Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-09
Good men are scarce. and bad men are
often obliged TO make themselves SO
Even an expert axeman sometimes finds
II difficult to cut down expenses.
Literary NOtcs.

new edition Of Boulyer's History Oh
| China" in two volumes. has just Deen
| published by the Macmillan Company. IL
| has been thoroughly revised and brought
down to date by the author. and contains
| many new portraits and maps. The pub
| licatlon is exceedingly timely.
The Frederick A. Stokes Company pup
| lished recently Tolstors THE Christian
! Teaching" in advance of its publication
| in any European country, not even ex-
cepting Russia.
money and Bimetalism" Is the title OF
a volume about to be issued by G. p.
| Putnam's Sons, which is Intended to ex-
plode the theories OF the bimetallists.
E. P. Dutton & Co. publish Through
Armenia on Horseback" by tho Rev.
George II. He3worth.
The Macmillan Company will soon pub
lish 1.-THE Underground Railroad from
Slavery 10 Freedom by Wilbur II. Sic
bert. An appendix contains list of no.
table fugitive slave cases, besides other
interesting matter.
A mertorious collection of sea tales Is
Cutcliffe Hyne's Captain Kettle Stories"
The first OF these stories is contained In
1.-The Paradise Coal Boat" announced ny
NJ. +. Mansfield & Co.
Miss Grace Kings new book, DE Soto
and His Men in the Land. of Florida"
will be published this month by the Mac
milan Company.
G. p. Putnams Sons will publish in their
Stories OF the Nations Series book on
Bismarck. by J. W. Headlam. OF Kings
College. Cambridge, which has been in
preparation for the past four years. Its
title will be. Bismarck and the New
German Emplre-How 1t Arose and What
1t Displaced"
Some announcements of the Frederick
A. Stokes Company's are Henry Ward
Beecher," by r. J. Elllnwood; 1.-THE De-
stroyer." by Benjamin Swift. and 1.-THE
Town Traveller" by George Closing.
The October No. of the Pall-Mall Maya
zine contains an article by William Arch
err the well-known literary and dramatic
critic, on Anglo-American literature.
What is described as ian American
boys story of stirring adventure on land
and sea" is TON Benton's Luck" by
Herbert f. Hamblen, author OF "On
Many Seas" and "The General Managers
Story" TheMacmilan Company are the
publishers. who also issue new edition
of Professor Goodwin Smiths "Guessss at.
the Riddle of Existence"
g. =. Putnam's sons are printing "Ro-
man Africa Archaeological Walks in AL
giers and Tunis," by CASTOR Bolster
author OF Cicero and His Friends"
Rome and Pompeii" and 1.-THE Country
of Horace and Virgil"
Or. Max. Nordau's new novel, '"rhe
Drones Must Die" is expected to appear
IN this country at an early date.
Charles Scribner's Sons announce On
PRODUCTION to the Old Testament-Part l.,
the Canon" by William Henry Green.
d. D., IL. D.. Professor Of Oriental and
Old Testament Literature in Princeton
Theological Seminary; also, new volume
by a. b. Frost. containing many humor-
Gus drawings similar TO the Bull Calf
and Other Stories" and STUFF and Nom
sense"
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce five vol
umes Of hctiOn-"The Second Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow" by Jerome X Jerome;
Adventures Of the COmte de la Muette
during the Reign or Terror, by Bern
ard Canes; 1.-THE Tittemongers," by Will
liam Farquhar Payson 1.-THE Uncaled."
by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. the negro
poet, and 1.-THE Minister of State" by A.
J. Stewart.
Shakespeare in France" by NJ. Jusser-
and, is expected to be published shortly.
A pretentious announcement is that of
Heinemann. of London who proposes 70
publish a work in twelve volumes. under
the general title OF A View of the World
in 1900" which Is 10 be a prospective Of
the world in that year. Professor III. j.
Mackini Ter. OF oxford, is the editor. and
many eminent writer's will contribute vol
unes.
Another timely publication is Mr.. 4 x.
Fiske's Tho Story OF the West Indies"
In which the author has endeavored TO
describe the island from the physical.
historical and political points of view.
II. Rider Haggard having apparently
tired OF writing blood-curding romance.
has taken to fsrming-a much more use.
full II not so lucrative. employment-and
as one result has written a Farming
Commonplace Book" which will be pub
lished next year.