The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-12

labors had carried him out Of the field
of fiction forever, Is denied absolutely.
by William D. Alden, in his London Lett
ter to the Saturday New York Times.
Mr.. Alden speaks with every seeming of
authority. This is good news to the many
admirers of Mr.. Hardy. It Is true that
his .sWessex Poems and the later
Poems of Feeling, Dream and Deed
have been received with much favor by
the public, but it Is critically believed
that it would be loss to literature Tor
an author who is ranked next to Mere
dith, to give up fiction eatlre.y. surely,
Hardy has been. writing something pc
sues verse since the appearance or ms
masterpiece, Jude the Obscure, nve1
years ago.
While the nervous American taste is
running to hest-selling books all flllea
with rasping steel and vivid blood, over.
in the Tcutonia Of our remote forefatneIss
they are getting out fifth anc SKIN eot--
tons OF Or. Nyrop's essay on me MSS
and Its History This exciting book
has been translated from the Danish
into German, swedish, Russian and Eng
fish; and the Japanese, who think kles'.
ing the greatest American innovation.
are said to be clamoring for copies.
These simple people do not know that
there those abroad who do not, would
not, and OF course could not, kiss. It
is to be hoped that the cirilizias of the
japanese has not gone far enoish 10
permit of their happiness being wrecked
by a cold-blooded, germ-infsSted google
eyed, carpet-slippered scientist
John Uri Lloyd and His Country are
written up cleverly by Anna Blanche Nc
Gill in the January CRITERION. with
art Photographic Illustrations. The In
innate description of Mr.. Loyd's, Ken
lucky village of Florence in Boone coun-
tv ..stringing along the pike, - and Of the
knobs and hollovvs where "the WarWicks
dwet lend renewed interest to this
Southern authors deservedlyl fayorite
writings.
Walden Fawcett has an article on the
American Diplomatic Service; deneraA
James Grant Wilson contributes his Rec-
objections of Willard Fillmore" the first
of a, series of papers on distinguished
Americans; also the fourth and last m
stallment of John r.. Thompson and
His London Diary, 1856" Thonlpson's
references to his companions in exile, DR..
NIinnigcrode. General Toombs, Burton
Harrison. General Breckenridge and oth-
ers. and Thomas Carlyle's hearty express
sions of admiration and sympathy Tor
Mr.. Davis are instances Of the interesting
character of this material.
It is gratifying to learn that the one
American-novel-a-mo plan Of publica-
ton, which the Harpers put through SO
successfully last ear-EastoVer Court
House. 1.-THE Sentimentalists. DAYS
Like These" LET Not Man Put Asund-
err, s.The Debatable Lands" etc.-will De
continued in 1902 with an even stronger
array of authorship. They announce new
novels by Mark Twain, William Dean
Howells. Robert ". Chambers Henry
Seton Merriman, S. R. Crockett, Margar-
ct Horton Potter, Harris Dickson, Mrs.
w. K. Clifford, Marie Van Worst and nu-
,,erous others In addition to these
there will be books by Mary p. Wilkins,
John Kendrick Bangs, w. w. Jacobs ana
other popular authors. It is confidently
predicted that Robert w. Chambers out
doorland," which was postponed .untli
1902, will rank as the most. popular chl!d
book of the year. Among serious works
there Will be a new historical volume by
Justin Mccarthy. entitled The Lite OF
Queen Anne Professor Woodrow Will
sons COLONIES and Nation" and Prof.
George E. Woodberrys american Life
and Letters"
Alicksici Makmovitch Piechkov Is the
family name of the Russian author who
writes over the, pseudonUm of Maxine
Cork, His selection of a title meaning
"Most Unfortunate was not inapt. con-
siderins that he is known to the Euro
mean press as lie Poete des Nagabonds
ct des Voleur.' His biographer, NJ. Sat-
witch, thinks, though, that, since this
singular author has suddenly developed
from an outcast into a RENTER, he should
have chosen the name of Stchastlivy, the
fortunate"
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John B. Tabb's Matin Song in the AT
LANTIC is a very characteristic bit of
his delicate verse.
Arise. Arise!
Dawns not the day without thy waken-
ing eyes:
The mist that on them lies
DELAYS the blossom of the eastern skies.
IT'S at their light alone the darkness flies,
And night, despairing, dies;
Behold thine altar free from sacrifice!
Arise! Arise!
Father Tabb has found time from his
professional duties at St Charles Col
lege to compile a small English grammar,
which has just been published.