Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — The Library Corner [ARTICLE]

The Library Corner

Richard Harding Davis has a no* story, “Miss Delamar’s Understudy,” waiting to apear in one of the magatrines. Guy Boothby, the author of “The Marriage of Esther,” first became known t 6 readers through bis book of Australian travel entitled “On the Wallaby.” The story on which Du Maurier Is reported to be engaged is a very long story of life in England and. France, and it is said already to have received a name—“ The Martians.” The author will himself illustrate IL Miss Vida D. Scudder, associate professor of English literature in Wellesley College, is the author of “The Life of the Spirit in the Modem English Poets.” —lt is a keen analysis of the poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, and Browning. W. T. Stead’s first novel will appear In the course of the year, and will be called “A Modern Maid In Modern Babylon.” It is the story of the experiences of a young girl who came to London some years ago, and whose adventures are faithfully set down in Mr. Stead’s pages. The wife of Thomas Hardy acts as his amanuensis, what time she is not sketching, painting in water-colors, and playing hostess to her many guests. During the winter the pair live at Dorchester, In a house of which the novelist himself was the architect They stay in London during the season, and the rest of the year spend in travel. : -==ZZZZ Bill Nye is a man of very sober demeanor, and rarely cracks jokes outside of newspaper columns. He has been known, however, to play a practical joke on a friend. When Lieutenant Greeley started on his expedition to the North Pole, Nye gave lrim a sealed box that was not to- be-opened until he had reached his farthest point north. It contained axle-grease for the pole. *