The Negro world., 1892-07-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


DIR. Won Forlenbeek. the chief
burgomaster of Berlin, who has just
died of apoplexy. was almost the best
known of German politicians. Ever
since the turbulent days of 1s4s he had
taken an active part in politics, and
| from 1874 to 1879 he was the president
of the lower house.
Lady Ulrica Duncombe. who is
said to have been the prettiest woman
present at the second royal drawing
room, is tall and dark, with a milk
white skin that contrasts effectively
with her dark hair Her face is oval,
and seems when she looks at you, an
observer relates, ITO be all eyes.
George sand always wrote at night.
and when the fever of composition was
upon her she was wont to work all
night. There is story told of her
finishing novel at Que o'clock in the
morning and Immediately taking up a
fresh quire of paper and writing the
first chapter of a new one before she
retired to rest.
ALI the act objects belonging 10
the iurist, the late benjamin II. Brew
ster, have been presented the Philadel-.
phia library company under the will Of
his sister. There are vases, buSts and
figurines in terra Gotta, paintings in
oil, and drawings in water color and
pen and ink. His library of 5000 vol
umes. chiefly ON Roman history aud
archaeology, is also presented to the
library.
Profit ON books in England is said
TO be about as follows: A shilling
shoelSer" pays its expenses when il has
sold 1, 200 copies; three-shiling book,
upon which grade and all higher grades
the price of the cover has To be ar-
counted for. becomes profitable after it
has sold 1900; a six-shilling book when
il has sold 900; two-volume library
book when it has sold 400; and u three
volume book when it has sold 500.
w. =. Hobart died the other day in
San Francisco, worth $4,000, 900. In
1870 he was n carman in the Chollar
mine. He received 81 day for push
ing an ore-car In the lower levels. He
made little money in stocks and put
il into teams with which he hauled ore
to the mills. lie prospered at this and
finally got a contract to extract ore
from the ChoIlar mine on n certain
royalty. This was the foundation of his
fortune
-Zola's new historical romance on
the War of 7O-'7TT is the work of iif
teen months of labor, and the author
himself believes 1t TO be the most i'm
portant book he has ever written. II is
repfete with personal and documentary
evidence in the collecting Of which NJ.
Zola visited the battIefields OF the east
ern frontier, questioned many survi-
vors of the fights, and consulted three
hundred volumes Of war history and
military records.
--Henry Labouchere. the London ed
itor and member of parliament, was at
one time attached To the British lega
tion at Washington, and n number of
characteristics stories of his eccentrici-
ties are still currt ~ at the capital. One
relates that during brief trip TO New
York he was mistaken for a celebrated
Irish patriot by some Irish Americans
who met him in saloon on a side street
off Broadway. He encouraged the de-
fusion To the extent of eating n dinner
given in his honor by the friends Of the
cause, and finally gave them the slip
without revealing his identity.
Walt Whitmans late home, a little
frame house worth about e1 500 or
$1,000, is to be bought and preserved in
his memory II Mr.. Tranbel, one OF the
executors Of the poets will, can. raise
the money Already circulars asking
for subscriptions have been sent out to
Whitman's admirers Mr.. Traubel says
that the two bedrooms. where Whitman
did alF his literary work, and the par
lor would be kept as 1t is. The interior
will. however, be somewhat repaired
and repainted. The Philadelphia Press
says that Whitman left number OF
manuscripts, containing both prose and
poetry, which have never been pub
lished. Among them was poem Co
lumbus, recently written, on the com
ing Columbian exposition.