Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-11

Macmillan Company. under the direction
of Mr.. Russell Sturgis. The work VIII
include special articles by leading archi-
tects. sculptors, engineers. mural paint
ers. and others. II will be profusely
illustrated.
"The Unlived Life Of Little Mary FL
Ien," which was published in Harper's
Magazine a year ago, will be included In
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart's new volume
OF short Stories which will soon be is
sued by the Harpers. The story is not
biography of certain famous feminine
western orator, who cannot be said not
to be living her life; no, indeed!
The Harpers have opened a London
house, having purchased the business OF
Osgood, McIveine s. Co., Of As Abe
marie street. BY this purchase the En-
glish copyrights of the works of Du
Maurler e. Hsrdy pass into the hands
of TIC ssi;essrs. Harper.
Across the Country Of tn, Little King;
| A Trip Through SPAIN" by William
Bement Lent, is announced for early
publication by Messrs. Bonnell, silver &
| Co.
Encyclopaedia of Fraternltles" is in
course of preparation by Mr.. Albert {.
| Stevens, editor of Bradstreet's. 1t will
| embrace the so-called secret and semi
secret societies in the country national
and international.
Mr.. B. +. Stevens states that he con-
hdently hopes to issue the 18th and last
volume of his "Facsimiles Of Documents
Relating to America" before Christmas.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead e Co. announce
a new and uniform edition Of The works
of Mr. Hamilton w. Mabie, the dis
tinguished literary essayist.
Messrs. L. c. Page & Co., Boston, Will
publish in the fall the Golden Treasury
of American Songs and Lyrics selected
and edited, by arrangement with the
owners of the various copyrights. by
! Frederick l., Knowles. The volume Is
intended to be for American poetry what
Palgraves Golden Treasury" is for the
poetry of England.
| The July No. OF Scribners Maya
| zine contains a portrait of the late
| George du Maurier, drawn from life by
Mr.. Charles Dana Gibson. AS it was
made in Du Maurier's home last June,
and the author-artist died in October, 1t
! is, in all probability, the last portrait
that was made of him.
A new novel by the author of 'The
Silence Of Dean Maitland has Just been
completed and will appear in the fall
! The author, Maxwell Gray" is really
| Miss NJ. G.. Tuttiett, the daughter OF a
medical practitioner of Newport Isle OF
Wight, who died some three years ago.
Miss Tuttiett is an invalid and leaves the
house but little. She finds her consola-
ton in literature, and in the companion
ship of her pet cats. of which she has
always several magnificent specimens
about the house. Her home now is at
Richmond Hill, where she lives with her
mother In pretty little house.
The next volume of the monumental
| Dictionary of the National Biography"
published in London, is to contain one
of the most important, and considerably
the longest, of the biographies yet in
cluded in it's valuable pages This is the
pen of Mr.. Sidney Lee, the edtor-in-
chief, who, 1t is said, has searched far
and near for material and will publish
for the first time several facts which
will be found TO Justify the divergence
of his views from those generally held
upon several debated points. Mr.. Lee
differs altogether from the accepted in
depreciation OF the personality of the Mr..
| w. II. of the Sonnets.
"Caleb West" new novel by f. Hop
kinson Smith author of Colonel Carter.
Of Gainesville" has been finished and
will appear first as a serial in the At
lantic Monthly. II deals with life among
the builders of lighthouses. We suppose.
therefore, that 1t may be classed as light
! literature
1t is announced that Mr.. Richard Mans
field-the actor, we presume-has written
a novel, entitled Blown Away" which is
soon to be published by, Page & Co.,
Boston. 1t is not stated whether or not
the book is Renaissance of Mr.. Mans
fields transforming days.
Marion Crawford's new novel, "A Rose
| OF Yesterday" is just issued in book-form
by the Macmillan Company. The Cent
ury Company will publish IN the same
guise. in the fall, DR.. Weir Mitchers
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" which has
been running In the magazine.
Miss Annie Steger Winston is included
i'm the list Of contributors to the July
Llppincotts.
The Bookman for July prints a full
length portrait of Miss Ellen Glasgow,
and says some very complimentary things
of the young author and her work.
mot since Miss Katherine Pearson
Woods published her first story. Met
zerott Shoemaker about eight years
ago, in the same manner, have we had
in this country an anonymous novel
which, by its masculine force and vigor
In Characterization, and i'm its treatment
of certain phases OF life, was so deceptive
as to the sex of its author" says the
Bookman. There is sufficient power
and originality" It continues, together
with a love of beauty in her first book
to lift IL above the ordinary. and TO make
ms look forward with eagerness for her
next work in fiction. 1t Is certainly diff
cult TO explain the marked sympathy
with the mystery of pain and the TRACE
DIV of failure in the work of one so young
and adolescent. Such deep sympathy
comes from intuition, rather than from
knowledge. and betokens the possession
of that high order of mind which we call
genius. but which often lacks staying
power" The Bookman concludes us
article by saying: 1--WE believe MISS
Glasgow sent her manuscript forth with
a very faint heart and fainter hopes OF
success but as a matter or fact, there
was no doubt Of It's being published from
the time it passed through the hands or
the Messrs. Harper's first reader. In
loss than a wear after II was finished The
descendant was before the public. The