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Show 1 - j A illmp of Novulttt Howell. Edward Hoi'k'a N 'W York Letter. Mr. Howells is one ot those men with whom hard work agrees, lie looked the picture of good health and content- ment when 1 saw him, aud laughed heartily as I told him some of tho stories stor-ies being printed about his reported difference with his publishers. The novelist is undoubtedly growing stouter, and in his conversation and appearance there are all the evidences of a successful literary gentleman, lie liss in most comfortable apartmeuts on Commonwealth avenue, in Boston, bis home life is a perfect model of hap-' hap-' pincss, he has more orders than ho can ! till, gets as large, if not larger, prices ! ns nv author writing today, and who 1 could not bo happy amid such indica-i indica-i tious of success? Ho is a pleasant and ! easy man to do business with, and his i word is better than nianp a man's bond I for the keeping of a contract. Some of i us may not always agree with his liter-I liter-I nry theories and' analyses of authors, I but the man personally leaves but one j impression upon friend or visitor that J ho has met a typical gentleman. |