_♦ - Miss Florence Warden, the authoress of " Tho House on the Marsh," ■heLs had a psculiar car-eer. -Left at an early age dependent ou her own -exertions abe started as a governese, but she soon tired of this uncongenial drudgery and took to the stage, making her first appear ance at the Hsymarket with Mr and Mrs Bancroft;. She was actually playing at thia theatre when she wrote, as a " Family .Herald" novelette, *!The f Houee on the Marsh." This story, mai^e, such a tremen dous hit tliat' the proprietor of "The Herald" Bent her 9. large cheque over and above what he bad promised her. George Ohnet, the French novelist, is paid at the rate ol £S8 for. a thousand words.' Every morning. h« writeß four pages, eaoh page containing three hundred words, and when they are written out his wife copies theoa, all hia revision and corrections being done on tbe proof sheets, When he began literary, work M. Ohnet used to write at night, bat he had to give it, up, for he found his eyesight going. His favourite author is Balzac, but he is very fond of English literature. M. Ohnet is a man of aboub forty-five years of a^e ; he ia the son of a famous French architect, and cornea of a wealthy stock. His profits on "The Iron Master" have been over £40,000, and the book is in its i three hundredth edition. Since Lord Brabourne was made a peer, twelve ; years ago (the Pall Mall Gazette remarks), people have almost forgotten that he was the Edward Knatehbull- Hugeesen who wrote the charming fairy etoriea they have none the leas gone on reading. " Perhaps no English writer has I been more successful in combining the quaint imagination of folk- tales with tbe delicate, humorous sentiment of which Hans Andersen is the father. His. stories fully satisfy the exacting test that has to be applied to such literature— they please everybody. Children laugh and cry and held their breath" by turns ; women sigh with his Bentiment ; men smile with his humour. Often he set his tales in a Kentish landscape, and the freshness of familiar downs and lanes,, contrasting with the outlandish figures and witches and ogres, gives his work a charm that is alto- I gether .distinctive."



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