The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-31
IS oolrs 81 and M ook1na kers.$

81 rev writers can boast 30 many shooEs TO-
their credit as FL 5certai n aut horG Of Port
land, Me-, well known to Juvenile !, readers !,
flames otis MI k 1srWent into
Enewspape work at the age /. or ~,
and later strayed into pc u. cs. ltS.W ~
during a lull5 In q poll teal campo, gn, tnal.
"a few idle lays on his ma nos, ne
4 mrotas his famous story NJ for boys Toby
3Tyler. 4 or Ten WEEKS W. a C.rsrs, y hlCh
was first publ seria
young cople, and lia : Us, g,
classic The great of MS ssn Or
led Mr.. Kaler to i've up hi .neWspape, 4,
ss,rnrk. and since 1885 he la 8 devoted AZ !,
Il his time to writing for you ps ,5
now lo4 books on ts Ind niEent
.nnblc Gould swall he recently I, q o6-
served though the publ hers ana slitie
\ boys appear to have a. lSisa ~,
iettcsa from Ills youthful 3
seldom tia week end mus, MN e,
|$IeEs tina thirty to be- g IL
makes ST his rule to 81
!, and tndn tine . 10 G is'
ty84AIr. H. w, 9Boynton's little mono grnphS
! on Bret Harte ii the Cont Men !
Of Letters Series recently brougnt - oN Wy
in London, has aroused consld s. -
custom as to Harte Jewish anc &c =
Is Mr.. Clement X Snor or, ed i orr Of the
II 9 nherc ), asserted in contradictio ion of M
4 Rnoynton,s less positive vtew, hat any one
who knows anything
e erie n It's that his grand father was
81 the most pronounced and was. a, 2
highly son us lor s naYe
married a Christian J; g : 81
to this Mat reading everything
about Bret Iarto that could hnd, 9, pc pc
fore beginning my I, W
s sbi ar pred Gates, ut would Ee inter
astinss I q know the source or he III
,ion Not that the point is Of !, M
nortance. We nrc VS. ~ 40
ongn. g other nineteenth century Writers
~ ~ Mean ferrcl ed out by the Jew llhuer!
H laval Himself Was All adept nt /. .nef
search s,,;s i. e and 's MS oVn " p'ouuss
Thas Macmillan Company announce as Ny
4oi,nw,ng new editions:H the thlrd o. Y w y,
s. HARDWOOD book on IMe ,ay'u i, PINT
ther Burbank, New sl Itl - y rns's
I IL Wan nas srSH Hollnnd the SECOND @
"Rotionai Living, by Dr. Henry z 2: ln1 1I,e.
nresident OF Oberlin; the thlru OF I,
Fair Maid y q - NJ. Marion
MIG Siur Is nrd's nov move ' air Marsaret,
srhomas Hardy, though a frequer.t t, ,yls 1
torsto London. now makes ms hoiitE =, ~ -
!, he social
Hus' that successful novel writing brings;
HE always looks n little too crave sn lT,L
/ distant to be quite a. his ease N ING
Hon. Writes a correspond who has \,
seen the author recently. 9. 81 s} I'M!
literary dinner he becomes at once syn ,1a.
pathetic and interesting ana : can %
y. crave and gay, In stature 8 ne Is SNORT.
4 firmly suit; the face Is intellectual tho
! forehead deeply lined with thoug ~, tne
!. dome Of the head expansive ana thlniy
\ covered with hair. the eyes arr. M,sal-
tptrS A.
N up with kindly humor, but generally very
j sad. Mr. Hardy always looks as though
4 he were watcher, sitting apart from
hs hattie a h he Great wre as
4 and thinkers of tho day have long &C.
corded to Thomas Hardy the title ], q Of
1 "master." but II ~ not until lately that
e ci,n Tie sr or passion dramatic feeling.
4 and command Of lnnguage in his tales Of
4 simple life. Now more people tllan over
4 before are reading Hardy q new tWen-
ty volume edition q his works, recently 4
4 issued by the Harpers. has 81 aay been
1 sold out. and 9 second edition 10 being
/ hurried through the presses
Miss Alice French, whose non name IL
4 Octave 9rhAnet, took certain instances In
4 tho slife.!5of her owl. brother n ,', tue raw
material for her new novel. the Man
was a Harvard gradp who, after ,eay1
Is from a siy O'clock breakfast to learn the
# lnachlnists trade In his fathera iron
jl, Of literaturs, fl a great admrsr Of
Miss FreIch's fiction. During his trip
3 through the southEhe made frequent ref
erence to 1.-THE Man OF. the, Hour On
Davenport, he shook hands with him
Il heartily In the dee-lighted fashiolb OK
claiming; s8 80 IN
aIIello, colonel. glad to SEQ you = How
i ',1J p,i Id
how il MISC French? You tell her ! read
y III .,r,ptt -. ne you know, that Xaa,