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compared to her, / think I am"
| have recently had occasion to notice that
almost universally in New York society Mr..
Howells is disliked as an author. He is often
sneered at, and those who AVE ever met him
simply have to speak a good word for him
out of courtesy, however much they may
~disapprove of him. The remark was made
the other day by the editor of one the large
magazines, and / have heard it frequently
repeated that the pendulum of popularity is
already swinging far away from realism of
the Howells variety.
The publishers ave been trying in vain to
find the source of the quotation, ''Ships that
pass in the night and salute each other in
passing" ETC., from which the title OF
Beatrice Harradens popular novel is taken.
The book has sold seventeen thousand copies
in England and six in this country, which
makes it the book of the day. The author is
as yet entirely unknown personally, at least
on this side of the water.
They say that collectors are now MAX
ing a point of collecting the artistic adver-
Using posters sent out monthly by the
| Century, Hdrper's and Scribner's magazines.
Back numbers are at a premium, n no
doubt the publishers will soon be selling the
new issues at a price. A water color by
Leon Moran prepared for this poster use
was exhibited as a picture at the Worlds
Fair, and though there was q big facsimile
of ScribneT's Magazine in the composition,
the art committee accepted it without a
| suspicion that it was meant for advertising.
One sees what it is to have caught on
| personally, when it is said that no less than
four poems by Verlaine and one prose
article have been secured from him by lead
ing English reviews since his late visit TO
London.
1t is not often that novels have been sue
c~essfully dramatized, least of all by theil
own authors. But Alexandra Dumas fill
succeeded better with his decentralization OF
camille" than with the novel. They say
he did not know he had dramatic ability
until one day a dramatization of his novel
which was very bad, was brought to him.
~whereupon he remarked that he could have
lone it better himself. Accordingly, he did
do it better-better even than he wrote the
novel.
An English literary paper says Stockton is
not worth one-tenth as much money in Eng
land as he is with us. 1t also states that he
began life as an illustrator, and is now FOND
of fast trotters, one of which he once named
David Douglas, for the publisher of that
name with whose check he bought the horse.
He is short, dark, and one leg is shorter han
the other.
Goulson Kernahan. author Of ga Book OF
Strange Sins" has just been savagely at
tackled on the ground of immortality by the
London Quarterly. Instead of sending no.
| tice of a libel suit, he wrote the editor Offer
ing to submit the book to a committee of six
Wesleyan Methodist ministers, and if two OF
them decided that there was anything in ii
which Ought not to nave seen the light" he
would give $500 to soule charity. That Ger
tainly sounds fair, and has rather more
common sense in it than the retorts of most
| authors.
1t is said that Lady Lucy, wife of a mod.
ern descendant of Sir Thomas Lucy, in
whose grounds SHAKESPEARE vent deer steal
ing, once remarked, st was an ancestor OF
my husband who brought out the famous
Shakespeare" Those famous estates are now
offered for sale by Sir Thomas descendants
ALPHENs SHERWIN Copy.
New York, Feb. 10, 1891.