Life — November 11, 1897 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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The Martyrdom of the Rose. LINES TO DORIS. ROSE hung by my garden wall; A Rose of purest, spotless white, Faultless and fair, and sweet withal, And yet I came in my harsh might And for its very purity I plucked it from its native tree. The martyred Rose to thee I sen I trust my deed was not in vain; I know it will not mourn its end, Nor yet lament the martyr’s pain, Since dying it is doubly blest To find its Heaven on thy breast. _ E. P. Be a6 AMMA,” said little Jack, ‘did God ever make anyone with one blue eye and one black?” “I never heard of anyone that said his mother, Well, then, you just look at Tommy Jones the next time you see him and just see what I can do.” What Our Authors Are Doing. R. RICH- ARD LE GALLIENNE, having met with such tre- mendous success in re-writing the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, will house at Stratford, where he will put in the greater part of the winter re-writing Ham- let. Asa re-writer he isa manof remarkable promise. George Meredith has accepted an offer from a London house to prepare an edition of his works in words of one syllable, with diagrams and explicit directions tothe reader as to how to find and follow his line of thought. It is reported on good authority that Hall Caine has leased a sanctum adjoining the operating room at one of the London hospitals in order to get some good material of an excessively painful nature for use in a series of Christmas sketches he is preparing for juvenile readers. Owing to the failure of his play, Mr. Crawford has returned to novel-writing with tenewed vigor. His admirers, who have feared that he was possibly overtaxing his strength, will be glad to hear that he has DESERVED IT. Tenderfoot : But 13: Native: decided not to write more than five shelvesful of novels during the season of "97 and 'o8. ‘The constantly increasing literary busi- ness of Richard Harding Davis has proven so exacting that this very popular author has taken steps to have himself incorporated. He will be managed by a board of directors consisting of nine well-known gentlemen who, when divided up into committees, will relieve him of a greater portion of his labors, such as autograph writing, sending photo- graphs to admirers, etc. Several talented persons have already been employed to travel into various out-of-the-way corners of the earth to gather impressions for Mr, Davis, the fruits of whose labors the public will soon be ina position to enjoy. Stephen Crane is at present out of work, but it is rumored that a syndicate of news- papers are under contract to foment discord between Spain and the United States for the purpose of precipitating a war for Mr. Crane to write about, The famous Polish romancer, Henri Sienkiewicz, has offered a prize of ahundred rubles for the best translation into English of his rather unfortunate name. So many IT RATHER SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR STEALING A BICYCLE ? DAT AIN'T NO THIEF—DAT’S A SCORCHER, persons desirous of obtaining his books have found themselves unable to ask for them in- telligibly, that a step of this kind has be- come almost an absolute necessity. ‘The first three editions of Prof. E. Benja- min Andrews's entertaining series of resig- nations having been exhausted, the Doctor is said to have in preparation a new edition containing a number hitherto unpublished, and three or four which be is writing es- pecially for the Christmas number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, Mr. Kipling’s spicy volume, “‘ Impressions of Brattleboro, Vermont,” will not be pub- lished until the spring, due possibly to the fact that his residence at that charming resort is in the market, and the book might inter- fere with its sale. Well Filled. OBANG: wind. ‘Well, what else can you expect? They say that his wife blows him up every day.” His talk is mostly comicbooks.com