The morning times., 1896-06-21


service.
| Baron Rothschild has come into, liter,,-
| ture with volume of anecdotes OF French
history.
The author OF "The courtship' Of Mau.
rice Buckier' is compared with Stanley
/ Weyman.
Borodin, the Russian composer, is little
known TO Americans. Re was a chemist by
| profession.
| The critics charge Conan Doyle with pot
boiling and scent deterioration in his over
| production.
| II is said that Richard LIE Gallienne is
corning merica- ward In the autumn. he
| will lecture.
| The June Bookbnyer has new portrait
| OF Mollie Elliot Seweli and one OF Gen. A
| w. Greeley.
A page OF Thoreau gives a deeper insight
commentary. ''' y O'''S'''N -
Margaret Deland's husband is writing a
book on football. He Is the inventor OF the
Deland wedge.
uage 1.-The intellectual currency or the com
mercial world
''In Defiance of the King is Cha uncey
G. HOtchkiss' first novel. 1t is revolu-
tionary in time.
II is said that many dealers are boy
| cotting .MuDsey's because it raised its
wholesale price.
r: D. Blacknore is evidently sensitive OF
criticism. lie wrote letter OF protest 10
the Critic recently.
The disciples and apostles OF university
extension insist that the work Is growing
and producing fruit.
Mrs. .Kiping is her husbands guurd against
bores and autograph nuisances. She tends
to all correspondence.
Marie Correlli says; "I am happily un-
married, which is SO much better than being
unliappily married"
Douglas Sladen has been touring Sicily all
winter preparing a chaIty guide book similar
to his other works.
Fifty-two years ago last month the first
words were fla shed on a telegraph between
this city and Baltimore
Henry d. Lloyd is only of Chicago by
adoption. He is one Of the army winch has
gone West for growth.
Eleanor Stuart is only the pseudonym of
the author OF .'Stcne Pastures" She is
Pennsylvania women.
Richard Malcolm johnson is a Georgian
by birth. ana last March he celebrated his
seventy fourth birthday.
substantial ground in the literary world;
she lives in Philadelphia.
The American Newspaper Directory
this year lists ~. g 80 he Wi wspupers, of which
2,O52 are new ventures.
Mollie Elliot Sewell's first signed story
was ''MalN Marion which ROSlna VOkeS
had dramatized and acted.
Stephane Mallarme is a difficult man for
publishers to approach, and his name is not
often found in magazines.
Early editions OF American authors are
bringing better prices than the early pub
licauons of English authors.
Gilbert Parker is again to be before the
public presently with new Canadian story.
"The Pomp OF the Laviettes.'
Elizahath phaIps Train tho aufhOr n
"A Social Highwayman'' and doctor
Lamar" is in Duxbury, Mass.
A limited English edition has been made
,",nS - dr,.nse Of Nine nn Barry. tie
notorious favorite OF Louis XIV.
Mr.. VfZetelly says he could not translate
Zola's 5 Rome; he had to edit it, go Intricate
are some OF the nesbes OF idiom.
Erie Mackay is u brother OF Marie Cor
relli. He is discovered as the author of
THE Little Gods OF Grub Street"
Postmaster General Wilson will he prin-
cipal orator at the commencement eXer-
cises at Vanderbilt College, Nashville.
Thomas A. Janvier first made his mark
as Ivory Black Some of his works have
been translated into Provencal French
It was Colley Cibber who interp0!ated
Richard is himself again. into Richard
I'LL" Shakespeare did not write that line.
President Gilman not only has decided
to remain with Johns Hopkins, but he has
Bran Stoker, Henry Irviug's business
manager, was at work upon the last chap
ters of a novel when he sailed for England
Maurice Jokai is called the Hungarian
grand old man OF literature. His romance,
Black Diamonds" has Just been translated
Periodicals are popping up in Philadel-
phia like cbestnuts ON warm hearth.
There is gcUd chance for active coInpetf
ton.
Howells has a weakness for queer people
and 4 disposition to find the salt OF the
earth where few would be likely to look
for it,
Andrew Lang is and has been at work
'.r pr cSic the spy, ctai..s-
in the secret history OF Prince Charles Ed
ward.
As was TO have been expected. Chambers
has been accused of Hope impressions IN
the geography of his king and Few
Dukes.'
Robert Kitchens is young man, though
the author of Green Carnation, 1.-The I'm
aginative Man. and The Folly of
EuEtace."
Pauline King is young American girl,
who has lived in all the great metropoIes
of the world, about to bid for literary
distinction.
Bruce Joy of New Yorkis the architect Of
the new Montreal College for women, given
$2,OO0,O00.
An English transla ton is devoutly hoped
for of Tolstoi's critical essays on Dumas,
Zola, and Maupassant. They have been
done into French.
Ten thousand poems is the record of one
Russian poet, and woman at that. What
device has she discovered to keep pace
with her tongue?
1.-The Journal of the Last Voyage of La
Salle," which was originally published In
London in 1714," has recently been pub
,ished in Chicago.
william Astor Chanler first conceived
his love for the tropics while in Florida in
1885. He has made two expeditions into
the dark continent
The way to get an idea OF an author is to
read his works. He reveals himself therein
more Intimately than if you were to attempt
a talk in his library.
Does literature pay? A New York daily
paid ex-senator Ingalls, nearly $500 IA day
to write his daily impressions of the
st. Louis convention.
Marion Crawford is accused of doing the
thanking for the reader, when he might
effectively have allowed the reader to do
the thinking for himself.
Joseph Conrad is Pole by birth, though
an English marine by profession, a French
pa" a. rcs'dence ann a vigorous writer of
Anglo Saxon by consent.
Louis Becke known in America for his
South Sea stories. is the son of n clerk
OF court in Australia. he has been a
sea rover most of his life.
IT Maxwell Gray never sendsforth another
hook from her home In the Isle of Wight
"The Silence of Dean Maitland" will still
preserve Miss Tuttiett to fame.
Hamlin Garland studies an his toric
character is he would the hero of a piece of
fiction. He is back from Mexico, whittier
he went for data on Gen. Graut.
Prince Wolkonsky has been lecturing at
Harvard on his native Russia The lectures
are to be published. Princes sometimes have
the capacity for making a living.
Christian Ried is the nom de plume rf
Mrs. Frances c. Tiernan. She was horn
in Salisbury. n. C.. but has Sne MT most of