Show MIN OF LETTERS According to Sir EdwinArnold Edgar A Poe and Joaquin Miller are the two American poets who are sure to live forever for-ever The grave of Robert Browning has been dug close to the front of Chaucers monument and exactly between it and the monument of Cowley in Westminster Westmin-ster Abbey Mr Clark Russell is now such an invalid in-valid that he is moved about in a bath chair This does not prevent him from being one of the most industrious literary liter-ary men in England Oliver Wendell Holmes has takento a peculiar course of life He always retires re-tires at the same hour eats dinner in the middle of the day and walks at lea t two miles every twentyfour hours Max ORell who has spent some time in Ireland says I have often been asked why I have not written a book on Ireland The answer is this I like to write on the faults of people and I never could find any in the Irishman Swinlmme the poet is a great pedestrian pedes-trian taking a constitutional every day on the roads around his home at Putney Hill England He never wears an overcoat and dispenses with gloves when the weather will permit |