Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-01

the committees standard, as follows:
ION the Face Of the Waters" by Sirs.
f. A. Steel: "St. Ives" by X. l.. Steven
son; 1.-The GadHy,' by Mrs. f. il. Voy-
Mich; 1.-The School for Saints by John
Oliver Hobbies: Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling; Hugh Wynne, Free
Quaker" by DR.. d.. Weir Mitchell. and
"The Choir Invisible" by James Lane
Allen"
A book to interest railroad men will be
published this month by the Macmillan
Company. 1t Is called "The General Man.
ayers Story and deals intimately with
railroad matters.
A volume of short stories. eight IN num-
Der, by Stephen Crane, is published by
the Doubleday K Mcclure Company.
The third edition of Volume |. Of DR..
James S. Dennis's Christian Missions
and Social Progress" Is announced by
Messrs. Fleming IL. Revell & Co. The
second volume will not be ready until
late next autumn.
The novel which Alphonse Daudet COM
pleted shortly before his death will be
published soon by Messrs. g. Il. Putnam's
SONS. It's tue 10 IF COullSh uc rd-
MILE" and it is the authorized Ameri-
can version which the Messrs. Putnam
will publish.
This Is the age of the short story. A
series Of Stories by Foreign Authors"
in ten volumes, Is about to be published
by the Scribners. 1t is TO be devoted to
the masterpieces of short-story writing
by European authors-three volum5s
French. two German, n Spanish, one
Russian, one Scandinavian, n Italian,
and one miscellaneous-the latter in
GLIDING Polish, Greek, Belgian, and Hun
garian authors.
The Croscup e Sterling Company, by
special arrangement with the Macmillan
Company, will publish in June a complete
and limited edition Of the Life and
Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in
fourteen volumes, four Of which will
comprise the memoir by the poets son.
The Messrs. Hutchinson, of London,
announce Sir Richard Burton's post
humous volume. Tho same FIRM will also
publish Paul Leicester Ford's novel,
"The Honorable Peter Stirling" which
has had such a remarkable sale In this
country.
ID. Appleton e Co. will publish mmedi-
ately "a French Volunteer in the War of
Independence" by the Cheyaler Pontgi-
band, a volume of historical and personal
"reminiscences, full of romantic interest.
The authors recollections include his as
ISOLATION with Washington. Hamilton,
Burr. and other conspicuous figures.
1.-THE Standard Bearer" by S. r. Crock
EFT; Studies OF Good and Evil" by Pro-
fessor Josiah Royce, Of Harvard Unlver-
sity: Outlines of the Earth's History
by Professor n. S. .Shaler, of Harvard,
and italian Literature" by Richard
Garnet, are announced by D.. Appleton
& Co.
1.-THE Cruel Side Of War with the Army
of the Potomac" letters from the head
quarters Of the United States Sanitary
Commission during the Peninsula cam
paign in Virginia in 1852, by Miss Katha-
rine Prescott Wormeley, is published by
Messrs. Roberts Brothers.
1t is stated hat a negro comic opera
is being written in collaboration by
James Whitcomb Riley. the "Hoosier
Poet" and Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the
negro poet. Who will write the music has
not yet been divulged. Why doesn't
somebody write a negro novel? n certain
Richmond lawyer once thought or doing
so, and we wish he would take up the
plan again. Jackson Ward would furnish
abundant material for the purpose, and
If the work were properly done, we be-
lieve it would be a success. Perhaps
there is an idea in this paragraph for
some one Of our bright young newspaper
men.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Virgins story,
"Penelope's Progress" will soon be pub
lished, and as it relates wholly to Scot
land, it is to be bound in Scotch plaid.
A new idea, surely.
Mr.. r. II. Russell announces Two
Prisoners" by Thomas Nelson Page; we
nice of To-day" illustrated, by F. Hop
kinson Smith, and 9TH Shadow of the
Trees and Other Poems" by Robert
Burns Wilson. The last-named volume
includes Remember the Maine" which
was recently published by the New York
Herald with great display.