The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-31
E, Harvey slagle, in St, Paul Pioneer Press.

l N STUDY or nom ue piuhioe VI , | N\ thors develops some most in- S S teresting facts. Writers have 1 sought to hide their identity under 1 assumed names for various reasons; to deceive the public, mystify their friends or to save their own feelings should their venture into the field or letters prove a failure.
 It is problematical as to who was | the first author to use nom oe l plume, but whoever he may have been he has had many followers. | Of foreign authors, George Eliot, whose real name was Marion Evans, is the most widely known. Believ- ing her work would receive greater recognition if signed by a mans name, she took her husbands Chris tian name of George and Eliot as "a good mouth filling name, easily pro- nounced" Thus the pen name of George Eliot" was born, and today she is far better known by that name than by her own.
 Little less known is the name of "Oudia," name borrowed from the lisping child who tried to call her self Louise after Louise de La Rame, who was the real "ouida."
 George Sand" was christened Au- rore Dupin, married one Cassimir Dudevant at IS years old, wrote 8 novel under her own name, whicn fell flat, wrote second under the pen name of George Sand ana made Paris wild with excitement as to who the new author might be. Sue never disclosed her identity.
 "Ian MacLaren" was pr. John Wat son, a minister of the gospel who said regarding his pen name: Ian is the Gaelic for John, and MaclIar- en was my mothers maiden name, so I nut it down as Ian MacLaren,' and hv this name I am known in itera- ture."
 Madame Sarah Grand" the author of .'Heavenly Twins" was Mrs. C. A. !, McFaIl, small, shy and artistic. She always insisted on being addressed as Madame Sarah Grand" although she assigned no reasons.
 II Hugh Conway" writer of Called Back" and Dark Days was Fret T. Fargus, an Englishman, who died when ss years old.
 "Owen Meredith was the name adopted by the eldest son of Loro I,ytton, and he is noted as the au-
 thor of 'Lucille" He died in Paris
 in 1891.
 Few people are aware that the au thor of the popular Baron Mhn
 chausen" stories was Rudolph Eri'
 Raspe. scholar scientist and writer born in Hanover. Germany, in 15s7. The widely read sentimental stories
 bv "The Duchess" were written b,
 Mrs. Margaret Hungerford, who liie'
 at Bandon, an hours ride from Cork
 Ireland. She died in 1897.
 "yoltaire" was the name adopted by Francois Marie Arouet after hi release from prison in January, 111s He adopted the new name to hide tn
 name he bore in prison.
 In Ralph Connor' we nave the au : thor of many modern novels. includ ing Black Rock, "The Sky Pilot and "The Man From Glensary." Con
 nor is the Rev (. w. Gordon of Win f nipeg. Canada, writer. preacher an d military man.
 t "Charles Egbert Craddock,' write h of wonderful stories of the Tennesse y mountains. was in real life Miss NJ. ! c Murfree, who explained that sh
 adopted her nom de plume for famil : reasons alone.
 C. B. Lewis. better known as "A . Quad" is the only example of ma y being lifted literally into fame. H = was blown up in an explosion on a | Ohio river steamboat. When he ha y recovered sufficiently he stood at tf
 printers case and put into type "Ho n It~Feels to Be Blown Up" The who C west burst into laughter. That laus n made M. Quad famous. j. like Marvel" Was Donald c. Mitcf e ell, author of Dream Life" an
 "Reveries of Bachelor" He va z < born in Norwich Conn. studied Ia y In New York, did newspaper worl lived in later life an farA and ds.