The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-11
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Arlo Bates and others. and q Coles D PIG
E=glishf Mzsters are Turner DIDO BuAd--ss
ling Carthage (frontispiecel and ssss1The
Fighting Temerai e. :, 4.
The! March Mo- Of Harper Magazine
&ts rich in timely and interest ing features.
PROMINENT among these is the illustrated
article on Pretoria Before the War" by
Howard c.. Hillegos, thor Of Dom!
Paul 5 People, Z. IN which the writer gives
q comprehensive sketch Of the life In tho
south African capital at the time of his
visit, shortly before the breaking out
of hostilities Captain Mahan contributes
the first of a series of articles on #i.'ine99
Problem Of ASIA" in which he discusses
the future Of the European Powers as s.
factors In Asiatic problems, and tnearn1lIo
inst alment Of Mrs. Ward s 81 new ov ..
also appears. There are shor It storlessp y.
stephen Crane, Virginia. Fra ers$&1B'oyt'es.s
Charles #E,rbert Grade ock Ellen Douglas
De1aud and Marie Van ID orst,s ana . spe-5
cial articles by Julian Ralph, A ~: g
r.. Coluuhcun Pouit they BigeioWzHiaLn
Tappan Adney.
The feud of the Montana miltlonalres,
now being waged in the United STATES se
Senate is the subject of a drama TIC mar
r.ti1,a IN Ainslee' S for March.HIne@ great
ast engineering feat the world has ever
seen is described by. John w ara, Il. >. Az
in .The Conquest of the Nile..Ih ne 8 mans N
moth dams at Assouan ana at SA .-'si
will IRA ctically recreate Egypt. An adj
:; -, Ipia compound Of sense and humors
offered in 81. Fortunes Made In Small
Inventinns...' by. Harvey Suther land The
exnenses. the salary list and the receipts.
together with many unpublished detallss
Of opera mana cement, are asreeablys
ztreated in 1.-THE Business Side of Grand
Onera.', by Gustav Kobbe. Full of the
smell and stir Of the sea Is tramp
Steamships of the World, by samuel
= wood: ..The Real Howells'' is wei
oonoas because in it we see the famous
novelist studied as man, rather than
Sas writer. In addition, there is
striking war story by Stephen Crane; the
continuation of General Kings novel ana
stories bys Chauncey c.. Hotchkiss, Evan
Macpherson and Howard Fielding.
Literary Notes.
The publishers advertisements OF MISS
acknowledges novel, Red Pottage, snow
a most remarkable increase IN the safes
during the. past month. Tnree or Tour
weeks a go the statement was made that
the book was selling at rate or aoo
COPIES a day. On February lst, :1,0oo
COMES were sold, and on February 18th,
orders for 400 copies were received and
filed. In the twelve weeks since >the
book was published it has gone through
eight editions, amounting to something
over So, coo copies, and q ninth edition IS
now in press
he of
the literary world of England are now
riveted are Eden Phillpotts and Neil
Munro. saws the Booknan. - Critics and
others interested in literary happenings
are in entire agreement regarding the
future of these two writer's, VINO, as the
saving goes. have arrived in their latest
books. Mr. Munros "Gilian the Dream
! er" has reached a sale Of over leooo5 cop
| les in England, in spite of the war panic
and in this country 1t IS. also. seHlns
remarkably we'll. Mr.. Munros next
! move, Will deal with the Jacobite period,
and it is said that it will contain more
action and incident than his previous
work in fiction. It will probably appear
| first as serial in Blackwocd's Magazine.
Richard Carvel is being translated into
German for immediate publication In Ber-
1 L
the Americans and English in the Phil
ippines, and. according to the English
papers in Hong Kong, Bombay and tel-
! cutta, it is having big run IN each
| place.
The first important book on the Anglo
! Boer war from the standpoint OF an Eng
lishman strongly opposed to the policy OF
| tha English Government will be publish
ed immediately by the Macmillan Com
! pany. It will be called ''The War IN \,
| South Africa-1ts Causes and Effects
and is by T. A.. Hobson. who was re-
Gently the correspondent in South Africa
| for the Manchester Guardian.
Mr.. w. u. Alden, writing to the New
York Times Saturday Review. says: the
person who calls herself "Ousda' IS TO
r,blish new novel next month. entitled
.sWatere Of Edera." A preliminary an
nouncement informs us that it will deal
| with Italian politics, and Will lnc'de ntaliy
exnose the horrible. corruption and tyran-
| NV of the Italian Government.