Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-26
Literary Notes.


The name selected for Miss Beatrice
Harraden's new novel is "Hilda Stat
ford" and the scene is laid I'm California.
/ The story is said TO be the best thing
! Miss Harrdden has done as yet" The
first instalment will appear in Black
woods Magazine early this year. Black
woods announces. also for 1886, Mr.. r. d.
Blackmore's new novel. "Dariel: Ro-
nance OF Surrey
Mr.. HAIRY McNickar the artist, has
made a book for the Messrs. Harper. the
title Of which is The Evolution OF Wo-
man" II H. largely Illustration. but there
is some text and both text and illustra-
ton are said to be- very funny.
Messrs Harper Il Brothers will publish,
in February. Richard Harding Davis's
Three Gringoes in Venezuela and Cen
trail America; also ~ Few Memoirs
by Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro. which
will be illustrated by photographs.
1t is stated that more copies Of "Trilby''
were sold I'm 1875 than in 1894. the year
Of its publication.
Mr.. Du Maurier's new novel. The Mar
tian." will not begin in Harpers until
late in the year
Messrs. T. y. Crowell & Co. have nearly
ready in their Library Of Economics and
Politics state Railroad Control, with
History Of Its Development in Iowa
by Dr. Frank II. Dixon, with an intro
duction by Professor Henry c. Adams.
The same house announces Southern Side
Lights picture of social and economic
life In the South during generation De
fore The war. by Edward lngle; ana
"Shakerpeare's Heroes on the stage,
BY G.. b. l.. Wineate. which IS COM
panion volume 10 the authors valuable
and interesting "Shakespeare's Heroines
on thc Stage" Mr.. Wineate Is the Bos-
ton correspondent OF the New YORK
critic.
Sir Lewis Morris. the poet has recent
" announced that he has been married
for thirty years. lie has two daughters
and son. il IS said that the disclosure
was consequent upon the settlement or
the selection OF a new poet laureate.
Kravchislsy is said to have been Step
niaks real name.
The multitude OF persons VINO claim that
their ancestors came over in the May
flower will now have an opportunity to
establish their claim. Messrs. Ward
DoWney, OF London. announce photo
graphic fac-simile Of the original manu-
script I'm Fulham Palace library OF the
History OF the Plymouth Plantation
by William Bradford, one OF the founders
and second Governor of that Colony. The
book will contain an account or the voy-
age OF the Pilgrim Fathers in the May
flower and the names OF those who sail
ed in that ship. The New York Critic
thinks that il all the people who claim to
be descended from that passenger-llst
purchase the book Il will have a sale that
will put "Trilby" out Of the running. The
price per copy will be about $50, which
viii probably be more than some OF the
thrifty New Englanders viii be willing
TO pay. even for so much established an
cestr9l glory.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston Is
10 give a course OF five lectures on the
English poets in New Orleans. before tn
Catholic Winter School.
The February Century will contain
three hitherto unpublished letters by
James Russell Lowell. which describe
the habits and the songs Of the birds at
Elmwood. LowelPs Cambridge home.
The remaining manuscripts OF Charlotte
Brontc i'm the possession Of her husband
and others. have now been purchased for
publication. DR.. Nicol, editor OF the
Boosman. SAYS that they are far more
numerous and important than had been
imagined and viii make a substantial
and valuable addition to the body OF her
work. alike in prose and poetry. very
large number OF hitherto unknown letters
having also been recovered. A biographi-
cal volume will be published. entirely
made up OF fresh matter. and repeating
nothing that has already appeared in
Mrs. Gaskelrs biography.
Paul Veraine, the French decadent
poet. died at Paris on January sih. lie
was horn in Metz in 1914 of unknown an
cestry. and published his first collection
Of verse, "Poemes Saturnines," In 1866.