Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-10-19
LlTe 6ARY LIGHTS.

Lloyo bryce is now sole owner OF Inc
North z ID lean Review.
7. B. Waeqener is editor of the Childrens
Page, so popular in The Philadelphia sunday
Eress.
Or. cs,.rles Mackay, VITO for sixty years
mas written verses and songs, is now a con-
hrmed invalid.
oscar WIDE has resigned the editorship Of
f-assals 10 mans World, and, it is reported,
viii start magazine Of his own.
1855 yst,ya, antlor Of "Lucile, is Eng
ssh Ir9n d TO France at an annual salary
Of 5000 and the use Of q palace
viii Cal stons last volume, Getty Ballads, !"
is ,1edicated 70 his wife, in these words: ITO
Adora, friend, comrade, lover, wife"
The lase DR.. w. r. S. Ralston, the eccen-
Tic Lcndo' writer, WIS known among his
friends as tue Russian Don Quixote."
The English critic, Theodore Watts, has
Rad a romance entitled "Alwyn" in MSS. for
years, Int basnot had courage to print it.
Wenyss Reid, after finishing bis biography
o. Lord Houghton, will edit new journal
modelled somewhat on the lines of The Nation.
Of New York.
lne ccstor OF The Fall Mall Gazette, Mr.
Steal afects 10 view with adherence the
notion 5',e' man should go into newspaper
work for mere pecuniary advantage.
One Of tie most popular and distinguished
of our scientific writers is Professor 7. c.
Mendenhali, 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
Draybo. 4 Letters" talks Of resigning the
ehAii .1glish at Edinburgh university.
All. So j. Norris, the English author, is
soalo nj an invalid, and lives nearly all
he year reutd at Torquay going to London
luly gof TIA or two during the season.
Sanucl Wellington, The poet, translator
and comp0ey of anthologies of English and
continental onnets, belongs to family said
10 be el With the poet Longfellow's
j. L. arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold, is
writing IA romance enhtled 1.-THE Wonderful
Adventures OF Phra the Ph@nician, which
promises to outrival Haggard's widest flights.
vicomte Eugene Melchior de vogile, au-
shoI Of tile recent Russian articles in Har-
ters and the youngest member of the French
academy, is ~ years old and an aristocrat.
the eighth edition of Tolstois works, now
Il press il Moscow, will include $4,000 copies
Of "Anna Karenina," 80 900 copies Of "War
and Peace, and 1000 copies of each of sew
9Eal vo,ainea u short stories.
The tie Wilkie Collins was short and deli
eots loo 2, with very snail hands and feet
md d ful face. His luxuriant hair and
board snowy white Heworo spectacles
habitdalig and smoked necessarily.
IgA E,eaan, author of "The Life OF
lt.us small man. thick set aud clumsy,
AILh tie u JE Of one who likes the good thing:
Sf cart lis face is round and would be
ecnrs I not FOR his noble brow and fine
ewes.
1ola hives in "A line chateau in picturesque
Ergt ID hs test near Medan, on the Seine.
l. Is Handsome and spacious, with two wings,
towels, - ,te-, long flights Of marble steps.
haluetro' lud surrounded by amagnifcent
part 6tie with flowers
A Conn Doyle, the author OF the success
il al i, Micah Clarke" which
1cals 17fh the Monmouth rebellion, is ar
h.ngtish pA sicial, about 30 years Old, and 6
rote4 s. 3s cootributor He is a nephew
- No~i- famous caricaturist of Punch.
FierT rgwing room at Rochefort i.
.l1 ezaet q rC1uoJion of his salon at Fvoub
ir Als.lin gnd rs adorned with Oriental dra
peries and beautiful art knickknacks Al
might taIi wax candles burn III the brazeL
tlac3e'-7 throwing a weird, mysteriou,
glow over this strange Oriental abode, whil(
tne blue perfunned smoke of Levantine in
fiona the braseroS