that his average IN
como from literary work has been $500
q year for thirty.five years.
Mark Twain will start In August on a
'rornd-the-world iecturing tour. 1t Will
hardly be . case OF Innocence abroad
this time.
william Black started life az q por-
trait-painter. and took up novel-writinS
by accident Lucky accident.
Count Tolstoi. II is said. refused large
sum offered to him by an American pub
Usher for his latest story. The News,
a Russian illustrated weekly, then ofrer.
ed him 500 page FOR the exclusive right
to publish 1t as serial This, too, he
refused. and made free gift Of the man
uscript to the sevePney Festnik. Rus
sian monthly magazine. The Count has
been described as peculiar.
Miss Braddon has announced her inten-
ton Of retiring from active work when
her present contracts are filled. Since her
first success. about thirty-five years ago.
she has written ffty-three novels, or 156
volumes Of $1,000 words each.
A new short-story writer appears In the
June Scribners by Miss Annie Steger Win
ston. Of Richmond.
The Youths Companion has received
more than, 1000 manuscripts In response
to its prize offer made last October
The Westminster Gazette says Of Spur
been printed and sold. and that the sum
total Of the sales reaches nearly 10000
600. an average Of about 5000 copies per
sermon. OF each OF certain discourses
more than 10000 have been sold
\ volume Of stories by Mrs. Burton
Harrison, entitled "a Virginia Cousin
and Mount Desert Tales" will be pub
lished by Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Boston.
"A Virginia Cousin" has not yet been
printed In any form.
Stone & Kimball have now ready the
fourth volume Of their handsome edition
OF Poe's works. II contains tales OF the
grotesque and arabesque"
The Bookman for June Is OF more than
usual interest TO literary people. as we'll
as to those who wish to be thought such.
Its literary articles are varied and pleas
Ing. and there are portraits Of John B.
Tabb, James Lane Allen, George Moore,
Gustav Freytag. Rider Haggard, and
others including Harvey. Of Coins FL
nancial School, fame. The Bookman has
come to stay.
Miss louie Evans is collecting. COM
piling. and editing for publication the
fugitive poems OF her father, the late
Colonel Thomas ]. Evans. The volume
Will be hailed with pleasure by the many
persons here and elsewhere who pre- IA
miliar with Colonel Eyans's gifts for YER
sihcation. Among the poems it viii con-
tain may be mentioned "Slr Francis
Drake" "The Immortal Six" "Welcome
to Do Molay," 'Phoebus and tbs Fat
Lady," and others.