Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-14

Dy James Bryce; The United States i
Foreign Military Expeditions" by Pro
lessor Albert Bushnell Hart, and 9TH
New Fiscal Policy Of the United States.
by Worthington c. Ford. England re
ceives attention in Mr.. Smalley's secon
paper on Mr.. Gladstone. and ir "Socia
Life In the British Army" illustrated b,
Il. Cation Woodvflle. THE Romance o
q Mad King" In a vivid sketch Of the lii
OF King Louis H.. Of Bavaria; Sidne,
whitman, =. Il. @. s.. writes Of '"Th
Turk at Home" and Days In the Arctic
are notes from the Journal OF Frederick
Q. Jackson. Part /. Of IAN Angel In
Web" q novel by Julian Ralph; foul
short stories. including one by Frederi,
Remington. and the Drawer conclude tn,
| number.
THE DAY BREAKETH. BY Fanny
| Abricks shugert. A Tale of Jerusalem
and Rome in the Days Of Christ. Phil
adeiphia: Henry Altemus. 1885, Pages
| 2sl. Cloth and colors.
This neat volume is very badly printed
| In 1t are about orc hundred typographical
and grammatical errors.
The spirit and tendency Of the story
are good. 1t is full Of friendliness, cour-
tesy. reverence. and parental and hlial
anecuon. 1t recites many important
Facts In the history Of the Roman empire
ana It's subjected kingdom of Judea, du-
ring the half century preceding the APP
palling destruction Of Jerusalem by the
Roman army under Titus.
The characters introduced converse too
much alike. Old and young, high and
low, male and female, speak in too much
the same style. Most of them espouse
the Christian faith.
THE WRITER. For August. 1898.
The Writer" Boston) for August gives
In full Frederic Harrisons essay, ION
style In English Prose" Robert Smyth
has an amusing article on "Our Own Cor
respondent In the department Of
writers OF the Day" there arc sketches
OF Charles j. Bayne, Charles Waddell
Chestnut, adds Dunbar" Charles Mo-
reau Harger. Gertrude Heath. Ida Ken
niston, Ellicott Mcconnell, George Barr
McCutcheon, Viola Roseboro, and Jenny
Terrill Ruprecht all contributors to re-
cent numbers OF leading magazines. and
In the department of personal GOSSIP
ABOUT Authors" there Is some interesting
matter about John Strange Winter.
Thackeray. and Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
The price OF the ritter is 10 cents
number, or 81 year, and IL is published
by the Writer Publishing Company. Post
Office Box 1896, Boston.
SHE WHO WILL NOT, WHEN SHE
MAY. By Eleanor G.. Walton. Illus
trated by H. p. NJ. Rumford. Phila-
deIphia: Henry Altemus 1898 Pages
136. Cloth and Gilt
John Harding and Katharine Pember-
ton, two professed artists. are great
friends, and lead together a somewhat
bohemian life. He finally makes mat
rimonial love TO her, but she insists upon
Keeping him within Platonic limits. and
they separate. He is absent from her
for three years and goes to India. Hear
ing of his return to England she pre-
pares to go thither to meet and TO marry
MIN. Tor she has become conscious of her
deep love and avows 1t in a letter to her
friend. Isabel. But just as she is on
the eve of sailing for London she re-
ceives from him an announcement of his
marriage. In her grief she ruptures a
blood vessel and expires.
The contents of the work are hjnnant
irreyerent, and indicate.
BY THE AURELIAT WALL AND
OTHER ELEGIES. By Bliss Carman.
author Of Low Tide on Grand Pre-"
Behind the Arras," Ballads of Lost
Haven" &c. Lamson, Wolfe & Co.
Boston, New York, and London. 1885,
Cloth and gilt. PIP. 1872
Inc leading poem. by the Aurelian
WALL" is hearty tribute to the unfortu-
nate and lamented John Keats, who |
round a premature grave in Rome in 1921. |
He was unjustly and inadvertently treat |
ed by the British critics, but was rising |
In reputation, even before his death. He |
n hf fob1
since. The author says:
And so his splendid name.
Who left the book of lyrics and small |
fame
Among his fellows then,
Who knows when?
Spreads through the world like autumn
Till all the hillsides fame"
There are tributes also to Lovelace
Phillips Brooks. Henry George, Andrew
Stratton (his special friend, and others.
However creditable 10 the composer
hese elegies may be. they do not rival
the celebrated one OF Gray, in that "Coun-
Try Churchyard."
OF Bishop Brooks our author well says:
How comes 1t, think you, the towns
traffic pauses
Thus at high noon? Can we wealth
mongers grieve?
iere in the sad surprise. greatest Ameri-
ca
Shows for moment her heart on her
sleeve.
She who is said to give life-blood for
silver,
Proves without show she sets higher
than gold
ust the straight manhood. clean, gentle,
and fearless,
Man In Gods likeness once more as Of
DID,"
Jew YORK NOCTURNES AND
OTHER POEMS. BY Charles G. d.
Roberts. Lamson, Wolfe & Co., Bos-
ton, New York. and London. 1893
Cloth and Gilt. Pages, 81
Here the publishers are worthily up
Gliding another of our poetical fedg-
ngs. Let them keep up their attempts
D fly. The soaring eagles lofty flight
lay be gained at last
Our nocturnal bard is desperately in
we with somebody. In his lines on
Presence" he says:
Dawn. like lily, lies upon the land
lnce l have known the whiteness of
your hand.
usk is more soft and more mysterious
where
reaths on my eyes the perfume of your
hair.
1aves at your coming break in livelier
blue;
nd solemn woods are glad because of I
you.
rocks OF your laughter learn their
liquid notes, ;