Wichita eagle., 1889-04-21
axila - eagle
LITERARY LIGHTS.

Kate Field is writing novel based on the
horrors of Mormonism
Justin a. Mccarthy, NJ. p, the younger, is
to publish a novel which he calls Dolly"
Browning's work was recently defined as
"a dictionary with the meanings OF the
words left out"
Frederick Harrison calls one of Mrs. Mar
garet L. Woods poems the Every dead
march of pessinism.
Dr. Amelia B. Edwards is the only woman
ever invited to lecture before the Peabody
Institute of Baltimore
Sabine Barring Gould is about to publish a
collection of Devonshire songs, which he has
been compiling for several years.
Bessie Chandler, the poet, is Mrs Leroy
Parker, a daughter of the late Admiral
Chandler Of the United States navy.
Professor j. S. Blackie says that while he
is working he never uses any alcoholic stimu-
liant, nor stimulant Of any other kind
Grant Allen, whose health has not been
good of late, Is spending the winter in Italy.
amid the artistic treasures of that land
Professor Bryce has gone to India to live
on the northwest frontier for time to make
thorough study of the Afghan question.
Robert Louis Stevenson has presented to
King kalakaua rare golden pearl, accom-
panied with a little poem describing the gift.
Khoda Broughton, the English novelist,
lives in a little old house In a little old street
at Oxford, with walled garden filed with
roses.
Nor Jaka, the leading Hungarian novelist,
in his time has published some 200 volumes,
TO say nothing of trihes in novelties and
short stories.
Marion Crawford's father was Thomas
Crawford, Se sculptor, and his mother was
the sister of the late Sam Ward and of Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe.
Mrs Laurance Oliphant has set out for
Hasfa, near Mount Carmel, where she will
beguile herself from grief by writing the
life of her husband.
Mrs. Mary A Livernore, accompanied by
her husband. has set out for two months
tour through the Yellowstone region and
Southern California.
Mrs James T. Fields, widow of the well
known Boston publisher, is the founder of
many of the five cent coffee stands and other
worthy charities of Boston
Tennyson is said to be keeping wonderfully
well; he is too energetic to be idle reads his
daily paper, and preserves full freshness of
interest in events Of his time.
Tolstoi lately said he would write no more
novels, for ''those who read novels, the great
mass Of people, read them for the story; they
do not look or care for the application"
Wilkie Collins holds that q man who lives
by the work Of his brain lives under arti-
fiicial conditions, and is therefore in need of
artificial help in the form of stimulants.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale lives in de-
lghtful old homestead in the Roxbury dis
trict of Boston, in appearance "a cross be-
tween Greek temple and a country bank.
The Pail Mall Gazette mentions some of
the words in Edgar Saltus' recent dictionary
parade, and calmly inquiries SIS it possible
that Americans admire this ignorant and
pretentious gibberishl
, Daudet, Speaking of N. Renan, with whom
he is on intimate terms, said recently: What
fine intellect and what pity it should be
imprisoned In such huge and unwieldly
frame; it is SO fevolting to ones ideal!'
Professor Mommsen, having found it impos-
sible to procure in Germany or England
specially anxious to study, went to Paris to
consult them at thu Bibhotheque Rationale.
Edward Eggleston was recently described
as "a Esouthron If the ante-bellum large
planter type; man with soft, sweet voice,
and English filtered through generations of
tidewater Virsinian ancestors down to its
present vernacular"
In connection with the rumor that Julian
Hawthorne will write novel for a manu-
featuring concern as an advertisement, it is
interesting TO note that the late Pill"
Holloway offered Charles Dickens 81 900 for
mere mention in one of his novels
Andrew Lang writes in The Forum of ''The
Quick and the Dead" ''The truth about the
novel probably is that amid perfect tenn
pest Of deranged epithets and deplorable
style CLEAN of real and rare talent may be
seen, like star through a witchs storm"