Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-28

BABYLON, - Baiu 10 W s"o $500 -
novel which Bfr. w. r. Stead 10 reported
to be writing. 1t is not stated whether
he has reference to London or Chicago.
Reading BIZ Gossette's letter In last
Saturdays Dispatch. we were mucn
struck with Its smooth dlction and we'll
balanced sentences, and wondered who
the writer was. We were greatly sur
prised at reading next day that the author
IN Mr.. w. q. Owens. This writer worked
with him once on an apology for a paper
published not q thousand miles from
Richmond, and In those days had no rea-
son to suspect him Of literary talent.
Willie has been hiding his light under
buehel.
Mrs, Humphrey Wards three-part
serial, 1.-THE Story Of Bessie Costreli.
begins In the May Scribner's. The same
number contains four articles on the BIZ
cycle.
The Messrs. Scribner announce. In con-
junction with Elkin Mathews. London.
'The Elizabethan Hamlet: A Study OF
the Sources, and OF Shakespeares En-
vironment, to Show That the Mad Scenes
Had a Comic Aspect Now Ignored b.
John Corbin. with predatory note by j
York Powell
The Letters OF Samuel Taylor Cole
ridge" are announced by Houghton
Miiiin & Co.; also. 'Under the Man-Fig,
a story by Mrs. NJ. Il. NJ. Davis. They
will publish next month volume OF Mrs.
Thaxter's letters, edited by Mrs. James
T. Fields. and 1.-The Life OF General
Thomas Pinckney." By the Rev. Charles
c. Pinckney.
Macmillan e. Co. announce new
volume Of short stories by Henry James
They will publish Professor Franklin H.
Giddings principles OF Sociology early
In the fall.
w. Clark Russelrs new book. The
Phantom Death, and Other Stories VIII
be published by Frederick A. Stokes &
Co, who announce, also. THE Grasshop-
pers." story of English and German
social life. by Mrs. Andrew Dean.
The Echo rs the name Of new humo-
rous and artistic fortnightly periodical
published in Chicago. Its aim Is to pre-
sent in an artistic form the cream Oh
foreign humor and Illustration" together
with a fund Of pertinent American humor
and original literature.
The late James w. Scott, editor and
publisher of the Chicago Times-Herald,
once gave this advice TO a young man
who had just bought new paper: Don
make your paper as good as you can
afford; make 1t as good as you know
how"
:. N ,..,.... .,.boso uctiokit MiniStpr''
made him famous, is said 10 have now
an assured income OF $500 a year. and
TO have contracted to do enough literary
work to keep his pen busy for the rest
Of the century. Only recently he occu-
pied a pulpit in a Scotch village church
on a salary Of 81, ~. We think those first
figures should be taken with large
grain Of chloride Of sodium. Mr.. Crockett
is writing a life of Robert Louis Steven
son.
The late Professor Austin Phelps's we'll
known work, English Style In Public
Discourse" has been condensed, revised,
and supplemented by Professor IL. A.
Frink, Of Amherst. in manner to adapt
the work for general use as textbook
on rhetoric. II will be published shortly
BY the Scribners. under the title,
Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice"
Judge Tourgee, OF Fools Errand"
fame. is again an editor. He has started
a new weekly magazine at Buffalo, y.
Y. called The Basis: a Journal of Citi-
zenship." All the money the Judge made
by slandering the South In his novels, ana
more besides. he lost on his Philadelphia
venture. Our Continent.
John Brisben Walker. the millionaire
owner of the Cosmopolitan magazine. is
planning TO start new weekly paper,
after the style of Harper's Weekly.
Kate Fields Washington has suspended.
on account of the ill-health OF Miss Field.
Publication may be resumed in the fall.
The Study is a new monthly magazine
for preachers. published by Rev. II. W.
Douglass, at St. Johnsbury, VT. Each
number will have articles by preachers Of
all denominations, together with illustra-
tive material
The American Jewess is a new Chicago
monthly, devoted TO social. religious,
and literary subjects.
r.. X. Munkttrck, the humorous writer
OF Puck and other publications. Is now
devoting himself almost entirely to writ
Ing serious verse. Having a reputation
as joker. he may have some difficulty in
getting the public TO take his serious
verse seriously.
"Shakespeares Heroines," by Charles
j.. l.. Wingate. Is soon to be published.
Mr.. Wingate is the managing editor OF
the Boston Journal. and Boston scorre-
spondent OF the New York Critic.
Henry b. Robinson. author OF Men
Born Equal" i3 an Englishman by birth.
He came to America twelve years ago.
and began work on the New York Tri-
bune. He Is now the editor Of the Rail-
way Age.