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Pen, Pencil And Brush

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jules Massenet has announced thafc with "Sapbo" bis career as au opera composer is at an eud. Professor Charles W. Kent has been named president of a committee which is now at work raising funds to place a suitble monuinent to Edgar Alian Poe in the librory of the University of Virginia. Mark Twain will remain in Vienna about eight months to write a book on modern A bdera. Mr. Clemens is working hard and spending hours daily at his desk, though he wül publish nothing for tome time. Howard Russell Butler has again been elected president of the American Fine Arts society. The other officers are Franig C. Jones, vice president; Williara Bailey Faxon, treasurer, and Horace M. Barry, secretary. Rndyard Kipling geems to have made a aew record for prices for prose - healready held the old one. His railroad story, ".007," publisbed in Scribner's, numbers 7,000 words, and the price was about fl,500. or nearly 21 cents a word. In 1893 the admlrers of the Spanish poet José Zorilla y Moral placed upon bis head a crown of solid gold. The poet ras forced by.lack of money to pawn this crown, and as the legal period of its redemption has expired it is now offered at auction. His adtnirers will purchase it by íubscription.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News