Show chero serials grow in staid old georgetown on a leisl bluff the potomac Io tomac anil willi alio imposing alono college of alio llio society ol 01 jesuit filling up alic background stands 11 quaint liello collage its many peaked gables in trailing vines and bright and its roomy suggesting the quiet and raposo so dear to alic literary the view from the veranda ii superb you can sec a wide expanse of the river fort the aqueduct bridge and a goodly stretch of the soil well wooded and picturesquely broken the ight on a evening is worthy the brush of a claude on the river hundreds of craft of every description shoot gayly about racing shells steam launches and larger vessels pleasantly diversify ahe scene As the sun goes down the hills on alic opposite bunk arc lit up in a thousand different hues and assume a thou and fantastic and as iho moon comes up the croaking of the bullfrogs bull frogs and the refrain of a boating song from some excursion party and seem in keeping with the pastoral scene alic collage is the homo of mrs K D E N and here a majority of her sixty odd novels have been written mrs ii not one of our greatest novelists and yet I 1 suppose her books have been more widely read than the works of any other american calion writer certainly there is no woman who has achieved her popularity until a few years ago sirs mouths orth passed all her linn at prospect collage as the house is called but anuw most of hit year is spent at yonkers on the hudson where her only son and daughter le and occasional visits abc made to the collage she is now there the novelist lias crossed the dividing line between CO and 70 but one would not imagine so from her manner and appearance she is active and vigorous her is good and hearing acute and she writes one or two serial stories every year which duly appear in robert conners ledger ir is slightly above hie medium height with a well rounded figure she wears her leair which slightly tinged willi gray brushed back partly a high forc acad ircy eyes arc blue full of expression tenderness and kindness and she is conversing light up wonderfully and illumine the face the mouth is rather square and shows firmness and decision and yet reveals a character noi lacking in he softer womanly instincts irs dresses well her cos arc plainly acl lier age but the material is rich and alic is fond of a basli of color in alic shape of a bright lower or ribbon she i 1 delightful and easy conversationalist tion alist like roeuy others mrs south worth drifted into literature when but a mere girl she married I 1 rp derick the union was not a happy uie and s effial ff cef husband tad glicr soiro r cars fl arward friends her to seek a divorce lime alic la ryland divorce aw was in operation in the district cf columbia and being derived from inglish jurisprudence rai as a anat er of course cumbersome costly and alic friends of airs induced congress to pass a bill regulating in llie district alic act expressly stating that ft was for the benefit of mrs emma D E N iset slie never availed herself of it she was opposed to on conscientious grounds silice clial linic it has not been tp procure a divorce at the seal of her husband has been dead now over twenty sis left enli her iwo young to support her father am ing died in the meanwhile and ln r mother having remarried she wrote stories and school alic Satio nul era of washington the great abolition paper was llian in its prime and dr bailey its editor save her generous encouragement bior him she wrote her first novel retribution in ind it at once made her famous when it had run through alic era the harpers published it in book form and it lias been translated into every modern language several of her novels hae been airs routh yorlli says clial slie wrote alic first serial published in aliis country she was asked dicea diced much difficulty in getting her earlier works published no die said must kiy I 1 was barly fortunato in that respect uncoil none of those gener illy ibave to undergo I 1 always managed 10 aul easily in alic lu loudon anit until edited abo I 1 doiy besides contributing regularly lu the york ahe lulls aliis of glicr sojourn 1 I had just d a story called leone ahe plot of which was to me by a greek tragedy under my own name riah nothing to designate whether alic aullion was a man or a woman one day 1 received a letter from a yorkshire squire complimenting me highly on iny story ami me to oine down to his aliouse in september nud hoot over liis preserves with leini he went on to siy s iy in his laiter eliat lie was i and unfortunately alicie were no ladies in the house but that his old housekeeper looked after glicr masters comforts and would of course make hii guests comfor table I 1 laughed very when I 1 received this but need tell you I 1 did not shoot over preserves clial autumn |