Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-21
Literary Notes.


Hollis Buckram Series will shortly in
clude volume to be entitled "Kafr
Stories" by William Charles Scully. The
stories are said TO picture savage ways
and savage thoughts with the accuracy
Of a photograph and the feeling Of an
artist.
HoUghton, Miifiin & Co. have Just pub
lished New Studies in Literature by
Edward Dowden, dealing with the poetry
of George Meredith, Robert Bridges. and
John Dome; Goethe, Coleridge. Edmund
Scherer Literary Criticism in France.
and the Teaching OF English Literature.
They will add to the Riverside Paper Sc
ries Dr. Holiness Hundred Days In
Europe" and THE Chosen Valley" by
Mary Hallock Foote.
ID. c. Heath & Co. will add TO their
Modern Language Series lie Voyage de
Monsieur Perrichton," edited, with intro
duction and notes. by Professor u. w.
Wells, OF the University of the South.
The Standard. the wel-known Baptist
weekly of Chicago, is publishing Sc
ries of articles on 1.-The Universally
of Shakespeare" under the signature OF
President a. II. Strong. Ii. D.. Of Ro-
chester Theological Seminary.
The first No. OF Information.
weekly "cyclopedia of current events"
was published on July 9Th. The aim of
the paper IL 'to cover every phase of
current life. thought, and research, Civ
ing in small paragraphs the essence OF
each theme, with all the latest and best
information obtainable." II is conducted
by Mr.. j. NJ. Stoddart, and is published
ia New York city. by the Transatlantic
Publishing Company.
In the matter of who is the best-pad
of living writers Mrs. Burton Harrison
and Rudyard Kipling have now TO give
place to Mrs Humphrey Ward. IL is
computed by the New York Critic that
Mrs. Ward received upwards OF $1,000
for The Story OF Bessie Costrell,' which
consists Of about 5000 words Sixty
cents a word" says the Critic, beats the
record"
Mr.. Isaac n. Ford IS the successor of
Mr.. c. w. Smailey as London correspond
ent Of the New York Tribune. Mr..
Ford has been connected with the Iri-
bune for twenty-five years.
Bliss Carman has resigned the editor
ship Of the Chap Book. But the admir-
ers Of Mr. Carman's exceedingly
clever Notes" may not have become re-
signed to his resignation.
Robert w. Herrick, who has a story In
Scribner's for July, is one of the profess
sors in the Chicago University.
\ new Juvenile publication, called
Frank Lesies Pleasant Hours for Boys
and Girls. will be started October LIST by
the Frank Leslie Publishing House, New
York.
The Ladies' Every Saturday Is the name
OF new woman's paper published at
Philadelphia by w. Gardner Osgoodby.
The New Galaxy is the name OF new
Decent magazine announced by Harry
c. Jones, of New York city. who has been
very successful with his Monthly Illus
traitor.
Footlights is the name of another new
PHILADELPHIA weekly which is described as
"a clean paper for the theatrc-goer.'
Demorests Magazine has been sold TO
the publishers OF Judge, and Will be re-
moved TO the Judge building. No. ITO
Fifth avenue. New York.
The copyrights on the books OF Profes-
scr Asa Gray. the celebrated botanist
yielded S3,067 Il last year. and the popu-
larity of his works az textbooks ana
general authorities seems to have IN
creased steadily since his death, several
years ago. ,,,,
Coventry Patmore's new book. The
Rod, the Root, and the Flower, appears
whep its author has reached the age OF
Y. His first volume of poems was pub
lished nearly fifty years ago.