Show BOKS LITERARY LEAVES LEAVE A 1 author with an but golden colden hipped dipped ren pen GOSSIP OF THE LITERARY WORLD tho the an author t bor or of the ramoan oia clouth Sl culli S stories t orta a tho the first pull pen portrait of the ilia mail ai ila la Is A forgotten Lit literary crary grave armo an american literary pant pantheon acon but bat yet a woman A popular artst abo bofto women I 1 ul lit venture ventura tho olric crop of ov cw ht ito ita b th link boil syndicate ry ri tn so deev w york I 1 ro FROM oro OCR Bin Lt I 1 KEW bonici oct 20 1800 1690 I 1 often see a 1 well dread well groomed titan man walking leisurely a along brooklynn Brook lyns streets ill warrant th chati av a well to do banker said a friend to TOO meone one day I 1 said nothing no thinK for lilt bill low few know this mart man arid and lower still mill lis profession fes sion ila ho does not look like tho tha proverbial author but ho he Is a writer and ills pen la is goldon golden lipped too ills name li Is martin 11 1 and ho he Is till tile author of the th famous hairsplitting sensational old stories rind many ethos that they might not be ba consid considered pred classic lave have nevertheless put tire him so far above the test rest of scribbling humanity that ho be Is now oven oen in a largo large arid wealthy rity city like brooklyn rooklyn li considered to bo be a man lie iio la is stout giant arid and good dresses with good tato taste and elegance and has about him a solid air of contentment lie ho Is a strong rein reminder trader of tuft the fait fin that it la Is not tire the great names in literature that aim always airs draw tile capital prize nit mr blakey Is now in big fiftieth ear but they set very light upon bill baia par for twenty five lears ears lie ho has been au an indefatigable de writer his groat great power lying in the direction of detective stories among a certain class of meadors ills his stories command a tremendous sale so that lie lias has hoen been able to dictate his own terms to his publishers this boget together her mith vi ith settle profitable real estate tallest mants car have mado made him a wealthy man lie ile blics IN es in at a one fine residence on oil a gahlon able ahl brooklyn street with his wilo wife ade and rid laughter daughter a beautiful and finely educated young girl of about seventeen ha Is a member ot of two of brooklynn Brook lyns most fashionable aud and clubs ho Is an conversationalist and excellent coto company taft ray clr hasteen has been it A member ot of tho the brooklyn school lioard board for over six ears and Is one of the most painstaking and honored mem mer beri ills literary method li IS a sort of combination of at those of balzac liAla ac charles heads and anthony Troll opo ual Is 13 an reader read Brot of tho the newspapers from which lilt ho frequently takes his plots and incidents and lie is very methodical I 1 la n his hours of 0 writing this hn he floes does in the morn lne and under no ito circumstances ran can he bo be had to rite tor for ten minutes after his regular time for or stopping ills afternoons and evenings are arc spent in recreation A forgotten FoR rOTTEN literary jame ame seems very hollow and short alicd at times I 1 thou glit of this as list last week I 1 stood at tile ho grave of I 1 clis smith tho ilia once famous major or jack downing forty years ago and he was the most molt noted political satirist ot of his day what ho ciroto was quoted ever everywhere and nd at great dinners he was the wittiest guest abraham lincoln was his warm friend and so bunro president jackson buchanan arid and johnson b a ills hia intense hatred ot of political shams and his leon keen and facile pen made rocila its ills tiamo name renowned longfellow was ills clAss cl amate mated william pitt tho the incorruptible statesman his college clause chum epos sargent lite dreamer dreAm cr lil if friend aben his volume ot of letters entitled way down eart or altures of yankee LI allta fall appeared it tint not only immediately attracted national attention hut bait artemies Artemi is ward declared hun him to be ba tile tho arat american rican humorist ile he had imitators ImItator i evorA ever here ills book sold liko like wildfire everybody know knew hill li name and now away back of 0 the quaint and ancient village fi of patchogue laing island y X Y a few miles from tho the willow a the homestead wherein he be so hospitably entertained his many d dis Is friends there in the abandoned yet pictures picturesque qu is willow come cemetery tery Is his krane nr io forgotten neglected and visited by riot not ono one per person son in a year it Is a lonely bed indeed aharis malor major jack ot of tile Downin gille militia aaita tho the resurrection sor nis his resting fince is surrounded on every side by tangled forest growths and to the right of 0 it la is a pond laden with fragrant water lilies no io one scarcely knows know that forsaken gravo grave blab clusters of golden roll rod blossom wildly on oil the lite mound under which tho the new kow england 9 genius nills bloat robts behind ll it is adens it trip strip of woodland arid and the place of 14 1 reached by a long and unfrequented lann iana a most lost romantic entrance to tits the graveyard rave on a moss blurred and lichon lichen covered tombstone of modest proportions Is chi selled 1110 lie was well beloved and yet forgotten in twenty two ears ear tor for ho he passed away at patchogue guo in july 1868 in tile llin year of its ills age ge loved by young and old the hui norista willow Ellia ellsbeth both oakes baith builth who wrote the tha blu lemi child was pronounced an exceedingly beautiful poem by bryant I 1 ryant anil poo still survives it her or famous husband living in an inland ald north carolina hamlet hale boa hearty binl y a and rid still handsome hand soma at 85 tho oldest living american woman after AS AN Aut nicAN LITERARY it Is just juit such instances Ini as these thesa w latch now and then give riso rise to tho the quest question lon wit Why yeb should riot not america Amerl ci hove a literary pati luul heon thoon objection a anil and plausible ones cou cau doubt lobs bit ba raised against patch an idea et it seems as if tomo sound nat national iona I 1 brov ishoo could ba bo ma miida do lor for the tha care card and boiler better of in iny olour literary graves men an and I 1 women A ho he furnish tha ilia literary lit thought for a nation and would mould its intellectual bent beat certainly deserve a better tribute to 10 their services titan than that their graves gravel should not eon bo be given docent care an author as a rule leaves but little hiru him to bib family sold and what abat be ba doon does lea letia a Is 1 Ili ceded for lh a living of tho the survivor the families of MART of our dead writers cannot afford proper recognition of the iho deceased or by tits tance earn care lin 1 a possible it is hero that the Covern mont stop to ID nil nul t 11 in tho the light of aba cba chaill 1 I till re coIt I 1 on of merit and good aan ires W HI proper resli lotions and lid filae kc a literary pan pantheon thoon might plot bo be such inch an all ill practical impractical tor for the iho future dead it riot not lor for I 1 ahe P JUKI UL ill r lei A HOMAS 11 I 1 do not believe in the writings of ml laura jean ia ilar books lo 10 adleat their birth I 1 think it would bo a bell fit to tin the oung womanhood of america noto I 1 haq wa gild to loarn learn of an all incident a tow few al days 1 ya ago front from good authority which demon adorno 11 t a t 1 to c 0 r nio 1 that L behind this author of q ti e s t f 0 n b 1 0 lz rood 0 d it Is a oman of truo true womanly on lanly instincts not long iong ago miss 1 I libbey received a letter front from a convict in a han no ff york prison lie ho hail bad in iino io krisov manner managed to h havo a it outside tile prison arl on walls it was an a appeal ali it tile an diores 81 should is I 1 1 I haq I 1 louk it I 1 into 1 the the case claiming that lio lid lial bad been thrown into unjustly mil under pc peculiar circumstances iho 1110 authoress accustomed i to receiving letters of a pleading I 1 nature paid only elight attention to tile tho convicts epistle in ill a mouth month camo came mother another followed in two weeks by till a third this last was sea do n 1 ihil tho hearton tho authoress was so melted 0 tied i and sho she placed t tho lie matter into tile hand sa of A lawyer for investigation A thorough inquiry HAS as mad a and d th alio lawor ascertained that tire the convict was nor noi only entirely innocent of the tha crime fail l arl at al ills door but another anoll irr mart inin also implicated was equally y tito tho caso case was still further alfred lot hut only morn conclusive evidence of innocence was doe discovered then libbey took up tip the like caw case wont went to albany anil and thiro there site alio Is now or was as list let week pleading floading with governor NM hill to pardon tho the two lien mm whether alio will bo be successful or has ha suc chadad I 1 do tint know I 1 merely gle ill thal a acts facia because I 1 believe they should bo be printed to tho the credit of tile the authoress A rOI LLAU 1111 ENGLISH ARTIST thoro there Is probably no more popular man among tile the literati of london than allen iadevia tho the famous dutch painter tadema 19 ischo the friend of every anglish a author and a larrer larger number of famous british writers como come together lono his root roof than in any boario in london Ln nilon I 1 think ile ho has a lost of 0 arlend and is tile iho possessor pose saor or of more anoro fads than any man in ilia iho kingdom Tad tadema poria Is 1 a picturesque figure in tits ills own beautiful house oven even among tile the rich tapestries ilia old furniture and tho the valuable paintings that go to malic make up liis his cotrel ro lie ha wears a leghorn bat while at work s Inre anti and carp gossip gosi lp 3 with walli a friand or two lo 10 lie ho gives little tons teas in ili his studio and lna his musicals are arc the tha talk of musical london ills studio Is reached by a filsht of golden sl alir Ir that Is tho the steps slept are entirely covered with diate i of polished brass which j hino liko like gold it if you are arc fortunate enough to bo be admitted to his studio you can ape for lils ills celebrated piano with its keys boys inlaid bilth fill ivory and mother of pearl arid audits its lid IN lined knitli fill parchments parch ments on which are written the tha names mines of tho the great must clans who have over ever played on it or sang to its accompaniment tadema goes out a great gret deal lie ho la Is not only a first slighter nighter but ho he Is a welcome guest at t the tha clubs in lathe the drawing robins of the swells and in the less elaborate parlors of the and writers iw for the press LITERARY WORLD GOSSIP sarah orno orne jewett Is ono one of authors upon whom damia dame fortune loves to smile her last bookoff hook of now new england stories has just boon been translated into the french and published in parts paris sIt icetty etty leicester goes into its seventeenth edition this week and a new volume pt of her stories al under der the title Stran strangers irs arid and Wa farer comes out in a fortnight arid and with all this ila jewett hits has more work promised ahead than site she can almost fulfill ul fill eisaw I 1 saw a complete set of of the salem sales of mrs mary V Z holmess Holm novels the other day land and was astonished 8 tied to find that royalty returns te turns 3 it haa no been made to the author on on ono nit million aion four our hundred bundred thousand copies of iier her books of this figure copies represented this years sales tho the time ban ba como come for tile tho a annual r I 1 nry r crop of new the li abo nanie cata of a now monthly to come iron from yew now york with flavel scott mines as editor while bite verna vermont 0 rat Is also to add ono to the list of purely literary ma maga garines rilleS Itla tido a to v literature and ar and will by mr C 11 II lica howard viard one OKO ut of the iho librarians of the astor library in now york amella Anin lii E barrs barra friend olivia which ran 1 in the century Is essaid said to bo be one of ilia fiction successes in tho english market anna katharine greens behind closed doors has reached australia hern it Is just start iniz as a now nai serial frh fresh from this iho poll pen of ono of the worlds greatest authors richard ManAl mansfield lold the actor Is to enter the library field with a collection of songs written by himself to be brought out in book beat form georgo george romola with a wealth of photogravures and nd etchings vi A ill bo be one of the iho principal center table holiday books this year joaquin miller lear has settled down to literary work again arid and says he 1 Is turning the atmosphere of his room into it a currenton cur current 0 rampant wind ind with flying opy copy 0 perhaps american literature liler aturo hadnot has not a more unique figure today to day than llian joaquin miller versatile yet so centric y W lios boil Is nl 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 aj Q 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 eelk vl altce ALICE ABOUT TO bakk it A TOUR ATT tho the cable an 0 uc s th tant t t tho be t fadoul mo s Amo american rican ti lillor r clr 1 rs A alteo I 1 lo 10 0 ali slite a w 1 H 4 about to go st petersburg Ieter Peter eburg iburg with cilmo 1 t al at the to ri tation oft tic aza aloa mrs shaw Is 1 the ibo daughter of a jewitt 1 mat I client of 0 now york borton ll iruin thi WM was in the ibo and early curly because it belle la in Y where line he scurried V ak lilean II 11 flaw in thy thuy own oon removed to detroit where two wo didugh tam tor are Br born to eboni in imas mr r has failed aher in b 5 I cas and they roo loed abw to w york where s mr firs marld do a elo to tho the family by tito burden was more than t ibo be could bear aall dd the with will be hor eb ildr chure hor 0 them four land and husband bUB baad to ber bar father ebreo evirs ngo ago ho started outto makH lie hu neler returned retura ed arid and efm ar shaw libaw gets her divorce oa statutory gr grounds dun d taff for rating etra of it four U C call bli dren all girls arla stimulated III ral abbl bbl w ui t 0 tb 0 of 0 her natural gift of hl into on 1111 after two twit seasons kenton of favor she ventured is london season caron and wa WM just w well received hill haimo M b hm jn ira public divor anti anil achieved a european reputation |