Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-03-20
LITERARY LIGHTS.

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LITERARY LIGHTS.
Afra Cleveland Is engaged In TRANSMITTING q
French novel into English.
Joel Benton's home at Armenia, N. Y, q
called 1.-THE House Of the Seven Fireplaces."
Edgar Saltus has written for early publica-
ton a novel called "The Girl with the Naked
Eye"
Ouida has been writing for forty-one years,
having begun her literary career by story
when years old
Mrs. Burnett receives S25 for every per-
| Torrance Of her dramatization Of little
Lord Fauntleroy."
Professor Freeman Is spending his winter
In Sicily. delving in Sicilinn history for ma
terial for a new book.
Mary Kyle Dallas, who has been writing
short stories for twenty-five years, now issues
her first novel, "Adrietta-"
j. 81. Shorthouse is short man, and has a
rather strong face, a big nose, black hair and
an impeachment In his speech.
Robert j. Burdette declares that, although
he writes continually for the Sunday papers,
y
Guy de Maupassant and his valet are to
mako 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 game Of whist in the even
Ing ut his club.
DR.. Alexander Kohut, the eminent Tai
mudist scholar, has completed, after twenty
five years labor, an enlarged edition of lex
icon Of the Talmud
MIR. Gladstone and Lord Randolph Church
Ill 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 Adephi
Terrace, quiet romantic corner Of London
overlooking the Thames.
Daudet is so deeply interested In the educa-
ton of his oldest boy, who is to read Sappho
at 81, that he revamped his own Latin and
Greek in order to coach him.
Mis-. Oliphant, the novelist, Is 6S years old
and hard worker, with no desire for news
paper fame, living a secluded life with her
two children near Windsor castle,
Amanda NJ. Douglas, the popular novelist,
who for the last fifteen years hos been the
chief support of her father, mother and sis
ter, writes novels OF the rate Of two year.
Marion Crawford is thoroughly familiar
with German, French and Italian, reads
Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian,
and has bowling acquaintance with Turkish
and Russian.
Walter Besant made a funny mistake in
his latest novel, For Faith and Freedom"
when he described ono Of his characters as
going con board steamer bound for New
England" in 1857.
Swinburne, standing scarcely FIVE feet In
high heel boots has an immense head covered
with wild, unkempt hair; q face pale, Hvid
and almost CHASTITY, and q mouth small and
girlish in expression.
Browning says that GLOW the Good News
Was Brought from Ghont to AK" was
written under tho bulwark Of O vessel of tho
African coast, when he was shaken up by
travel. 1t has no historic basis.
Countess Tolstoi does not sympathize with
her husbands extreme religious views, aud
threatens, If he attempts to carry out his
plans Of selling all that he has for tho benefit
Of the poor, to ask for an official investigation
Of his sanity.
William Winter is described eos slightly
built man Of about so, with gray hair fall
ing In picturesque confusion over high fore
head, beneath which look out o pair Of
dreamy, poetic eyes, that snap and sparklo"
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