The record-union., 1899-07-25
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in England has been written by NJ.
Ernest Vizetelly and will soon be pub
lished. One of these stories has fine
dramatic flavor. On the day Colonel
Henry was arrested the novelist re
ceived notification Of the fact from a
friendly source in Paris. That night
his quiet little household was wakened
up by one of dts members. When the
others hastened to discover the trouble
they were told: "Oh, I've had such a
horrible vision. It seemed to me that
a man was lying dead in a pool of
! blood. 1 saw the awful spectacle in
detail and then awoke terrified" Next
day Zola heard of the suicide of Col
onel Henry.
Forty hitherto unpublished letters
from the pen of Charlotte Bronte will
appear in the new edition of Mrs. Gas
| kells Life of Currer Bell"
It Is supposed that Justin Mccarthy
will supplement his recently published
"reminiscences with a book on the Ire
land of his early days. His history OF
the four Georges is making steady pro-
gress, Notwithstanding his trouble with
| his eyes.
An interesting Stevenson manuscript
Of thirty pages all in his own hand
writing, entitled "Markheim," sold In
London, July 9Th. 1t appeared origin
ally in an annual and is supposed to
| be the first shape 1.-The Strange Story
of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde took il,
! HI1A co n,
cluded thirty-six unpublished letters
from Dickins, 1857 to 1861, and six
from Thackeray, all addressed to John
Hollingshead.
Martin Dooley has arranged to write
| a series of articles on English life to
appear periodically in that country as
we'll as in America. In an interview
with Chronicle representative Mr..
Dunno told the story of the evening
paper in which Mr.. Dooley first made
his appearance an ill-fated sheet
which the gods loved. One day, just
before end, funeral passed the Office
| with a band playing the Dead Morch.'
The editor and Mr.. Dunno watched 1t
with emotion and fear. Can it be,
they whispered, "our subscriber"
Literary Digest: Clemenceau's jour
nal "L'Aurore' has begun the serial
publication of a new work of fiction
from Zolas pen. completed during his
exile. It is called "Fecundite" and
is the first of a series of four organ
ically connected novels. The others
are to be entitled respectively Ira
vail" Justice" and "Verite."
The first chapters of "Fecundite" de-
scribe in the authors realistic man
ner the environment and conditions of
Partisan manual laborers. The hero
of the story is a workman, Matthew
Froman The authors general pur-
pose in this novel-for it belongs to
the category of tendency fiction"-is
thus explained in the Introductory re-
marks of "L'Aurore":
'Fecundite' is a study. drama and
poem at the same time. 1t celebrates
and glorifies the achievements of a
numerous family. Around the central
character, who knows how to love and
| to will, to work and to create, in the
midst of constantly growing family,
| Zola has grouped more than fifty SUBJ
ordinate personages of the opposite
kind, bad and decadent representatives
of the modern social-economic order
| men and women who carry death and
dissolution with them in the lives Of
| Malthusianisrn, in the terrible mortality
| of children.
Fecundite' is the history of the dis