Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-29
Literary Notes.

Literary news is always slack at this
season of the year, and that is the rea-
son, we suppose, why new edition OF
Whitman's works is announced at this
time by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.,
of Boston, who propose TO put ON the
market a set Of handsome volumes, con-
tanning the Good Gray Poets" Leaves
OF Grass" and his prose works.
A laconic cablegram was received re-
Gently from Kipling. who is low In Eu-
rope, by a friend in Brattleboro, VT,
where the novelist has made his home
for several years 1t reads: Boy, both
we'll" Mr.. Kipllng married the sister
of Wolcott Balestier, the novelist, with
whom he collaborated in writing The
Naulahka," and who died several years
ago. Mr.. Kipling resided in Vermont,
his wifes home, subsequent to his mar
rlage. bat it is believed that his present
trir to England will result in his perma-
nent residence there. 1t has always puz-
zled this writer to understand what at
fractions the Great Pie Belt ever had
for the fire-tickled palate of the India
bred genius, anyhow.
Dean Farrar Is about to publish
book of facsimile letters received hy him
from Tennyson, Browning, Lowell
Holmes. Dean Stanley, and others, under
the title. MEN / Have Known. 1.
Y. Crowell & Co. will issue the volume
Possibly as an Offset to Kipling's return
to England, IL is now stated That the
rumor that Richard Harding Davis would
reside in that country hereafter Is with
ont foundation. Mr. Davis authorizes
the announcement that he intends ito
make New York his home In the future.
as IL has been for many years past" New
York will doubtless be glad 70 hold on
TO Mr.. Davis, "in the future, since lts
hands are tied as to the past. intentions
are like revolutions-they never go back
ward.
That authors, as a rule, are poorly
paid class of workers, Is a SAD iact' anu
cannot he gainsaid; and 1t is equally
true that the same capital Of brains and
endeayor I'm almost any other line OF
effort will produce better financial re-
sults. hut a great success in book
writing now and then seems suihcienl
To whet the appetite OF ambition ana
keep the strugglers after literary re-
nown and dollars galore In good hear'
Notwithstanding that almost any lottery
would be a surer investment. A million
pens. more or less, will be stimulated te
| activity by the announcement made by
| the New York Critic, that Mr. Hal
| Game author OF THE Manxman,' ma:
been paid more for his latest book-"ih ne
! Christian"-than any novelist mas re-
| ceiyed. even in this age OF big prices
His first check from his publishers was
| for 10000. and this was only an ad
vance on royalty account, and for Eng
fish bookrights alone. The United States
and the Colonies are still TO be neart
from. The book vas published IN TINS
| country on the 18th instant. and withif
a week. the third edition was on th'
press of Messrs. Appleton.
Mr.. Game has worked three years OF
.sThe Christian" THAT Is a long time
but II he has produced good Christian
n Is doing better than common) III
made notes at frst, and these notes: Il
Is said. filled six barrels! The complete
hook vas rewritten three times. These
statements show that Mr.. Game possesses