Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-07

more strongly to the man or woman OF
literary feeling and love Of nature and OF
men more than this charming series OF
sketches comprised in the volume "Blue-
Grass and Rhododendron.' : F. =. J.
THE MAGAZINES.
TOWN TOPICS, Tho Journal OF Society,
452 Fifth avenue, New York.
& An innovation in periodical literature
has been inaugurated by Tales From
Town Topics with the beginning Of Its
twelfth year Of publication. The current
issue, September. contains a complete
novel-not novelette-such as would sell
In cloth binding for $50; in addition to
the usual nelange of brilliant short sto-
ries, sketches, poems and witticisms,
which has made this quarterly famous.
The size of the periodical has been In
creased, and the form changed from that
& Of a book to a magazine, attractively
bulky. The novel, entitled Where Wa
tiers Beckon,'' is by Joanna E. Wood. It
is a tale Of the Niagara river, Of abb
sorbing interest and much dramatic
strength. The central figure Is q young
woman who, at her fathers behest, mar
sries 1nonomaniac c. The river to this
man is a sentient being, craving continual
sacrifice, and his one object is to cast
his bride into it's waiting embrace. The
bride meets a young civil engineer, and
they become madly in love with each
other. This part of the story is truly
idyllic No more moving romance has
been printed for a long time. Though
in prose form, it is a rarely delightful
poem. and cannot but add greatly to Miss
rels.
. & .
CURRENT HISTORY AND MODERN
CULTURE for September starts with
full-page portrait Of A. ]. Balfour, the
new Prime Minister Of England, which is
followed by an instructive article on Mr..
Balfour by Dawson Burns, Of London.
Then we have sketches of few Of the
worlds present leaders with portraits).
Frederic Austin Ogg writes on THE New
French Colonial Empire" The usual
carefully studied survey Of International
Affairs and events throughout the world
is followed by departments on Science,
Education, Sociology, Art, the Drama,
Literature, etc. Current History and
Modern Culture is, in its special line, one
Of the most complete magazines pub
lished. Current History Company, Bos-
ton, Mass.
AINSLIE'S for September. Brand
Whitlock, whose political novel, THE
Thirteenth District" has elected praise
from so eminent a critic as William Dean
Howells, opens Ainslee's for September
with Malachi Nolan" q splendid story
Of a Chicago ward ooss. A curious artis-
tic effect in the story is that the final
paragraph is identical, almost word for
word, with the first.
In the same magazine, Norman Dun
can, whose stories Of Newfoundland life
are as poetical as they are vivid, in
"Billy Luff and Master Goodchild.' tells
a story as original as It is pathetic. Other
contributions are Yachts by Samuel
A. Wood, which Is the third article in
the series called "Luxuries Of the Mil
lionaire.' est. Louis,'' by Earl W. Mayo,
treats Of the city and its people; THE
Woman's Commonwe alth Of Washington"
by Margaret S. Gerry; Emergency
by II. E. Armstrong: 1.-THE Meth
er Stone" by Frank R. Robinson: "Sto-
ries of Special Trains" by Carl Hovey;
1.-THE Burning Montana" by L. T. Smyth:
THE Triumph of Law" by R. J. Nor
gan; PAS Orgy" by Julia Truitt Bishop;
.Dowie and Dowleism," by Richard Lin
thicum, and "Mexico's Isthmian Rail-
road" by. Henry Eliot.
COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA: Dou-
day, Page and Company, Union Square,
New York. Contents for September:
Wild Grass, F. Horace Mcfarland;
A Well-Laden Peach Tree,
H. B. Fullerton; Rest Poem), Editor;
The Essentials of Peech-Growing. Walter
E. Andrews; A Page Of Toads, a photo
graphic study, A. B. Phelon; Touring in
a Carriage, John Livingston Wright;
The Making of Country Home. VIII.
1o ~ az
by various architects, Claude
Bragdon; Happy Heart (Peem), Charles
Elmer Tenney; Salmon-Fishing in Cana
da, with photographs by the author,
e. T. D. Chambers; The Secret Of the
Hills (Poem), John Leighton Best; Bit
more, photographs by c. p. Ray. George
Y. Weston; The Irish Terrier in America,
photographs by the author. James Wat
son; Drought (Poem), Nora Piper Wood;
0affodils, a Photographic study, T. Horace
How to Make a Garden
Bulbs for Fall Planting, photographs by
J. Horace Mcfarland, Charles Henderson
and W. NJ; First Fruits of Autumn-A
September Calendar OF Occupations,
ton; The Milkweed's Story, photographs
by the author, II. A. Doty; Some Hints
for Saltwater Fishing, E.. T. Keyser;
The Giant Cactus: Wood Wasps and Mud
Daubcrs; Sticklebacks; White Mice and
Albinos; A Hardy Substitute for Chero-
kee Rose; Canary Seed" Grass; Autumn
Flowers.
Virginia Edition OF Poe,s Works.
The New York Evening Post has this
TO say of the Virginia edition of the
works of Edgar A. Poe, a copy Of which
we have Just now received and purpose
reviewing at an early day:
The Virginia edition Of the Complete
Works Of Ed9ar Allan Poe processes the
superiority over its predeces-
sors: ~ The text has been carefully re-
used upon the versions which last came
lnder the authors eye. and the variant
,eadings have been scrupulously recorded.
~ Through the careful searching Of the
lies OF periodicals to which Poe contrib
lted, a considerable addition, particualr-
Y under the head Of criticism, has been
made to the collected works Of Poe, while
hese additions are In the main not merely
lue to editorial instlnct-a test which has
:ailed lamentably in the case of Thacke-
avs anonymous papers-but are attested
" letters Of Poe or his identifying ini-
ials in his own copies. 60 In much OF
his work Of text construction the editor
las had access to copies corrected by
Poe himself, while he has for the first