The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-11
LITERARY GOSSIP.

LITERARY GOSSIP.
Some time ago it was announced, with
u certain show of authority In an inter-
view with Madame Sarah Bernhardt,
that she was writing her memories,
which were not to be published until
after her death. Subsequently this was
natly denied. Again it was reported
that EleanOra Duse was engaged in
writing her Life. but the Bookman has
been authorized to state that she Is not
writing this nor any other book.
A decade has passed away since that
very remarkable novel THE Silence of
Dean Maitland" was published, and yet
we believe Maxwell Gray" still has a
faithful following who would like to
know who the author Is like. This is
told in the March Bookman as follows:
Maxwell Gray" Miss Mary l..
TuttietD, as she is most widely known.
is the daughter of a physician who has
spent the greater part of his life In New
port, in the Isle of Wight. Miss Tut
tiett has made us familiar with the sur
rounding scenery of her home in the
graphic pages of her famous story. She
is an invalid and does all her writing
lying on u sofa. and ii is ten years since
she was out of the Isle of Wight. The
house in which the Silence of Dean
Maitland. the Reproach of Annesey. In
the Heart of the Storm, and the Last
Sentence were written is now trans-
formed into THE Bee Hive" where
silks and woods are vended. Like many
greater novelists. Miss Tuttfett began
her career with poetry, and her last
book. recently published in England, Is
z. narrative poem, Lays OF the Dra-
gon Slayer" suggested by the Nibel-
ungen Lied. A story of hers published
long ago i'm Blackwood called A Han
som Cabman has been dramatiZed
under the name of An Unexpected
Fare. An attempt has also ben made
recently to put Dean Maitland on the
stage. but the result has been unfor-
tunate for Forbes Robertson. The si-
lence of Dean Maitland was begun and
finished during one year amid many in
terruptions from i'll health. 1t was re-
turned once with an objection to the
plot; but on its appearance in 1856 1t
met with instan. success.
r. D. Blackmore's new novel, en-
titled "Dariel: a Romance of Surrey"
will be pubised by Messrs. Dodd. Mead
and company. 1t will not appear until
1897.
SAD BOOKS:
Not many hooks reveal the pathos deep
That wrngS unwilling tears from unused
eyes,
When secret, subtle power in ambush lies
And bids the careless reader pause and
weep,
Awakening griefs at rest and woes asleep
That sudden start up shuddering phan-
toOnwiSe.
And fancy moved to ruthless memory
cries,
And silenced sorrow new complaining
keep,
But oh! what pathos breathes from stories
read,
In hushed sick-rooms a weary hour to
speed,
To speed an hour-and so few hours re-
When tired eyes family smile. forgetting
pain,
And one with riven heart must read and
Though short the time and so much left
unsaid.
The success of Stephen Cranes Red
Badge of Courage" has aroused an in
terest in his first book, Maggie: A
Girl of the Streets" published when he
was little more than twenty one years
of age. Mr.. Crane could not get no
publisher to bring out the book. so he
published it at his own expense. Only
a few copies We're printed. and even
they were not sold-eXcept, perhaps, for
waste paper. There were few per-
sons who read the book. however, among
them Mr.. Howell and Mr.. Garland who
spoke very highly If It's promise.
Maggie was not an immoral story, as
many persons imagined from its title:
it was coarse in the way that "Chimmie
Fadden" is coarse; but there was more
objection to bad language from the
mouth of girl-tough than from boy.
The book, however, will he republished
or published. we should say perhaps.
for the first publication was little more
than u printing-by the Messrs. Apple
ton, who will also publish a new story
by Mr.. Crane, called "The Third Violet"
which is a story of life among the
younger and poorer artists of New
York. Mr.. Crane has just finished an
other story. with the Regiment"
which will be published serially in Nc
Clure's. He writes the Critic that this
will be his last battle story.
FAMOUS MONS DE PLUME
Marietta was the pseudonym of Har-
riet NJ. Bradley.
"Maron Harland" is the assumed name
of NJ. Virginia Terhune.
"Hans YorkeI' was. the name chosen
by a. Oakley Hall when publishing ms
Ballads
Mrs. c. NJ. kirkland chose MARY Cal
vers" as her pen-name when publishing
"A New Home
Jenny June" was the name chosen by
Mrs. Jennie c. Croly, on account of its
ALTERATION.
The nom de plume of F.. X Hunt. who
wrote "The Fourth Estate" was "a
Student-at-Law."
John Oldbug'' was the pen-name Rev.
Leonard Wilmington placed on the title
page of 1.-The Puritan"
MAX Adeler'' was the name chosen by
Charles Heber Clark for his comic delina-
ations of character.
"AIarion Ward" was the name under
which Mrs. Harriet NJ. Stephens published
most OF her novels.
j. w. Morris. whose poems once found
q ready sale. published them under the
pseudonym TX. N. Pepper -.
Thomas de Quincy is better known as
the English Opium Eater" 1t is pain
full reference to the vice of which ne was
long the victim.
Rev. George Ross wrote over the name
of arthur Sketchley." An eastern
magazine says that 1t was the name Of
a schoolboy friend.
Sir Walter Scott's little known Tales
of My Landlord was published under the
curious nom de plume, "Jedediah Cleish-
Henry w. Longfellow once used q pen
name. 1t was prefifxed to his History
of Newbury." and he chose Joshua Cof.
fin's for the purpose