The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The Princess Of Wales was offered
recently 5000 by an American maga-
zine for 100 words.
1t is said that Bismarck was once
offered 81 word for all that he might
contribute to an American magazine.
William D. Howells recently re-
marked to a friend that he considered
foreign travel detrimental to the career
of an American novelist ..
Lord Acton Is considered the most
learned man in England, He is Ro-
man Catholic, and in addition to his
barony has a baronetcy. His library
contains no less than 100000 volumes
-Wilkie Collins is said to have re-
marked shortly before his death: After
more than thirty years study of the art,
consider Walter Scott to be the great
est of all novelists, and ''The Antigua
ry" is, as think, the most perfect of all
novels"
General Grant says in his memoirs
that he wasn't In the sword-piay that
many writers have described as having
taken place between himself and Gener-
al Lee, at Appomattox, but the story is
an interesting one and he always en-
joyedit
Joaquin Miller is described as a
square-built, sharp-featured man Of
weird appearance, with broad, bald
forehead, and suffers his tangled name
of hair to fall carelessly on his should
ers. He affects semi-clerical style Of
get-up and says abrupt things in hol-
low voice.
According to Mr.. Gladstone in the
Nineteenth Century, the publica tions Of
every kind received during the year at
the British Museum number about 40, 900,
which require, by the writer's estimates,
mile of new shelf room every two
years.
James Payn, the English novelist
has written about forty novels and every
word of the manuscript is in his own
handwriting. He will have nothing to
do with stenographers and typewriters.
He sleeps ten hours out Of the twenty
four, spending the remainder in reading
and writing.
Marion Crawford has been awarded
a prize of thousand francs by the
French Academy as an acknowledge
ment of the merit of his novels, and es-
pecially Of two of them, 'Zoroaster"
and "Marzio's Crucifx," which were
written in French as well as in English.
This fact accounts for the Academy's
preference for two of Mr.. Crawford's
works that in America have been
thought among the least successful.
Mrs. Frank Leslie occasionally
wears brilliant badge, The Order Of
Bolivar" 1t is star-like in design; OBJ
long, nearly the width of silver dollar.
but rather longer. 1t is made of highly
FURNISHED gold, and is studded thickly
with countless diamonds. On the front
side is portrait in enamel of Bolivar,
the liberator of South America; on the
other side the arms of Venezuela The
order was presented to Mrs. Leslie by
the President OF Venezuela "for pro-
noting the cause of art and literature"
Among the more conspicuous writer's
who have, more or less, completely
dropped the pen names under which
they became best known to the reading
public are: Annie Hector, Mrs. Alex
ander;" Mrs. E. T. Terhune. Marion
Harland;" Henry Harland, Sidney
Luska;" Samuel L. Clemens, Mark
Twain" Frederick Jessup Stimson, u.
s. of Dale;'' Mrs. Margaret Angles Hun
gerford, THE Duchess" Louisa de Ia
Rame, 'Ouida;" Mrs. D. G. Croly, "Jen-
ME June;" Ada Ellen Bayly, Edna
Lyall," and Donald G. MITCHELL elk
Narve1"