The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-09

AT the recent meeting Of the Depart
mont OF Superintendent Of the National
Educational Association, the virginia
school Journal was admitted to mem
bcrship in the Educational Press Asso-
citation OF America.
Literary Notes.
II is fact worthy of note that Mrs.
Novnich has made her own cramauza-
ton OF her famous novel. THE Gadny'
and the result will appear in New York
theatre next fall The Rev. Carlton f.
Brown, Unitarian minister Of Helena,
Mon. lately preached sermon with this
heading: THE Gadny. Study OF the
Recent Book OF Voynich.'
In the opinion Of Robert G. lngersol,
Dickens wrote the greatest of all
novels" lie says. The Tale of TWO
Cities IS the supreme work Of fiction. It's
philosophy is perfect Tho characters
stand out Ike living statues. In its pages
You find the blood and flame, the ferocity
and sclf-sacrihcc Of the French Revolu-
ton. TO me the three greatest novels are
The Tale Of TWO Cities Les Mise"ables.'
by Hugo. and Aiadne.' by Ouida."
When Jenny Lind made her appearance
IN a western city. in 1851, the head of a
society Of Quakers felt q concern 10 warn
his brethren against "a foreign girl
l.
down the land. whose voice was said to
provoke the birds 20 sing" lie would
especially put the Young folk on ther
guard against "the wiles OF such worldly
persons
The following lines from "a Vagrant
Heart" by Dora Sigerson Shorter VIII
find a responsive echo in many reader
heart:
"Oh. 70 be a woman to be left to pique
and pine.
this vagrant heart of mine.
Whisht, 1T whistles at the windows, ana
how can I be still?
There, the last leaves OF the beech-tree
20 dancing down the hill
All the boats AT anchor. they are plung-
ing 10 be FREQ
Oh 70 be a sailor and away across the
sea.
ochone, TO he a woman. only signing on
the shore
with soul that finds a passion for each
long breakers roar
With a heart that beats as restless as all
the winds that blow
Thrust a cloth between her fingers and
tell her she must sew;
Must ioin IN empty chatter, and calculate
with straws-
For the weighing OF our ne'ghbor-foI the
sake of social laws.
oh. chatter. chatter, chatter, wheH 10
speak is misery,
When silence lies around your heart ana
night Is on the sea.
So tired Of little fashions that are root
OF all our strife,
or all the petty passions that upset the
calm of life. ~
The law Of God upon the land SHINES
steady for all time;
The laws confused that man has made
have reason nor rhyme.
Ar zanrwiu SAYS: "Humour IS the
true wav of reading life Humour Is the
smile I'm the eyes of wisdom. Without
humour hold that there can be no great
novel Of life ,,,,.-
AR lanes Lane Aliens soon-to-be-puD-
lisbed book s. to be entitled "The Meite
~ ne pasture" and the source or me
.iro NAV he found IN Shakespeare
..rronrv the Fifth" "And you. good yeo-
MON whose limbs were made in Eselahu'
show MS here "The Mettle or your Ia9-
ture." The popularity Of the ChoIr III.
visible" Is as yet undiminished' ana n.y.,
o1ition ~ CITY thousand copies IS ABOUT
to be issued. ,-e.-,.,,,,~es .,
/ .o,,- cir Porcr l. Estrange. "that Gu
| Ne ri,en the grace OF repentance 10 pC'
-or,,,ore rnurderers. and to the openly
,,.,ci,od bnt am mistaken If the WIole
pfile afro7s any one instance OF co"
verted hypocrite." e 49,. non
rho much talked Of book lToih '''
OF Nlr. Winston Churcinh' ~. tbo
-, which is TO be published by tie
1r,o,,ill,n Company. has the scene '"l"
,.artTv I'm Annapolis and partly IN io"-
rbo principal character. VINO IS
V,.,.,aracr names the story. whose
taroirc is also Of Maryland and nancu
Do~othv Manners. Mr.. ChurchilIs MUS
traitor Is Malcolm Fraser. -, "r,
rbe prediction has been made tha'
rte stems" by Charles NJ seldom, WI
he the most saleable book ol 'ne M,
- &, england. Will it help us 10 u"I
S.+a'nd the measure of its success Wheh
u'' - informed that: THE book Is not
,,tore4,tre and ] do not think lH@t ~
la he difficult 10 prove that Sonls
- a. Is Immoral: but all these freaks VI
,,ucfo,is fervor require to be taken "o''
Of" .s,,ovisbes us
lean De Ia Bruyere admonIsltts or
-. s.rIa who knows how 10 wait LOT
~ 10 desires will not despair II ne
, - TO have to do without 1t. on uS'
49, bard he who impauently iohSs
80 ching has been too much enerosseo
ten the thought Of il TO feel 'hat SUI
80 - rovvards him for all his anxiety.
IT, following eperam from IN Ian
torn land" shows how we reverse mat
tars nowadays: .,,, Mite
.,1or Ouixote read romances ill his wis
Nv nature weak. became extremely
hazy; -, tic
THE modern reader quite collected Sis
L, is the writer's only who 90 crazy
rbe following paragraph contains
cloar souid against the British govern
mont of which sir Walter Besant ~ lne
author Referring TO the scanty Iecos-
ritio, ard reward which English me-
rarv men receive. i'm so far as tho pc
etov.al OF honors" is concerned he writes
thus. 81 am happy in being able 10 an,
ticinate an official announcement Whloia
viii he made IN the London Gazcl,e OF
January l. 1901. among the Blrlhudy
J4onors that will grace the beginning OF
No new century MIR. Rudyard klpnhs
win be raised 10 the peerage as Loru Mp
i,ne Of vermont. the latter part OF the
title Nv kind permission OF the Presluen.
Ind the Congress and the unlVels@,
1Toil,e mole OF the United states Oh
|, America IN recognition Of the services
he has rendered 10 the Anslo-SaAoh
race III. oA,,,res
Mir Rudyard Kipling greatly adnlres
NJ FRANK T. Bullen's book, Ihe Cruiso
- tbe Cachalot," and declares that ne
has never read anything that equals Z"
a, i,s deep-sea wonder and mystery