The Writers

Mrs. Humphry Ward, the authoress, lives on the estate at Stocks, Scotland, where once the poet Waller lived in the seventeenth century and which is referred to in the Domesday Book.

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, the English author, is dead. He was a member of a distinguished family and a nephew of the famous Archdeacon Hare, who married a sister of Denison Maurice. He was born in 1834.

Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam of recent literary fame advises girls to let go of their rights and hold on to their privileges and hold men by being charming. Incidentally Miss Daskam is a handsome young woman.