The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-06

stiuct, being connected with Washington
Irving and also with some Of the scholars
who made Boston a center of learning in
the era before the war
She has always had the literary desire, but
not until within a year has she permitted
it full play. Her first effort was a fascina-
ting sketch called "A Diplomats Diary"
IL was published over nom de plume Of
Julian Gordon, and it attracted instant
attention. 1t was evident that a new
writer had come into the field, and in liter
airy circles people were asking Who is
Julian Gordon| The secret of the author
ship was kept fairly well, but it leaked
out. AS Mrs. Cruger was so prominent in
the most aristocratic social circles, Of
course the announcement that she was the
successful author set everybody in that
circle to talking.
This story was followed soon after by
another entitled "a Successful Man" and
while the plot and incidents are entirely
creations of her imagination, yet there is
no doubt that the experiences of her hus-
band in political life gave her the oppor-
tunity 10 write with the accuracy which
she did Of political experience. Mrs. Cru
ger is now perhaps the most successful wo-
a
least in New York She has received that
surest test Of fame-the highest pecuniary
temptations TO continue her work. and she
mas practically abandoned all other efforts
excepting those which employ her pen.
Mrs. Burton Harrison is a Virginia girl,
who is married To a successful New York
business man. She has not been so con
spicuous in the Notwithstanding social
had her ill Of social delights since she came
TO New York. Mrs. Harrison has been
known as q writer of grace and skill for
some years, but most Of her work has been
fraEmentary in the way of sketches and
short stories She has written a number
of plays for amateur societies, and some OF
them have proved TO be excellent acting
dramas. She has also written couple of
plays which have been acted by profes-
SIGNALS, and which clearly reveal the dra-
matte instinct.
Last winter the publishers of one Of the
monthly magazines announced that they
were about to publish anonymously a
story which they thought would be the hit
of the season. 1t was 70 be called "The
Angiomaniacs," and when the first in
stallment was published it attracted at
tention, not only on account of the curios-
ity as to its authorship, bat also on ae-
count Of its merits. Interest was stimulated
during the succeeding publications., but it
was not until IL was published in book
form that the authorship was revealed.
Then il was confessed that the writer was
Mrs. Burton Harrison, and she went at a
bound from a mere local repute TO that
fame which comes from recognition abroad
AS well as at home.
The stories these two women have writ
ten are not such a. would appeal to the
great masses of the reading public. They
are rather for the cultivated classes, and
Mrs. Harrison especially betrays evidence
of attempts at brilliancy which would be
more appreciated in q drawing room than
in the humble parlors Of the middle classes
Mrs. Harrison Is a young woman who
would be called very pretty, rather than
beautiful and whose charm Is In a most
vivacious manner ami disposition which
can only be described by the word sweet.
She has been thrown into much closer con
tact with literary people than Mrs. Crucer
has. 1t is rather singular that the great
successes Of the season should have been
attained by two women who are in the
social swim, who are at the head OF house
holds where entertainment almost every
night of the season l. the rale. and who are
blessed with abundant wealth
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