Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-27

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ist. has succeeded him In the editorship
OF the Atlantic. Mr.. Perry was also
the Holmes Professor OF English Liter
allure at Princeton. SO. in a way. the
name of Holmes stu cings TO the old
Atlantic.
The popularity Of Anthony Hopes
Prisoner OF Zenda' does not wane, In
America. at least. Forty-five editions OF
the old "Buckram Series" have been abb
sorbed, together with a paper edition OF
10000 copies. and now sixth edition OF
the former is about TO be Issued, with
illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson.
Anthony Hopes Dolly Dialogues" have
also had a remarkable success In this
country. The book is now going to the
press for the thirteenth time.
The New York Tribune is severe on
George Merediths new poem. "a Night
Walk" which II characterizes as utter
trash, with no title to be ranked as
poetry" No editor would COX at it twice
If IT bore not Mr. Meredith's name but
that OF an unknown. says the Tribune.
Judging by some Of Mr.. Merediths prose
which we have read. we are somewhat
inclined to fear that he rather shot too
high for the Tribune's critic in this in
stance. and that poem on "a Cake
Walk might meet with better luck. The
same critic seems to think that the negro
Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poetry is all
tight. Mr.. Merediths muse should feel
encouraged.
1t is said that Kipling has another
story" ready and that # is 5000 words
long, or, short, just as the reader chooses
to consider it,
The New York Sun seems TO have won
its fight against big Six" though it
probably had TO hustle" like big sixty
to do it. Many OF the strikers predicted
an eclipse Of the Sun, but that would
have been a small matter 50 long as the
luminary continued to rise. Eclipses are
very temporary affairs
The wonderful success OF Richard
Caryel" which has gone into its hitleth
thousand has impelled the publishers to
bring out Mr.. Churchil's first book. The
Celebrity" which will be issued at once
in a paper-cOvered edition.
The success Of the Temple Shakes
peare." issued I'm single plays has been 50
remarkable that the publishers have
planned reissue in the library form OF
twelve octave volumes. The edition will
contain notes. glossaries. prefaces, Illus
trations, and a life Of the great dramatist. !
Mr. Herbert Spencer declares that he |
has learned more about China from Mrs. !
Archibald Little's book Intimate |
China than from any other book Of |
the day. The Chinese Minister in Eng |
land pronounces IT strikingly accurate.
HI q n
be the title Of new volume Of stories |
by Mr. C0ulson Kernahan.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett will pub
lish a new novel about Christmas.
Miss Marie Corelli has been living at |
Standardization opposite young /
ladies' school where many Of the pupils
practice daily on pianos. Miss Coreli |
found this so trying 10 her nerves that
She wrote TO the principal of the school,
requesting that the windows be kept /
closed while practice was going forward. /
as the noise interfered with the progress
OF literary composition 10 which the
replied that if the noise
would prevent the composition Of another
book like the sorrows Of satan she
would order a half dozen more pianos.
Score one for the schOOlmistress.
Richard Whiteing. the author Of mo .
John Street" is at work upon a new
novel, and also upon series OF papers
Tor an American magazine.
The Scribners will publish this fall a
new work from the pen OF the veteran
Donald G.. Mitchell. american Lands
ana Letters" is the title, and the work
covers the period from Leather stock
Ing to POe's Raven. which period In
cludes many of the greatest names in
our literary history. The volume will con-
tain many rare portraits. fac-similes
and views or literary interest. The same
lrm will also publish, about the same
time. Robert Louis Steyenson's Letters"
edited by Mr.. Sidney COlyin
A new volume of poems by Miss Louise
Imogen Quincy is promised for this fall.
10 will be called THE Martyrs Idyl and
shorter Poems
Messrs Houghton. Miflin & CO.. have
n press the Life Of Salmon p. Chase"
Jy Professor \. y. Hart
Among the Scribners' fall announce
ments are new stories by Thomas Nelson
Page, the late Blanche Willis How
ard. Tack" Bliss Perry, T.. w.
1ornung, and Cy Warman; also. Mr..
John Drew's "Reminiscences, more Let
ers Of Sidney Laner." and Judge
irant's "Search-Light Letters"
Seldom have two stories illustrated more
dearly the sure touch Of the master and
he clumsy hand Of the apprentice than
10 those in the August Scribner. by
Thomas Nelson Page and Richard Hard
lig Davis. Side by side, the contrast is
more striking than otherwise would be !
noticed.