Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-21

MS pain, UP goes uncrring rifle 10 snoui-
der, wild yell rings out over the prairie,
and another painted redskin bites the
dust. After such a stirring history one
fears that Don Estevan will find life
tame, now that he has found his mine,
married his little Manuelita. and settled
down TO domesticity. But Mr.. Townshend
does not say so. so we shake hands with
him over his happiness with right good
will. for he furnished US good entertain
ment until the curtain fell.
For sale by the publishers.
THE LOVES or TWENTY AND ONE.
BY ellison Willets. Author Of His
Neighbours Wife; Anita, the Cuban
Spy: 1.-THE Triumph OF Yankee Doodle"
Bull Fights of Habana,' etc. L. Tenny-
son Nicely. Publisher, London and New
York.
"The Loves OF Twenty and One" are
twenty-one attempts at short-story writ
ing by Mr.. ellison Willets: twenty-one
hard ticks upon the wind of the reading
public twenty-one consecutive blows. one
right after the other, each one harder
than It's predecessor Mr.. Willets draws
off a bit before the finish and lets Mrs.
Willets get in the last lick and make
sure Of the victim with THE Toys or the
Fates."
The book il n contradiction Of the the
DRY that il is hard to find a pub
Usher for poor stuff. IL it were not easy
to get book printed where wouiu
Mr.. Wilets's occupation be? Gone, GER
tainly. so far as the literary field is con-
ccrned. where the woodbine is said to
Irvine. His tales have not one OF the
qualities that are generally supposed TO
-. I,a al IL
story. They are not instructive, morally
or intellectually. nor are they witty or
entertaining They have only one redeem
Ing virtue-brevity. A glimpse at some
on the titles is a sufficient gauge-mark
of the whole collection: she Was Older
Than He" POISONED Rouge" The Wo-
man Who Wants to BE a Man., The
Princess and the Forbidden Cigarette"
etc, etc. Enough. Come hither, Mesrour,
and clap thy hands for the sack. The
sack and the garah0ogli for the man that
could write such stuff.
For sale by the publishers.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA
For the Use Of Schools. by Royal Bas-
com Smithcy, a. NJ, Professor of Math-
ematics, Randolph College, and
Author of History Of Virginia Pub
lished by the American Book Company
This work. though designed az Il text
book. will make a useful wade mecum fol-
all those who take an interest in the
governmental machinery of Virginia. Its
matter is carefully prepared and includes
a list of the judicial circuits. the COLONIAL
and post-revolutionary Governors, and the
constitutions of the state ,and United
States. There is Il complete index, which
enables the reader TO readily find any
thing within the covers.
The subject matter is treated under the
| following heads, though technical Ian
guage has been carefully avoided:
Introduction; The County; Towns and
Cities: The State Legislative Department
The State Executive Department; The
State judicial Department; Legal Proceed
ings: The Public School System; Elec-
tons Political Parties; Taxation; The
Government of Virginia in Outline; Rela-
lions Of the State and the Nation; APP
pendiX.
Professor Smithey was assisted in the
compilation of his valuable book by Colo
mel Morton Marye, Judge +. d. New
man. Hon. George S. Shackelford, and
Messrs. f.. l.. c. Scott. Overton Howard
and Hill Carter. who gave him the bene-
fits Of their experience and observation.
THE LADDER OF FORTUNE. BY
Frances Courtenay Baylor. Boston and
New York: HoughtOn. Mfiiln * CO., the
Riverside Press. Cambridge, 1899
THE Ladder of Fortune" recounts the
struggle of an ambitious woman up the
| hill OF success. who raises herself from a
mllliners shop In an obscure western
town into the position OF a society leader
Of two continents; and. out of "A vulgarian
OF the vulgarians, makes herself, II not
into lady. at least into an excellent
imitation OF one.
There is not a trace Of real plot IN the
book, and no great amount of action, but
Mrs Baylor manages To catch her read
er's interest ut the start and holds 1t TO
the last word. His sympathies are en-
listed i'm the milliner's progress from the
first Disgust for the womans unscru-
pulousness and vulgarty Is almost lost
sight OF i'm admiration of her good gem
eralship. and for the time being her sue
cess becomes the paramount consdera-
ton. At the same time. there Is no lack
Of moral lesson conveyed. Although Mrs.
Davlor administers Il so judlciously that
ner satire leaves no bitter taste, her
teaching is plain enough, and at the END
she points her haec fabula with no un-
certain finger.
For sale by the publishers. Price, $3.50.
YEAR BOOK OF THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRl-
CULTURE. 1898. Washington: Govern
ment Printing Office. 1899.
This is a book of nearly 200 pages, filled
with matter of great interest 10 the agri-
cultural people Of this country. 1t gives
the public a good idea of the excellent
work the department is doing. Among
the subjects treated in this volume are
the making OF good roads, the raising
of sugar-beets, types of agricultural! col
leges. new work i'm the Weather Bureau
the preparation and use Of tuberculin
principal insects affecting the tobacco
plant. grass seed and its impurities, notes
on English farming, preparation and use
of insecticides, crop statistics, &c.
KING WASHINGTON. A Romance of the
Hudson Highlands. BY Adelaide Skeel
and william IL. Brearey. j. b. Lippin-
colt Company Philadelphia: 1893.
This is a story connected with Wash
ington's army when it was encamped
near Newburg, y. y. the year after the
battle of Yorktown. II deals TO some ex-
tent with reputed attempt on the part
of some Of his officers TO cause Washing
ton to aspire to kingly honors. 1t also
includes an alleged attempt on the part
of certain British and Tories to entrap
and abduct Washington. Throughout 1t
runs Il love story. Altogether, IT is "a
readable book.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. BY
William Shakespeare. With The Ad-
ventures of Giannetto," and Other IL
Illustrative Pieces. Cassell & Co. Uimit-
OIL, ordor paris New York and Mel