The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-20

the ives: India 1slands: much OF the
material of the story comes from private
ans; hitherto unpublished memoirs and
from the town records Of Aberdeen
nfr. Stephen Crane has on the stocks a
romance OF ireland based on material
gathered by himself In the most dis
tressful country"
nI. glider Haggards ,neS novel viii
shortly be brought out by nongmans
Green &. Co. under the title of ELISA"
Advance sheets of the English edition
have just been received by the American
publishers.
Mrs. "John oliver HOBBIES craigie has
written twenty-six chapters OF her new
novel. Robert Orange" and it will prob
ably be published during the late sum-
mer.
Mr. J. "A. Aitsheler,s new story. In
Circling Camps which IS promised for
early publication by Messrs. D. Apple-
ton and Comany. will have for its scene
OF action the civil war.
The new volume by Mark Twain, which
Harper & Brothers VIII publish eariy-in
June will contain both essays and short
stories: it will bear the title of one Of
the latter. 1.-The Man That Corrupted
sHadleyburg.' Some of the material en-
ployed has already met the public eye
IN tho magazines: some is entirely new.
A friend of the. late Richard Black
more says that in his latter days that
author often sat half the night with a
book over the fire in despair of sleep. II
asked him what kind of book had power
OF soiace and I was not surprised to
q, ~ Il fac rIpfa &
living in fancy in the worlds youth, as
became a man who in boyhood had seen
the glory of life in the enchanted pages
of Homer. To the last he knew the secret
of eternal youth, and was never a pessi-
mist. either in regard to himself or the
world
Henry Seton Merrjman's new novel,
isle of Unrest will be published in
August by Dodd, Mead & Co. The scene
of the tale is laid in Corsica and Southern
France. and the style is said to be renini-
scent OF that in which THE Sewers" is
related in that it is full of strength. of
incident and graphic in description 1t is
a tale OF adventure in a popular veiis-
Mr.. Melvil Dewey has just issued the
list of fifty best books published during
the past year, and pronounced by a!ebi-
cite of librarians to be the best selections
to lie added to a village library. Heading
the list with twenty-five per cent. OF the
votes is Richard Carvei, and Marion CraW-
ford's Via Crucis comes third, while among
the other forty-eight are Mrs. Alice Morse
Earle's Child Life in Colonial Days; Mrs.
Mabel Osgood Wright's Wabeno, the Magi-
clan: Professor L. II. Baileys Principles
of Agriculture; DR.. Van Dykes Gospel 1or
a. World of Sin, and Norman Hapgood's
Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People.
The Macmillan Company, who have the
good fortune to publish the above-men-
toned books, published ten per cent OF
those chosen last year for the same pur-
pose.
"Dr. Dale is the title of a novel by
Marion Harland written in collaboration
with Albert Payson T'erhune. which Dodd,
Mead & Co. will publish toward the end
of the summer The scene is laid in the
oil lands Of Western Pennsylvania, DIS
trict SO far quite overlooked by the Amerl-
can novelist The time of the story is IN
the arly period of the mighty boom in
real estate which followed the sinking OF
the first petroleum wells and the yield OF
thousands of barrels per day.
IT is now announced in London that the
Daily Maii's sl1illful handling of Kiplins's
"Absent-Minded Beggar'' has produced for
the families Of the men fighting IN SCUM
Africa, $1,000. This is at the rate OF "
coo a line. quite a record revenue for
piece of verse.