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Show MEN OF LETTERS. Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backward," says that he has not made the fortune out of his book which the newspapers have credited him with making- , , M. Poltoranof has been authorized by the minister of the interior to edit a Russian Rus-sian daily paper in Samarkand. It will be the first Russian organ to appear in central Asia. The opinion of the general public, as opposed to the few critics of W. D. Ilowells' works, is shown by the enormous enor-mous sales of his books. His income is said to be very nearly $25,000 a year. The famous French author, Daudet, is in his 49th year. Though not wealthy, he has a modest fortune, and his house is a meeting place for delightful people. Personally the great novelist is extremely extreme-ly attractive. Zola is one of the most extravagaut of men, and notwithstanding his princely income he is comparatively poor. The greater part of his fortune has been spent on his estate in Meadon, with its castle, park and pavilions. Hall Caine, who wrote "The Deemster, Deem-ster, the book from which the play "Ben-my-Chree" was dramatized, is a young man who lives in a pleasant cottage cot-tage near Bereley in Kent, England; the house is full ot Rosetti relics; the most interesting of the novelist's possessions is a curious old lantern which, was carried car-ried by Eugene Aram on the fatal night. A son of the late Hippolyte Lucas, an eminent critic of Paris, has recently published some interesting letters addressed ad-dressed to his father by noted authors. Among them is the following note from Dumas, pere: "My Dear Confrere Have the kindness to let me go down to posterity pos-terity by saying in The Siecle that my "Voyage an Sinai" is the chef d'oeuvTe of chefs d'eeuvre." . |