Show MEN OF LETTERS Walt Whitman is reduced to a wheelchair wheel-chair Alma Tadema is not an old man being only a little more than CO Emilo Zola the novelist was recently obliged to serve as a juryman in Paris Professor John Stuart Blackie of Edinburgh Ed-inburgh attains his eightieth birthday this year I Friedrich Spielhagen tho most popular I German novelist recently celebrated his seventieth birthday George Bancroft has finished his life of President Van Burcn and expects to devote his attention almost exclusively to that of President PolE Alfred Balch the new editor of Outing Out-ing is an expert in matters pertaining to camp life having been on many long hunting trips in California Mexico and South America The late Wilkie Collins never passed a day without taking up one of the Waver ly novels He had a very warm admiration admira-tion for tho genius of the elder Dumas and of Balzac but especially the former Mr U L W Lawson editor of The London Telegraph is a tine looking man smooth shaven and apparently not more than 30 years of age In addition to his editorial duties ho is a member of Parliament Par-liament Mr Edward W Bok of Brooklyn has become editor of The Ladies Home Journal a monthly published in Philadelphia Phila-delphia which has attained a very large circulation Mr Bok is a native of Holland Hol-land and only 25 years of age Thomas Bailey Aldrich receives recognition recog-nition in The London World after this pleasant fashion He is a man of some wheat striking presence and he is pleasantly pleas-antly fastidious in all thingsin his dress in his literary style in the ordering order-ing of his household and in his editorial capacity in which last when he is not fastidious he is inclined to be severe His manner is a mixture of courtesy and bonhommie George W Childs tho well known Philadelphia journalist and philanthropist philanthro-pist has several hobbies One is the collection of manuscript and he is said to have the finest collection in the world of the manuscript of such writers as Charles Dickens Walter Scott William Makepeace Thackeray Washington Irving Irv-ing George Eliot etc Ho is also very fond of collecting old china and brica brac |