Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-21
LITERARY LIGHTS.

Zola's new novel will have five murders
In 1t.
Octave Thanet draws all her characters
from real life.
Ike Marvel, Donald G. Mitchell has taken
up writing again.
Miss Charlotte NJ Yonge, now e. years old,
has written 100 books.
Louis NJ Alcott's biography is definitely
promised for next September.
Mark Twain is preparing a new book, "a
Yankee at the Court Of King Arthur"
W. E. A. Axon, the poet, has resigned the
authorship of The Manchester Quarterly.
Miss Emily Faithful now gets pension of
$3.50 year from the English government
The soup of Youth" second collection Of
poems by DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, Is Just ready
F. Marion Crawford informs friend that
ne has Just turned the halfway post of a new
novel.
Alice Hyneman Rhine Is the clever editor
of The Graver and Palette, journal for art
students.
Sir Charles Russell has been offered $4,000
to deliver fifty lectures In the United States
next season.
James A. Froude. the English historian and
man of letters, is the latest convert to home
rule in Ireland
Alphonse Daudet is still forced to remain
idle, owing to return Of his rheumatic and
neuralgia pains.
A volume of stories and sketches by Henry
Guy Carleton Is to be published in New York
by George Munro.
Oscar Fay Adams, the poet and litterateur,
is slight in frame, near sighted, gray haired
and absent minded
A new book by Amelia b. Edwards, enti-
tied "Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented
Valleys" is nearly ready.
Gen. Lew Wallace says that there are two
things Of which he is immoderately fond,
horse racing and baseball.
Herman Melville, once famed for his sailor
stories, is still In the land Of the living,
though he writes no more.
A translation into English prose Of Omar
Khayyam's well known lines has been made
by Justin Huntley Mccarthy.
Anna Katharine Green Is busily engaged
upon a new novel, said to be entirely unlike
anything else she has written.
OF Louis Ulbach's almost painful careful
ness Of style, it was once sarcastically said
"he would split hair In four"
T. c. Crawford, the well known newspaper
correspondent, is said TO have permanently
quit the field Of newspaper work
Tho Misses Hodgldn, two young English
ladies, have started The Santa Lucia, new
monthly magazine for the blind, In Braills
type.
Andree Hope, author Of the powerful tale
"a Terrible Night is writing longer story
of Russian life called Princes Ariane Kara
sonnlof."
Fergus Hume, the author Of the Mystery
Of Hanson Cab" the successful shilling
shocker, has dramatized the no-1l 'In Love
and War"
Professor Eoire, best known cut o. Ger
many by bis historical introduction 70 Kaut's
''Critiqus Of Pure Reason" died recently at
Mayence-
Homer Greene, author Of what My Lover
Said" has written a serial story for the
Youths Companion. called ''Tbe Hverpark
Rebellion"
u Qpesnay de Beaurcyalre, the new
sGA'-a A-@~a WI ~~9---N-
ton o. a novelist under The psesldonylo Julss
de Giouvet.
TIE late Louis UIhach was tbs roeAEzs q
introducing 20 the world tbs pleasant pretty
book II the queen q RoUsaAuia, the Pen
SECS dune RENE"
Don Jose Gorilla, the newly crowned p,ocs
laureate Of Spain, is said % be q decidedly
different psrson from his naroeaake, R1iE
Gorilla, The r~Tciutiootz-
Lady Randolph Churchill "a eboGt 70 roaks
bar debut Ia literature, IL ia said, with an
article Ia L0ogrnans Sev Rsvtsw ca Der /
experience IL Res<iaa soc1sty he.
Tie ex-King Milan of Servia Is gfanx 70 /
write bis autobiography With The i-teDtoa /
Of presenting TIE volume % his s0z. the pres /
eut king. when tho yooth reachss his r1a- 1
iority.
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writing a novel which xlQ tz.ks IN a.! Kids 4
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