The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06

flowers will extend a hearty welcome te5
a delightful little volume entitled, Min
iature and Window Gard eninE by
Phoebe Allen and Dr.. Godfrey, published
by James Pott & Co It. gives in simple
and comprehensive form the latest and
best advice in respect to everything con-.
rected with what may be summed UP
under the general head Of domestic hor-
ticulture. The author has wisely avoid
ed the common evil Of dragging In ex-
pensive and rare exotics and OF teaching
people how TO raise tropical plants
which In reality require a snientific hot
house and cannot be produced in an
ordinary home. Those who wish to make
rockerles, arches, screens, hedges. grass
plots and diminutive lawns, or to grow
roses on walls and ftrellisses, or creepers
and vines upon the sides Of q house, or
even of rooms, will have these subjects
discussed with great thoroughness. Win
dow gardening, which is growing rapidly
in vogue, IS considered in full detail.
The return OF Pere Hyacinthe to Rome
and his preaching to great Protestant
congregations recall an unpublished cpl
sode of his visit to San Francisco years
ago, says the New York Times.
He then spoke only French, and a. To-
cal Journal sent to interview him Percy
Wilson, an eccentric Englishman, who
had been bred for the Church, but who
had made a speciality of the theatre and
the turf. After a general talk on his
visit and his Impressions Of California,
the conversation shifted TO religious
topics. The intimate Familiarity Of the
reporter with theological questions SEEM
ed to amaze Pere Hyacinthe. and when
the interviewer rose to go he said, with
the puzzled look still on his face:
.Pardon me. but you have shown such
astonishing familiarity with questions
that only a theologi,.: usually under
stands that should like to know with
what special department. of your news
paper you are Connected"
oh said old Wilson, with dry humor,
I'm the horse reporter!"
The announcement of variorum edi-
ton Of Edward FitzGerald's work by
N1essrs. Doubleday & Page seems to have
caused some surprise in London. The
Globe asks how it comes about that an
American firm has been permitted to
initiate" such an edition. True" 1t
says, they come to England for the
aid Of Mr.. Edmund Gosse and it Is to
the permission Of Mr.. Adds Wright and
Messrs.. Macmillan Il that they owe their
right to- supplEti En- g.ish sboolhbuyers. with
the set direct from America :Butiswhy
has the club, which planted the Nais-
FFTCSepuSIl OIl E1lA1CI dtu o.-,5 law
permitted its somewhat obvious literary
mission to be defined and forestalled in
New York? We merely ask.
Robert Bars efforts at Dedication"
in his recent novel, 1.-The Victors," was
the occasion Of a most interesting dis
sertation on 1.-THE great American novel,"
in Chronicle and Comment, in a recent
number of the Bookman.
Mr.. Barr asserts that the long-lookcd-
for masterpiece can never be written,
because America is SO vast, fits interests
are so various and its activities so far
reaching that even Honore dc Balzac
with all his forty or sixty volumes,
could have done little more than draw
me outlines of such a civilization. had
he been horn a. citizen of the United
States Instead Of a citizen OF France
which Is quite true.
How far does the Forth Gospel con-
tain a credible record concerning the his
toric Jesus Christ % This extremely in
teresting question is the critical problem
of an extremely important book By DR..
Hans Hinrih Wendt, Professor of Theo.
logy in the University of Jena, which is
lust published with the American imDri.lt
of Charles Scribner's Sons. The book Is
entitled 1.-THE Gospel according to ST.
John; and inquiry into it's Genesis and
Historical Value The translation frum
the German is that Of Edward Lurnm,s
Messrs. Mcclure Phillips & Co an
nounces the publication in separate form
OF Walter Bagehot:s great essay on
Shakespeare; the Nam as a general in
PRODUCTION to theid series OF the acting
versions of Shakespeare's PLAYS begun
last season with RICHARD Niansficld's
Henry ", and L. TT. Sotilcr1l s Hamlet
.Britannia's Bulwarks'' is the title OF 2.
book, published by George 7\cwlles AID,
imported BY the Scribners which cole
hrates the acl!ievemcntssao of the British
Navy in deliberately. colored platcsFlnter-
perscd with brief descriptions Of sraIal
events illustrated in black ara white.
The forty-eight colored illustrations are
by Charle:; Dixon and the BLACK and white
drawings by 6. J. Standard. The ho'l
Is edited by Commander Charles n. Etb-
inson, e: n.
M. Sully-Prudhomme. of Paris. the
winner Of the N obel prize of $4,000 Tor
idealsm in literature. announces his m
tention OF devoting this sum TO me good
Of his fellow aftsmen in The literary
field. With it he has established a fund
to- DrOVl0S LOT
works of. deserving poets. This gracious
a.et.,s says Harper's Weekly. is de-
serving of the highest praise, and we
trust that in its results we may find work
s that Sis worthy of the generous hand that
passed along to other the good fort fortune
that came within its grasp
..Fow to Attract and Hold an Aidi-i
ence',g is the suggestive title Of the
valuable little book Just issued a By H1qa
~, Rers Esenwein. Professor Of the
English 81 1Languag sc and Literature in the
pennsylvania Military College, and T IS
=. nopular treatise on the nature. prepa-
ration and delivery OF public discourses.5
Is ..Mr. Munchausen, Is an account Of
some of his recent adventures, by John
sKendrick Bangs Moves. Plat & Co..
The book ms Is full n'
IN If ME-. Bangs and Mr.. Peter Newell
Vie with each other in funny text and
illustrations. g