The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-10-12
LITERARY LIGHTS.

Lloyd Bryce is now sole owner Of The
North American Review.
d. B. Waggener is editor Of the Children's
Page, so popular in The Philadelphia Sunday
Press.
Dr. Charles Mackny, who for sixty years
has written verses aud songs, is now con
firmed invalid
Oscar Wilde has resigned the editorship Of
Cassells Woman's World, aud, it is reported,
win start a magazine Of his own.
Lord Lytton, author of "Lucile," is Eng
lish minister to France at an annual salary
Of e6O,O and the use Of palace.
VIII Carletonslast volume, "City Ballads
is dedicated TO his wife, in these words ITO
Adora, friend, comrade, lover, wife"
The late Dr. w. r. s. Ralston, the ecceu-
trio London writer, was known among his
friends as "the Russian Don Quixote"
The English critic Theodore Watts, has
had romance entitled "Aiwyn" in MSS. for
years, but has not had courage to print it.
Wenyss Reid, after finishing his biography
Of Lord Houghton, will edit a new journal
modelled somewhat on the lines OF The Nation,
Of New York
The editor OF The Pail Mall Gazette, Mr..
Stead, affects to view with abhorrence the
notion that man should go into newspaper
work for mere pecuniary advantage.
One Of the most popular and distinguished
Of our scientific writers is Professor T. G.
Mendenhall, the president of the American
Society for the Advancement of Science.
Professor Mason, who is so painstaking a
scholar that he is sometimes called 1.-THE
Drayhorse of Letters talks of resigning the
chair of English at Edinburgh university.
Mr.. W. E. Norris, the English author, is
something OF an invalid, and lives nearly all
the year round at Torquay, going to London
only for month or two during the season.
Samuel Waddington, the poet, translator
and compiler of anthologies Of English and
continental sonnets, belongs to family said
to be connected with the poet Longfellow's
z. L. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold is
writing romance entitled "The Wonderful
Adventures of Phra the Phosnician, which
promises to outrival Haggard's widest flights.
vicomte Eugene Melchior de vogile, au.
thor of the recent Russian articles In Har.
pers and the youngest member of the French
academy, is 40 years old and an aristocrat.
The eighth edition Of Tolstoi's works. now
In press in Moscow, will include 10000 copies
Of Anna Karenina," 30, 900 copies of "lyar
and Peace" and 5000 copies of each Of sew
eral volumes of short stories
The late Willie Collins was short and deli.
cate looking, with very small hands and feet
and a cheerful face. His luxuriant hair and
beard were snowy white. He wore spectacles
habitually and smoked necessarily.
Ernest Renan, author OF "The Life of
Jesus, is small man, thick set and clumsy,
with the look of one who likes the good things
Of earth. His face is round and would be
coarse were it not for his noble brow and fine
eyes.
Zola lives in fine chateau In a picturesque
spot in the forest near Medan, on the Seine
1t is handsome and spacious, with two wings,
towers, terraces, long flights of marble steps,
balustrades, and surrounded by magnificent
park filed with flowers
A. Conan Doyle, the author Of the success
full historical novel; micah Clarke which
deals with the Monmouth rebellion, is an
English physician, about 30 years old, and
noted magazine contributor He Is nephew
Of Doyle, the famous caricaturist Of Punch
Pierre Lofts drawing room at Rochefort IL
the exact reproduction of his salon at Eyoub,
In Algeria, and is adorned with Oriental dra,
peries and beautiful art knickl1nacks. AT
night tall wax candles burn IN the brazen
chandeliers, throwing a weird, mysterious
glow over this strange Oriental abode, while
the blue perfumed smoke of Levantine in.
cense coils upward from the braseros.