The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-11-12
MEN AND WOMEN OF LETTERS.

Miss Kate Field will winter south.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will stay In
Boston until Christmas.
Herbert Spencer will winter in Brighton.
His condition is not improved.
George Francis Train, the Madison square
poet, says he is going to live 2oO years
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the writer,
will pass the coming winter In Europe
Mrs. Arthur Stannard John Strange Win
teri is reading selections from her own works
In public.
The next of Balzac's novels to appear In the
series of translations will be "Le Medecm de
Campagne."
William D. Howells is preparing an auto
biography of his boyhood for The Youths
Companion.
Mrs. Croley Jennie June denies the ru-
NOR that she has retired from the editorshlp
of Demorest's Monthly.
Mrs, Margaret Deland, the Boston poetess'
Is going to publish new volume Oh verses
under title of "An Old Garden"
Mime. Foil, the wife of the singer, has
written novel entitled "Monte Carlo" Her
book is said to be inspired by her own expert
ence.
The @Eminent Women Series" will include
sketch of Mrs, Siddons by Mrs. kennard
and biography of Mme de Stael by Miss
Bella Hardy.
Mrs. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich hava
wrought conformity in producing The sec
ond Son. novel that is to come out In Inc
Atlantic during 1887.
Alphonse Daudet has been going through
cure at La Malon and at the same time has
been busy with another story of Partisan life
entitled "LImmortelle."
NJ. Taine, who is at hydropathic institution
at Geneva, is regaining his strength ana
hopes to be able to complete another volume
of his "French Revolution" this winter.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is going
to London for the winter with her daughter
She will continue her work ON the wv oman
Version of the Bible" on which she has been
engaged for some time
Thomas Bailey Aldrich protests against the
name Dollar street, on which his house Is To-
Gated in Ponkapog. "There are. he says, "at
least $50 scents in it, and it should be named
Dollar and Half street"
Homer Greene, the poet lawyer OF Homes
dale, whose "What My Lover Said was at
tributed to Horace Greeley for several years,
has won the 81 800 prize offered by Youths
Companion for the best serial story.
Gen. Lew Wallace has branched out into
religious literature, and is announced to con-
tribute to coming number OF Harpers q
sketch of the "Baybhood Of Christ" which, 1t
is said, will be accompanied by full page
cartoon by Du Maurier.
Mark Twain is a physical study. lie
seems to grow nervous with the advance OF
| wears and can't keep still minute. he
wears No. hat, which he has to have
| made to order, and his features are III pro
portion to the size Of his head. lie never
| stops at the same hotel twice because he
thinks he gets treated better by changing
| about.
| Julian Hawthorne has interviewed James
| Russell Lowell for a big New York paper
| The interviewer, in the course OF his story, re-
marks incidentally that he used to (ostenslbly)
study with the author of the Hosea Bigelow
papeIs. but that more time was given tc
| pipes and talk than books. In talking TO his
| former student Lowell commended the no,
bility, decried the literature and art and
waxod enthusiastic over the society of Eng
land