Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-09

49, THE Living Critics.
- 80 q fCulture." by Hamilton
NE; . ~ les a soodly number OF
} ssusDt SOCK reviews, and the usual
vw',:sne f,<srary gossip. Professor w. +.
Sro1becg Views Hamlin Garlands new
TreS sRose of butchers Coolly." There
nov portraits of Il. L. Godkln.. Marcel
| 1ersvost, George Meredith. Stephen Crane
1 Tcnnyson, Browning, George Augustus
| sala, and others. including the new
poet laureate, who looks very little ike
a poet; but how can he help that?
The late Paul Verlaine. II Is said. knew
English well, and once endeavored 10
get permission to translate the poems OF
Tennyson into French. He failed on ac-
count OF not being well known at that
time.
The Bookman recommends those VINO
would become journalists to study tne
Life OF James Macdonell, JOURNALIST,
which was published few years ago III
England, and which, the Bookman says.
by its faithful portrayal OF the iite OF
a journalist who asplred to the heigns
Of his profession and attained 1t. Is worth
far more than any amount of theoreucai
discussion OF the question"
Dir. G. A. Storey, A. r. A.. Is writing
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volume ready in the spring.
A birthday book. compiled from the
writings OF Rudyard Kipling, has been
in preparation for some time. The proba-
BILE date OF its publication Is not given.
A new novel, Rodney Stone" by Dr.
Conan Doyle, has just begun IN the
Strand Magazine. IL Is a picture oil
English life, mainly OF the period OF
George H.. and is said to be full oil
graphic passages, among the best plts
being a description OF prize-iight. Inc
Strand, by the way, Is reported as having
made considerable advance In its Ameri'
can circulation during the last re"
months.
Ian Maclaren's next new work VII
be a book on practical religion, entitled
THE Mind of the Master 1t Is ex'
pected to appear about the middle or this
( month.
Cosmopolis. the new international maya
zine, will contain Robert Louis Steven
sons last story, weir of Hermiston,
during the first four months OF its issue
| This story has been pronounced by many
besides Mrs Stevenson the best he eve
wrote. McClupe's will publish, some tim
this year. his other posthumous novel
saint Ives"
The Review of Reviews for Februar,
contains, In addition to the regular de
partments, ''rhe Story of Cripple Creek,
by Cy Warman, That Flood OF Gold.
with illustrations: Some Leading Error
OF the Gold Standard Party" by DR.. Ott
Arendt; "Blmetallism; Some Damagin
Facts in Its History" by Frank lrvini
Herriott; THE Right Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain; A Character Sketch; THE Mas
sacres in Turkey. From October l, 1896
to January /. 1885, and "The New Poe
Laureate" AS usual, there are man
portraits OF persons prominent In contem
poraneous history. The gold" article
are copiously illustrated, and are of timei
interest.
The Chap-Book OF February 1st an
nounces that with the next issue IN
price will be raised to 10 cents a copy
and 81 a year. There will be a CORE
spending increase in the size Of III
magazine, the numbers averaging abou
sixty-four pages. These changes, sa
the publishers. have been made necessar
by the broadened scope of the paper. an
by the greater supply of suitable material
The general plan and the Typographical
appearance win remain the same.