Life — August 5, 1897 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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What Our Authors Are Doing. ME: STEPHEN CRANE has accepted a position at the Rahway Color Factory, where he will spend the summer mixing new hues for his novel on the Graco-Turkish war, which, we understand, is to be published in the autumn under the title of “The Lavender Badge of Cowardice.” Mr. F, Marion Crawford is spending a month at the Spencerian College of Chirog- raphy, learning to write with his left hand. It is expected that, with both hands in use at the same time, Mr. Crawford will be able to finish the seventeen novels which he has prom- ised to have ready for his publishers by Octo- ber asth. Jan Maclaren will at Oxford University studying the English language, which, we are informed, his constant use of Scotch has quite driven out of his head. The vivid, forceful writers in the employ of the Sunday edition of the New York Mhirold, the public will be glad to hear, have received orders from the Board of Health to go to the Jersey Coast every Saturday, after their paper has gone to press, for the purpose of taking a bath. Mr. Henry James has left the whirl of London and gone to the mines of Siberia, where he will spend the next six months polishing a sentence he has been at work upon since Christmas. The first draft of the sentence was completed last Thursday. George Meredith announces that in his next novel he will yield to popular clamor and adopt a new plan of writing. Every tenth paragraph will be intelligible, and the last chapter, read in the next two years backwards, will convey an idea to the reader's mind, Mr, Bob Cook of Yale, we hear, is writing a rowing romance to be known as ‘‘The Stroke that Struck,” in which a beautiful young girl, who is the sister of a Cornell oarsman, refuses to marry a Yale rower until her brother's crew has beaten a Yale crew at Poughkeepsie. The story ends happily, and suggests a possible reason why Cornell ultimately became a factor in the college aquatic world. Mr. Hall Caine is coming to Harvard next year to take a special course in Gloom, under the auspices of the Athletic Association. The publishers of Mr. Chauncey M. Depew’s memoirs, entitled *t The Confessions of an Am- bassador," state that the publication of that work is unexpectedly delayed. The work will all probability, be published for four years to come, anyhow. The supply of Posthumous Papers by the late Robert Louis Stevenson having given out, Mr. Squiller Scrouch, better known as ‘*J,” assisted by Mr. Sidney Colvin, will prepare another barrelful, which may shortly be ex- pected to appear. In order that the public shall not be deceived, these will probably be published under the happy title of The Nit Papers, a Series of Posthumous Letters and Essays, which might have been written by Robert Louis Stevenson had he lived.” The editor of ‘* Bunzey's Dime Monthly" will inaugurate the fall season by reducing the price of his magazine to nothing, offering as an extra inducement a complete edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica to each purchaser of asingle copy. Different Now. has consulted every prominent doc- tor in the cou ‘ase is hopeless. try, and now they “Why, I thought he expected to be cured ** But that was before his money ran out.” ORRESPONDENT you are All the Same. It has been said that superstitious about Friday, General. GENERAL just as soon fight on Friday as any other day. WEYLER: Nonsense! I would THE COIFFURES OF SCHNITZEL, THE GERMAN POODLE, WHEN HE BELONGED TO TO HERR BIMS, HEAD WAITER AND TO A WELL-KNOWN MUSICIAN,