The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-06-21
LITERARY LIGHTS.

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zoas new novel will have five murders
i'm it.
Octave Thanet draws all her characters
from real life.
Ike Marvel, Donald G.. Mitchell, has taken
up writing again.
Miss Charlotte NJ. Yonga now ca years old,
has written 100 books.
Louis NJ. Alcotts biography is definitely
promised for next September.
Mark Twain is preparing new book, "a
Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
W. f. A. Axon, the poet, has resigned the
editorship Of The Manchester Quarterly
Miss Emily Faithful now gets pension Of
$3.50 year from the English government.
The cup of YOUTH" n second collection Of
poems by DIR. s. Weir Mitchell, is just ready.
f. Marion Crawford informs a friend that
he has just turned the halfway post of a new
novel.
Alice Hyneman Rhine is the clever editor
Of The Graver and Palette, journal for art
students
Sir Charles Russell has been offered $4,000
to deliver fifty lectures in the United States
next season.
James A. Froude, the English historian and
man of letters, is the latest convert TO home
rule in Ireland
Alphonse Daudet is still forced to remain
idle, owing to a return of his rheumatic and
neuralgia pains.
A volume of stories and sketches by Henry
Guy Carleton is to be published in New York
10y George Munro.
Oscar Fay Adams, the poet and litterateur,
is slight in frame, near sighted, gray haired
and absent minded.
a new book by Amelia b. Edwards, enti-
tied "Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented
Valleys" is nearly ready.
Gen. Lew Wallace says that there are two
things of which he is immoderately fond,
horse racing and baseball.
Herman Melville once famed for his sailor
stories, is still in the land Of the living,
though he writes no more
a translation into English prose of Omar
Khayyam's well known lines has been made
by Justin Huntley Mccarthy.
Anna Katharine Green is busily engaged
upon new novel, said to be entirely unlike
anything else she has written.
OF Louis Ulbachs almost painful careful
ness of style, it was once sarcastically said
'he would split hair in four"
T. c Crawford, the well known newspaper
correspondent, is said to have permanently
quit the field of newspaper work.
The Misses Hodgkin two young English
ladies, have started The Santa Lucia, u new
monthly magazine for the blind, in Braille
type.
Andree Hope, author of the powerful talo
"a Terrible Night, is writing a longer story
of Russian life called "Princess Arlane Kara
sonmoff."
Fergus Hume, the author of the "Mystery
of Il Hanson Cab" the successful shilling
shocker, has dramatized the novel I'm Love
and War;
Professor Noire, best known out of Ger
many by his historical introduction to Kant's
"Critique of Pure Reasop," died recently ut
Mayence.
Homer Greene, author of "What My Lover
Sad,n has written a serial story for the
Youths Companion, called "The Riverpark
Rebellion"
NJ. Quesnay de Beaurepaire the new
French procureur general, has won distnc-
ton us u novelist under the pseudonym Jules
de GlOuvet
The late Louis Ulbach was the means of
introducing to the world the pleasant pretty
book of the queen Of Roumania the "Pen-
sees dune Refine"
Don Jose Gorilla, the newly crowned poet
laureate of Spain is said to be decidedly
different person from his namesake, Ruiz
Gorilla, the revolutionist.
Lady Randolph Churchill is about to make
her debut in literature, it is said, with an
article in Longman's New Review on her
experience in Russian society life
The ex-King Milan of Servia is going to
write his autobiography with the intention
of presenting the volume to his son, the pres
ont king, when the youth reaches his ma
jority.
It is said that Mr.. Howells is desirous of
writing a novel which will take in all kinds
of characters to be found in New York, an
idea based upon Balzac's "Comedie Hu-
maine.n
DR.. 7. w, Parsons, the well known trans
lator Of Dante, is said to be the Chesterfield
of the book making set Of Boston, and takes
delight in turning off sonnets to pretty
women.
Gertrude Franklin Atherton's two success
full novels, "What Dreams May Come and
Hernia Suydam,n will be published by
Routledge by arrangement and payment to
the author
Mrs Helen Campbell, whose literary la
bors are strong pleas for the children of poy-
erty, resides on one of the finest slopes of tho
Orange mountains where she does most Of
her literary work.