Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-16

nnal feeling is that n,'S
,ong enough. IN wy ~
Mac II is pervadcd by marheu a. n.s',
p,a.S MANY e and In the third
pne''e corvevs that impression OF ease
.,,d which belongs to the story oi
,...,,ra but which Is seldom comprised
nv. ~ American novelist. Mr.. Mabie
.;t,.t,s ,bnt the book will take It's place
,,,,,h tho permanent contributions TO
American fiction.
..G,,,,a Trials. Political end Social" Sc
- and edited by n. l.. stephen. OF
ne inner Temple, is the title Of a two
volume work to be published by the Mac
milan Company, at an early date. Inc
adttor', Gays the publishers announce
mont. has tried TO bring the atmosphere
of the Crown Court into the study, and to
enable US as 1t were TO take contem-
porary interest i'm the men and women
long since dead on the block or the gall
lows"
"a Kipling Primer has been announced
for immediate publication by Brown
Co.. of Boston. Ii will contain the most
complete photographed data OF hrst edl-
tons yet published a photography OF re-
ference articles an excellent bibligrapny'
a scholarly and popular critical apprecia-
ton of Kipling's works. and an alphaDeu-
cal index to the plots of all stories anu
ballads
The first volume in the Macmillans
Now series of National Studies I'm Amerl-
can Letters" has just been published
"Old Cambridge" BY Mr.. Thomas Went
worth Higginson. The series is under the
general editorship OF Professor George u.
Woodberry. and the general purpose OF
the new series is to present the history
and development of our literature during
its first century.
Messrs. Small. Maynard & Co, Boston,
are bringing out the American edition OF
plain Talk in Psalm and Parable by
Ernest Crosby, son Of the Rev Howard
Crosby. These verses are moulded in the
form of Whitmans. and are published by
the latters publishers. The same house
nublish also volume of verse by Grace
Elerv Charming, called Sea Drift"
Two more volumes in the Beacon Bio
graphies" are promised-one by Mr.. Jo-
seph Edgar Chamberlin, on John Brown
of Ossawatomie, and the other by Mrs.
James r. Fields on Hawthorne Mrs.
Fields is peculiarly well qualified to write
of the great rOmancer.
The new and revised edition Of Kip
Iing's American Notes"-now cal ed
From Sea 10 Sea"-is issued by the
Doubleday * Mcclure Company.
by DR.. 4. Conan Doyle. its author. Mr..
William Gillette will undertake the lead
ing part.
The new "Anglo-SaXon Review" started
by Lady Randolph Churchill. has made its
initial appearance The New York sun
does not seem to be Overwhelmingly inn
pressed by it. The sun says of it, that II
looks like a work Of great luxury but
refrains from going into rhapsodies over
its literary merit though there are emil
nent writers included in its list of con-
tributors.
Mr.. Barrie has now completed the Sc
quel TO Sentimental Tommy The the
has been changed from THE Celebrated
Tommy" which was Mr. Barrie's first
choice, TO Tommy and Grizel'
The Appletons have arranged for the
publication Of "A work relating to the great
Paris Exposition of next year. 1t is &c
be a review Of the worlds progress in
art and science during the last hundred
years. The text will be by experts Sc
lected from the various countries OF
Europe and America. The illustrations
will be taken mainly from the pictures
which are TO be at the Paris Exposition.
The Hungarian novelist. J0kai. Will eN-
hibit I'm pavilion. at the Paris hNposi-
ton. n copy Of every edition Of his works.
As he has written over three hundred
novels some of which have been trans
lated into every European language ne
will need a pavilion Of good size.
Some time ago the London outlook an
nounced the discovery of manuscript
by famous novelist long since deceased.
This novelist turns out 90 be- the e'o'r
Dumas The pubishing-house OF Levy
of Paris. To whom the manuscript was de-
livered. declares it TO be absolutely
authentic. Manuscripts of novels by bal
FAC and Charles Leyer-one OF each-haNe
also been recently discovered.
Miss clara Morris the well-known ac-
tross has published through Brentano s.
a hook called a silent Singer
An interesting life of Sarah Bernhardt
has been written by VI. jules Huret II
contains an introduction by VI. Edmond
Rostand. the author Of "Cyrano.' 1t
seems supernous to describe the Bern
hardt's biography as interesting but that
is what is said OF IL. nevertheless.