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Literary News and Gossip.

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Literary News and Gossip.
Belford's Magazine has given up the ghost
Miss Charlotte M. Younge, the authoress, l
81 years old and has written 101 books.
DIR. w. j. Rolfe. the Shakespearian author
ity, is making his ninth trip abroad.
J W. Fl. H. Murray is writing his thirC
volume Of. Adirondack Tales.
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler will call his forth
coming autobiography. Buffers Book.
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Is spoken
OF as the 'great American novep for which
the critics are looking.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catberwood will soor
sail for Europe, to spend some months ir
study, preparing for new book.
Pierce Lott, the new member of the French
academy, has written most of his books or
shipboard during the long hours of the night
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the author of "The
Anglomaniacs," has written new novel OF
New York life which The Century will print
1t Is said to deal with divorce.
A. r. CUTLER Couch, whose nom de plume
Is 20" Is the present fashionable English
magazine writer. His short stories are de-
scribed as "the reality Of realism"
Fl. &. Bunner, editor of Puck, lives at Nut
ley, N. Y, where he has pretty cottage
nearly hurled In the woods. He Is great
pedestrian.
Mrs. John Maxwell, (Miss Braddon) at the
| age of 81 years. Is still an enthusiastic horse.
woman and often enjoys q spirited canter In
the London parks.
Marion Crawford has just passed bis forty
sixth birthday. He did not publish his first
novel, Mr.. Isaacs, TIL he was thirty.seven
years old.
Edna Lyall. the novelist, has been obliged
to give up all literary labor on account of
poor health, and ia spending the summer In
the lake district Of Italy.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's personal
"Mr. Beecher IS l Knew HIM." will begin
In the October issue nf The Ladies Home
Journal.
Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro has accepted
the offer of an American magazine for an
article, which she will prepare Immediately,
1t Ia stated, and she Is also writing book on
her stage experiences.
Miss Alice M. Fletcher, of the United States
Interior Department and the Peabody Mu.
scum, Cambridge, will contribute to The
Century IN 1892 the results of her studies of
the American Indian IN series of illustrated
papers.
Hildegarde Hawthorne, granddaughter of
Nathaniel and daughter of Julian, has carried
the gift of authorship into q third gen.
Grafton of HawthOrnes. She has contributed |
to q forthcoming number of Harper what Is |
said to be very original story, conveying
surprise.
The Rev. Horatio Nelson Powers, who died
year ago, was rector Of an Episcopal church
at Piermont.on-the Hudson, and q poet of
merit. His "last poems" have
Just been collected In book form and publish.
ed by D. Lothrop Co., with an appropriate
by Oscar Fay adams.
Mr.. Wedworth Wadsworth, one of the best
known of American landscape painters and
water .colorists, has just issued. through the
press Of d. Lothrop & Co., an exquisite
lnder the title "Leaves from an Artists
Field Book"
One Of the brightest and wlttiest stories of
he year Is "Carlotta's Intended" by Ruth
dcEnery Stuart, in Lippincott's Magazine
or September, despite its rather convention.
j ending. The author may take her stand
mong the cleverest Of the woman writer's of
he South, who are now becoming really
Mrs. Martha A. Lowe, the widow of . {
1ell-known Unitarian minister Of Somervile. Q
lass, and frequent contributor Of verse to ?
ewspapers and magazines has published In d
ook form two of her longer poems" Bessie
ray,' and "Our Step-mother." Mrs. Lowe II
as selected by Mr.. LongfellOw as one of his
authors In compiling his a
Poems of Places" {
Mrs. Julia McNair Wright, has just pup v
shed the only Danish story ever written 10 =
merica. II Is entitled Cru Dagmar's Son."
copy, splendidly bound In white watered II
IL, with the Danish arms painted on one
1e, and Enclosed 10 beautiful box lined r
tth pulled white silk, has been sent to the y
ueen Of Denmark by the National Temper. "
ice Society.
The fret book entered under the new =,
upright law was the "Faith Doctor" BY " =.
dward Eggleston, to whose efforts the law e q.
so largely due. 1t was arranged that DR.. g
e copyright records for July 1, 1891, as a ~
ark OF appreciation of the authors services ~
behalf Of the law. n !.
Mrs. Margaret E. Saugster, editor of Har. o,
RS Bazaar, spends the summer at Pompton. h,
j.. She reaches her Office In the Franklin Cd
uilding every morning 0v O'Clock, and re. n
aims there until 8 or 4 O'Clock In the after. o,
ION. Her Office IL not particularly cheer b,
] one. but she brightens 1t up by keeping o,
'uquet CT flowers on her deck. She has A | IN
ny bright. pleasant face. th
Mrs. Custer, author of "Boots and Saddles, "
ID Following the Guidon." sailed for q
lrope May IL, and will probably spend sew. W
q! months IN travel abroad. Her last sum. 'n
er's journeying In the west verifying liter. =,
uata pTofeu very tatigutng, ana sue feels 40,
complete rest and change will be necessary ~
fore she can finish her researches 10 early -,
oneer history. y.
Mrs. l.. Walford, the novelist, Il de. Dir
ribed as fair-skinned, bIue-eyed, brown. IN
ired woman. with q brilliant smile, whose tn
pearance Is more youthful than one would no
pect In the mother OF seven cnildren. Her tb
me. Cranbrooke Hall. near London. is a co
armtng old place. dating back 200 years but pr
proved and enlarged of late years. Thomas SIT
", the author of 'Sandford and Mertou.- su
q Anne and Jane Tsyior. formerly lived In 10
e neiehborbood. Mrs. Walford Inherited on
r literary tastes. although she began novel; Fl
fting only after her marriage. Her father Fri
IS q wellknown author and her aunt, Cath sis
ne SiDciai. wrote "Hoiday House, Not wi
her literary work. Mrs. WAX We
y hnds time 10 do little spinning and dis
ch embroidery. tw
rapley's "Bread Winner outwears all bu
er shoes. 3Sff err