Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-24
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GEoRGE EIIor never got less than forty
thousand dollars for any Of her Iovels.
IT is proposed to place bust Of Mr..
Matthew Arnold in Poets Corner, West
minister Abbey.
JAMES WHITooMs RnEY's first versifying
was a valentine of four lines, "when," as
he describes it, 81 was just big enough to
reach the top of the table where wrote"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was in Chicago
short time since and was interviewed, OF
course: Henry James, without reser-
vation," was Mr. Stevenson's quick reply to
the question Of leadership among American
noveists.
ELIZABETH SruAHr PHELPS, who has been
writing for the public over thirty years, is
paniOn printed her first story, written when
she was thirteen. She began "Gates
Ajar," her-best known book, In 1864.
ROBERT BROWNING refuses to write for
magazines, preferring that people who de-
sire to read his work should buy his books
rather than find him unexpectedly in the
pages Of periodical He recently declined
an offer of one thousand dollars from .
Boston publisher for short poem.
THE new order recently created by the
Emperor of Austria, called "litteris ct
artibus," and intended as the highest dis
tinction to be conferred upon the artists
and literary men of the empire, has been
bestowed upon Munkacsy, Masejko, and a
Bohemian artist, Vasclav Brazik.
One of the highest prices ever paid an
author for manuscript was that Of fifteen
thousand dollars, which Mrs. Augusta
Evans Wilson received from her publishers
for her " Infelice ~ before the book went to
press. Her novels to-day find more ready
sale in the South than those of any other
author.
A SHORT time ago it did not look as Blanche
Roosevelt, ex-actress and later authoress Of
the cooper Queen" was destined for es-
pecial eminence, but her work has suf-
fciently impressed the famous Sardou to
ask her to become his collaboration in writ
ing play, so that her money-making fame,
ct least is as good as settled.
Mrs. CRAWFORD, the Paris correspondent
Of the London Nc,Os is the most noted En-
glish woman in journalism. Besides send
ing her daily kilograms to the Ne'cs by
special wire, she writes for the Pail Mall
Gazette, contributes several columns week
to London Truth, and writes weekly CORE
spondence for American newspapers.
OF the original edition of the sonnets of
William Shakespeare, published by Geogre
Daniel, Of London, in 1909, there are two
perfect copies. One is in the British muse
I'm. For the other s. 900 was paid. 1t is O
little book about seven by four inches in
size. A somewhat hard-headed clerk figures
that at the price it cost $3.50 an ounce.
III. ALEXANDER DUMAS, lives by measure
an 10 OF IA In,
mer and at seven in the winter. His first
milk. The second, which he takes at noon,
is plain meal. Dinner occurs exactly at
seven, and at ten he is in bed. He walks
three miles every day, and never works
after four p. N.
Miss AMELIA RIvEs, the gifted authoress
OF Virginia" was lately married to John
Armstrong Chandler, a great grandson of
the elder John Jacob Astor. Mr.. Chandler
is about five feet ten inches In height, well
built, and wears a black mustache He is
somewhat literary in his tastes, and, it is
supposed, was first drawn toward the fair
authoress by reading her books before he
met her. He has mansion at Rhinebeck-
on-the-Hudson, which was bequeathed to
him by the late William B. Aston.
Mr. RUsKIN, it seems, does not like trans
lators and TRANSACTIONS. To a foreigner who
made civil request for permission to trans
late his works, he wrote characteristic
reply, the substance Of which was: "Let
'em alone" His idea is that every nation
has enough good authors to occupy it's
thoughts, and that men who want to under
stand authors outside their own land would
better learn the language Of the author they
wish to read; then they will not be so likely
to misunderstood him.