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Show MEN OF LETTERS. The author of "A Fool's Errand," Judge A. W. Tourgee, has been given a pension at the rate of $6 a month from 1863 to date. In the first volume of his memoirs Baron Haus aman says one of Minister Casimir Periers' instructions for his guidance as a prefect was, "Beware of fat men." Thesouthern author, George W. Cable, Is a sum built, somewhat awkward looking look-ing man of middle height, with dark, beetling brows and a high forehead surmounted sur-mounted by a shock of black hair. Bret Harte, the novelist, is a most careful and fastidious man. He recently filled a waste basket in the office of a friend before the work on which he engaged satisfied him. Mr. W. Clyde Fitch, the author of "Beau Brummell," which. Mr. Mansfield is now playing, is a recent graduate of Amherst. At college he was regarded as a clever amateur actor. E. F. Knight, whose "Cruise of tho Falcon" made an impression years ago, has been at the head of an expedition which visited one of the deserted islands in the South Atlantic, one thousand miles east of Rio Janeiro, to recover f 1,-000,000 1,-000,000 worth of treasure secreted there seventy years ago in a cave by pirates. |