The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-01-06

| English Dictionary. But Mrs. Crslsfs
had been there before him. For what did
he see? To Illustrate the use OF the word
was given the identical sentence that sent
him there: The great vice Of the present
day f. bravura-an attempt to do some
thing beyond the truth" And the refer
ence at the end OF the sentence was to a
number OF Magazine in 1876.
The dictionary student was. of course. de-
lighted with his discovery, and very re-
spectably tolerant about the theft. But he
might. had he looked closer. have seen in
IL merely the Illustration of a favorite Dis
raelian method. IL Disraeli found a sen
tence he liked In the Honorable George
Smythe's speech. he put It forthwith into
the mouth Of one of his 'Conigsby'' char
acters. and when the Duke of Wellington
died his panegyric. delivered in Parliament,
contained an acknowledged passage from
an eulogy pronounced on a French General
by II. Theirs.
Mrs. Stephen Crane has received a letter
from Rudyard Kipling stating that he has
read Wounds in the Rain" with admira-
ton"
This work OF Stephen Crane has been
more favorably received than anything
written by him since The Red Badge of
Courage" with which it has been favora-
bly, compared by many reviewers.
Its sales have required four editions 10 be
put on the press in the short time since It's
publication.
Mrs. Crane writes TO the American pub
fishers of her late husbands works that
The O'Ruddy'' is to be dramatized by Da-
vfd Belasco.
Mrs. ABBY Sage Richardson. well known
as a critic and draInatist. died on the 9Th
inst at Rome. Italy, Of pneumonia. Mrs.
Richardson. whose maiden name was ABBY
| Sage. was born In Massachusetts in 1891.
Nu- - M
first husband was Daniel MacFarland. from
whom she soon separated. obtaining a
divorce in 1868. Later she became engaged
to Albert Deane Richardson. a writer en-
the New York Tribune. and the engagement
resulted IN the famous ichardson-M acfar-
land tragedy, when Richardson was assas-.
sInated by MacFarland in the Tribune Of
fee. and was married on his deathbed TO
Mrs. MacFIarland by Henry Ward Beecher
and Rev. o. Il. rockingham All her lie
Mrs. Richardson was active In literary
work. I'm featuring and as a dramatic COM
poser and adapter. She wrote a number
OF books. besides editing several cOmpila-
| tions; but IN recent years her writing was
! chiefly of the stage. She arranged the YER
sion Of The Pride of Jennico' which
James X. Hackett is playing
Mr.. W. W. Jacobs. who scored such \
success with MANY Cargoes.' and who is
almost the best-remunerated writer OF
short stories in London. is a short. thin
and pale, light-haired man.. with an agrees
sively aquillne nose. He works so slowly
that he cannot turn out more than four or
/, five thousand words I'm a month. and must
often shut himself up in his study and sit
there for hours before anything comes to
him. Without being moody. he says very
little in company. and rarely tells an anec-
dote or makes a jest
With him might be associated the name
of a friend of his. Mr.. PETIT Ridge. the best
writer OF humorous dialogue In England.
after Anstey. He has considerable CONVEX
sational ability. talking in a collected mon
otone which goes on well-nigh uninterrupt-
eddy. with many a laugh by the way. He IS
the trimmest young man, with his lark
hair parted in the middle and neatly plas-
tered down on what phrenologists would
! call a 'swell-baIanced' head, and his pres
| ence is in great demand at the clubs; As
an after-dinner speaker he can hardly Do
| beaten.
Miss Braddon, who has made a shelf full
OF Notwithstanding written over sixty since
| 1s62-was an actress before she embarked
in literature. making her debut at tins
Brighton Theater Royal 10 1851. Her stage
| name was Mary Legion. and though she
is known to the noyel-reading word as
| Miss Braddon her real name Is Maxwell
. and she u q widow.