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Show A New Literary Woman. Edward Hok's I-ettiT. I noticed that paragraphers give the inpression that Mary E. Wilkins, who has of late loomed up so conspicuously on the literarv horizon, is a woman of mature age. The fact is that the author is not yet 30, is unmarried, and has therefore a life of usefulness before her. Miss Wilkins lives in a pleasant home at Randolph, Mass., and on her mother's side is a descendant from the historian Motley. It is a conceded fact among literary people that Miss Wilkins is becoming be-coming a literary star of no small magnitude. mag-nitude. Few books of short stories have attracted so much attention to a writer as has "A Humble Romanco" to Miss Wilkins. She is kept more than busy tilling her orders, receives good prices for an author of established success. She is now being urged to try a long story, and if she accedes to the wishes of her friends and advisers, her attempt will lie watched for with a keen interest. Miss Wilkins. in personal appearance, is a blonde, with an exceedingly bright face and a vivacious manner. She is short in stature, exceedingly most about her own work, and becomes almost painfully silent when her talents are touched upon in conversation- |