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Show LITERARY LIGHTS. 1 The first poet laureate was John Kay, in the reign of Edward IV. One of the perquisites perqui-sites of tbe office was 1500 a yenr. Murat Hnlstead has been writing for the paper continuously for forty years. He is one of the hardest workers in the profession. Andrew Lang and Rider Haggard hare written a novel in collaboration, which ii called "The World's Desire," and has for its hero Ulysses. Archduchess Valerie, youngest daughter of the emperor and empress of Austria, is a rival of Carmen Sylva, queen of Rouroania, as a royal poetess. Henri Rocbefort still refuses to take rooms In London except from week to week, and will not learn the English language; he receives re-ceives very few callers, and passes bis evenings even-ings playing dominoes with a friend, M. Coureau, with half a crown a game as the stake. M. do Cassagnac is formidable because of the skill with which he wields the three ter-riblo ter-riblo weapons tongue, pen and sword. He Is a man of powerful stature, dark skinned, dark eyed, and wearing his mass of jet black bair brushed straight back from his forehead. He speaks with a lisping cadence peculiar to southern France. Bir Edwin Arnold says of Walt Whitman: "I think be is the handsomest old man I ever saw, with the bead of Jupiter and strength in every feature; I bad a pleasant interview, sitting for a long time face to face, with his hand on my knee and my band on his; I am more than ever convinced that he is one of the greatest of American writers, for his poetry is wonderful I" Marlon Crawford is pictured as follows: "He is over six feet in height, with broad shoulders, small feet and a large head, the latter hninir well covered with a nrof usion of brown hair; a beard of the same conceals the lower part of his fane; a fine but rather large tnoutb fs partially hidden by a mustache of the same hue as his beard; his teeth are band-some band-some and his smile exceedingly sweet." David Christie Murray, the novelist, is a little above the medium height, but looks older than his years, which are not quite 43; he has a sparse brown beard plentifully streaked with (fray, and the most sympathetic of manners; he began his literary life as a reporter, and having gone through the Russo-Turkish Russo-Turkish war, abandoned journalism for Action, Ac-tion, to which he has since contributed many readable volumes. |
