The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-11

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Miss Margaret Doane Gardiner. q /
granddaughter OF Bishop Doane, and q
contributor of both prose and verse to
the leading magazines. has Just Issued
through Robert Grier Cooke, Inc. an
unusually clever and amusing little
play. entitled Universal Neurathenia,''
which was originally acted on the lawn
of the authors summer home at North
east Harbor last year.
She has taken her characters from
the leading novels OF the day and set
them down together in a retreat, known
as the House of Rest, where they are
about a s comfortable AS fish out OIL
water, and make much trouble for the
old doctor. who is in charge. The things
they do and say there and their con-
sequences, make q most lively little
play In which 1t is the unexpected
which is always happening. The pub
fishers havea given the work an artis-
tic and distinctive setting. The series
of marginal pen sketches that illus
trate it are very effective. indeed, and
| in form. binding and composition the
volume Is a decided relief from the
| common run of books.
The North American Review for Au-
fust I'd presents a strikingly interest
Ing table of contents In chapter OF
his autobiography, Mark Twain gives
some "reminiscences. of the originals
that furnished the characters for
"Euckleberry Finn 1.-THE Religious
| Education of Children is a contribu-
ton by Sir Oliver Lodge. the English
educator and philosopher, who has
made a study of educational methods.
Francis II. Shrine contributes an ar
ticle on The Awakening of India"
1.-THE German Press is an article by
Austin Harrison showing how the I'm
perial government muZzles the press.
Archibald s. Hurd writes on the IRE
suit Of British Naval Concentrations"
Charles Moreau Harger contributes
paper entitled '"The New Westerner."
1.-THE Presidents Policies" are defended
| by George Griswold Hill, and George
| S. Batcheller contributes n paper on
| ''Mohammedan Marriage. Divorce and
| Domestic Relation" In the literary
department Galsworthy's THE Country
House. is reviewed by Olivia II. Dun
bar; Raleigh's "Shakspere." by Brander
Matthews. and Hugo's intellectual
Autobiography" by A. S. van West
rum. The department OF World Poli-
tics contains communications from.
| Berlin and Washington, and the topic
dealt with In the Editors Dairy is
THE Esperanto Congress"
Four articles In the Book News
Monthly for August are Edgar Allen
Poe's Place In Literature" by William
/ Aspinwall Bradley: Poe at the Uni
versity Of Virginia" by Alice NJ. Tyler;
"Poe's Days In the Quaker City" by
Ellis Paxon Oberholtzer; Edgar Al
| Ian Poe, Pathological Study" by
Charles Houston Goudiss, M. D., and
1.-THE Closing Scene, An Account of
Poes Last Days In Baltimore" by Jo-
seph Lewis French:
i Other articles of interest bearing
on the subject appear under the cap
ton of Connecting Links in Poets
Life" and THE Grave of Poe in Balti-
more, Md"
The illustrations for this Poe num-
Der Of the magazine begin with re-
4 production from Poes portrait and a
picture of the Poe cottage at Fordham
New York, on the cover; other pictures
of Poe, including copy from a famous
miniature formerly in the possession
of the late Robert Lee Traylor. OF Rich
mond. and pictures OF the different per-
sonages and places associated with
the poets memory.
A facsimile Of Poe's marriage bond
and of page of his manuscript will
be noted with special interest
The Burlington Magazine for Con.
noisseurs Of Art Will allow the Amer.
lean editor much more space the com.
ing year. In 1t masterpieces OF famous
American collections Will be illustrated
and described. The art affairs OF the
81 world. exhibitions new books, acces.
sions to museums and private collec.
tions viii be comprehensively treated
as before. These will, of course, IN
clude many other objects darts beside.
paintings,
A book to be. brought out by tho
I3obbsNerril Company the middle O,
this month, is by Halle Ermine Rives
tho auathor of Hearts Courageous.'
Her new book will he called Satan
Sandersor," and VIII be as vividly in
teresting as any that Miss Rlves has
written.