The Writers

THE WRITERS.

Israel Zangwill likes for an outdoor pastime "any form of locomotion except ballooning."

Joaquin Miller, the California poet, says his extensive tract of land near Oakland, Cal., will be left by him to the people of his state to be used as a park.

The well known Italian journalist, Cario Paladini, has written a book containing his reminiscences of Gladstone, Disraeli, Salisbury, Cecil Rhodes and others with many new anecdotes.

Ernest Legouvre, who has been a member of the French academy for nearly fifty years, is still busy writing, notwithstanding the fact that he is in his ninety-sixth year. He fences daily and takes long walks. He is part author of "Adrienne Lecouvreur."