The Writers

THE WRITERS.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that of all the poems she has written she thinks that "High Noon" is her best; at least it is her favorite.

Ludwig Falke, the lyric poet, to whom the Hamburg senate has voted an annual pension of $750 to enable hlm to devote hiiuself to his literary tasks, has been a music teacher in that city for twenty-five years.

Zola made of himself such a perfect writlng machine that in his later years he began to publish his novels in parts as soon as he began to write - a practice not uncommon In the days of Thackeray, but now almost obsolete.

Pierre Loti does not believe that there will ever be a real understanding between Europe and China. In his last volume, which describes his experiences during the late war, his refrain is, "China will always remain a riddle to us."