The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-19

tone: "Mr. Greeley. want to get a sub
scriptioD from you for this society tn
prevent people from going to hell Clear
out. said Greeley, Il will not give you a
| going to he'll now"
Miss Fanny Edgar Thomas has been made
an OFFICER d'Acadeinie, by the French gov
| eminent in recognition of her work in
| lean woinan thus hunored. She went 10
Paris two years ago entirely unknown.
| CD. Gibson has made most pronounced
hit in London. Anthony Hope, George du
| Manrer, PM May. the caricaturist; Lord
| Russell. Arthur Balfour, Mrs. Asquith
and Sir Evelyn Wood have posed as
| modeis," and are presented in GibsOn's
pictures.
Tie average life OF a poet is fifty seven
years; or M na,an mat sIxty.two: noysl,st,
| four, religious writer, sixty-seven; medical
writer. sixty-eight; writer's on law, sixty
nine; sculptors. painters and moral phil
OsOphers, seventy.
In a vote in New York State among
Librarians on the best fifty books 10 be
added to village libraries Mrs. Burnett's
Two Little Pilgrims headed the list
Kipling's second Jungle Book" and Mac
Laren's days of Aud Lang SyEe" were
second and third.
The widow OF Louis LRieD Bonaparte, the
distinguished philologist and chemist. has
3ifeGed to sei to The ~ Z, q d sEe
francs $3.50 ,O0Ot his library Of $4,000.
volumes. Inc price is said Dy experts 10 be
immoderately Cheap.
The list of the unwedled is long among
literary producers II includes Molly
Sea well, Beatrice Harraden, Agnes Rep
plier, Nora Perry, Ouida, Jean Ingelow,
Rosa Cary, Edith Thomas, Alice brown.
Louise Imogen. Quincy. Sarah Orne Jewett.
Mary E. wilkins, Octave Thanet, Edna
Lyail and many Others
Toru Dutt, if she were still living,
would be one of the youngest poets. She
wrote eXquIsitefy, but her Tame, such Is
is all posthumous. She was the Youngest
of three children OF n hig h. caste Hindu
counle in Besal. She studied In many parts
of Europe.
writer, residing in Springfield. o., says
that in his boyhocd he was willing to make
any sacrifice Tor books, and saved every
penny with that object in view. AS he
grew Older, he would spend days upon the
hills studying the landsca pes he would pOr-
tray with mis- pen, ana writing to gain
greater grace and facility.
A bicycle novel, il you please, runs over
American girls who do Europe in the sad
die 1t is called Wheels" and the re-
puted author is A. Wheeler. They fall in
with all sorts of adventures, spinning the
grand tour from Paris to Marseilles, Nice,
Monte Carlo, Naples and Pompeii. Dill
lingiiam Is tie publisher.
The remark OF Geroge Haven Putnam that
1.-THE chief business OF the true publisher
is tn discourage the publication OF books
reminds One or the editor who said that the
.chief business OF the true editor is TO
keep things Eat OF his paper" The above
higher than that Of Talleyrand, who said
that language was employed to conceal
Thought.
The damnation OF Theron Ware cost
its author, Harold Frederick. five years OF
s.lt cot
the people of my novel grouped together
in my mind. l set myself the task OF
knowing everything they knew. As four
OF them happened Ia he specialists in differ
ent professions. the task has been treineG-
dous. Fur instance, one of them is IL
biologist. who, among other things, expert
inents on Lubbock's and Darwin's lines
Although these pursuits are merely men
toned 1 got up masses Of stuff on bees
and the cross-fertiiizatioS or plants
Editors did not betray the slightest
wish TO have anything to do with Frank
Stockton for long time after he had com
which he submitted was sent back to him
with the printed formula, "Returne ed
through no lack OF merit" He acquired
so many of these slips as to have quite an
undesirable Observation-Disclosures to him.
On one occasion, through absent-minde,i-
ness he took from the EDITORS room the
editors umbrella. The umbrella was re-
turned neatly wrapped in little slips which
lack of merit" Whereat the editor, much
amused by the retort courteous, accepted
the next contribution which Mr.. Stockton
sent.
The author of "The Prisoner of Zenda''
is London's principal social lion, in a lit
erary Way, these days, and he is easy prey.
H. is interchangeable i'm this respect, keeping
from three to four social enga gcnients dur
ing an evening, and winding up with a
supper. He is fond OF the th.ater and is
seen at every important first night" He