Now that so Typewriter Backing Sheet. many literary people are using the typewriter for making manuscript, some of them may like to know of a trick for saving the bother of rolling in a backing sheet with each written page, which I saw described some time ago in the Phonographic World. Here are the directions: Dampen a strong sheet of linen paper as evenly as possible, either with a sponge or by drawing it through water and then placing it between blotting pads to remove the surplus water; then roll the sheet round the platen while it is moist, fastening the last end with mucilage. When the sheet is dry it will be found to adhere very tightly and smoothly to the platen. When the paper becomes worn it can be readily removed with the penknife, as the mucilage does not touch the platen. To do this will take but a few minutes, and the sheet will last for several weeks, not only saving much time and effort, but also preserving the platen. CINCINNATI, O.

A. L. S.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS

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FASHION AND INTELLECT. W. H. Mallock. North American Review ( 53 c.) for June.

FOUR CLEVER ILLUSTRATORS (Charles Dana Gibson, by Alice Graham McCollin; Albert B. Wenzell, by Mrs. Hamilton Mott; Reginald B. Birch, by Florence Wilson; Frank Otis Small, by Dorothy Chase). With portraits. Ladies' Home Journal (13 c.) for June.

MY LITERARY PASSIONS. William Dean Howells. Ladies' Home Journal ( 13 c. ) for June.

MY FIRST LITERARY ACQUAINTANCES.

Lippincott's Magazine ( 28 c.) for June.

R. H. Stoddard.

RHYME, RHYTHM, POETRY, AND COMMON SENSE. Edgar Fawcett. Independent for May 17.

THE PERSONAL EQUATION IN LITERARY STYLE. Joel Benton. New York Home Journal for May 9.

BEATRICE HARRADEN INTERVIEWED. New York World for May 6.

JOHN JACOB Astor. E. J. Edwards. Globe for May 10.

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JOHN JACOB ASTOR INTERVIEWED BY NELLIE BLY. New Yerk World for May 13.

Mr. and Mrs. John Armstrong Chanler, accompanied by Miss Ella Page, of Albemarle, Va., will leave “Castle Hill” about June 1, for an extended trip through the Holy Land.

William Winter, dramatic critic of the New York Tribune, sailed for England May 9 for a vacation.

Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has gone to England, where she will spend several weeks.

Rev. Dr. Cuyler and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page sailed for Europe on the same steamer May 19.

The price of Munson's Phonographic News (New York) has been reduced from two dollars to one dollar a year.

Mrs. Beatrice Harraden arrived in New York May 2, on her way to California.

Theodore Stanton, after twelve years' sojourn in Paris, intends to resume his residence in the United States.

Howard Challen, publisher of labor-saving record books, has removed to 165 Broadway, New York.

The Penfield Publishing Co. has been incorporated at Asbury Park, N. J., with a capital stock of $100,000. It will publish the New Peterson Magazine, Arthur's New Home Magazine, and other periodicals. All the editorial work of these publications, as well as the printing, binding, and mailing, will be done at Asbury Park.

McClure's Magazine has removed to 30 Lafayette place, New York. S. S. McClure, the publisher, has returned from Europe.

The name of the author of "The Story of Margrédel," which was withheld during its serial publication in Blackwood's and from the title-page of the book, is now announced to be David Storrar Meldrum.

The petition to Congress, which is circulated by the American Dramatists' Club, that the copyright act be amended so as to make flagrant violations of it punishable by imprisonment, is meeting generous support. The American Dramatists' Club-president, Bronson Howard, and vice-president, Henry Guy Carleton - has taken the matter up with great vigor, and as a result thousands of signatures have been received from almost every state of the Union. At the rooms of the club, No. 47 West Twenty-eighth street, New York, it is said that the leading managers of the country are taking the greatest interest in the movement.

A man of wide experience in the world of books, among publishers and authors, says that Miss Wilkins owes the marked favor of the great public to her little old-English words; that she writes, "I don't want a word out of your mouth about it, father," where another author might say, "The son implored his father not to express such opinions." Certain it is that "Pembroke" contains a large proportion of words of one syllable and Anglo-Saxon origin.

Mrs. Alexander, the novelist, has been lame for two years, owing to an apparently trifling accident. She hurt her knee sitting in the cramped position it was necessary to maintain when seated in the dress circle of one of the London theatres. She is now unable to walk without a stick.

Margot Tennant, now wife of the English home secretary, Asquith, received this note from Mr. Benson, the author, who took Miss Tennant for the heroine of his story, "Dodo." "Dear Miss Tennant- All the world is talking of you and my novel; when may I come to see you?" She replied: "Dear Mr. Benson

Did you really write a novel? How clever of you! Come and see me at any time." When he called she was out.

An interesting sketch of Charles L. Tiffany, of New York, and of the house of Tiffany & Co., of which he is the head, has been written by George Frederic Heydt, and is published in

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beautiful volume, richly bound in full morocco. The typography of the book is exquisite, and Mr. Heydt's sketch of the history of the well-known firm possesses more than -ordinary interest.

Book News (Philadelphia) for May has portraits and biographies of Celia Thaxter and -Olive Thorne Miller.

Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain ") sailed for Europe May 9. The liabilities of his firm, Charles L. Webster & Co., are fixed by the assignee at about $80,000.

The Elzevir Company, of New York, managed by John B. Alden, made an assignment May 2.

The liabilities of the Russell Publishing Co., of Boston, were fixed at the time of the company's failure at about $40,000. At a sale of the company's property by the assignees May 14 $3,450 were realized. The property sold consisted of the publications Our Little Ones and the Whole Family, which were bought by Hartshorn & Pettingill, who publish the Household. This same firm has also bought the Cottage Hearth.

Judgment for $6,835 was entered in New York May 25 against the Housewife Corporation, publisher, of No. 83 Warren street, in favor of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, on the attachment obtained by them May 1.

M. Zola is as systematic and as sure to do a - certain number of pages, and no more, each day as the late Anthony Trollope was. Each of his books contains about 500 pages of forty lines to a page.

Mrs. Humphry Ward is living in a pretty country house at Tring.

An" Authors' Breakfast" was given in Salem May 5, in honor of the American Authors' Guild, by the Salem Thought and Work Club. Among the distinguished guests were: Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Robert Grant, Olive Thorne Miller, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, James Grant Wilson, president of the Guild, Titus Munson Coan, Charles Follen Adams, J. T. Trowbridge, Elizabeth Akers Allen, Charles Burr Todd, Craven Langstroth Betts, Walter Blackburn Harte, Ednah Dow Cheney, and Hezekiah Butterworth.

Mrs. Mary Holland Lee, author of "Margaret Salisbury," will spend the summer months at her country home in Shrewsbury, Mass.

"Ouida" (Louise de la Ramée) sold her household effects and other portable property, including her manuscripts, at auction, at Florence, Italy, May 21.

Jordan, Marsh, & Co., Boston, announce an art exhibition to be given in November, and offer to artists who have lived in New England for one year a special prize of $1,500, two prizes of $300 each, and three prizes of $200 each, for the best paintings of New England subjects that may be submitted. The picture winning the grand prize is to be presented to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Current Topics (Chicago) has changed its name to the Chicago Magazine.

Harper's Magazine for June contains eightyfour pictures. Few books have so many. Among them is a portrait of Owen Wister, inIcluded in Charles Belmont Davis' article on Philadelphia.

Among other attractive features in the Magazine of Art (New York) for June is an article with nine illustrations on "The Authentic Portraits of Robert Burns."

"The Master" is the title of a new story by I. Zangwill, the publication of which has just been commenced in Harper's Weekly.

A series of portraits of Richard Harding Davis will appear in the department of "Human Documents" in the June number of McClure's Magazine (New York).

The circulation of the New York World is now more than 433,000 copies a day.

Austin Abbott contributes to the May Review of Reviews (New York) a valuable résumé of the life-work of David Dudley Field. The article is illustrated with portraits of the distinguished Field brothers.

In the privately printed volume of "Selected Letters of Malcolm Kingsley Macmillan "is a letter written by Mr. Macmillan to his brother, in which he says of his friend, Francis Marion Crawford: "Crawford was up a day or two lately, and I am more than ever struck with the fact that he is far more remarkable than his books. He speaks four languages so that the natives cannot detect him for a foreigner. He knows a good deal of Sanskrit, though he hardly ever refers to it. He learnt Norwegian, so as to pronounce it properly, in about three lessons from Ross. He is a good fencer, a good sailor, and can do silver repoussée work. With no training, he has designed the entire reconstruction of his house at Sorrento. Both in mathematics and draughtsmanship he is more than mediocre. He seems able to do almost anything he turns his attention to. The one thing he has almost entirely neglected is modern literature; and he always says that he is not really a literary man. In this there is some truth, though he has a kind of imagination that he throws into everything."

Stanley Waterloo, the Chicago author and newspaper man, engaged with a publisher to have a book on the Coxey movement ready for the press within four days. He began Monday morning, April 30, with a staff of writers, photographers, and typewriters, and Thursday night, May 3, the copy for a book of 100,000 words, with forty illustrations, was in the hands of the printers.

Mrs. Mary Cahill, of Brooklyn, otherwise known as "Marie Walsh," author of "Hazel Kirke" and other novels, has adopted South Dakota as her home, for the purpose of procuring a divorce. Mrs. Cahill's husband lives in Chicago, where he edits the Home Light, a Roman Catholic weekly.

The Cassell Publishing Co. announces "Wanted, A Copyist," a story which touches on newspaper work, and Chaperoned," an addition to the Unknown Library.

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D. Appleton & Co. announce "Climbing in the Himalayas," by Dr. William Martin Conway, vice-president of the Alpine Club; "Cleo-patra," a new historical romance by Dr. Georg Ebers; "A Daughter of To-day," by Mrs.. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan); "Mary Fenwick's Daughter," by Beatrice Whitby; and "General Washington," by General Bradley T. Johnson.

Poultney Bigelow gave a dinner in London to Mark Twain May 17.

Wilson's Photographic Magazine (New York) for May has a portrait and sketch of John A. Tennant, its associate editor.

The National Baptist has been sold for $16,000 to the owner of the New York Examiner, and its publication in Philadelphia is to be discontinued. Since 1872 Rev. Dr. H. L. Wayland has edited the National Baptist, and he became its owner in 1883.

"Aunt Fanny," thus best known from her books for children, died in New York, May 7, aged seventy-two. She was Mrs. Frances Elizabeth (Mease) Barrow, a native of Charleston, S. C., and had been writing ever since 1855. Her "Little Pet" books, "Six Mitten " books, "Popgun" stories, "Nightcap" series, and others, went through many editions and had a great circulation both in America and England. Mrs. Barrow was also a writer for the New York Ledger.

General Matthew M. Trumbull died in Chicago May 9, aged sixty-eight. He wrote chiefly under the pen name, "Wheelbarrow."

Professor Henry Morley, the distinguished author and lecturer, died at Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, May 14.

Thomas Niles, senior member of the firm of Roberts Bros., Boston, died in Perugia, Italy, May 18, aged sixty-nine.

Andrew J. Graham, author of Graham's system of phonography, died at Orange, N. J., May 19, aged sixty-four.

Edmund Yates died of apoplexy in London May 20, aged sixty-three.

Professor George John Romanes, F. R. S., LL. D., died suddenly at Oxford, England, May 23, aged forty-six.

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Rodrigues Ottolengui, the author of "An Artist in Crime," "A Conflict of Evidence," and "A Modern Wizard,"-three of the latest, most successful, and subtle detective stories,is slightly built, dark complexioned, and of medium height, a close student, an ardent and intense literary worker, and the possessor of a keenly analytical and logical mind. His mental qualities are apparent to his readers in his work, as well as to his friends, who also appreciate fully his personal magnetism. In his profession as a dentist he has achieved enviable success, not alone in his practical work, but, as a result of this, in the production of highly commended scientific essays and text-books.

Dr. Ottolengui was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1861. He obtained his early education in that city, and came North in 1876, receiving his diploma conferring the degree of M. D. S. at Albany, N. Y., at the age of twenty-two. He

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has always practiced in New York City. He began contributing stories and sketches to the daily and Sunday local papers in Charleston in 1874. His "Switchman's Story," published in a book of recitations about 1884, has been widely read and recited. Dr. Ottolengui has contributed a large number of articles on dentistry to the leading journals in this country, and many of the productions of his pen have been translated into foreign languages.

His first serious work was a text-book for

dental colleges, entitled Methods of Filling Teeth." The illustrations were drawn from 240 models made for the purpose by Dr. Ottolengui. He received $1,000 in cash and a handsome royalty for the manuscript of this book. The work is chiefly characterized by its analytical methods, every one of which has been practically accomplished by the author in his personal practice. The originality and novelty of the work gave it at once an educational popularity as flattering to its author as it was valuaable to the dental profession.

Dr. Ottolengui's first published distinctly literary effort was "An Artist in Crime," which was brought out by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York, in the autumn of 1892. The book pleased the public and the critics generally, having received but two derogatory reviews. Before this Dr. Ottolengui had written three romances, one of which has since been rewritten and published, while the others are lying fallow. "A Conflict of Evidence," published by the Putnams in the summer of 1893, was his next book to appear. These two works are narratives only, the author's first real attempt at novelwriting being "A Modern Wizard," which has been before the public but a few weeks.

Dr. Ottolengui's methods of work are characteristic. He uses no notes; the plan of a story