The morning times., 1896-12-20
Literary Notes.

FrenchwOman.
Han { Calne returned TO England one year
20 tins month.
Matthew Arnold was a cousin Of Mrs.
Humphrey Ward.
capt. Mahan is devoting himself TO writ
lng a life Of Nelson.
Coppec - known IN the Latin quarter as
"le cher maItre' the dear masterD
Mrs Robert Louis stevenson has said
That sic intends never TO return TO America.
Grant Aliens The Woman Who bid"
sent at least one woman 10 the insane
asylum.
Mrs Humphrey Wards home in Russell
square, London, is a solemn house, within
and without.
one hundred special copies OF King
Noanett' are TO be placed on the market
at SlOO each.
Bret Hart now lives in England, but he
was born IN New York State and went To
California ln 1893.
The late Col. Fellows had a -prodigiouSS
memory, and he is said To have known all
SCOTS poetry 10y heart.
Dumas was buried in the flannel work
ing suit in which he had often been pho
tOgraphed in recent years.
s. Wler Mitchell is a graduate Of Harvard,
but Princeton and Edinburgh have con
ferFcd on him the degree OF l.. l.. ID.
Du Maurier said that every book which
is worth anything had its original in life,
aud a man'sbest years are after he Is forty.
The revival of the romantic probably has
IN II the reason of the rival Of int rest in
the author OF Manfred and The Prisoner
OF Chilon.'
Someone should write OF the passing of
"CUida." The brilliant French woman
who shocked generation seems TO nave
lost her powers.
Maxwell Grey has done nothing notable
since her silence of Dean Maitland Her
real name is Mary g. Uttiet, and she is
confirmed invalid.
Mrs Humphrey Ward Is said TO be at
work on a short play. he has not done
anv long work since her return to England
from the continent.
where are the liOniZers of literary wo-
mem The bC ons which made fads of Amelie
Riyes. John Oliver Hobbies and Julien
Gordon have all exploded.
-ahe literary fame OF Blacknore, the
author or Lorna Doone.' has not reached
ms own home. In Devonshire he is
known only as market gardener.
Dr NanSen Is TO write a book on his
attempt To reach the North Pole. and 1t is
stated that the privileges of publication
| have already been sold for $4,000.
Mr.. 1. ZanquIl's without Prejudice
IN Lhe Pan Mall Magazine gives way the
first of the year to Quiller Couch, who
VIII write From Cornish Window
Juha MagruGer as virginian by birth,
but lives in North Carolina Her father
was a washington law yer. and Gen. Ma
Gruder OF the Confederate army was her
uncle.
Hall Caine had finished three acts OF
drama, in which Mohanet was the cen
trai figure, for Irving, a year ago, but
English prejudice compelled him to reject
the play.
No man was more lavish with his gifts
| than Eugene Field 70 be sure the gifts
were only autograph tits of original verse
in books, but bits Of verse do not lie around
IN plenty.
Dumas did not believe in woman. He
called her IAN reasonable being, sub
altern and an evil doer.' And Yet 10 ma n
was ever more loved and sought by the
other sex.
Gyp has screen which She has
dedicated TO George Ohnet, the French
writer. 1t is covered with quota
uons which she considers monuments of
ms stupidity.
At recent meeting In Edinburgh to pro-
mote a memorial To the late Robert Louis
Stevenson, Lord Rosebery presided. He
! alluded TO Stevenson as the successor to
| Sir Walter Scott.
1t is not generally known that Ruth
| \ Shmore.' of the Ladies Home Journal,
Bah of the syndicate press, and Mrs.
Isabel A Mallon of Baltimore are one
| and the same person.
The other House, the latest story by
Henry James, is said to be a ma sterpiece
| one critic goes SO far rs To declare that
We predict that the hour OF the authors
| aniversality is at hand.'
Paul Bourget spent the summer in Ire
| land writing a book which tells the adven-
lures Of a French family who were ban
| lShed from France and came to live on the
| banks Of Lake Killarney.
Henry Is. Fuller has gone abroad again
| He Is too active to be idle long, and though
| he mas no defined plans for the coming
! year II is not improbable that he will give
| his public another novel in 1897.
December ] eth was the seventh ami
| versary OF Robert BrOwning's death Ap-
| proprate services were held at the church
OF st. Maryiebone, at whose altar Elizabeth
/ Barrett and Robert Browning g plighted truth.
At eighty Samuel Smiles, the author of
| self Help" is still living i'm London.
When "the best hundred be oks'' fad was
at ltS height, ''Eelf Help appeared upon
| all those made by practical business men.
Though Heine thought TO take revenge
on early enemies by his Memories writ
| pruned, for the Memories are locked away
| from the public in the Imperial Library at
/ vienna.
Few writers are accused of pIagiarizing
| from themselves, yet casual readers have
cCmpIaIned that She's Ali the World to
Me bears a striking resemblance to THE
| DepmStcr.' They were both written by
han Game.
Though the fame of AIphonse Daudct
| oVershaC ows that of his brother Ernest
1 il was really Ernest Daudet who brought
! the family into fame He SUPP orted Al
| DhonSe till he was able to make som nothing
! 10y his pen.
The prevailing prejudice of the clever
| French writer, ''Gyp," is against the
Jews Oddly enough her publishers are
Jews. They have made an arrangement
1 with her that when her books are too
4 veltemcntly antlSemetlc, they may be sent
| TO another house.
The two widowed sisters, Mrs. Lewis and
| Mrs Gibson, of Cambridge, England, who
| are celebrated for the discovery of Biblical
| manuscripts in Mount Sinai. have giyer
| a site and Ego 900 for the Presb yterian
1 College TO be removed from Bloombury
| London, to Cambridge.
Albert Van Dam, the clever compiler of
IAN Englisnman in Paris" believes that
| TTilby was drawn from Elise Duval, an
] artists model. who was well known in
| her day. She looked like Trilby, and had
| her peculiar failings and virtues, besides
| being sensitive TO hypnotic suggestion.
Coppee's story, The Rivals" by which
| America best knows him-the story of the
| two old actresses who had loved the same
| man in their youth-was an actual discov-
| cry. He saw the two old friends tottering
| along together, and heard the outlines oi
| then story, making il into the idyl of un-
| SelflshneSs 1t is.
The office of Poet Laureate Of Bavaria
| has been diseldowed The office was
| created by King Ludwig III, who appointed
| Kari Won Helgel to the post, the yearl y
| stipend being SO0 marks. Since Ludwig