The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-16

twenty other valuable contributions. For
thirty years it has been trusted by A1neri-
can women for guidance in home dress
making and home management.
Literary Mates.
Hall Gaines forthcoming story is not
to be called The Roman but The Eternal
City. 1t will be published in England i'll
The Ladies Magazine, a new periodical
which G. y. Pearson will bring out IN
January next, and in this country IN
The New Magazine, to be published in the
fall by r. H. Russell.
Dodd, Mead & Company have had to
postpone the delivery of Marie Coreills
new novel The Master Christian the
number OF advance orders having made
it impossible TO deliver on the date first
announced. 100000 copies was the total
reached before publication in England
and America
Mr.. 1&ipling himself has lately been
quoted by acquaintance as follows:
Il have sometimes been called a poet and
other names l don't like, but the one
thing l am really proud of is that
edited paper for forty-eight hours, and
that it didn't stop"
Dana Gibson's forthcoming book OF
drawings, which will be published in
October uniform in size with its four
predecessors. The book will contain
oyer ninety of Mr.. Gibson's latest
sketches and cartoons, ana, as its title
indicates, is full Of the national charac-
ter.
Word has been received from England
Nv Nov n1Pa1I'S friends thar he is
i'll that it is considered highly improbable
that he will recover. t
Having finished Robert Orange
which will be published by the f. A.
Stokes Co., Mrs. Craigie has gone to the
Isle of Wright to write another novel
Eeerton Castles new novel will be en-
titled 1.-The Secret Orchard" and is
tale Of contemporary life, most Of the
action OF which takes place in France.
The Macmillan Company announces
for publication in October, Marion CraW-
ford's new novel, In the Palace OF the
King" 1t is a romance Of the Spanish
court in the height of its maSniticence,
in the brilliant, prosperous times of King
Philip II. The hero is the famous Don
Juan, of Austria, son of the Emperor
Charles ", who won back Granada sec
ond time from the Moors.
Drexel Biddle publisher of the Countess
de Chayannes book "Ouirda,' is much
annoyed by the suggestion that the book
has achieved its extraordinary popularity
entirely on account of its uniquely SEN
sational qualities The publisher con-
tends that the Countess dc Chavanne's
novel is entitled to rank as literature
on account Of its many trite sayings.
and brief, fine essays-with Emerson,s
or Spencer's best writings.
Mr.. Clement Shorter, in his literary
letter in the Sphere, tells us that the
Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice, where
Browning died, is standing empty. Brown
ing bought it for $4,000 shortly before
his death and left it by will to his son.
who continues to live at Asoia.
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will
shortly group in what will be known as
the Notable Series, eight popular books:
DR.. John Browns .'Rab and Ills Friends,
Z trrosgh.s Indoor Studies. fiarte,s
..Story of a Nine" Hawthorne's Marble
Faun,' Miss Towards zone Summer
Howelrs "Their Wedding Journey" Miss
Jewett,s ..peephisl en-" and Mariners
.,Saunterings'' The volumes are wei!
printed and tastefully as well as sub
stantially bound.
A story about Tennyson told by the
late John -Addingtcn SNmonGs, IS quoted
in the London Spectator An ardent
but not highly discriminating adinirer
Of the poet, sitting next 10 him at din
ner referred to his lines;
..Eirt,s in the high liall-gardcn
When twilight was falling,
Maud. Maud, Maud, Maud,
They were crying and calling.
beautiful description, said she; ''one
can almost hear the nlShlasaies sins-
ing Nonsense, madam retorted
Tennysop. III his abrupt manner, they
were rooks-rooks::'
"Jack RAYMOND" is the title OF a forth
coming novel by Mrs. Voynlch, the. author
OF 1.-The Gadiy.
A writer in the London Daily News
gives the following description Of the per
sonal appearance 81 ": kostand:a The
forehead now loftier than eHsr, the feai-
lures are perhaps more pinohett and
there is a wrinkle here and there. a
| cigarette between the fingers always. A
nervous. tired. anxious air at all times,
Tho shy look of the man who is self.
centred, or, rather always preoccupied
with some ideal. a soft, low voice
which in its rare moments rises rich and
full, eloquent above others No ges-
lures. Only now aid then a weary
wave Of the hand, as me me mead rolls
| from one side of the Voltaire chair to
the ofhor An extreme, q polished caur-
tesv. manners which go better with the
| Toi,is NY cartel than with the Louis
| XVI furnit,,re IN the sleepy eyes ac-
! casio,,I flashes which show who there
is behind this mask Of extreme fatigue.
! 4
|. Miss Rhoda Brnnsh,tnn mas written :,
1 ,,ni;a, ~ the 81 +,4ia of ..Foes-in-Law.''
4 Mrs SCHUYLER croWtliTns shield is about
1 - .,,i,,r..,i novel of society, which she
a as crisis is partly founded on facts.