Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-07-26

so badly done that she has never had
the courage to read many.
Miss Braddon, the novelist. seems TO
have no particular fads OF note, but is
known as a careless dresser. She
CARDS herself as she wishes, without
considering public opinion. Her gowns
are therefore often old.fashioned in
style, and leave much to be desired in
beauty and color. She is very fond nf
and always wears long drop earrings.
Countess de Martel.Janville, better
known by her pet name Of "Gyp,' be.
longs to the smart set of Paris and
drifted into literature by accident.
sending an account of a hunting party
to La Vic Parisienne. which led to her
entry upon novel writing. She Is a
prolific writer. having produced more
than fifty novels. She Is bitter enc.
my of the French republic, and her
house has been for years a meeting
place of the imperiallsts. She is cred.
tied with playing an important part in
a recent conspiracy against the French
republic, in which are involved a
number Of prominent royalists.
One of Mary E. Wilkins recreatlons
is letter writing. although her pen.
manship she herself pronounces
shocking" Once upon a time she
made the odd discovery that in writing
to her friends she iistinctively imita.
ted the writing OF the person she was
addressing 49, queer circumstance
which suggests strange possibilities.
Mrs L. b. L. n. Southworth used to
declare that her chief claim to dist!nc.
ton was having been born in house
In which Washington had lived. ard
in the very room which had been his.
II you ask Mrs. Margaret Sangster
her pet recreation or diyersion-wheth.
err music, reading. the opera, etc.-sne
replies: Writing essays"
Help to Their Husbands.
Nine. Sardou is woman of much
literary ability. She is recognized
historical costume expert, and has
been great help to her husband in
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Mrs Thomas Hardy is almost as gift.
ed as her husband. who has dubbed
her his encyclopedia in petticoats."
A brilliant French writer-M. Mon.
tegut-when comparing three famous
f'evTafy women of modern times points
out very happily the most marked
characteristics Of the English novelist.
when he says: Mime, de Staels power
was enthusiasm; George Sands pas.
sion; George EliOt's, sympathy" aud
long before her identity had been
known, Charles Dickens, a slngularly
acute critic of his own art, detec,od
her sex by this uIdercurrent OF WON.
AMY sympathy.
He had been reading Scenes of
Clerical Life" which had been sent 10
MIN by the publisher, and on putting
the book aside he said; well. this
Writer possesses great ability. but |
should say, despite the name, that
George Eliot was woman"
While the fame OF Mrs. Margaret De.
land rests chiefly upon her reputat .on
as writer of good literature. she has
STEPPED into new field of labor and
made a browning success. Taking
that which Is unsightly and unbeautl.
iul In houses Of the older sort-thGsc
which Mrs Deland describes as being
neither colonial nor modern-wlth a
few magic and swiftly drawn plans
she transforms them into all that Is
quaint, beautiful and desirable.
| Jean Ingelow lived with her barno.
Tor brother in n quaint little house In
kensington whore she had complete
horror of any publicity, Although her
mouse was minute in size, she reveal.
ed her Intense passion for flowers in
her vast conservatives, where roses.
which bloomed all the year through,
We're unrlvalled in splendor of color
and beauty Of growth. Another hobby
OF me aged poet was birds.
Jane Austen was utterly unappre.
ciated in her time save by a small cir.
Gle OF the elect. No memoir of her
was attempted for sixty years after her
death, and the story goes that not so
very long ago verger at Winchester
who was asked to point out her grave,
Inquired II she had done anything that