Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-05
OTHER NEW PUBLICATIONS.

DESCRIBED BY FAMOUS MEN,"
Edited and translated by Esther Sin
gleton, author of ''Turrets, Towers, and
Temples" Great Pictures" WONDERS
Of Nature" Romantic Castles and
Palaces paris" London, love
In Literature. and Art "a Guide to
the Opera and translator of 1.-THE
Music Dramas of Richard Wagner"
With numerous Illustrations. New
Is York: Dodd, Meade & Co. Pages, 366.
For sale by Bell Book and Stationery
Company.
Miss Singleton's new book, Famous
Paintings is great acquisition to both
the literary and artistic world It should
be hailed with delight by both student
and collector, and open a new and in
teresting field to those hitherto unac-
quainted with the subject it treats. It
IS literary as well as an artistic pro-
duction, some of the most famous
such as Ruskin, Jouin, Gruyer, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, JUST, etc.
The book is beautifully illustrated, with
reproductions of celebrated paintings and
chapter by some distinguished writer,
describes each reproduction, and often
is given extracts from the life of the
artist. At first glance it would seem
that many OF the most familiar paintings
were ignored, but this is soon explained
IN the preface from which we quo.e.
Says the author: ''In making a second
collection of masterpieces OF paintings
that have given pleasure and afforded In
spiration to many generations of man
kind, have endeavored to represent
several great painters, who did not ap-
pear in my former volume, of which this
is, in some measure, continuation. Cri-
velli, Livini, Giorgione. Moroni, Land
seer. Mantegna, and Perugino are among
those who were left out Of Great Pic
ture' for lack Of space"
There are 4S pictures in all, and every
one of the very first rank. In reading
this work we come in contact, not only
with the master hand and skill, but like
wise the master mind, and in so doing
the uninitiated will find it almost impos-
sble to realize that they have not stood
before these famous paintings and stud
led every line and color until they are
indelibly impressed upon the heart as
well as the mind; for even the thought
arG feeling of the painter seems to be
brought out in the descriptions. After
close study the very pictures themselves
pulsatc with life and reality.
Those who are acquainted with the or
iginals will see them in new light
and derive fresh pleasure from so doing.
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THE HERR DOCTOR. BY Robert Mac
donald The Hour-Gass Series. Illus.
trations by w. E. Mears. Funk &
Wagnalls Company: New York and
London. Price, 30 cents net.
This is a pleasing little story whose
scene is laid in Germany, though it's
most conspicuous figures are TWO Amer1-
can women who are travelling In that
country. The older one. who is an aunt
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and when she suffers a severe attack Of
rheumatism, she is taken under protest
to a neighboring castle for treatment
by physician who is said to be of peas
ant origin. OF course this is not really
the case for the Herr Doctor" in time
turns out to be a distinguished noble-!
man. It goes without saying that he
woes and wins the young American girl.
but not until he has gotten some round
abuse from the aunt, who besides hating
doctors also hates plebians. Although it
will not take over an hour to read this
story, 1t is full OF interesting complies
tons and touches Of humor.
RHYMES AND ROUNDELAYs FROM
LIFE Life Publishing Company;
New York.
This little volume, which Is daintily
bound and exquisitely illustrated with
more poems Of a very high order. They
are mostly lyrics and touch upon great
variety of current topics. Some of the
verses are exceptionally clever; none are
mediocre. They are reproductions from
Life" whose high standing among the
brighter of current periodicals, needs no
mention. The humorous trend of Ameri-
can verses is well and pleasingly exempn-
fed in the work before us, which makes
delightful reading.
POGO A POGO. By W. F. Johnson. The
Saalfield Publishing Company: Akron,
O. Price, $780,
The hero Of this most unusual story,
John Hume. is about as robustious a
young man as we have encountered in
fiction for many day. He is strong in
will, strong in body and strong in his
affections In the business world he Is
what might be called promoter and
though frequently be has abundance of
cash, there are other times when he is in
desperate straits. Twice his poverty be-
came SO irritatngly monotonous that he
was forced to take to prize-fighting,
though we are carefully assured that
this was a mere side issue brought about
by the exigencies of the case. On an
other occasion he solicitated insurance
an occupa ton, in our opinion, even more
narrowing than prize-fghting. But for
all this John Hume is a very likeable and
very manly fellow, and better still he
is not uninteresting.
His abilities as promoter come pron1-
nently into play in connection with the
establishme Of a National University of
Art, supposed to have been erected in
Washington. D. c.. Indeeu this Univer-
sity OF Art, and the plans to set it afoot.
constitute the cream Of the story and the
many ranifications Of the scheme put
us in touch with some very interesting
if not unconventional but there is a GER
tain fresh self-confdence about the au-
thor which is rather pleasing. One cam
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