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Show carver lv becoming a "devil" in a printing ortice and afterward a cum- ! yoMi-.r. I In ly lecture about himself and hi- j L;iretT in literature Conan Oovle tells his uudienee that during the tirt U-n year that he was i-uaed ill story writing !ie did not earn more than two hundred and tifty dollars during- any one year with his pen. 1K. lini.Mi:? wa.s an inveterate wa; in private life. An apt illustration of this was furnished when, in writing a replv to a note dated from the then newly invented "Manehester-by-t he-Sea." he-Sea." he dated his answer from " llev-erly llev-erly -by -the-Depot." A i;mi-:st addition to military literature litera-ture is "rabies fruiu Field and Staif." by Lieut. James A. Krye, of llosloii. The booli is the second of a series of stories of life amon the citizen sol-ilierv sol-ilierv and the seven short stories, or enclosures as the author calls them, are brim full of pathos and humor. BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Rlskix"s habits of life are reniarW-I reniarW-I ably regular, lie told a friend recently recent-ly that in two years his time of going j to bed and getting up had not varied fifteen minutes. Two of Sweden borg's works, ' Heaven and Hell" and "The Doctrine of Charity." have just been translated into Arabic by 1'rof. Salmone. They are to be published in England. Egypt and India. I'lt.WK L. Staxton, of Georgia, v.hnsc rhymes are widely quoted, is t':e Mn of a northern man. but ha-- al-wnys al-wnys lived in the south, lie began his |