The Red Cloud chief., 1888-07-27
WRITER'S OF RENoWN

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GEORGE ELIOT never got less than forty
thousand dollars for any Of her novels.
IT is proposed to place . bust Of Mr..
Matthew Arnold in Poets Corner. West
minister Abbey.
JAMES WHIrcoXB RILEY's first versifying
was q valentine of four lines, "when," as
he describes it, ~ was just big enough to
reach the top Of the table where I wrote"
Robert LOUIS STEVENSON wa in Chicago
a short time since and was interviewed, OF
course: Henry James, without q reser-
~vation,'' was Mr.. S%tevenson's quick reply to
the question of leadership among American
nove.istS.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, who has been
writing for the public over thirty years, is
only forty-four years old. Youths Com
pcnion printed her first story, written when
she was thirteen. She began "Gates
Ajar," her-best known book, III 1864.
ROBERT BROWNING refuses to write for
magazines, preferring that people who de-
sire to read his work should buy his books
rather taan find him Unexpectedly in the
pages Of periodical. He recently declined
an. offer of n thousand dollars from q
Boston publisher for a short poem.
The new order recently created by the
Emperor Of Austria, called "litteris ct
artibus," and intended as the highest dis
tinction to be conferred upon tho artists
and literary men of the empire, has been
bestowed upon Munkacsy, Masejko, and Q
Bohemian artist, Vasclav Brazik.
One of the highest prices ever paid an
author for a manuscript was that Of fifteen
thousand dollars, which Mrs. Augusta
Evans Wilson received from her publishers
for her "Infclice " before the book went to
press. Her novels to-day find Q more ready
Sale in the South than those Of any other
author.
A SHORT time ago 1t did not look a Blanche
Roosevelt. ex-actress and later authoress of
the "Copper Queen" was destined for es-
pecial eminence, but her work has SUI
ficiently impressed the famous Sardou to
ask her to become his collaboration in writ
ing q play, so that her money-making fame,
at least, is as good as settled.
HRS. CRAWFORD, the Paris correspondent
Of the London Nems, is the most noted En-
g!ish woman in journalism. Besides send
ing her daily kilograms to the Ne,os by
special wire, she writes for the Pail MdU
Gazette, contributes several columns q week
to London Truth, and writes weekly CORE
%spondence for American newspapers.
Or the original edition of the sonnets Of
William Shakespeare, published by Geogre
Daniel, Of London, in 1909, there are two
perfect copies. One is in the British muse
I'm. For the ether 5000 was paid. II is q
little book about seven by four inches in
size. A somewhat hard-headed clerk figures
that at tho price it cost $50 an ounce.
III. ALEXANDER DCNAs, lives by measure
and Vvoi0ht Ho risoo NJ E.00 In tho num-
mer and at seven in the winter. His first
breakfast invariably consists Of . glass Of
milk. The second, which he takes at noon,
is plain neal. Dinner occurs exactly at
seven, and at ten he is in bed. He walks
three miles every day, and works
after four p. m.
MISS AMELIA RIvEs, the gifted authoress
Of "Virginia," was lately married to John
Armstrong Chandler, q great grandson Of
the elder John Jacob Aston. Mr.. Chandler
Is about five feet ten inches in height, well
built, and ear Q black mustaohe He il
somewhat literary in his tastes, and, II 70
supposed. was first drawn toward the fair
suthoress bv reading her books before be
met her. He has Q mansion 1t Rhinebeck-
the-Hudson, which was b~equeathed 70
HIM by the late William B. Astor.
Nh. RCsKIN. it seems, does not like trans
lators and translations. To . foreigner who
made . civil request for permission to trans
lsto his works, he wrote . characteristic
reply, the substance Of which was: LIST
EN- alone" His idea II that every nation
has enough good authors to occupy it,
thoughts, and that men who want 70 under
stand authors outside their own land would
better learn tho language OF the suthor they
wish 70 read; then theywiu not be - likely
70 misunderstood him.