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Henri Rochefort no longer haunts the boulevards of Paris, but lives the life of a literary recluse. Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attcnds to all of her husband's correspondence and carefully guards him against would-be intruders. President Diaz of Mexico at 65 possesses the bodily and mental aetivity of ;i man of 20, due, he says, to the fact, that he has been a great eater and a good sleeper. In the freshly published memoirs of Mrs. De Morgan, widow of the ilistinguished matheinatician, Charles Lamb is described as a "small man. quaint and old-fashioned, and greatly given to indulgeuce in chaff." And on one occasion, as Mrs. De Morgan records, "he was indulging in a bottle of London stout." William E. Gladstone receives more requests for his autograph than any other man in the woiid. In one day recently twenty-five letters reached Hawarden from various parts of the world politely asking for specimens of the grand old man's chirography. Mr. Gladstone is too busy to gratify the wishes of autograph collectors, and his secretary so informs correspondents.