Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE OF THE PEN.

John G. Whittier is in feeble health.
Robert Buchanan is writing two new
plays.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes will cele-
brate his SOth birthday August goth.
George Bancroft, the historian, and his
niece, Miss Carrie Bancroft, have sailed for
Europe.
Robert Browning, the academy saws,
has new volume of poetry ready for pub
LEGATION.
The wife of Count Tolstoi is in America
looking after the publication of her hus-
bands books.
Mrs Humphrey Ward, author of Robert
Elsmere,' is said to be suffering severely
from writer's cramp.
Rider Haggard has departed for Assyria
to study the topography of the country for
his new story, Queen Esther"
Oscar Wilde will cease to be the editor
of the Woman'S World after the appear
ance OF the September number.
! The Marquis of Lorne has written a
poem entitled "Who is the Happiest?" 1t
is to appear in the Scots Magazine.
Pope's 9 Essay on Man." with Ms. cor
rections in the poets own handwriting,
was lately sold in London for S16O.
Professor A. S. Hardy of Dartmouth, the
well-known novelist, is making carriage
tour through the White mountains.
Paul Bourget is the last French novelist
to try his hand at the drama. He is writ
ing play together with NJ. Meilhac.
The Empress of Austria has been drown
ing her great griefs in the study of Greek,
in which she has made admirable progress.
The free library given to Allegheny City
by Andrew Carnegie will be finished by
October 1st, and will start with $4,000
volumes.
Mrs, Smith, who teaches laundry work at
torsythe College, Eng, also writes novels,
contributes original recipes to Truth, and is
her own dressmaker.
Mrs. Catherine Chase, the daughter of
Salmon 2. Chase, is still at work on the
life of her father. She lives at Edgewood,
just outside of Washington.
The authoress of "John Ward, Preacher"
has new novel in hand TO be called "Sid-
ney Page" and the "motive" will again
turn on theological problems.
Miss Jean Ingelow has written some
recollections of her childhood which she
thinks of publishing in this country. She
has also lately finished novelette,.
Lewis Miller, the father-in-law of Edi-
son, the inventor, is, next, to Bishop Vim
cent, the leading man in developing the
Chautauqua idea. He is an Ohioan.
The Queen of Italy is an ardent student
of Volapuk. She is subscriber of the
Sturdt, the organ of the new language,
printed at Milan, and is said to read it
with ease
A volume of the poems of Frederic
Iennyson, eldest brother of the poet lau-
reate, is among the reprints in contempla-
ton in London. They have become diff
cult TO procure.
DR.. Edward Brooks, the well-known ed
ucator, of Philadelphia, has been lectur-
ing on the Nature and Culture of the Mind
and kindred topics at the summer school
at Glens Falls, n. Y.
b. L. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold,
is writing romance which promises to
rival Mr.. Haggard's cleopatra" 1t is
entitled "The Wonderful Adventures of
Phra, the Phenician"
Mrs. Herbert Ward elizabeth Stewart
Phelps) has established fshermens read
ing-room at Gloucester, Mass, and several
cofiee-rooms, and is accordingly regarded
there with much grateful affection.
Robert Louis Stevenson is last heard
from at the Gilbert Islands, in the South
Seas. He is on board his schooner Equa-
tor, and has picked up not only his health
but much good material for new works of
fiction.
The late Professor Alexander Johnston,
of Princeton, left a complete MS. of
History of the United States" Its plan
somewhat resembles that of his former
valuable textbook, but it is suited to
shorter course and less mature minds.