The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-14
LITERARY GOSSIP
About Authors, New Books and Plays
Here and Abroad.

Ben-Hur, it is announced, has been
translated into Danish, and will be pub
lished in that language in a short time.
Mr.. A. T. Quiller-Couch (Q) is still
living his open-air life overlooking the
water at Fowey, Cornwall, England,
whittier he retired about ten years ago,
after most unhappy experience in
London. He went to the metropolis to
write a story a week for a prosperous
periodical He associated almost ex-
clusively with the literary set; he went
to receptions, theatres and clubs, and
put off writing his story until the last
day in the week. He stood this sort of
life as long as he could and then went
back to the dogs and the garden, sail
boat and moors. He writes daily till
about 1 o'clock, when he puts on a
sweater and goes out to have a good
time. Sometimes he sails, again he
walks, and he varies his amusements
by coaching local rowing team. At
Oxford, in the eighties, he rowed on
I his varsity crew, and he has kept up
his athletics ever since. He says he
will never again live in London. The
atmosphere stiles him.
Lola's new novel, "Fecondite," will be
published in this country early in the
fAl. Editions in German, Italian, Dam
ish, Norwegian and Spanish will be
publishedt simultaneously with its ap-
pearance in book form here and in
Paris. "Fruitfulness" will probably be
the title of the English translation. It is
to be the first of a new series, like
'Lourdes," Rome" and Paris the
works to follow being called Work"
Truth" and Justice"
F. Marion Crawford is at work on n
biograph of Pope Leo XIII. He has had
1t in slow preparation for several years
but the uncertain state Of the pope's
health has led him to abandon ali Other
literary labor for the present and con-
f1ne himself entirely to the subject in
hand. 1t will probably make two or
three volumes and will be handsomely
bound and printed, and contain MANY
rare Illustrations
The engagement is reported of Miss
Evelyn Willard. the pretty actress who
has been playing in THE Prisoner OF
Zenda," to Anthony Hope.
1t has remained for a German. Frau
Laura Marholm, to say the last word on
the position of woman in the nineteenth
century. In her Psychology of Wo-
man, which has just been published by
Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co, she has
gone to the very depths of her subject
She understands the radical point os
view, she considers il with extraordin-
airy penetration, and she shows its
weaknesses with unerring insight. 1t is
refreshing to find a writer of her intel
ligence who gives woman credit for wo-
manliness who feels that it is that
quality in them after all which is the
great essential. The movement for the
emancipation of woman has left this
out almost entirely, and although Frau
Harholm sees the strength of the move
ment, and, in a way its righteousness,
she also sees through it and beyond it
THE Amateur Craftsman" is dedi-
Gated ITO A. c. D.-This Form of Flat
terry" A Conan Doyle being Mr.. Horn
ung's brother-in-law. "Droch" in Life.
advances the novel theory That Mr..
Hornung and Mr. Doyle collabCrate on
a great romance in which Sherlock
Holmes would be set to catch Reifies
Holmes is the only man who might do