The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-15
LITERARY PERSONALS. as~ta


Mr. Howells is working hard on new
novel,
Miss Kate Greenoway's Christmas book will
be "A. Applepic."
Walter Besant ia writing biography Of
Lord Peterborough.
Austin Dobson's life of Richard Steele has
Just appeared in London.
Jules Simon is filling his barren leisure with
the publication of his memoirs.
L. p. Roe, the novelist, is going to Santa
Barbara, Cal, for n year or so.
Bret Harte is described as a white-haired
man with brilliant complexion.
Lord Beaconsfleld wrote comedy that will
be produced at a London theatre.
Walt Whitman is finishing poem called
"Senilian-an old mans view Of life almost
spent
Matthew Arnold's paper on Common
Schools Abroad" will appear in the next
Century.
Sully Prudhomme, the wealthy French
poet, thinks twelve lines of poetry q good
days work.
The poet Whittier has returned home from
Holderness, N. H., where he has been spend
ing several weeks.
Joaquin Miller is planting eucalyptus trees
In the form of a Greek cross on Goat island
In San Francisco bay.
Mr. Frank Stockton has written new
novel called "The Hundredth Man." 1t will
begin in the November Century.
Verses which have never before been pub
lished will appear in the forthcoming collec-
ton of Benjamin +. Taylor's poems.
,., ,Ix,
based on a striking historical incident hither-
to overlooked, will be published in October.
Ex-Minster Lowell has subscribed 800 to-
ward the fund to buy Healey's portrait of
Iongfelow for Harvard University Memorial
hall
Prince Philip of Coburg is writing an ac-
count of his travels 1t is being issued under
the title "Travel and Sports All Over the
World"
James Il. Osgood says American books and
magazines are bought and read as eagerly by
Englishmen as we buy and read English pub
licatlons.
Andrew Lang has brought out u second
edition of his Letters to Dead Authors" in
which he includes letters to Hawthorne and
Longfellow.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, the cleverest
chroncler now writing of rural life in New
England, has written new novel called
"Steadfastn
Mrs. Mary a. Livermore is preparing re-
ply to Ouida's article in the last number of
The North American Review arraigning "the
sexn as weak and inferior
Queen Victoras last work, "More Leaves" I"
has been translated into Gaelic and its author
has ordered comfortable edition for distri-
button in the neighborhood of Balmoral.
Col. George w. Williams, the author of the
aHistory of the Negro Race in America" Is
arranging for the publication of his military
History of the Negro Troops in the War Of
the Rebellion"
Henry George lives Ia q substantial looking
house on Pleasant avenue, just above One
Hundred and Twentieth street, New
York He is in the business Of publishing his
own works at 1s Astor place.
A dozen years ago SAKE was stalwart,
broad-shouldcred, active man of 20. To-day
he is decrepit invalid, the victim of chronic
melancholia, never leaving his apartment,
and tottering from his bed to his easy chair,
hardly ever opening book and stunning
converse even with the members of his own
family.
Thomas Stevens has reached the first Indian
port, Kurrachee, from whence he starts for
the rest of his overland journey. In his last
letter he states that he is in splendid health
and has before him straight road, $50
miles long, leading through Delhi, Agra,
Lucknow and other important cities to Cal
Cutta