The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-06

ROBERT LoUIs STEVENSON says James out
ranks HOwells as the greatest living Amer
lean novelist
THE London publisher of Zola's books saws
that it is a bad week when the sales fan be
low one thousand volumes.
\ MONTHLY periodical, devoted to the re
ligious interests of Cinnamon IN this coun-
try, has been started in New York.
LEWIS NORRIS, the English poet, thinks
tina Tennyson has lost s750,00 by the
non -ence of international copyright
WHO wrote the most, Dickens, Warren or
Bulwcr! Warren wrote Now and Then, -
Bulwer wrote Might and Morning aad
Dickens wrote An the Year Round'
THE reccntly-organized Fellowcraft Club,
Of New York, is composed of newspaper
men. magazinists and artists. Richard Wat
son Glider, Of the Century, is its first presi-
dent.
LITERATURE may make man famous. but
it VIII seldom make him rich Matthew
Arnold left an estate of only five thousand
dollars. But wealth was not what he
worked for.
KINGLAKE's Invasion of the Crimea'' has
at last come to an end. The sixth and last
volume was issued recently BY the Harpers
This book has been thirty years in course
of publication.
THERE are 1900 men and women in Lon
don who earn their living by their pens.
this including newspaper writers. 1t is
safe to predict that about fourteen OF these
will be known 20 readers fifty years hence.
A wELL-KNowS character of George
EIiot's novel of . Daniel Deronda" deliver
ed a lecture in London the other day. This
was "Myra,' or, more accurately, Mrs.
Ayrton, who is supposed to be the original
of the famous Jewess.
In a recent vote among the young read
ers of the Philadelphia Times as TO the best
book they have ever reaG~ several thousand
votes gave Mrs. Burnett's " Little Lord
Fauntleroy" first place, Miss Alcott's " Lit
tie Women" second, and Mrs. Burnett's
Sara Crewe" sixth
A RELIGIOUS press club has been formed
in New York Representatives of about
fifteen religious weeklies and reviews have
shown an interest in the matter. The gen
eral object of the society is the promotion
of fraternal feeling and conference on ques-
tons of common interest to the religious
press.
MRS ROBERT r. SHARKEY, of New Or
leans, earns $1,000 a year by writing serials
of the Southworth type. Her " Literary -
name is Mrs. E. Burke Collins. She was
born in New York thirty-seven years ago,
but since her first marriage, early in life,
has lived in the South. She has wrfSten SIX
hours a day for seven years.
UPON answering the question Of the Pull
1fdu GGzette whether a moving situation can
be depicted by novelist without anguish
and fears, Mrs. Lynn Linton says that she
can never read over the pathetic parts OF
her stories without tears. Rider Haggard
says that his pathetic situations are more
moving on reading than upon writing, and
another novelist has the same opinion.
IT is told of Thomas Nelson Page, the a1I-
thor of charming sketches of Southern life,
that fifteen years ago, while poor boy,
struggling with the law in a Virginia town,
he wrote Meh Lady" and sent it to the
Scribners. He heard nothing from it, and
in the course of years had almost forgotten
it. Twelve years after he was amazed tc
receive a check for It, and to see it printed
in the Century. This at cnce brought him to
fame if not to fortune