The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-02-08
LITERARY GOSSIP.
"Faust" has been translated into modern

"Faust" has been translated into modern
Greek.
OF oil Mr.. Howells works, svcnetian Lifen
hns had the largest sale.
The entire estate left by Dr. James Free
man Clarke is worth loss than $22, 200.
1t is estimated that it will take ten years
to publish all the posthumous works OF. Victor
Hugo
Mrs. Susan Wallace, vito of tho author Of
ben iiur,' has new work, "Kepose in
Egypt"
Mr. Il. Stevens will tell tho story of his
South Pacific cruise in about City short serial
articles
Gerald Massey, the English poet, is now in
America and will give lectures throughout
the country.
Laura Dnintry denies that she is ''a legiti-
mate offspring Of the erotic brain of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox"
New lyrics have been introduced into 'tThe
Cup" by Lord Tennyson at the request OF Miss
Mary Anderson.
Anna Katherine Greene preserves the old
stumps OF tho pencils with which she has
written her tales.
Max O'Rell formed copartnership with
an elevator boy in Boston, and will use some
stories the boy told him.
An unpublished poem by Wordsworth. ZOO
lines long, will appear in Macmillan's new
edition of the poets works.
IL Emile Zola was inspired, so it is said, to
write ''14e teve" by Lord Tennyson's line in
"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"
Mrs. Alma Tadema and Mrs. Edmund
Gosse are sisters, and they resemble each
other in being blonde, tall and quite talented.
Bret Hartc, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, E. W.
Howe, Charles Egbert Craddock and JOAQUIN
Miller made their first successes in western
journals.
DR.. Leland Miller, of Sheffield, Mass, has
given $4,000 to Williams college to establish
chair in American history, literature and
eloquencc
Its said thai Whlttle~s ambition wnen
young man was to become politician, but
that be was saved only by the fearful appeals
of his friends
Mr.. A Miner Griswold, perhaps better
known Us Fat Contributor" is to enter the
lecture field to give the public information
about "Quccr Folks"
Mrs. Austin Dobson, wife Of the well
known poet, has taken up the profession Of
letters, having just published "Cherryburn,
volume Of short stories.
room OF his charming old manor OF Ditch
lngham, which is overrun with Banksia
roses, clematis and jasmine.
A London author has written thirty novels
in three years. This beats the record Of any
living man, but the writer's enormous labor
has brought him only $1,000.
Mr.. Tracy Robinson, the poet, is "54. rosy.
sweet tempered, sunny hearted, gray, hand
some, good" and has been connected with
the Panama Canal company since $780,
Speaking of the personal appearance OF
Lord Iennyson, Edmund Yates says that the
laureate is q cross between Guy Fawkes and
the mysterious recluse OF melodrama
Mr.. +. J. Stimson, who wooes fame under
the nom do plume, j. S. o Dale, who Is about
IS years of age, is blonde and very tai, af-
fects the English in dress and accent, and is
wealthy.
Miss Olive Schreiner author Of the "StorY
Of an African Farm" is un English cover
ness who was born at the Cape Of mixed Ger
man and English parentage, the daughter Of
| missionary.
A Boston literary genius invents names
for books and plays, copyrights them and
| waits for bidders; his stock now consists Of
| twenty-eight titles, for one Of which he was
offered several hundred dollars.
Mrs. Laura c. Holloway, originally Ten
nesseo girl, whose parents lost their prop
erty during the war, kept them, by her books
and her diligent newspaper work, in grcat
comfort to the end of their days.
Mr.. Ruskin has conided to his admirers
that n shelf of tho little cabinet in his study
sis loaded with poetical ctfusions which were
the delight of my father and mother, and
which have not got the heart to burn"
Mr.. Frank Dempster Sherman, the poet,
sends in the most beautiful copy imaginable
it is more like old English print than the
work OF the pen. and each letter is formed ns
delcately and clearly as though engraved.
Mrs. Mona Card, who started tho discus
sion on "Is Marriage Failure4n spends most
of her time on large estate in Hampshire
dividing her days between superintendiur
her farn and performing literary work on {
typewriter.
Mrs Arthur Stannard, better known a.
john Strange Winter, felt perfectly conf
dent that the dramatization Of "Bootle:
Baby" would be success because black cut
followed through the stage door. Maybe thu
play will have nine lives