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He started to study practical mining at the great Comstock Lode with an elder brother, but the fascination of newspaper life took hold of him, and after two years' apprenticeship to journalism. in several mining camps, he returned to San Francisco. Here he wrote long and short stories for the San Francisco Argonaut, the leading weekly on the Pacific Coast. Finally he gravitated in 1892 to New York, where he joined the staff of the Sun. Shortly after his engagement with the Sun he began his tenement-district studies. The series evolved itself. It started with an attempt to write a "Sunday Special," and one story led to another. "Hunt up that little Bowery chap you wrote about," said the city editor of the Sun after the first sketch appeared," and give us some more about him." On Mr. Townsend's replying, "He's an imaginary character," the city editor rejoined, "Well, imagine some more about him." EDWARD W. TOWNSEND. Mr. Townsend relates how the following incident put him on Chimmie's track a few days before he wrote the first story for the Sun: "I was visiting a mission where some ladies were giving a dinner to tenement-house children which I was to report. I noticed one little fellow near me gulp down a piece of pie in about two bites. about two bites. The young lady in charge, who seemed to be on very good terms with the boys and assumed a pretty air of comradeship, was standing by and saw the pie disappear. She leaned over and said, with a bit of the boy's manner for good-fellowship, 'Would you like another piece if I can sneak it? His eyes brightened. She brought the pie and placed it before him with a little confidential whisper, as though it were a special favour, of which he was not to tell. As she did so the boy leaned over and kissed her hand. It must have been the innate gentleman in him. No one could have taught him. It may be that he had seen a courtier do it on some Bowery stage; but I think it was just his own natural tribute. That was my first insight into the Bowery character. It set me thinking, and when I wanted to write a 'special' I used the people I had seen there, making up my own story." Mr. Townsend's new novel, A Daughter of the Tenements, was finished a few weeks ago and is now in the press. The accompanying portrait is from a new photograph taken for THE BOOKMAN. Mr. Townsend, by the way, has been asked by Mr. Charles Hopper to dramatise Chimmie Fadden. Mr. Hopper will appear in the rôle of the Bowery boy during the forthcoming season. Mr. Townsend is one of the few pressmen who does not believe that he can write a play; nevertheless we are sanguine of his success with Chimmie. Among other recent literary productions to be put on the stage this autumn are The Story of Bessie Costrell, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, which will appear in one of our prominent theatres; and José Echegaray's Son of Don Juan, the rights of which have just been bought by Mr. Richard Mansfield. The recent publication by Messrs. Macmillan and Company of Balzac's Le Peau de Chagrin suggests to us the magnificent possibilities which this novel contains for dramatisation with Richard Mansfield as the hero. The Magic Skin, or, as Mr. Saintsbury prefers it, The Wild Ass's Skin, is a representative drama of universal human experience, and as centred in the tragic figure of Raphael it is peculiarly adapted to Mr. Mansfield's art. we inadvertently alluded to Mr. Eric Mackay as Marie Corelli's son. The Critic points out the error, but stumbles itself in stating that Mr. Mackay is Marie Corelli's brother. The promising author in question is really the son of her adoptive father, Dr. Mackay, a London physician. Mr. Mackay dedicated the volume of sonnets entitled Love Letters of a Violinist to his adopted sister; and Mme. Clara Lanza, in a recent literary causerie, tells us how, when Lord Tennyson died, Marie Corelli hopefully expected Mr. Mackay to receive at once the appointment to succeed to the laurel crown. Colonel Waring, of this city, figures very prominently in the newspaper press as a cleanser of streets, a spender of appropriations, and a designer of ducksuits, but so far as we have observed the current discussion, no one has yet considered him in the light of an author, except, of course, as a writer on sanitary science. We therefore take pleasure in reminding our contemporaries that to him is to be ascribed a very pleasing volume, with the poetic title The Bride of the Rhine, which first saw the light in 1878, when it came from the press of J. R. Osgood and Company, of Boston. It narrates the voyage made by the Colonel in a new boat down the Moselle from Metz to Coblenz, and is replete with dainty little pictures of that interesting region, garnished with German poetry, and ending with a verse translation of the Mosella, of Ausonius; this last, however, by a friend of Colonel Waring's. This information will doubtless cause several Tammany editors to prick up their ears, and feel an unholy joy that their enemy has written a book; but we inform them in advance that the book is a very good one, so that through it the Lord has not delivered its author into their hands. Dr. Robertson Nicoll has at last been prevailed upon to give to the world his large stores of knowledge concerning the Victorian period of literature in a work to be entitled Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Being Memoirs to Serve for a Literary History of the Period. This work is intended to do for the nineteenth century what Nicoll's Anecdotes In the last number of THE BOOKMAN of the Eighteenth Century did for its pred |