The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-11-11

tanning, oo well as true story FOR young
readers. Polly" can talk. at times her
vocabulary seeming almost lmiuess. ana
frequently. perhaps. it would have been
as well for her n she had taxed less.
Charles Scribner's Sons. OF New York.
have sent through the Bell Book and Sta
uoncry Company. OF Richmond. "a
knight OF the Cumberland" by John Fox.
Jr., with Illustrations by F. c. Yohn. The
story is "A story Of the Cumberland Noun
tains. and into II the author has put all
OF the power. the vitality and the ability
20 make things described seemed real and
present that has rendered John Fox. Jr.,
a force I'm American literature The ro-
nance Of the little book is not more de-
hghtful than It's descriptions and its char
s-,ter drawing.
JIoughton. NifClin & Company. Of Bos-
ton. among their fan publications. have
i'm the literary market Friends on tho
Shelf" by Bradford Torrey. To needs only
20 mention the authors group of friends {:
william Hazlitt Edward Fitzgerald.
rhoreau, Robert Louis stevenson, Keats
and AnotOle Francc--to enable one TO UNI
derstand the value OF the shelf"
Henry Holt & Company. OF New YORK
are the publishers Of a Cheerful Year
Book" for THE recording OF engagements
and other serious matters. accompanied by
philosophic and moral aphorisms for the
Instruction OF youth. the inspiration OF
maturity. and the solace OF age by
Z. NJ. Knowles. illustrated by o. +. los
ter. Carolyn Wells has contributed the
Introduction and conclusion to this dain-
~ little volume.
Christmas Magazines.
A few OF the contributors to the Christ
mas issue Of Harpers Magazine will be.
Mark Twain. w. ID Howells Gilbert Par
ker. Joseph Conrad. Mary r wilkins
Mary r. S. Andrews. r. S Martin. Alice
Brown. Marie van Worst. Margaret Cam
eron, James j. Connolly. Maurice Maeter-
linck james Branch Caheu
Color pictures for this number will be
done hy Howard pyle w IT Lawrence.
Lucius Hitchcock. Elizabeth Shipper
Green. Andre CastaiEne. G. n. White
The christmas Century Magazine will
have four color pages showing Naude
Adams as peter Pan by Slgismond
Ivanowski; "Thc Belle o. The Christmas
Ball by Anna Whelan Betts: 'Thc
Death Of Eve by J. s. Leyendecke-.
and Ave Maria" by Horatio Walker
other features % the magazine are in
teresting chapters ~ "The shuttle" av
Frances Hodgsou Burnett. story called
A Stranger 10 the Wild hv Charles
q. II Roberts. and other unusual shovt
stories by Harry Stiuweu Edwards. oscar
King Davis, Irving Bachelor. John Cor
ON ana tteuTN NJ hyde. Special articles
and their authors are. THE Panama
Canal" 10y Secretary Taft. Government
Model Farms" by James J. FIili. president
Of the Great Northern Railway: jay
Cooke. and the Financing of the civil
War" h* Ellis Paxson Oberholtzor-
whistler IN Venice" 10y otto r. Bacher.
and poems hv William Vaughn Moody
and Henry Van DYKE
The Christmas number % Scribncr's
NaEazine viii have among It's Wustra-
tions many beautiful drawings In black
and white and some rcuarkahlc color
reproductions ~ early Irish historical
paintings. the color work done by Henry
NIcCarter. and tho explanatory text hv
pr Douglas HYDE. Contributors 81 short
stories ava eneclal articles viii 90 Kate
Douglas WicEin. r Hopl1irSon Smith. W
$ Moody. Henry q. Fuolor. W l. Alden
ard James - Connolly
The Christmas issue % 1.-THE Reader
viii display a cover design ia red blue
and gold. 10y Andre Castaigne. frontis-
piece in color. by T.. NJ. Ashe The leading
articles are "A Rcvercntial Revery." %
which Donald Mitchell Grant is the sub
feet. and Emerson g. TAYLOR. % Yale. the
author. a poem in memory o General
I.awton. who ZEN at san Afatco in 1900.
Mr.. Albert Hates third article on tho
south American situation. and Meredith
Nicholson's new novel. The Port OF Miss
ing Men" Illustrated hy Arthur / Keller