The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-24

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not rff more noy ear y
dignity and impresslveness OF George
spe Mt 'u long time time in Virginia making
sketches under tho authors supervision,
are reproduced In several colors, and there
are decorative drawings by the same au-
thor besides.
Tho Century Company will publish IN
February a novel pleasantly of ne beaten ten
ira k-idrillie: A Mennonite Mad ehl by by
Helen R.1Martin. The scenes OF the STORY
are laid in the Pennsylvania Dutch region.
and the book is full OF touches OF sly
humor peculiar to its own chara af Gters.
teh 4 froT CHS sh' atsofs
charming love interest Is PROMISED. Inc
Illustrations will BIO by Florence Scopel
Shinn.
Preliminary announcement comes 'na IF from o. n
James pott and Company Of me early
p Pomance Flower q ths Eort i tsls
Of happenings when William III. was
king. The author Is widely known n, a 8 ~ the 1'
x xorK 2! LltePary New YORK and Kindred
stories.
one Of the curious pictures IN Mrs:
Volumes, Two Centuries Of Costume In
America" which The Macmillan Compa'
ny have recently published. Is Tepr roc tnn
in British uniform. The picture was
pa:,ted, presumably. before the outbreak
o. the Revolution, and is lntroduieed
partly to show the uniform OF British
Colt NAL Regulars OF tho eighteenth CEN
tury.
The hero Of Eden Philpot's new book.
.rho American Prisoner" Is John STARK
| Stalk, OF the Revolutionary army.
He is one of several thousand captives
confined in large !, prison in D Par nNo1
has to do with tho escape OF some OF
iilese prisoners and with their adventures
with various persons N the story.
There sees poEss e ooa1 as
nEy Robert ~ f Henry
HUT other artists LoeB r.
Lowell Los'e Alice Barber Stephens and Peter
B Henest Roy M c Roife ailson. Una l. ST
berrad. Norman Duncan, van Ta .n,e sui nd
Olivia 6iitii Howard Io1 Dunbar contribute ar, adj
/, mirable group OF short stories to Har-
per's S1assazihe for February.
James JOY Bell. though only thirty
promise to live: The small boy, wee
Macgreegor," and the quaint, loyable ola
scotchyoman Mrs MLer ! s:otc It wr 5daa
seems to have little idea of the worth Of
his work, and It was the suggestion! eI ana aIs
Of friends thq pers"XSVaea Nae e
greegor" into book FORM Mrs. M'Lerie."
1 Mr., Bells new book, Of which there are
Tp e aaa by cen
fury Company January 2ot1.
Among the new books Of the yer a. Z. WI ~
| be an anonymous work, "Pcrsonalla. by
"sigma." This book win be brought ( o Ut
IS exciting great antieIpatory interest.
oek Lender was as s, p ssa ~ p whsn
:. publication commenced in the January
Gen fabric and fsshion IN ais brain before
h - beg begnin tic to write. When this. which
4 critics prophosy will be rhe most power
he has sbs yet restess writer viii
b. off again. He plans ten years,
TRAMP around the world, stopping to
write only when and where the fancy
l sci1cs him.
"J;he pynasts,' . will be published at once
Z MqG aa GsmdRaGy MhG ama eS
4 to form m one Of trlogy, Of which Y, the :,
second play or part viii cover the t;, zen ~
Of Nepoleons power; and the t ~ tdn I "
equilibrium Of the old dynasties. inc
enactments in the present volume pegi 81
with the threatened Invasion OF Eng!an ma
III. and the qualification of the Euro
4 mean coalition by the triumph OF Napo-
leon at Austerlitz.
Mrs. Alice Meynell contributes TO NJ l,t1.
per',, Magazine for February. an article
on "Tho Trick Of EdueaI.on. ~ "h hn,h
nary neegances n tne speee ere q no sea-
MRS. Meynell ayers that LORD Ien1hyson;;
In reading his poems. made such unly ~ q
USE Of the broad a., Or, as sne mes Gas y.
no pronounced with the sound OF N
telher. The article, Is interesting IN per- Der
SOM, illusions and example, MIS-. MeSs
nell, 1t will be recalled Is regarded as enc
Of the best English prose, writer's she
was educated by her father 9 grad
uato of Trinity College, GampriagSe, i rs
eade s4s roputnton as paIner Of battle
scenes, a 4 vf
The February Issue Of the Metr9f}R9lltbsg
e tHe ol puDl SEa s Ths sorS entitled
i eT %sssa sess he's and
is profusely illustrated by Cushman
f;ven without this exceptional feature the
February issue Is unusual IN the qna aId
and 'claracter OF its contents. t GeIGrs os
+ literature, and the, first OF this series o.
new AIDE articles to appear u tne e. Me- e.
tropoltan Is MI Adss app re- aatnr
another uTt Of the noted contrhutors 70 this $
issue. The remarkable "Confesstons 81 g
i Made, is continued, as IS also Mauriee
lIewlett,s .I.oYe Story OF Mary, queen ss,
Of scInsp -Four nntoTnbiieS con ltn[n 4.
biIa' by an undisputed authority !, AT
thur N. Jeryis, az the New iork s ns