The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-15
LITERARY LIGHTS.

MIS-, cleveland is engaged in translat-
Ing French novel into English,
Joel Benton's home at Armenia, N. v,
is called 1.-THE House OF the Seven Fire.
places"
Edear saltus has written for carly pub
lcation u novel called "The Girl with
the Naked Eye"
Oulda has been writing for iorty-one
years, having begun her literary career
by n story when 4 years old,
Mrs, Burnett receives S25 for every
performance Of her dramatizatlOn Of
"Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
Professor Freeman is spending his
winter in Sicily, delving In Sicilian his
tory for material for new book.
Mary Kyle Dallas, who has been
writing short stories for twenty-five
years, now issues her first novel, "Adri-
eta"
j, II, Shorthouse is n short man, and
has rather strong face, big nose, black
hair and an impeachment in his speech,
Robert j, Burdette declares that, al.
though ho writes continually for the
Sunday papers, he has not read one for
four years.
Guy de Maupassant and his valet are
TO make an excursion to Central Africa,
disguised In the black burnouse OF the
Arab.
WilkiO Collins is an assiduous worker,
sitting ut his desk almost all day, and
finding bis recreation In a game OF whist
in the evening at his club.
DR.. Alexander Kohut, the eminent
Talmudlst scholar, has completed, after
twenty-five years labor, IN enlarged
edition ola lexicon Of the Talmud,
Mr.. Gladstone and Lord Randolph
Churchill recently purchased over fifty
copies OF Little Lord Fauntleroy" for
presents among their young friends,
D. l.. Farjeon, the novelist, is the son.
in.law Of Joseph Jefferson, and lives in
Adelphi Terrace, quiet, romantic cor
ner Of London overlooking the Thames.
Duudet is so deeply interested in the
education Of his oldest boy, who Is TO
Sappho at 81, that he revRmped his own
Latin and GtGGk in order TO coach him.
Mrs, 0liphant, the novelist, Is sixty
three years old and hard worker, with
no desire for newspaper fame, living a
secluded life with her two children near
Windsor castle.
Amanda N. Douglass, the popular nov.
Clist, who for the past fifteen years has
been the chief support OF her father,
mother and sister, writes novels at the
rate OF two year.
Marion Crawford is thoroughly iamil-
lar with German, French aud Italian,
reads Latin, Greek, sansklt, Arabic and
Persian, and has bowling acquaintance
with Turkish and Russian.
Walter Besant made a funny mistake
in his latest novel, "For Faith and Free
DOM" when he desCribod-one OF his
characters as going ION 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; a face
pale, liyid and almost CHASTITY, and u
mouth small and girlish in expression
Browning says that "How the Good
News was Brought from Client to AK"
was written under the bulwark Of a yes.
sci of the 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, and threatens, il he attempts to
carry out his plans OF selling all that he
has for the benefit OF the poor, to ask for
an official investigation OF his sanity.
William Winter is described "as a
slightly built man OF about so, with gray
hair falling in picturesque confusion
over q high forehead, beneath which
look out a pair OF dreamy, poetic eyes,
that snap and sparkle"