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Show MEN OF LETTERS. Thomas Hardy, the English novelist, detests smoking. Emile Zola has had the offer of $250 a night for forty lectures on "Realism" in the United States. He wrote a curt answer in which he asked: "Where and what is the United States?" Brander Matthews, the author, is a large man, with rather rough features, that are shaded by the light whiskers which adorn his face. He has the largest collection of French plays in America. B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, is a dark faced, sharp eyed and very intelligent looking man, of genial manner and Jewish Jew-ish extraction. He began life in newspaper news-paper work in New Zealand, but has been for many years a resident of England. James Payn, the English novelist, has written about forty novels, and every word of the manuscript is in his own handwriting. He will have nothing to do with stenographers and typewriters. He sleeps ten hours out of the twenty-four, twenty-four, spending the remainder in reading and writing. |