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Show MEN OF LETTERS, Edgar Fawcett is one of the handsomest handsom-est literary men in New York. He is a hard worker, a bachelor and livee at the Union club. Louis Kossuth is afflicted with a slowly slow-ly progressing cataract. He, however, believes that death will come to him sooner than blindness. William Black has taken an Omaha girl for the heroine of his new romance, it is stated, and Mr. Gladstone figures to some extent ' in a character named Grandison. Two Gorman writers, Walloth and Alberts, Al-berts, who emulated with great success Zola's naturalist style of story telling, have been heavily fined at Leipsio for publishing such writings. Walter Besant, the English novelist, is the victim of a curious charge. A man accuses him of having hypnotiied him and while in that condition extracted from him, word for word, the nov' "The Doubta of Dives." Like many another wise elderly man Francis Parkmau, the historian, has taken to. gardening, and is as successful at it as was Evelyn. He is particularly fond of roses. He is writing again, having hav-ing in a great measure recovered his fcaalth. |