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Authors an d Books.
Walt Whitman prefers to write on q
tablet placed on his knee, rather than
OH table or desk.
Johann Strauss has written BIZ
ography Of his father, the famous vi
ennese writer of dance music.
General Lew Wallace is said to have
received $37 900 in royalties on the
sale OF nearly 100000 copies Of "Ben
Hur."
Mrs. Stowe, it is reported, continues
to receive an income of 81 500 year
in royalties on the sale of "Uncle
Toms Cabin"
A fine copy of the first Cambridge,
1869 edition of Eliott's Indian Bible
was sold recently at an auction in
Boston, for $21O.
Mr.. Bancroft, the venerable histor-
ian, is thought to be the only Ameri-
can now living who met and remem-
bers Lord Byron.
"Tips for Tricyclists," containing
the lovers of this sport, will be pub
lished forthwith by f. Warne & Go.
Wemyss Reid's biography of Lord
Houghton, now in preparation, will
contain letters, hitherto unpublished,
from Carlyle, Thackeray and Cavour.
Ruskin, in a note to the London
Times, declares that he knows nearly
all Of "Pickwick" by heart, and that
he loves Dickens with every bit OF
his heart"
Miss Braddon, the novelist, who
lives in Richmond, a suburb of Lon
don, is middle-aged woman who
greatly enjoys out-of-door exercise,
especially horseback riding.
Miss Isabel F. Hapgood, the trans
lator of Tolstoi, is now in st. Peters
burg, where she expects to receive an
advance copy of a new work which
the Russian realist has in hand.
Nearly 10000 copies of Green's
"Short History CT the English
People," now being revised by the
widow Of the historian, have been
sold since its publication in 1874.
One of the presents that Whittier
received on his eightieth birthday,
was a copy of the first newspaper
printed in the town Of Whittier, Cali
fornia. The material was fine silk.
Freeman" civilian the Conqueror"
will be the first volume in Macmillan's
series OF biographies of notable Eng
lishmen. Canon Creighton's "Wol-
sey," Traill's "William the -" and
Frederic Harrison's, Cromwell" will
follow.
The forty-sixth anniversary OF the
birth of Sidney Lanier was celebrated
in Baltimore, on February 3, by the
presentation, with appropriate exer-
cises, of bronze bust of the poet, the
work of Ephraim Keyser, to Johns
Hopkins University.
George Meredith, the English novel
list, does all his work in little chalet
which he has built in his garden, and
sleeps in a hammock swung there
among his books, with the windows
open. When he cannot sleep he
wanders out into the woods.
1t is said that Mommsen, the great
historian OF the Romans, when walk
ing along the streets Of Berlin. keeps
his eyes fixed on the ground, and
pays no attention to the salutations
of those acquaintances who meet him.
He is in his seventy-first year.
An old Lord Fauntleroy in England,
rich and childless. is said to have
written TO Mrs. Burnett, asking her
to prepare sequel to her wonderfully
popular story. Mrs. Burnett. with
her two boys, Lionel and Vivian, is
spending the winter in Florence.
Professor George Park Fisher has
prepared for incorporation i'll his
History of the Christian Church,"
which has now reached a second
edition, a chapter headed, "Notes to
the Literature of Church History" in
effect, a comprehensive photography
of the subject.
A populare series of "Stories of the
States," illustrated, is to be published
by the D. Lathrop Company. Among
those who will contribute volumes are
Noah Brooks, Marion Harland, FL
bridge S. Brooks, G. M. Skinner, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Edmund Alton,
and Maurice Thompson.
Reports from Paris state that DR..
Henry Schliemann, now in Greece,
has made a discovery of the highest
interest-the ruins of temple Of
great antiquity. A new book, en-
bodying these and other discoveries,
may be expected from him in the
course of time. He is said to be in
vigorous health.
The English practice of putting an
almost prohibitive price upon a work
in the interest of the great circulating
libraries, was well illustrated when
"The Life and Letters OF Charles
Darwin was published. The price
for the three volumes was SO, exactly
twice the price asked for the Ameri-
can reprint. Nude and the jobbers
bought 800 copies, and the regular
trade took 1000 more.
Here is description of small por-
trait of Tolstoi, which an eminent
Russian artist painted "from the life"
last summer. It. represents him
ploughing in the fields, with the har-
row hitched to the rear of the un-
wieldy plough, which is drawn by a
white horse along the slope. The
Counts gray beard streams sideways
across his blue blouse and half-bared
breast, and his cap is pulled well
down over his face.
Henry Greville (Mme. Durand), in
an interview in Paris on literary
topics, explains Zola's misanthropic
view of human nature in part by the
hardships through which he went
when he first came to Paris. His
poverty was extreme. She narrates
that he was once compelled to remain
in bed week, his clothes having been