The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-28

The Centfe of the Champagne indu lt. ny
BY Alice Haii Social life IN 4ia coilier
Plat. A study Of Z the Easy b Boss. BY
Joseph M. a Rogers; Phases Of Railroad--E
Ing In Japan Oriental Customs and = Sol.
trasts by Harold Bolce; Artistic Briddges3
Beauty Painter of Men and ara 1yaais:
The ife-work of George ~
The Growng Power of woman Nv tlshar
lotte Perkins Gilman; The Maid !, 9 tn ne
R lssd; The si Besi New ~ filings froib the
Literary and Book Notes.
Among the books to be brought out
tits autumn ~ Little, Br9wii a n siS nm
eXa; a ~ f Her Friend Mrs Lathrop
nsyf saRfyS asni S's
r1 IsPSy tsT1a1a tnS sstA1s
the successful and opulent noyelist Inc.
latest him Is that th he h]s IL FAM fn
flns BIZ %as once e quite derent With
him. a friend of his younger days gives
an interesting picture of Harlan lt! W
fore taking his dose of popular, success: y.
FIRST novel, Mrs. pelxada y ~ Says = 4.
that I knew him. He worked fever ! u
going to bed at seven each n LEM, uu f,,s
until breakfast. Then. he worked !, at his 9
office where rs earned h,y aal1H Pushed
back as soon as he could to work on the
book an hour or so before going 70 peu.3
1T takes d. great deal of pluck to give up
and fond ti 81 ii living Ing. u
Frances Hodgson Burnett the author
e hls5ls Gr the
now appearing in N1cClure's Vega zine.
has returned for the summer TO her E I'm
flish country home, Maytham Hall Hall. In
one. lying In the most beautiful part ,of
England $ most picturesque count me
tons Of the house Are eSaTe
on e the gro6llds is mentioned In the
Doomsday Book Attached TO the !, I .asI u
quaint Villages RSlS S seai,e street ct
Kent in which Mrs. Burnett lives Is very
lanes Joseph Conrad ! Ford =, Mad 90 OK :
homes within a few miles of Maytham.
5 There are very few children old enoug h 1
Of eno o are hos aertrade
delightful stories:3 The authoris fond
of saying TINT not only all Of the little;
She IS writing. live on 1.-THE beautiful.
re; There liye and a. RsssEie;
road live the lovable fancy and Josie
islevers.,P eteE, and Ellen, Many children
stiful road 8is.I Is in, California, where
she was born an d lived as IA little child? q
Is IT In THE .bea utiful valley along t iel
be& found, O for nowhere are there more
beautiful homes of comfort and happiness
than,.are to 'be, found In these stories
tie readers live: In the same place, and she
says that some day she hopes to write
and tell exactly where 1t is.
a novelist who is regarded as one OF the
strongest and most convincing of British
writer's Of fictlonSis introduced to Ameri-
cans in The Interloper' Doubleday,
Page and Com pany), by Violet jacob
Her first Il novel, "The Sheep-Stealers,
made "a deep imp ression, and its 8promisc3
is fulfilled in 1.-THE Interloper.s3 Mrs
jacob is the wife of Major Arthur il cob
who had distinguished military career
post In India a She has rare dlstinct ton
of style, and her le8work has literary
quality Of a high order. The scenes of
The Interloper'' are laid In a quaint
Scotch coast village, which is the plc-$
stllresque background of an absorbing and
dramatic tale The En- gllshs cri tics gree
6tht Mrs. Jacob lace n literature is is
secure.
cisco, announce 1nsemi;c al egends, n reil-2
5dering by Miss Bertha Il. N Smith of TIE
FIlltlian Legends, six in number. thu I en-'
The mythssare3 told in a$style refreshinsly
simple and in harm with the standards
of the Indian ChaTac ter Miss Smit h has
happily retaln1ed the original Indlan8
homo: Hun. .1aer Py.wesa ck. Tu-tocR-
ah-nu-lah and Tis-s -ack ~. ON pal all
Eeses oa t e fa II page
beautifully printed in d color tones, to-
gether with series 81 marginal r text S s;
in two colors, from des igns BY Miss
Illustrations, the result. Of g long seasons I.
interpret The grand eur q the valley With
q strength that entirely removes hem
from the type of Landmark sketches. IL
The conception and execution of the vol;
5to insure its interest 10 all 5lo overs, Of the
Yosemite and to earn for o. prominent
place among the holiday books of the!
year. ll5S5 4 d Il IS II
Messrs. "A. c, McClurg & Co., Of Chi
cago, will publish this fall a number Of
books OF varied interest," including a new
romance by Randall Parrish, author9. Of
the now famous When w lderness; Was
King. which is TO be called a"MySI5ady
of the North, and which is further CHAR
gacterized as the love story. OF Ia g ray
JACKIE" charmingly maginatlve book
of boyhood memor lies by CLARENCE s. OAR.
row. which is entitled y Farming on,' q T.
ter the name of the village In which the.
scenes are laid, FLORENCE @in the Poetry
of the BroWnings;" a SCI ectl Ion: OF heir
poems dealing with the art and history
: Of Florence Illustrated with manysrepro-1
Sductons from photographs 81 and edited.
by Anna 3. McMahan:9 and two n1por,,
tant additions to the McClurg{ series of
Americana reprints-la ohontan s, sSsS' New
Voyages to North America. 'ei ed ted by Ior.5
Reuben Gold Thwaitets, and &C asss 10 ur..
nal of the Lewis and Clark Expedl n ut 1T
edited by Or James b x. II osner Two,
other volumes OF a historic Scharacte
are J" A Short Fl tory Of Greg on'' and an
account 81 Negro servItude IN IlllnoI 5
and the. Slavery Agitation that Sta To-,
I both of which will be, books OF special
Interest to Librarians as well as ~ g the
student and general area der. NJ essrs M
sClurg have prepared for older boys and
girls two capital stories Of az Yenture;
one in the manner of the. Henty boo ks,
entitled I'm Search Of the G}knpi and aI Y. g
story Of two children In p, 7La bra dor ca He'd