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The bicycle 10 the theme Of q novel
"A Widow on Wheels" soon to b pub
llshed In London.
Mr.. Swinburne has in the press q iars.
er and more important poem than any
he has published for some years.
II ID said that one Of the leading
magazines has decided to expend about
$4,000 for woodcuts during the ensu.
Ing year.
The late Robert Louis Stevenson
made $4,000 In twelve years and
there are many other modern writer's
whose Incomes are 10 large.
The latest surprise In collaboration ID
Q story written In English by NJ. Dau-
Diet and r. II. Sherard. These writer's
make an oddly assorted pair. One 10
Q master; the other 10 q facile writer
Of gossipy Journalism.
Douglas Jerrold was sometimes wit
~ at the expense Of his wife. He once
told her, when she was no longer young,
that he wished wives were like bank
notes, 20 that one Of 10 could be ex-
changed for two Of 20.
Renan made q strange remark not
long before his death: II fear that
the work Of the twentieth century will
consist In taking out Of the waste
basket q multitude Of excellent ideas
which the nineteenth century has heed
lessly thrown into It."
II appears that Iafcadio Hearn's pas
sion for the orient has led him to 20
the whole length Of expatriation, and
he has changed bis name. The familiar
syllables give place to Y. Koijumi,
which u certainly more picturesque.
but hardly - attractive to Western
mind.
An important collection Of letters -
b published In Cosmopolis u made up
Of the correspondence Of TourgueniefI.
and includes letter. to Mime. viardot.
Flaubsrt. Dumas fils, Guy De Maupas'
SAINT, NJ. Bola, and others. They win
be published In six installments.
A marble statue to Lord Byron has
been unveiled at Athens. presented %
the city BY Demetrius Stefanovic
SchcylIssi. The suggestion has been
made that a miniature Of the work
might appropriately be presented to
any one who can pronounce the doctor'0
name without sneezing.
II take my work too seriously,"
writes Hall Caipe to a friend who had
asked him whether he cared for the
criticisms his books received. and
I am too much immersed In II and In
love with Il either to be carried away
BY the warmest eulogy or disturbed By
the severest censure."
Tolstoi recently went to the thcatsr
for the Arst time In thirty years. Il
was bis own play, 1.-THE Power Of
Darkness" that was being given, and
he hoped to escape observation In the
top gallery. But he was quickly iden.
tilted. and attracted 90 much more at.
tention than the actors that he ned In
haste.
Sir Edwin Arnold 10 said to have one
Of the most remarkable memories In
England. A friend Of the poets chanc.
ed to read to him the opening line Of
one Of Whltman's poems the other day.
whereupon Arnold interrupted him and
repeated he entire poem from memory.
Arnold then recited every poem In the
book. which happened to be the "Leav.
20 Of Grass" and succeeded In recall.
Ing every word Of even the most OBJ.
scure poems.
Abel Hcrmant, tho author Of ia
Meute." the successful new piece In
Paris, has had a lively literary career.
First he wrote a story Of college life,
which was publicly burnt by the stu.
dents Of the Ecole Normale. Then he
wrote q story Of military life. which
was burnt In the presence Of the rsgi'
ment by Its indignant colonel, while
In duo course all the ofIicers challenged
the novelist. And already the new
play has provoked Q duel with the
Prince De Sagan.
John Hawthorne u the son Of Ma
thanisl Hawthorne. He was born In
1S46, but he does not show his 30 years
When he was q boy Of 7 some lady'a
remark on the fact that he was "weah
chested" stung him and he determined
to make that comment impossible ID
the future. How well he succeeded
u evidenced by the fact that while
he was In college his chest measure
was forty-eight inches. and It 10 well
known that the late John O. Heenan