Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-14
LITERARY GOSSIP.

The many thousand readers OF Mary
WAS generally regarded as ono of the
best novels of modern American fam
~ life, will he glad TO learn that
month her new novel. Growing Up"
II is in much the same humorous
h h.on.,Gn ,phile9Ssophicnl vein ms The
she feels that it goes just a little
deeper into the serious side of the re-
iaiions of parents ana children.
h9ni 81 Li ,.Sr announce for carly
volume, The Best Ghost Stories in
the Modern Library. is already in it's
Included stories by-AlGcrnon Black
wood. Elsa Barker. George Wharton
Edwards. Jack London. Hereward Car
rinEton, and interesting tabu,ations of
supernormal experiences and findings
OF various societies of psychical re-
search.
Small. Maynard y Company an
FairfaN and His Pride" by Marie
Van Worst: Green Rust" mystery
story. by Edgar. wai,ace; IAN Uncon-
THE Last straw, westcrn storS by
i haGo'a TITS VS., and nd. The Hidden Is
Walden.
In within My Horizon" Mrs. Helen
Gompanyl gives the following appre-
Admiral Peary: Il only wish the world
could sec Fcary in his home; how soon
Then would the conception of him as
qualities. vanish. Dignity is his. of
course. but man of simpler tastes. OF
more frank. almost boyish, pleasure in
all real things. the woods. the water.
inc sun; the storm. birds. animals.
stones, flowers, never lived. Children
ioye him and that alone is sign.
In E,,l
before himelf."
=, nr. and Mrs. Wilfred p. Grenfe!l, the
returned to this country. after win
aImoSt inc same time as Mrs. Grcn.
felrs book OF Labrador experiences,
lie Petit Nord," apDears. from the
press OF Houghton Miffiin Company.
Theodore Roosevelt" has returned TO
his Cambridge home after month
spent in the South. At the University
three lectures on the art OF biography;
IN Richmond. where ne spent four days
he spoke in the old state House-the
y associated with the Confederacy
While in Baltimore he spoke on the
italian situation and John Hay before
two private clubs.
PortNEec. the first book that has come
from this popular author i'll more than
a a. year and a half is scheduled for pub
part OF April In the meantime n play
based upon Mr. Lincoln's last novel.
Shavings has, scored. tremendous
fact il is reported that the sales of
that book in the Metropolitan district
have taken great jump.
The Fortieth Door the new novel
run through three large editions. and
is reported by D. Appleton & Co as
one of the hest sellers on the list OF
snriing pnelications The book is
lad in Egyptian palaces and Turk sh
harcinsr!n Cairo. I'm commencing this
book TO the reader" says the New Yorl,
words Of the old sheik, one OF the ate
thor's characters: May Allah continue
to: spread before thee the carpet Of
"A very unusual type OF book Is The
Natural History OF the Child" by Dr.
Courtenay Dunn. which John Lane 90.
MI publish soon. II is full of out
with the history OF the child from many
points Of view. The contrast between
the INFRINGING, of the child of bygone
centuries and the child OF today is very
interesting to contemplate.
Now that Gilbert X. Chesterton's
irish Impressions" has been so sue
cessfully launched in England and
America, the author has departed. for
write book OF Impressions. II is also
reported that Mr.. Chesterton will visit
inc United states next fall for his long
promised lecture tour.
That indefatigable traveller. Isaac r
Marcosson. whose book OF personaIi-
ties, Adventures in Interviewing" has
Just gone into second edition, is OF
after "A brief stay in LONDON and Rrus.
sells will sail for the Belgian Congo
after which he. will visit General SHUTS.