Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-12
Literary Notes.

"A Damsel Errant." by Amelie Rive
| princess TroubetzkoD, has been pub
lished by the j. b. Lppincott Company
as "a pretty, innocent love-tale, witt
nothing startling in it beyond its cpl
thets and much to admire" This de
scription indicates a radical change IL
this authors work. The background o
the story Is Norman, and so are tn
characters; the time is the fifteenth cen
fury, and of Louis XI.
Thomas Nelson Pages "Old Gentleman
Of the Black Stock" has been added t.
the Scribner's dainty Ivory Series. Tn,
Scribners will publish as the leading Sc
rial in their magazine for 1898 DR.. Page.
first long novel, entitled Red Rock-A
Chronicle Of Reconstruction" Thus W,
have another addition TO the "red" fea
ture Of recent fiction, affected by Stepher
Crane, Stanley Weyman, and others
Evidently these authors subscribe to Eu
gene Fields dictum:
amy color, so long as it's red,
Is the color that suits me best"
Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwins romance:
Of life in Virginia in mountaineering
days have become very popular, and the
demand for them steadily increases.
Nine. Sarah Grand's latest novel, 9TH,
Beth Book" is catching it" from the
critics. 1t is said to be largely auto
biographical, and is. therefore, much
rnora iptaraqfipo, 10 Nina Grand than 4,
any one else. The author either lost
sight of this fact in writing the book
probably, or else possesses an exagge
rated idea of the Importance of the
creator of 1.-THE Heavenly Twins"
DR.. John Watson clan Maclaren'),
who is pastor of the Sefton-Park church
Liverpool, has been called to the Pres0y-
terrain church. Kensing,on. London. lie
is said TO be carefully considering the
invitation.
Messrs. Hurst & Blackett have sold
in all over $4,000 copies Of their cheap
editions, ranging in price from sixpence
to six shillings, of Mrs. Craik's John
Halifax. Gentleman" the popularity OF
which seems to be perennial, and de-
servedly So
TIE Messrs. Appleton will publish al
once "The Suppressed Letters OF Napo-
extraordinary man to the world as none
of his contemporaries have done. His
vindictiveness, it is stated, is undis-
guised.
A bust of Poe is TO stand in the Poe
Above as the central feature OF sec
ton of the University Of Virginia LII
brary devoted specially TO southern
writer's. 1t is earnestly requested that
friends and admirers of Poe Will help
the movement by contributions of books,
editions, commentaries, or TRANSACTIONS
connected with him, or by contributing the
works of southern writers, living or dead
to fill up the alcove of which he is to be
the centre.
'Satan's Invisible World Displayed; or,
Despairing Democracy" is the title OF a
book dealing with the Greater New YORK,
which w. T. Stead, editor of the English
Review Of Reviews, will publish THIS
month as the Result of his recent visit 10
this country. The book is to be a COM
panlOn-piece to eff Christ Came TO Chi
cago." Mr.. Stead advises, however. that
New York be read for Chicago, and the
devil substituted for the other.
1t is published that John Morley read
Marion Crawford's "Mr. Isaacs" for the
Messrs. Macmillan, and advised against
its publication, on the ground that While
1t would be a most creditable book TO have
on their list, there would be no sale FOR
II!
Scribner's Magazine for December con-
tains a poem by Rudyard Kipling, ana
Harper's one by General Lew Wallace.
A Life Of the Prince OF Wales" has
been written by Mr.. H. d. Trail, which
will be published i'm the near future. This
will doubtless be one of those books
which are interesting chiefly for what
was omitted.
The English edition OF Mark Twain's
More Tramps Abroad" was oversub-
scribed. and the publication was COM
PEELED 10 be delayed for another week.
After January lst the New York Critic
will be printed from new type, and other
wise improved in appearance. 1t also
announces a new series of its popular
Authors at Home" which will include
the writers who have become conspicuous
since the first one was prepared, about
twelve years ago. The Critic still main
tains its place as the leading literary
journal" There are others, but they
have not yet caught up.
Henry Georges last book will be called
"The Science OF Political Economy" and
IL will be published by the Doubleday &
Mcclure Company. Mr.. George regarded
this work as his magnum opus. and it
is said that. Notwithstanding it's formida-
BILE title, il is written in the entertaining
style that contributed so much to the
success OF Progress and Poverty"
new serial by Richard Harding Davis
Is announced to begin early in 1898 in
Scribner's Magazine. The new story is
said TO be even more dramatic than
Soldiers OF Fortune" 1t will be Illus
trated by Charles Dana Gibson.
The Scribners will issue Immediately
Audubon and His Journals" by Miss
Maria Audubon. n granddaughter OF the
famous ornithologist.