Show MEN OF LETTERS Emile Zola is opposed to the guillotine Whittier says he expects to live to the age of 100 years Eugene Field i is collecting his poems Into a volume to be published by himself him-self CoL Thomas W Knox who is an au thor a traveler and n good fellow is a man in the prime of life six foot tall and jovial by nature Jloncure D Conway is said to bo the hero of Robert Ellstnere It is well known that Mr Conrrajs mission in London was a failure Although nearly ninety years old George Bancroft proposes to devote himself him-self almost exclusively this winter to his Life of President Polk Dr Bochwald the authority OB Martin Mar-tin Luther lens just discovered Luthers marginal note on Peter Lombard and John Tanlers sermons in the municipal libnary at Zwickau Paul du Chaillu whose book baa crested cre-sted such a sensation was born in Louisiana Louis-iana His father was a trader at tho French colony of Gambia on the west coast and Paul went there as a child Central Africa soon fascinated the young naturalist who lived on the brim of the Tast continent and his explorations were U o result |