The record-union., 1899-11-26

combines the two arts with so much
skill and popularity as does Mrs. Mary
Haiock Foota. The early life Of Mary
Anna Hallock was passed at Milton
on--he-HudSon,. tire homestead of her
fathers family for generations. SHE
was the youngest of the family, and al
ways surrounded with an atmosphere
of love and duty. She was educated at
& private school at home and at the
IoIghkeepsie Female Coiies ate Insti-
tIte, where she receircd her first les
sons in drawing from Miss Margaret
Coz don, and then went TO live in New
York in the family Of a cousin While
she studied art al the School of De-
sign in Cooper Union, the only place
at that time where girl could get an
art education. Here she worked and
studied under the guidance OF DR.. Rim
mer and under the tuition of W. J.
Linton. She soon chose for her sl,e-
cialty book Illustrating. and after lit
tie study had IN opportunity of draw
ing for Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co.
the illustrations for several gift books,
and she also contributed fun page pic
lures to "Harpers Weekly. MIR An
thony was her engrayer, anj he gave
married Arthur DE Wint Foote, q young
engineer, whose work lay III the West
ern country. Their first station" was
Almaden, Cal. and her letters home
were so bright and interesting that they
were soon issued in book form with the
tile "A Californ a Mining Town." IL
lustrated, of course, by the author.
Then came her first real novel, The
Led Horse Claim which won inme-
diate recognition for the young author
artist. This has been followed by a
number of western stories and novels
fof gown ups, and now she has pub
lished through Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., a collection of stories for children
entitled THE Fig-Tree Stories
The second volume of .Choses Vue,"
by Victor Hugo, just published in Par
is, is said to have been fshed out of an
ocean of scraps of paper, blank sheets
of letters and insides of envelopes. Vic
tor Hugo in youth suffered from the
dearness of paper. AS he wrote a large
hand he consumed a great deal, and to
reconcile authorship with economy he
never threw away a bit on which he
could make a jotting He sometimes
strung pile of scraps which he had
written on piece of packthread, tied
the two ends together if there was Sc
quence in the jottings, and hung them
up in his working room for reference.
He kept in this way a journal of his
impressions. But the packthreads rot
ted, and the bits of paper of the most
various qualities and sizes were thrown
into boxes and got mixed like a pack
of freshly shuff1ed cards. When there
was no more room, bandboxes and hat
boxes were used. Hugo gave up wear
ing the pot hat because his hatbox was
full of papers of this kind. One of his
impressions, written on the day he
took his seat in the Constituent, is of
Louis Napoleon, afterward Emperor:
Louis Bonaparte is distingue, cold,
gentle, intelligent, with a certain
amount of Difference, and yet of dignity.
His air and accent are German, his
mustache black. No resemblance to
the Emperor"
Frank Norris, the author of NC
league" is contemplating, 1.-The Book
man tells us. scheme for a series of
three novels, which shall symbolic
American life on a broad scale He
has adopted American wheat as his
central symbol''-a symbol of prosper
1ty-and he proposes to deal with life
in the great California farming fegion;
with the relations of the grain-raisers
to the railroads: with spectators in. the
wheat pit, when the grain is brought to
market, and with the distribution of
the wheat and its effects across the
world. The titles of these volumes,
while not finally decided upon, may be
1.-The Octopus THE Pit and THE
Wolf"
Daniel O'Connell, who was the young
is now in his eighty-fourth year tells
in Temple Bar" this story illustrative
of his fathers power of keeping his
audiences in hand: MANY instances
have been related, both in the pages of
my fathers biographers and those OF
other chroniclers of his times. concern
ing the wonderful personal influence he
welded; a magnetic force of will where
by he was enabled to control the many
thousands of ragged peasants gathered
to hear him on the wild hillside as
easily as he swayed the more civilized
crowds assembled in public halls. Each
and all obeyed his directing will with
unanimity little short of marvellous.
The following example of this has not,
believe, been previously published:
On a certain occasion meeting had
been convened. and crowd assembled