Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-17
Literary Notes.
him.

Hans Breitmann' tCharleS ". IelanuD
will soon publish n volume, entitled Ara
dia; or, The Gospel of the Italian
Witches"
There is talk OF a volume OF unpub-
lished scribblings by Walt Whitman. We
heartily join with the New York Tribune
in hoping that we may be spared the in
Fiction.
The Rev. Henry Van Dyke is prepar-
ing for the Macmlllans a book on the
Knickerbockers. 1t Is to be one OF
series, which will also include Mr.. Paul
L. Ford's volume on 1.-THE American His
torical Novel" and Mr.. John Kendrick
Bangs's Southern Humorists."
Forty-eight autograph letters OF Charles
Lamb to Bernard Barton, and ninety let
tiers addressed by Coeridge to Thomas
Poole have lately been given to the Brit
ish Museum.
Whatever NAV be the final verdict as
TO Professor Markham's now famous
poem there IS no doubt that the real
Man With the Hoe" Is Mr.. James Cor
don Bennett, as a look into the Herald's
splendid press-room will show at any
time. It IS one OF the sights Of Broad
way.
A high-class literary journal "devoutly
hopes that the popularity Of Mr.. Doc
ley will not bring about "a recrudes-
cence Of that worst Of all literary afiiic-
lions. the dialect story" And yet, de-
cade or so ago. when that sort of rub
bsh-for rubbish It is mostly-was "all
the 60" the few protestants who
expressed their honest opinion were set
down as fools. or worse, and the dialec-
ticians were the greatest geniuses OF their
time There are fashions In dress, bat
there are no fashions I'm literature. only
the genuine article survives.
The Messrs. Scribner announce that
they will publish in October the late Rev.
DR. Alexander b. Bruce's 1.-The Moral
order of the World" which was delayed
for over a year by the authors Illness
but was completed by him just before his
death The work is "a critical study OF
the topic of the moral order Of the uni
verse in its reality and essential nature,
as taught by representative thinkers In
| India, Persia, ana breece'
The September number of the American
Illustrated Methodist Magazine contains
an article by the Rev. J.. William Jones
on General Robert Edward Lee The
article does not deal chiefly with General
Lees military record, its theme being
| Lee the Christian, the husband the
| father. the man. There are portraits OF
| the various Lees at various periods OF
| their lives. The peculiar fitness of the
author for this work is well known.
Mr.. w. ]. Sullman has prepared some
| literary recollections for issue In book
| form. a portion of which will be printed
| in the Atlantic Monthly"
1t is published that Mark Twain Is
living lust now at Sana, Sweden. Is
| there anything the matter with Mark?
Most of the late Charles L. Dodgsons
| sketches and characteristic photographs
will appear in volume to be entitled
1.-THE Lewis Carroll Picture Book"
Some new announcements are: THE
Waters of Edera." by Ouida; Through
Fire to Fortune" by Mrs. Alexander
1.-THE Doctor" by Mr.. Stacpoole' the au-
thor Of THE Rapin" 1.-The Kings Mir
ror." by Anthony Hope; "The Crown OF
| Life" by George Gissing," and 1.-THE Path
| of a Star" by Sara jeanette Duncan
The October Scribner will contain the
first of two instruments of some delight
| full "reminiscences Of her stage life by the
late Mrs. John Drew, with an introduce
ton by her son, John Drew.
The new cabinet edition Of DR.. Holiness
poems contains everything which has APP
peared in verse from his hand-even the
early poems which have sometimes been
left out Of other editions
The October "Lippincott" will contain
paper on "Zionism," by Israel Gang
will.
One OF the most important books Of
the year in its class. will be Mr.. Cosmo
Monkhouse's British Contemporary Art
lists" which the Scribners will publish
this fall.
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co. will pub
lsh a volume Of "Child Verse" by the
Rev. John Il. Tabb.
The book buyer says of Mr.. Walter II.
Page, who recently resigned from the
Atlantic Monthly to connect himself with
the Harper-McClure combination that he
"has made one OF the most successful
editors the Atlantic has ever had In all
its distinguished line" Mr.. Page was
born i'm Cary n c.. I'm 1856. and received
his education at Randolph-Macon Col
lege. Va, and at the Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity one OF his duties at the Har-
pers' is to take charge Of n new Ameri-
can cyclopedia now in preparation by
that house.
The Scribners will publish two volumes
on historic and literary Paris. by Dr.
BENJAMIN Ellis Martin and Mrs Char
lotte ~ Martin, his wife. The book is
the work Of years, and is said to be OF
exceptional interest.
"a Study of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing" by Miss Lillian Whiting. will soon
be published by Messrs. Little. Brown &
co.
Mr. r. II. Russell will publish this fall
the text Of Romeo and Juliet, used by
Miss Maude Adams. The exits and en-
frances, Suggesting, and business viii
be shown exactly as they were in Miss
Adamss production, and the volume will
be filled with pictures OF Hiss Adams and
her company.
Paul Leicester Fords novel. Janice |
Meredith" now appearing serially in the |
Bookman, will be published in the fall by |
Messrs Dodd Mead & Co. The same |
firm will also publish at the same time n |
volume of stories by the wife OF Paul /
Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet. This |
is a pleasant surprise. and ought TO act l
as a ''discourager OF hesitancy' 10 those |
contemplating matrimony.
Rev. DIR. Charles NJ Sheldon, the au- /
thor Of I'm His Steps" wants some one |
TO PUT up a million dollars 10 found re- |
l:gi0us daily paper In this country-a pa |
per which would fight the rum and to- |
bacco Interests. In which there would be |
no reports OF priZs-tghts, horse races. or