Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-24
LITERARY GOSSIP.

LITERARY GOSSIP.
 'Faust" has been translated into modern Greek.
 Of all Mir. Howells' works, "Venetian Life" has had the largest sale. The entire estate left by Dr. James Free | man Clarke is worth less than s22, ,ooo. It Is estimated that it will take ten years to publish all the posthumous works of Victor | Hugo.
 Mrs. Susan Wallace, wife of the author of 'tBen Hur," has a new work, "Repose in Egypt"
 Mir. R. Stevens will tell the story of his South Pacific cruise in about fifty short serial articles.
 Gerald Massey, the English poet, is now in America and will give lectures throughout the country.
 Laura Daintry denies that she is ''a legiti- mate offspring of the srotic brain of Ella Wheeler Wilcox"
 New lyrics have been introduced into "The Cup" by Lord Tennyson at the request of Miss Mary Anderson.
 Anna Katherine Greene preserves the old stumps of the pencils with which she has written her tales.
 Max O'Rell formed a copartnership with an elevator boy in Boston, and will use some stories the boy told him.
 An unpublished poem by Wordsworth, 700 lines long, will appear in Macmillans new edition of the poets works.
 NJ. Emile Zola was inspired, so it is said, to write ''Le Reve" by Lord Tennyson's line in ''Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"
 Mrs. Alma Tadema and Mrs. Edmund Gosse are sisters, and they resemble each other in being blonde, tall and quite talented. Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, E. W. Howe, Charles Egbert Craddock and Joaquin Miller made their first successes in western journals
 Dr. Leland Miller, of Sheffield, Mass, has given $40, 900 to Williams college to establish chair in American history, literature and eloquence.
 It is said that Whittier's ambition when a young man was to become a politician, but that he was saved only by the fearful appeals 1 of his friends
 Mir. A. Miner Griswold, perhaps better | known as "Fat Contributor" |" is to enter the | lecture field to give the public information | about "Queer Folks" Mrs. Austin Dobson, wife of the we'll known poet, has taken up the profession of | letters, having just published ''Cherryburn, i" 1 8 volume of short stories. Rider Haggard writes in pleasant corner room of his charming old manor of Ditch ingham, which is overrun with Banksia roses, clematis and jasmine.
 A London author has written thirty novels in three years. This beats the record of any living man, but the writer's enormous labor has brought him only s1,0O0.
 MT. Tracy Robinson, the poet. is 's54, rosy, sweet tempered, sunny hearted, gray, hand some, good" and has been connected with tho Panama Canal company since 1s60
 It is said that Gen. Lew Wallace expects that his tragedy, "Commodus," which will appear in Harper's early in 1889, will do more fQr bis reputation than did Ben Hur."
 Speaking of the personal appearance oi Lord Tennyson, Edmund Yates says that the laureate is a cross between Guy Hawkes. and the mysterious recluse of melodrama.
 MT. F. J. Stimson, who wooes fame under the nom de plume, J. s. O Dale, who is about 65 years of age, is blonde and very tall, af fects the English in dress and accent, and 1. wealthy.
 Miss Olive Schreiner, author of the "Story of an African Farm" is an English gover ness who was born at the Cape of mixed Ger man and English percentage, the daughter oi a missionary.
 A Boston literary genius invents name. for books and plays. copyrights them an6 waits for bidders; his stock now consists oi twenty-eight titles. for one of which he wa.
 offered several hundred dollars. Mrs Laura c. Holloway, originally Yau ! nessee girl, whose parents lost their prop erty during the war, kept them by her book and her diligent newspaper work, in grea,
 comfort to the end of their days, MT. Ruskin has confded to his admtner.
 that shelf of the little cabinet in his study lis loaded with poetical efPusions which were the delight of my father and mother ane which have not got the heart to burn" Mir. Frank Dempster Sherman, the poet sends in the most beautiful copy imaginable 1t is more like old English print than tn. work of the pen, and each letter is formed a. l delicately and clearly as though engraved, , Mrs. Mona Caird, who started the discus
 sion on "Is Marriage Failurer spends mos
 of her time large estate in Hampshire
 dividing her days between superintendins 5 her farm and performing literary work on
 typewriter.
 , Mrs. Arthur Stannard, better known a
 John Strange Winter, felt perfectly conf
 dent that the dramatization of "Bootles Baby" would be a success because 8 black ca l followed through the stage door. Maybe th
 play will have nine lives,
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