OCR Text |
Show AlplioDve llaodct. Al honse .Dauilet, the Dickens of France, w ears his hair long and has a horror of music' Hei lives luja,' balconied and creeper embowered house In tlie heart of Paris, aud is a connoisseur f bric-a-brac and antique an-tique furniture. He writes his romances ro-mances at an ungainly long-legged table, so as to avoid the necessity ot stooping. He began life as a school teacher, and once, when very hard up, molded a but cf himself and passed it oil among tho dealers Si "Balzac when a boy." His last play brought him in $111,000 a week. Once a HVei. |