The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-04

waaderer and Bohemian. Posthumous
revelations seem 10 make him out to have
ieei IN his latter years sort OF hard
80. ssl :! cay rIaeA-le. all ot whose life
s.-ye- - tae polishing mama.
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c3S'., = = -:~osta ph!pps Train, who
.'e - .-~.s- I4..lce uramati.ed called
y ->'''! L. -"'3 IA IS . story Oh
- -: eis sooa 10 be puo-
.-2asi - i-.e -.aI.aco ts.
n .e Te.,w5.s.' rooa wh.Ch the late
EG4Sae F.: spent an eaor.aCIs amount
, = sJcr. Rewriting tas lrra,ive seven or
eight times, tur:i out 10 be a romantic
episode c. cid Saxon t..nes, IN which met
, s-Ilsychos:s plays an ingenious part.
Seven volumes are TO be added - the
l;d.n5ursh elton % Stevensoa's works
10 make IL cCcC yle:t. his VIII bring the
editicn up tws..y volumes. four more
than are In the Ta!stle edition. though
nc. necessarily Containing mere matter.
All the money for the beacon in memory
Of Tennyson has been Subscribed. the
monolith for the shsft has been success
fully Guarried in Cornwall a@d tle monu-
ment. VIII be So: ~ In the fall. OF the
! United States.
Colonei T. ". H.sgiEson,s gift of books
! to the Bostcn quo ic library comprises
| 1,C00 volumes RELAXING to the history Of
| woman in ell lands and ages. The col
| lection was begun in 1916 with the pur-
| chase Of Mrs. Hugo Reds plea for WO-
man." and has been continued ever since.
The volume of short stories by r. D..
| from the Telling House" contains four
stories with the titles. slain by the
| Doones." "Frida: or The Lovers Leap"
| George Bowring" and "Crocker's Hole"
| The effects left by Paul Verlaine to his
son Georges. who is now serving in the
French army. consists of some papers
| found In table drawer, bundle Of
manuscript In a handbag. an unfinished
work. half dobe1 clay pipes and Gig
arctic holder. two pairs of eyeglasses. a
| hat and a nieatcap.
Jacques lie Lorra.n, poet novelist. play
| wright and oEce q professor. has opened
Il coobler's shop In Paris and proposes to
mend the shoes OF the students of the
! Latin quarter. He has sent out COM
| municat!on in verse to prospective GUS
toners, in which he calls to mind shoe
mendng poets. like Jasmin of the Pro-
vence and Hans Sachs CT Nuremburg.
! Rider Haggard has gone to South Afri-
ca In search OF material for a new story.
! The original OF Jess" Is said to have lived
In Pretoria. Her husband was very
wealthy at the time Of his marriage, but
she separated from him and Joined a
South African Opera company, while he
went through his fortune and is now do
ing newspaper work in johannesburg.
William T. Stead's Penny Novels" have
been great success in London. 1t is an.
nounced that over 10000 copies Of "She"
have been sold. Some Of the larger nov
els are abridged, but most Of the novels
are complete in the penny form. Mr..
| Stead is a believer In the power Of polit-
| ical tracts, and will soon issue several
| dealing with the Armenian, Venezuelan
and other questions Of the day.
Mary Hallock Foote has won fame both
as an artist and as an illustrator. She is
| 49 years old and says she does not care
| who knows 1t. She IL well-known through
her western stories with their telling Illus
trations. She studied designing and then
did book illustrating. When she was 20
she married Arthur De Wolfe Foote, a
called him to Colorado and California
The picturesque scenes awakened her
dormant literary capabilities, hence her
stories.
John Strange Winter" Mrs stannsrd)
rose at the recent meeting Of the Society
Of Authors in England and suggested that
that 1t was so freely said that the society
was OF special use to lady authors and as
In fact many OF Its annual subscriptions
come from ladies. there ought to be at
| least one lady on the committee. This
suggestion met with general acceptance,
but one bold man murmured that he did
not like the idea because he feared that
the presence OF even one lady would stop
| the committee from smoking. AS Thack-
cray said: 1.-THE cigar Is a rival Of the la.
dies and very often a successful one. too. "
| However, Mrs. Stannard murmured In her
turn q hint that some lady authors smoke
| ian MaCldTen SIX months ago Ue-
scribed himself as young author. says
the London Literary World. but he was
nearly "A when his book. Beside the Bon
ME Briar Busih." appeared and Is now a
year older. 1t Is unnecessary to respect
the secret of his Identity with the Rev.
John Watson any longer, as that fact
has become public property. He lives In
Liverpool, is Presbyterian and the min.
| lister Of Seton Park church. Tall aEd
proportionately broad, with a countenance
that indicates a contented mind and q
general love for humanity, which accords
we'll with his clerical dress, there Is moth
ing that Mr. Watson less resembles than
typical priest. When he addressed his
fellow-authors at the club In Whitehall
court a few months ago he at once took
his audience by storm by reason of his
"bon homie" and ready wit, his quaint
sayings being delivered with the slightest
suspicion of Scotch accent. Mr.. Watson
married in 1878 and is the father OF four
sons.