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Show MEN OF LETTERS, t William Black was paid $5,500 for the serial rights to his last novel. William II. Ballou, author of "A Ride on a Cyclone," has written a very readable read-able book called "The Bachelor Girl. Fritz Router is the Charles Dickens of Northern Germany. His works are composed com-posed in the idiom of the north and are very witty character sketches. M. M. Ballou, who had one of the most popular story papers in America forty years ago, is still in business, but Writes only books of travel now. Walt Whitman, who is 71 years old, is said to be failing rapidly in health. He is no more seen on the streets of Camden in his wheel chair, but is confined to his modest home. Although 83 years of age, Isaac Mc-Lellan, Mc-Lellan, who was at college with Longfellow Long-fellow and Hawthorne, and who wrote the "Poems of the Rod and Gun," never misses an opportunity to fish: .Tames Lane Allen.the Kentucky writer, is very tall and of a commanding presence. pres-ence. He is a confirmed bookworm, and when not at work at home can be found in some one of Cincinnati's book stores, reading. Whistler is indisputably the first etcher in the world, and one of the most widely known artists. He has developed a most entertaining style of writing iu the last few years, aud the material for "The Gentle Art of Makiug Enemies," mostly ptrisoual, will be widely read. Eugene- Held, tiie famous writer iu The Chicago News, is almost entirely bald. He has a long and rather humorous humor-ous face, and is an accomplished mimic. He writes in a very small and accurate hand, forming each letter with precision and distinctness, and he uses enormous Sheets of white parvr for his social correspondence. |