Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — LITERARY LITTLE BITS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LITERARY LITTLE BITS

It is now said that The iimnwrrbc* of “The Heavenly Twins." ~t£hjps Tima Pass in the Night,’ - and “®dberi Elsmere.” were all declined .<<ne New York publisher. Ethel Voynich, aq’hor eff “The Gadfly,” is 33 years old. and 3s Irish 3w birth and English in anoeffiny. being the daughter of the logician. Rielle. Her husband is a Pole of qube tmeses who has long lived in Ixinthm. Jules Verne, who is in his tmnx. Is living at Amiens. Fmw. in nihufn health and -spirits. He lias wrirwn seventy-six books. and is +rtifi uxi writ. His hardest work, he says. im* been to read up the -stories Of travtflers ia order to write hi* own -sturbw fur be himself has Traveled very limße_ The family of Alma Tadeinu. the Royal Aeademican, -seems tie !i»e remarkably gifted. His wife is a skillful painter. His daughter. Wm Aim. won a medal at the last Paris .exhibition, and the -second daughter. Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, is The aintlmr of the novel, “The Wings ttf 3 earns." Le Revue de Paris prints a Usttwr written by Balzac, hi witidh !he describes a visit to George *t iher country chateau. “1 found the eamarade,” he said, "in her dressing gowm. smoking a cigar, wearing red trousers I and yellow slippers, Sh»- had a doffifie chin, like a monk." He also -states tfhnt George Sand went to l*ed at Ci an. tow* at midday, and smoked to ssness. Sht* tressed her daughter as a lew. Give me a nobk and a Iwxik. And let the proud world spin rooud.; Let h scramble by honk ot 5b- erm it For wealth or a name with a sound. You are welcome I<> amble your ways. Aspirers to place or to glory; May big belie jangle yoiir pmiw. And golden pens blazon your st my 3 For me, let me dwell in my Here by a curve this iirmik That croons to the tune off nry lunik. Whose melody wafts me forever On the wares of an unseen fiver. - Farm and Fireside. Mr. Zangwill tell* me < writes .a <cnrrespondent of the Westminster Gazerwo that many years ago be sent a -short poem to one of the best known -ttf The American monthly magazines. The poem came back by the first mall. Rat Mr. Zangwill kept it by him, xafl quite recently he sent it -on again in the -same magazine. This time, immediarblly iui its receipt, he received a cable from the proprietors of the magazine.offering to buy the “world rights," and Almost immediately they issued a lunge pisaer intimating that their next issue wtnfld contain a poem by L ZuugvilL The. poem was the same, word for word, but in the interim Mr. Zangwill had achieved fame, and his signature was worth money.