The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-01-18
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IN Cathes3ne de Medlci went TO
lerSl 70 marry Henry H.. abe took
With her noted perfuncf, who intro
duced .tnaiiy varieties Of italian per
fdmeA:
| Mira. f1drn Annie Steel. the Anglo
Indian novelist. while living In India
| spent much time and labor on native
! for use Id the schools. 1t wis not until
her husband resigned his Office and re-
turned to England that Mrs. Steel be-
| gan to write fiction.
The late Gustav Freytag In his will
provides that all letters in his possess
sion bc returned to the writer's. In his
lite he used to ticciaitn against the prac-
tice OF publishing dead peoples letters,
and he directs that nothing of his own
bc printed of which he had not author
ICED the publication.
-Gdldos, the Spanish novelist. who
is called great even by his eohtem-
poraries, lie a bachelor Of SO, who leads
a very simple and retiring life. He has
" ritten 20 volumes of national episodes,
historical romance, and they have been
uniformly popular since the first of
thetii. ''Trafa]gart'' wns published in
1873.
"A young Swede going by the name
Of Charles Haydensen, who has been
employed as q farm hand in the neigh
eorhood of Henderson. KY, for six
years, was discovered recently to be
woman. 1t was naturally a surprise to
the hundreds Of people who had worked
with her no long and had never sus-
rected her renl sex.
assassinn ton 4s other men in his pre-
csrious position would be. He consid-
ers his morrow escape from death in
japan the 1ufhllment Of a prediction
made to himlyy a Chinese mystery-mon-
ger years ago that he would dodge
death narrowly many times and live to
be over 90 years of age.
MIR. Rusl<in secs very few visitors
low. At II n. m. and three p. m. he
regularly takes a walk with his at
tendant. But even then he is SO averse
to the eye of the stranger that he will
turn into the first field, or get over q
hedge If possible when the gate is too
distant, rather than be stared at.
Concerning cx-Qneen Liliuol<nlani's
reported purchase Of a summer castle
and winter villa in Italy, Hawaiian Min
lister Castle ut Washington, declares:
''Ihe ex-queen has an income of not
more than SIS, 900 annually, which would
hardly warrant the extravaganza of
two different residences in southern
Eurepe."
Alexander Dumas complains that
he is growing old and disinclincd to
work and becoming fastidious to de- !
gree as to what he writes. Moreover,
he says, and it is u pathetic statement
to come from n man Of SO powerful a |
pen: II have arrived now ut an age |
when the best thing a man can do is to |
hold his tongue
Israel Zangwill has very poor |
opinion of the women writer's of our |
time. He says: "Amid shoals of the |
formless, the didactic, the ny sterical or |
the ungrammatical, entirely indebted |
for their superior circulation to the avid |
slsterly support Of the ladies who consti-
tute by far the larger proportion of the
reading public, q few feminine books
stand out in comparative sanity and
unity"
"A new question is agitating literary
Paris: viii the French academy, foun-
tain of honor, disappear when it's great
of the French language is
AS Richelieu created the
academy for the sole purpose of maxi
ng thnt dictionary, why should it sur
rive the publication of the book? No
'oty in this generation, at any rate,
iced worry about the matter, as the
has not yet gone beyond the
etter a.