The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-27

provinces, among whom. OF coEEss. .no
names of the or:ginators and supports
Joseph Bouchard, Sully Prndhonme.
JACQUES Normand. Marcel Provost.
Georges Ohnet. Jules Claretie. Anote
Theuriet Mesdames Henry Grevliie, sew
crime. etc, etc
It is said that Mrs. Craigie will visit
America before long. but this may pc
but rumer. comments The Critic.
vt present she is at Steephi1l Castle on
the Isle Of Wight. Her latest book is
a collection of short stories called
Study in Temperaments. a new play
by Mrs. Craigie is announced, but no
name is given to It as yet.
Considerable confusion still seems to ex-
list in this country concerning the author
ship of The Visits of Elizabeth, and this.
notwithstanding the fact that the auhor
is. socially speaking, well known IN Eng
land. says The Bookman. Mrs Glyn
is French-Canadian, brought up In
Paris; hence the Intimate tone Of that
part of her book devoted to French life,
manners and customs She Is described
as being decidedly pretty and about thir-
ty years OF age. Her husband Is typi-
cal English country gentleman, with
very considerable property in Harlow.
Essex. not far from Waltham Abbey.
4 Maid of Venice will be the title OF
| Mr. T. Marion Crawforo's new novel; The
| period of the story is the end of the tif-
! teesth century. when the Queen of the
Adriatic was nearing the time of her
greatest splendor. The romantic episode
| with which the story deals is historically
| true, being taken from one OF the old
Venetian chronicles.
. .
D. Appleton and Company's October an
nouncements include The Quiberon Touch.
by Cyrus Townsend Brady; The Alien, by
F. f Montreor: The Apostles of the South
east, by Frank Bullen; Some Women
have known. by Maarten Martens; Ship
| mates, by Morgan Robertson: While Char
lie was Away, by Mrs. Poultney Bigelow.
The Wage of Character. by Julien Cor
don; Other Worlds. by Garrett P. Serv.ss;
| Dragons of the Air, by H. G. seeley: The
Most Famous Loba. by n. is. Blissett-
The libraries are complaining of the size
! OF ..The Eternal City says the English
! correspondent a book of over $50 pages
takes an ordinary man or woman about
three weeks TO read. and Individual copies
| of the books are out that length nf
time. II the book were only of ordinary
( length it would come back to the libraries
| more quickly and thus do away with the
| need for ordering such large number OF
| copies. The complaint seems reasonah BILE
| enough, but how is MIR. Game to limit
| himself to order?
| The Dramatic Mirrors Chicago CORE
! spondent5 is responsible for this good
/ story:
! George Ade. the Chicago man who
| writes the GABLES in Slang halls from
| Indiana which he has said Is a State
/ which a man Should never go back on
| or to- The other night he met an In
! diana woman who asked him If he had
ever noticed how many bright people
come from Indiana. Yes he replied,
land the brighter they are the quicker
| they come
/ The late Max NIullers library has been
| bought by Baron Iwasaki. and presented
| to the University of Toxic. A new hall
| is being built to receive the collection.
| which numbers thirteen thousand volumes
| and includes eighty-one Sanscrit manu-
| scripts.
| NJ. Edmond Rostand. notwithstaad-
| ing the fact that his physician has for
| hidden him to work. is believed to be
| darkly engaged with the ink pot, says
| Current Literature. IIe will shortly have
!
| When Henrik Ibsen celebrated his six
tieth birthday. in 1885. his friend. Henrik
| Jaeger, wrote the critical biography.
| which. in Mr.. William Morton Payne's
| English translation. was published eleven
| years ago by Messrs. A. &C. McClung q
| Company. The work has for some time
| been out of print. owing TO the destrue-
| ton OF the remaining. copies in the fire
| of February. 1900.
Mrs. Arthur Stannar,l John Strange
! Winter was born in the ancient city OF
t York. England on January u, 1856, ana
| is the only daughter, of the late Rsv.
| Henry Vaughan Palmer. rector of st
| Margaret.s, York. Mrs. Stannards IA
| Their IN his early days was an officer in
| tile ROYAL Artillery and had come o.
/! long line of military ancestors. Ihs
celebrated actress. Hannah Pritcfari. tn
! whose memory tablet was placed in
| Westminster Abbey, close to the bust OF
| Shakespeare, was his Srent-grandmot
York in Mrs. STANDARDS young Gays,
| was great cavalry centre, d fact Wnic1
| explains her exceptional knowledge al
the army Our author was married IN
/ 1884, and from that time has made ner
home in London, excepting for few re-
cent years passed in Dieppe. Her buoy
ant and attractive personality makes
her extremely popular in literary and So
cial circles
The interest. historical and PERSONAL. In
(. Abraham Lincon's career will remain
until the end of time. He was. in Low
| ellis phrase. the first American Els
glorious achievements and most untimsty
death in themselves create a sympathy
for him which grows with the years In
| his life itself romance. which requires
nothing more than statement TO hold the
attention, there entered a youthful lows
affair, none the less worth knowing be-
cause some portions CT it have been
/ sEroudea in doubt Mrs. Carrie Douglas
Wright has selected the boy and girl az
lection of Anne Rutledge and the future
statesman. just come of age when he met
1 her, as the basis for her volume, LIN
! coins First Love.
Margaret Brent, the central character
III Mistress Brent" Lucy n. Thurston,s
story OF Lord Baltimores colony in ls5s.
which Little, Brown 6 Company recently
published, appears as one of the char
aeters in Maud Wilder Goodwins Sir
Christopher. published several months
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