The San Francisco call., 1906-10-17
England Is Winner in the Great
photographic Struggle.
Fron, a staff Corresponder,t-

his day puzzled how to describe the
crab in their dictionary They nnaliy
voted TO describe the crab as nsh
which walks sideways Bufon was
sent for and hts opinion asked. The
forty were much discounted when
the famous naturalist replied, Well
except for the fact that the crab is not
a Ash and does not walk Sideways IL
is a very good description"
William Van Warts recent death at
Stratford- -on-Avon has practically
passed unnoticed in both American and
English literary circles, and yet the
name brings up delightful memories
Mr.. Van Wart was Of the family which
gave washington Irving a home at
Birmingham. Irving and the original
Van Wart were brothers-in-law. It
was at the house of the latter that the
gifted American, suffering under hnan-
cial trouble. sat down one evening to
write as relief to his feelings.
Through the summer night his pen was
never stiIled. and when next morning
he joined the family at breakfast
Washington's face was radiant with
delight and his hands were fun OF the
sheets containing the hrst part OF Rip
Van Winkle-''
Marie Corelli is lucky woman The
Treasure Of Heaven" Is announced as
having reached the 100000 mark in
sales already. At the recent Confec
TONERS and Bakers Exhibition held
here one of the curiosities was her lat
est novel bound in candy The cover
was made of pistachio green cream,
with corner designs of coffee and gilt,
and the title in pink and white sugar
The book has been sent 70 Miss Corelli
and she will perhaps perform the task
of eating her own novel
A famous bookseller has been kind
enough to the ladies to announce that
I've ~ q
this year beaten by $4,000 copies the
sales of the Eve Leading male authors.
Marie Corelli heads the list with 100.-
900. then comes Mrs Hunnphry Ward
with $4,000; Mrs. Williamson. 10000:
Mary Cholmondeley and John Oliver
given the following figures; Hall Caine.
$4,000; Rudyard Kipling. 10000: w W.
Jacobs. $4,000. T. Marion Crawford and
Maurice Hewlett. 10000 each
But the bookseller points out that
women authors are either very great
success or dismal failure. while men
such as Conan Doyle. Cutcliffe Hyne
Fl. G. Wells and Thomas Hardy have
average sales OF $4,000 right along. So
that IL the leading dozen writer's OF the
two sexes in England were summed W,
the men would be the winners
Philibert Audebrand. the lone sur
vivor of the last generation or famous
a
at the age of 81 at his little house at
Montmartre. He was the doyen OF
French journalists. He dramatized
many of his stories in collaboration
with Henry de Kock. He was the per-
sonal friend of Victor Hugo, Dumas, Do
Musset. Balzac and Theophile Gautier
Audebrand had the satisfaction Of read
ing his own obituary three times. They
were published by mistake on each oc-
casion when a man OF his name died
The celebrated old journalist died In
harness. for by his bedside was found
an unfinished article.
Two years ago the French Academy
awarded the Montyon prize to Nine
de Guertier for her work "Contes Chau-
vine. which she published under the
pseudonym of MacRamey. with a pre-
face by General du Barrail Several
other books have been published by the
author who belongs to an old Norman
family and who Is a sister-in-law Of
the former Minister OF Justice
Nine. de Guertier. who has also writ
ten several dramatic pieces which have
met with considerable success. last
week appealed against a sentence OF ak
months Imprisonment for the theft OF
an ancient Egyptian ring and several
antiques belonging to Dr. Pozzf to
whom she has acted as secretary The
court increased the sentence to thfr-
teen months imprisonment 1t Is a way
the French Court Of Appeal has. Nine
de Guertier is 40 years old A petition
in her favor Is now being Circulated in
/ literary circles