The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-31
Books and Autbors;
Comment and Gossip.

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Comment and Gossip.
The autumn announcements from the
various publishing houses are hegiu.,lns
to appear AMI they show ample FISTS of
books by authors whose names warrant
us in anticipating plenty of good reading
later on. 1t is a mystery-where they all
come from, and how the output is kept
up, but the source of supply seems in
exhaustable.
The scribners are going to give us
new novel by Henry James under the
title The Wings OF the Dove" story
or a peculiarly insidious temptation
which assails the hero;, also F. Hop
ktnson Smiths THE Fortunes of Oliver
Horn" which has been running serially
In the magazine; E. w. Mornings '.The
Shadow of the Rope novel of nerve;
the late Frank r. Stockton's John Gay
Tiers Garden and the Stories Told
Therein: William Alex. Inns book for
boys Rob and His Gun" and a num-
Der Of others
The scribners announce a new and
cheaper edition. for early publication
of Sidney Lanier's Bob including all
of a. r. Dugmore's remarkable color
illustrations. This unique life study of
the Southern poets hooking bird, now
within reach Of ali, will make an adj
mirable gift book. Also they announce
= new edition of Brander Matthew's
standard essays entitled ASPECTS of Fic-
ton and other Ventures in Criticism y
enlarged by the inclusion of new papers
of value worthy to be bound up with
such ESSAYS as ''The Gift Of Story Tell
ing and THE Penalty of Hun1or." The
book will be uniform with these former
volumes by Professor Matthews: ''Per
and Ink: Papers on Subjects of More or
Less Importance" "Parts Of Sneech.
Essays on English:'' 'The Historical
Novel and other Essays and .'French
Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century"
Apropos Of the variorum edition of
fltzgerald's works which Doubleday
Page & Company are about to turn out
TO the shame and dismay of slower Bri-
tish publishers. 1t seems that in the gem
eral understanding variorum refers sim
PLY to the various editions of the same
Wi1uns- AS matter of fact variorum
is very broad word and includes not
only the different editions of work but
the notes Of both authors and commenta-
tors thereon. It Is from the Latin en-
preston editio cum motifs variorum-''edi-
ton with notes of various persons A
of a true student.
Doubleday, Page and Company are
about to issue a small volume of poems
by Ellen Glasgow, outhor of "The Voice
of the People" and THE battle-ground"
to be luSuriously printed by DeVinne.
Miss Glasgow was a poet before she was
novelist; and the few of these poems
that have appeared In The Atlanta
Monthly and other ma gazines attracted
unusual attention. Miss Glasgow is
spending part OF the summer at IN
Adirondack camp, where she has become
an expert golf player.
Thomas Dixon. Jr., whose novel, THE
Leopards Spots has reached sale of
over forty thousand. in the past few
months, will begin an extended lecture
tour next month that will take him across
the continent. Mr.. Dixon Is now the
owner Of the steam vacht Dixie" which
lies in the harbor at "F,lmington." his
estate down in Gloucester.
Perhaps none of the most porular nav
els has been more severely criticised this
summer, nor, in fact. SO highly praised
IS THE Leopards Spots'' Dr. Max
Nordau, author of Degeneration" says
CT it, at is the most powerful novel
have read for years. Powerful in It's
plot, more so by the greatness Of the is
sues treated. most SO by the nobleness
and lofty force of its good chara cte.s
The incidents are stirring, the emotional
parts rend the heart. the arguing pas
sages reveal the scholar. and the thinker
But precisely by reason of the first
rata qualities Of this master work, put
it down with a quivering heart. Man!
Are you conscious Of your immense re-
sponsibilty? Have you deliberately. un-
done the work OF Harriet Beecher
Stowe?"
Houghton. NIifflin Co, announce the
following fiction for publication during
September: "a Sea Turn a new collec-
ton Of short stories by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich; "The Diary of a Saint by Arlo
Bates; "a Downrenter's Son. a story
of New York sixty years ago by Ruth
Hall; a new and complete edition OF
Maria S. Cummins ever popular novel.
.'The Lamp-Mghter;'' and the following
juvenile fiction. THE Champion" by
Charles Egbert Craddock: ''The Flag on
the Hilton by Mary Tracy Earle; and
Lois Mallets Dangerous Gift by Mary
Catherine Lee. In the department. Of
history. biogra ply aud essays. they Will
publish next month John Fiske's last
Work, NEW FRANCE 6llU New Eng oitQ,.
Lockhart's Life OF Scott" in a fine new
edition OF five volumes; Nathaniel Haw-
thorne." by Professor George E. Wood
berry: american Navigation" by VIII
liam W. Bates: and "Fternalism,' b.
Orlando ]. Smith.
The contents of the volume is as fol-
lows: The Scotch-rrsh and the Resn-
luton. The Scotch>Irish and the Consti-
tuition. The Scotch-Irish in American Pol
,tics. New England not the Birthplace of
Anner,ean Liberty, Liberty of Sneach and
Conscience Defintely Established III
America hr- Men of Scottish Blood, The
American People nat Racial, Identical
with those of New England. American
IDEAL, moro scottish than Engl!sh. -,e
Scottish Kirk and Human Liberty Re
II,