Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-12

LITERARY LIGHTS.

Mrs. Cleveland is engaged in translating French novel into English
 Joel Benton's home at Amenia, N. Y., is called sThe House of the Seven Fireplaces."
 Edgar Saltus has written for early publica- ton q novel called ''The Girl with the Naked Eyen
 Ouida has been writing for forty -one years, having begun her literary career by a story when years old.
 Mrs. Burnett receives S25 for every per formance of her dramatization of Little Lord Fauntleroy."
 Professor Freeman is spending his winter in Sicily, delving in Sicilian history for ma- terial for q new book
 Mary Kyle Dallas, who has been writing short stories for twenty-five years now issues her first novel, "Adrietta." J. H. Shorthouse is short man, and has a rather strong face, big nose, black hair and an impeachment in his speech.
 Robert J. Burdette declares that, although he writes continually for the Sunday papers, he has not read one for four years. Guy de Maupassant and his valet hre to make an excursion to central Africa, dis guised in the black burnouse of the Arab. Wilkie Collins is an assiduous worker, sit ting at his desk almost all day, and finding his recreation in q game of whist in the even ing at his club.
 Dr. Alexander Kohut, the eminent Tal- mudist scholar, has completed, after twenty five years labor, an enlarged edition of lex icon of the Talmud. Mir. Gladstone and Lord Randolph Church i'll recently purchased over fifty copies of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy" for presents among their young friends.
 B. l.. Farjeon, the novelist, is the son-in- law of Joseph Jefferson, and lives in Adelphi Terrace, quiet, romantic corner of London overlooking the Thames.
 Daudct is so deeply interested in the educa- tion of his oldest boy, who is to read Sappho at 21, that he revamped his own Latin and Greek in order to coach him.
 Mrs. Oliphant, the novelist, is 63 years old and a hard worker, with no desire for news paper fame, living secluded life with her two children near Windsor castle
 Amanda M. Douglas the popular novelist, who for the last fifteen years has been the chief support of her father, mother and sis ter, writes novels at the rate of two year.
 Marion Crawford is thoroughly familiar with German, French and Italian, reads Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian, and has lowing acquaintance with Turkish and Russian.
 Walter Besant made funny mistake in his latest novel, For Faith and Freedom" when he described one of his characters as going lon board a steamer bound for New England" in 1887.
 Swinburne, standing scarcely five feet in high heel boots, has an immense head covered with wild, unkempt hair; face pale, livid and almost ghastly, and mouth small and girlish in expression.
 Browning says that "How the Good News Was Brought from Ghent to Aix" was written under the bulwark of vessel off the African coast, when he was shaken up by travel. It has no historic basis.
 Countess Tolstoi does not sympathize with her husbands extreme religious views, and threatens, if he attempts to carry out his plans of selling all that he has for the benefit of his sanity
 William Winter is described ''as slightly built man of about 50, with gray hair fall ing in picturesque confusion over Q high fore head, beneath which look out q pair of dreamy, poetic eyes, that snap and sparkle"