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Walter Scott's novels. The last issue is of nine volumes, and includes Rob Roy" "The Antiquary," "Old Mortality Guy Mannering," and "The Black Dwarf" The publishers of these singularly pretty volumes are J. M. Dent & Go. of London.
 Paul Bourget's new book, Princess Blase,' will be published in Paris early in May.
 Messrs. D. R. Herrick & Go. have pub Iished "Children's Songs of Long Ago. "Shakespeares Men and Women" and Beautiful Women of the Poets" These little works are well printed and bound, and will be found useful for reference on any library table, as well as forming neat gift books for special occasions.
 The History of the Talmud.' now in course of preparation by Dr. Michael l.. Rodkinson, the editor of the English edi- tion of the Babylonian Talmud gives promise of proving a valuable contribu- ton to archaeological literature and one well worthy of publication. So far as we know no complete history of the Talmud has been published, and this is all the more remarkable as the many vicissitudes through which 1t has passed if truly and impartially recounted, would prove inter- esting reading. This the author proposes to do in a form as condensed as the facts will warrant. The work should be de- sirable supplement to the various histor- ies of the Jews already published.
 Herbert S. Stone & Go. have in prepar- ation an edition of the dramatic works of Bernard Shaw, to be published next month under the title of Plays Pleasant
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race and that by his own action. How would it do to place John kendr1ck Bangs in nomination? His humor ex- hibitS the spontaneity of Mark Twain at his best while it is no discredit to MT. Clemens to assert that the wit or his successor is a shade higher in re- finement. There is, however, one fault that Bangs must combat lest it prove his undoing. He is too prolific. It is by no means necessary to send out new book every month or two, and if he needs a warning by example let him consider Mark Twain's least success ful books. And then it must be re- membered that MT. Bangs is not i'm pelled to write through the stress of poverty as Mark Twain was, and this fact should enable him to realize the wisdom of making haste slowly.
 The mention of John Kendrick Bangs recalls an anecdote told of him in the New York Advertiser. The quality of humor in the story is as good if not better than that in most things from the same hand meant for publication. It is told in two letters and a telegram:
 John K Bangs-Dear Sir: I have
  Board of Trades annual dinner next month, and I write to inquire what would be your lowest terms for prepar- ing a good rattling, funny speech for me to deliver on that occasion. A prompt reply will oblige, yours very truly,
 To which goes a reply at once:
 Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your of nct oD6 n reply would say that my regular rate for after-dinner speeches is $500 per speech I have not as yet, however, opened up this line of goods in the West, and as I am anxious to secure custom in that part of the country l will offer you special terms, namely, S250 for such an address as you de- scribe. the amount to be sent as soon as shipment is made. If the terms pro posed are satisfactory kindly let me know at once, but in that case I would request you not to mention the matter to Chauncey Depew or General Horace Porter, as I should not like them to know that I am cutting rates. Truly yours,
 JOHN KENDRICK BANGS"
 After which the following telegram, sent Collect:
 Your letter just received. If Chaun- cey Depew's speeches are written by you then I don't want one"
 
 The New York Critic Is disgusted with the many paraphrases of "Omar Khayyam' that have male their ap- pearance within the last couple of years As MT. Le Gallienne is doubtless the target for the Critics rrow Che being on a visit to this continent just now) the following lines clipped from an exchange are offered to him:
 Boy, I dislike paraphrase of Omar
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By THE CALLS REVIEWER.

ter carols. TT ey sit in the choir stalls and when the carols are sung march out one by one The Bishop stands at the door, and instead of saying Good night, dear child,' as he does each evening, or Wish you a Merry Christ mas," as the girls go out, he says to each, "The Lord is risen!" The re- sponse is supposed to be. He is risen indeed!" and then pass on to the Dean of the Cathedral who repeats the same thing One girl from Chicago reaches the Bishop, and my Lord says, "The Lord is risen" Answer, He is risen indeed!" Girl ~oes on to the Dean. The Dean-"The Lord is risen" Girl from Chicago-"So the Bishop told me"
 And now it is the New York Sun that has got into trouble. Poor old Sun! With all it's faults you can't help admiring it, representing as it does an almost English conservatism on it's edi- toriaI page, and the brightest and breeziest of journalism in it's local col umns. It's writers are trained in the most correct sense of the term, but alas! they oft do stretch a point for wit and humor's sake One of these, in a recent issue of the paper, playfully re- ferred to Robert Barr as a gentleman of bibulous habits who delights to inn part a brilliant carnine hue to the municipality of London. MT. Barr de- manded a retraction, which was not forthcoming In it's stead another para graph was printed, informing sym pathetic public that the novelist's fam fly was poverty-stricker in conse- quence of his intemperance, it is to be presumed Result, a suit for $5O,O00, which will be prosecuted by MT. Barr in person. I wonder if the Suns finan- ces will stand the drain in the event of an adverse verdict?
 The pious gentleman with an insptr- ing sense of the reverence due to sym bols is again to the fore. A recent book of verse on pious topics has been re- ceived at this office direct from the London publishers. As the letter T resembles a cross the poet had to give it dignity by printing it in capitals. Here Is a specimen:
 Made iT Thy FooTsTool and Thy Throne.
 I would like to ask the publisher of this gem if he thinks respect for the Savior can be increased in this guise: symbol of Thine ouTsTreTched Hands?
 
 Who Is to be the representative American humorist in succession to Mark Twain? The question has not yet come up for discussion though it can be matter of but a few years be- fore it will be of pressing moment in literary circles. MT. Clemens is passing fast. There is no denying that, unpleas- ant as it makes us feel to admit the truth of the statement, one h:s but to read his last book for confirmation of the same. Bret Harte is out of the
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week to week, and sometimes in the mid dleEof one, when the most exciting situa- tion is reached, he takes his gun and disappears. His publishers tear their hair, but his readers 4have. to restrain their curiosity until he returns, when he takes up the thread of his narrative and carries it on to the end, unless another fit of restlessness seizes him. Before
 Quo Vadis' was written Sienhewicz was supposed to have made $500 900 by his pen. As that book has sold into the hum dreds of thousands, after running as a serial, he must be a good many thousands
 of dollars richer to-day.
 "Pasteur, His Life and Work by Percy
 Frankiand, Ph. D., B. Sc, F. R. S., and Mrs Percy Frankland, is the title of the ninth volume of the Century Science series, edited by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D. c. L., F. R. S., to be published shortly by the Macmillan Company. This book presents picture of the great master, and of the scientific machinery which he knew so well how to set in motion. and . how to control His achievements are so interwoven with the. circumstances by which our daily life is surrounded that it is all but impossible to find any one who is not directly or. indirectly con cerned with some part or other of his great life work. This biography is prac- disease during this century. There are. two excellent portraits of aPasteur in the book.
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Every year the. railway servants of England receive no less than E3OO,OOO in tips from the public.
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Done into English secondhand from Persian; Roses distilled with patchouli's aroma
 Are my aversion. Give me instead the feast once faithful drew to, Trumpeted forth by neither Star nor herald; That loaf of bread, that jug of wine, and you, too,
 Rare old FitzGerald
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
SAVE Us FROM THE TRAMPs!

Our city is overrun with tramps They
are frightful nuisance, especially to our
housewives, who have TO answer their in
cessant demands for food. Driven from
other communities, they find refuge here
and beg from door TO door. Far and
wide Richmond IS known as a haven for
them.
our people are crying aloud for relief,
and they demand legislation upon the sub
jet. VIII not the City Council heed the
public voice? We hope so. No greater
favor could be done the housekeepers OF
Richmond than for the Council to pass
an ordinance requiring all professional
tramps to be arrested and "deported" or
put to hard labor.
The Finance Committee will have this
subject before it this evening, and we
trust that it will not only take favorable
action, but do so in the most emphatic
form possible.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
HOsPITALITv.

Our soldier boys will not be permitted
10 stay In Richmond much longer. Soor
two regiments will go TO Tampa and an
other TO Washington. While they are
with us let US do all we can TO make
them have good time. Let's try to
have them carry away from Richmond
none but pleasant memories.
We are afraid some Of them have been
rather roughly dislllusIoned as 10 soldier
life. The preparations for feeding them
at Camp Lee have not been adequate,
and dissatisfaction has beer created
thereby, though we must say most of the
officers and men have borne their griev-
ances quite patiently. The camp Is
now being put into better shape. I'm
provements In quarters and in food are
being made; but our people ought TO
make up for the shortcomings at the
camp-unavoidable though they are-in
the hospitality and cordiality with which
they treat their visitors.
They are our kinsmen and friends; they
are going forth to represent Virginia in
the armies of our country, and some of
them we may never see again after they
strike tents at Camp Lee. So nothing
we can do for their comfort and pleasure
will be too good for them or beyond their
deserts
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
HENRY WYATT

a friend of the Dispatch's writes us
that Henry Wyatt, who was the first
Confederate soldier killed in battle was
a native of Richmond. and lived here
until he was j years of age, when his
father removed to North Carolina in one
Of the regiments of which State the
youth enlisted.
The history of Wyatt and Of the battle
in which he was killed has been over
and over again published i'm this paper.
We think it unnecessary TO repeat il. He
enlisted and died as North Carolina
soldier and must be credited to that
State. If he were living and were in
need, he could draw pension from
North Carolina, but not from Virginia.
Besides, If our recollection is not greatly
at fault at least one of his parents was
of North Carolina birth.
Again, the Dispatch has letters saving
that young Wyatt was NOT the first
Confederate killed, etc. We dc not assert
that he was. Captain Mari, in Fauquier,
and two of our soldiers ia what is now
West Virginia, had been killed before
Wyatt was. Our Information is, how
ever, that Wyatt was 1.-THE first Con-
federate soldier killed in battle"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
BITTER COMPLAINT OF FARE.
Mother Enters Protest Against
Treatment of Volunteers In Camp.

Editor New York Herald:
L have read your valuable paper for
many years, and what l admire most in
it Is the fearless way in which 1t brings
wrong-doers to Justice.
l ask you now. I'm the name of hun
dreds OF anxious mothers. who is respon-
sible for the abominable food served our
poor boys AT Camp Townsend?
Does the State not appropriate money
enough?
The boys are mostly from comfortable
homes and have been compelled TO sleep
worse than dogs through all this wet
weather, without even boards under their
straw.
This is bad enough, but TO weaken their
constitutions still more criminal neglect
mas been shown In their food.
Miserable bread and meat, soggy.
half-cooked potatoes, and a Iukewarm
brown fluid called. by courtesy, coffee;
also, rotten hash. filled with bits OF rope,
halr and chips Of wood"
rms treatment Is given our brave vol
unteers just at the threshold OF one of
the most luxurious cities in the world.
What may they expect later?
how can their constitutions, weakened
By this treatment. endure the severe
strain or the climate To which they are
going?
For Gods sake, investigate this affair.
and prove that our civilization Is not an
empty boast! A MOTHER
staten Island, May 49, 1898.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
MASKED BATTERIES.

Some of our inexperienced war CORE
spondents have written of the 'treach
cry of the Spaniards in establishing
masked batteries" etc.
What utter nonsense. There Is nc
treachery about the thing. The Spanish
are not bound TO inform us where they
have located their shore batteries any
more than we are bound TO inform them
where we have planted the torpedoes
upon which we so much rely to defend the
cities on our coast.
1t was treachery for the Spaniards to
blow up the Maine, but it was not treach-
cry for them to have a number of guns
concealed by the foliage in peaceful
looking wood near Cardenas.
Both the Federals and Confederates USED
masked batteries during the late war.
SO skilful were we in constructing them
the Yankees learned 10 dread them above
all things. When a blue-costed line of
cavalry charged over a ploughed field
near the Avery house, in front Of Peters
burg. in June, 1864. they were surprised
10 md we had several guns hidden in the
lockwood shrubbery there. These guns
of ours, opening upon them suddenly
caused the rout Of the horsemen and re-
lieyed the Richmond Blues and the other
Confederate infantrymen near by OF the
necessity OF using their mimic muskets.
And such incidents were OF almost daily
occurrence on one side or the other
No; II won't do 10 complain of the
spanisrds' using the articles that are
recognized by all countries as fair in war.
beyond that we hope they will not 10.
and II they do the United States VIII
have TO hold them up to severe account
ability.
by the way. It seems that the enemy
nave erected some new batteries at Ha-
oana and have equipped them with mo-
dsfn iong-range guns. These guns are
supposed 10 have been taken from the |
ATOMS" XII. In other words. II Is be-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
TIE TOBACCO TAX.

| The House uar-reyenue bill raised the
tax on manufactured tobacco to II cents
per pound. which is en- increase OF loo
| per cent. on the present rate. The Sem
ate Finance Committee, however. in
creased the House figure 10 IL cents per
| pound, with the provIso that stock on
hand be exempted from the operation OF
the tax.
The action OF tho Senate committee is
heing vigorously antagonized by leading
tobacco manufacturers their contention
being that IG-cent tax would be an
unjust discrimination against them, that
would prove tuinous TO their business
Furthermore. they claim that the adop-
ton Of the Senate rate eq&1 cause such
falling OF In the consuu Don OF MANU-
faefnred tobacco as that the government
would receive less income from a i6-cent
tax than from l2~cent tax.
Both OF these positions seem well forth
ned' Nor is that all. About the only
arguments advanced in favor of dis
eliminating tax on tobacco-a I6-cent
tax Will not bear analysis: these are that
tobacco Is a luxury, and that the tax is
PAID by the consumer. 10 the ma ority
OF workingmen who use it tobacco is not a
luxury, but necessity. That is the tes-
timOny OF men who have carefully studied
the subject, and 10 whom IL was person.
ally and financially a matter of utter in
dlnerence whether the tobacco-rax was
cent or % cents per pound. Experience
curing strikes In the mining districts.
Tor instance. when the men had not the
money TO buy their regular supplies of
tobacco, has shown that they suffered
as much almost by reason of that depri-
walton as from any other cause. 70
put an additional tax on the consumer.
therefore. Is TO put an additional tax on
a necessity of large class--a class that
can least afford to stand it, Again. the
United States Got eminent does not recog-
nize that tobacco is a luxury. a : witness
It's recent contracts for tobacco for the
navy.
SUI another view is that If tobacco is
a luxury to the consumer. il is not a |
luxury so far as the planter is con- |
-erhtd. 1t Is as much STAPLE a. wheat |
Or corn, and experience proves that an |
)hercus tax on tobacco tends 10 reduce
materially the planters profits. What
with a diminution of consumption and
increased outlay in tax. it would be only
latural for manufacturers TO seek TO
.orce down prices for the leaf. to saw
nothing Of the fact that the falling off
Il the demand for the manufactured ar
lcie would In itseS tend to lower raw
material market. Every interest in Vir
'lnia Is willing to bear its just propor-
ION OF taxation in order to aid in the
prosecution of the war, but no interest
ught to be willing TO be Disseminated
gaihst, as the proposed 10-cent tobacco
ak discrlminates. as we understand lit
galhst one of our most vital interests.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17
SPANS CABINET CRISIS.

As foreshadowed in Madrid advices
published Sunday morning, the Spanish
Cabinet has gone TO pieces, every mem.
Der having resigned. Sagasta. however
being the chief of the Liberal party
which has majority in the Chamber
has been intrusted with the task OF
forming a new government, and It is
given out that when that is accomplished
the war will be prosecuted with the full
resources of the country.
This announcement was, of course, 10
be expected, but whether It will mate
rialize will, we imagine. depend upon
the denouement of the naval game of
hide and seek, that is now being played
in West India waters. IT, as we conf
IDENTIFY hope and believe, Sampson or
Schley. or the two in conjunction, shall
succeed in finding and gaining a signal
victory over Cerveras squadron, it is
almost certain that it Will not be a far
cry to peace.
The destruction or capture of that
squadron would mean the practical oblite-
ration of Spains sea power for offensive
operations. and would leave our entire
naval force in the Atlantic free handed
TO deal with the few ships that would re-
main TO her for the defence of her coast.
TO fight against such odds would be mad
ness. but even should the government
prove insane enough to desire to further
tempt fate. it is hardly to be doubted that
the masses of Spain would make a de-
mand for peace that the rulers would not
dare to resist.
1t seems foregone conclusion that an
other such blow as was struck Spain
at Manila would present squarely TO her
the choice between peace and revolution,
followed possibly by anarchy. On the
other hand should Cervera continue to
elude our squadrons. and succeed in
singing us here and there, and in afford
ing relief to Blanco, the Madrid govern
ment may be able to keep down the dis
starving people and stave off
the inevitable for some time yet. While
Sagasta's present intention may be 10
prosecute the war vigorously, no one
need be surprised If In forming new
government he casts an anchor 10 wind
ward by not selecting confreres that are
too uncompromisingly warlike.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17

In an article on the electric light on
the coasts of France, in the current num-
Der of the Annales des Points eft Chaus-
sees, Nj. de Jolly describes in detail. with
plans ana Illustrations, the special
methods employed in the light-house re-
Gently dedicated at the Point of Pen
mare II, In Brittany-the scene of so many
shipwrecks, and which was erected in
memory OF Marshal Davout, Prince OF
Eckmuhl, by his daughter, the Marchio-
ness Of Blocquevlle. The light is visible
siNty-two miles in fine and twenty-four
miles In fosgy weather, exceeding in bril-
lancy that Of any other lighthouse
lamp. The optical apparatus completes a
revolution n twenty seconds, and. every
flve seconds. sends out white flashes last
ing a tenth of a second. The building
material is Kersanton granite bronze
statue of Davout is placed inside upon a
pedestal OF porphyry, on which are in
scribed the names Of his battles. In her
will, providing for the memorial. the
MaIchionesS says "My first and most
cherished wish is that there may be erect
ed q lighthouse upon some dangerous
poin: on the coast of France. The
tears caused by the calamities of war.
which dread and detest more than ever.
will thus be compensated for by the lives
saved from the tempest"
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sagasta's voice is still for war.
The Brave at Home.

(rhomas Buchanan Read In washington
Starr
The maid who binds her warriors sash
with smile that well her pain dissem-
bles,
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry teardrop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed a drop as dear
AS e'er believed the field of glory!
The wife who girds her husbands sword.
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word
What though her heart be rent asunder;
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Has shed as sacred blood as e'er
Was poured upon the field of battle.
The mother who conceals her grief
While 10 her breast her son she presses.
Ihen Dreatnes lew brave words ana
brief.
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
with no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her
Sheds holy blood as Ger the sod
Received on Freedoms field of honor!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-17

Speaker Reed contributes an interest
ing article on newspapers to the columns
of the Sunday Press, of Philadelphia.
He is a great believer in the educational
Influences Of journalism, and says: 1T
reaches all and lifts an, and is constant
in It's work, adding day. by day its quota
not always the same, 10 the average
intelligence. which Is the final hope of
the country, and of the world" We ac-
knowledge the compliment and remind
the Speaker that his own name spelled
with an a contains the very glst of his
arguments.