Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-22
LITERARY Gossip.

faust" hes been translated into modern
Gree
OF all Mr. rowens works, Venetian Life
nas had the larges, sale
The entire estate left nv D. James Free
man Clarke Is worth les tlan 81. 20
It 1. estimated that it will take ten years
to publish all the posthuInous works VI Victor
ua=o
Mira susan Wallace. wife of the author Of
"ilcn llur." has new work, "Reposs IN
Egypt"
Mr. r Stevens will tell the story Of his
South Pacific cruise III about fifty short serial
articles
Gerald Massey, the En~lish r'net. is now in
America and will give lectures throughout
the country
Laura Daintry denies that she Is IN lc~iti-
mate ofTsrrinS Of the erotic brain Of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox"
New lvrics have hc-n intrNiuce.i into 1.-THE
Cup" by Lord rennyson at the request Of Miss
Mary Anderson
Anna katherine Greene preserves the old
sturn:~ Of the pencils with which she has
written her tales
m elevator hoy in Boston, and will use soms
stories the boy told him
An unpublished pncm by Wordsworth, TO
line, lon%. will nnf,ear In MacmiIlan's new
edition Of the poets WORKS.
II Emile Cola was ins,ir,Si. ~ II is said. to
write "l.' Rove tv Lord Te1nvson's line in
"LacAsley Hall sixty Year After
Mrs Alma Tadema and Mrs cdrurd
Cnsse arc sisters, and they resemble each
other in leing blonde. tall and quite talented
Bret Ilarte. Mark Twain. Gtll Nv-, + "
lowe, Charles Ec.bcrt Cradl~.k and Jnaquin
Miller rlde their first SUCCESSES in western
journals
Or leland .,lllcr, o: Sheffield, Mass, has
given $4,000 u williams collere 10 establish
q chair in American history. literature and
eloQseace
Ii is said that Whittier's ambition wher a
young man vas to hsco:ne politician, hrt
that he was saved only by the fearful appeals
Of his friends
Mr. Miner Grisvo,d pcrhnps l~.,er
known rs IA; Contributor. Is to enter Tho
lr:nrr IA To rive the public information
about Queer Folks"
Mrs Austin Do,~on. wife of the well
known roet. ha taken NJ the profession Of
letters. having just published "Cherryburn,r
volume Of short stories
Rider ilaggard writes 4, a pleasant corner
roo,;i OF his charming old manor Of pitrh
in-hani, which is ovcrrun with Eanlsia
ruses. cleniatis and jisnine
A london author has write, thirty novel,
IN three years, Thi. heats the record Of any
living man, but the writer's enormous labor
has brought him only tl.O0O
cr Tracy T. 'ainso1, the pct. is ~. rosy
sweet tenpcrri. sunny hearted. gray. hand
some. rooi.' and has bcen ronncr:ci with
the Panama Canal company since 1850
II Ia said that Gcn low Ealinc, ex-,cc.s
that his tra~eir. "Corrns.as.~ whic!, will
nr'car IN ilar'er's Early in iS>J will 10 moro
Tor his reputation than did "Bea Ilur.r
Sweating of tire rcrSol2I a,,ear1ncc o.
Lori iennysnn Edmund fat~s saws that tho
laureate ia = cross brtwecn Upy rlwkes and
the mysterious rrclnsc Of n ncladra,na.
Mr. Sti'nson. who roocs fang nndor
the nom tie plum. J y % D lie. who ia bout
~ years 81 arc, ia blonde nrd very tall af
fccts the English in dress anil accent, and il
wealthy
Miss Olive Sctrc'ncr. nu.hor Of tho "S.orv
Of An African Farm" IS M En~Iish rorcr.
ness who was born CT the Gaze OF rni1r,I t;rr.
man and English parenta.r, the laughter Of
q missionary
EnS'on literary rcnirs invent. pa-,r,
FOR hooks md PLAYS. copyrights Their, npd
waits for bidders his stock row e,onssts ~
twenty ei.-ht titles for one ~ which La va,
o,icrri several hundred dollars.
Mrs Lar-,, c. HOLLOWAY. ori-iua,,v n Ton.
nesscc C!1. whose parents lost their nro,.
ertv during the war. kept them. hy her hoot,
ana hcr diii-ent news'aoer work. in great
comfort to the end of their CAV,
Mr. cussin has cnnitled To his ad-nirr,,
that shelf nf the little cabinet /, his s.,dv
rs loaded with r.etical illusions whic, wer,
the delight Of my father anil mother and
which have no, got the heart to burn
Mr. Frank Demr~tcr Sherman. IN. mn.
sends In the most beautiful cory ira-inablc.
1t Is moro like Old English PRINT than tho
work OF the re'i. AMI each letter il formed a,
deiicateiy ard clearly as though engraved.
Mrs. Mona Card. who started tho dis,-r,..
sion on is Marriage Failurcf s,cnds mos.
OF her time OIL lar~e estate in IIanlnshi-r
dividing Der DAYS between su;~rin.endip-
Farm and performing; Literary 70 on .
Typewriter.
Mrs Arthur Stannard. better known a,
John Strange y Inter. felt Jerfe.,lv conf.
dent tia, the dram1tizctiOn of Bodies
Baby" would he success becarse blact cat
Followed through the stage door Eaybe TIM
play viii lave nine lives