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Show . PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH. Rider Haggard says his front name should be pronounced "Reeder." Oliver Wendell Holmes has laid down bis pen and proposes to take a rest. Zola has quite a taste for collecting curious curi-ous furniture, rare books and funny specimens speci-mens of bric-a-brac. IV., i. m,;... v, .... i .. 1. f himself near Camden, N. J. It is a repro duction in granite of a part of King Solomon's Solo-mon's temple. Jules Verne's wonderful tales, in which science and fancy go shares with him, are written ia a little observatory on the top of his house at Amiens. Guy de Maupassant, whose mind has given way, according to report, is a man of medium height, solidly built, with the bearing of a soldier. He has a "Norman" head a head with a line at the back extending ex-tending straight up from the neck and bis hair is brown and wavy. W. Hamilton Gibson, whose sketches in black and white have brought him close to the hearts of all lovers of nature, is a heavily bnilt man, with square cut, jet black beard, an impressive forehead and eyes that twinkle merrily when he is in a jesting mood. He is a capital story teller. Miss Olive Schreiner, the south African novelist, resides at Cape Town, where she mingles freely in society anil is often seen at the government house. She is quite young, rather below medium height, with a girlish form, dark, lustrous eyes and a profusion of brown hair. Unlike most writers, she is brilliant in conversation. |