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Show j MEN OF LETTERS. ' Straaye to say, Cotrpor wrote "John : Gilpin's Bide when lw was in one of the terrib EUit-.s of wpreteioa so commin ; to him. Th grave of Julia Eetca Cooie, tu ' tu:hcni author, is merely marked by a rontrh pine buard with his name penciled : ihercon. "JI. Q'.lvI," ihs IjumorLvt as l sietoh i writer of Tna IXroit Fw Pres?, is paid I 125 a week for bis work. He wriga? i;o , pounds. Alphoiise LV.u k-!. the Fn-nch Di. kt-as as he is abs-jnlly caUtnl. is so c-ar sighted tiiat be writes at a vpry higii table to avoid perpetual stooping. James Wbittiomb RiVy is rc-ported as f saying: am sick and tirfj of wririag diiUrtt. I can write better verse thaa i ' everwrotJajirgonandlraeantodoit." j Walt VThiSaia was at one tune a field Bn in the L'a'on army, aad after the C!C of tha wnr be was appointed to a position a clerk ia vue of tl V."ahiikg- ton dfMrbt.eT'i.- |