Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The

popular author of the novel "Little Ijord Fauntleioy," tbe ilramatization of whlch is one ofthe leading theatrical attractions of the day, was bom at Manchester, England, Nov 24. 1849. Tliere she passed the first fifteen years of her life, acrjuired her educatiou, and bee-.ime acquainted with the Lancashire dialect and cbaraoter, wliich she made her own. At the close of the American Civil War, ill-fortune induced tier parents to leave England for America, where they settled in KiKixville, Tenncs8ee. As au authoress, Mrsi Hurnplt lias been very active. Some of her first literary produotions were love-stories, wliich she contributed to several Auierioaii magazines. In 1872 her dialect story, "Surly Tim's Trouble," was pnhlislu'd in "Scribner's Monthly,'' now the "Century," and iive years later it appeared In book-fonn. "That Lass o' LdwrieV' whs first presented serhilly in "Scribner's," and soon gained snel popularity that it was issued si-jierately. In 1878-'79 lier earlier nasjrazine stories, "Kathlcen Mavourneen," "Lindsay's Luck," "Mtra Crespi?ny," "'Pretty l'oily Pemberton," and "Theo." were reprinted. Kince then she lias written several new Btorles, "Ilowartli's1' in 1M7!; "Lou liana" in ]8ü(); "A Fair Bftr bailan" in 1881; and "Throueh onc Admii)istr:ition." In 1S73 she was marrled f Dr. Burnett, and slie now resides at 'Wasbin'ton, D. C. As a novelist she conimands extraordinary populnrity on botli sides of the Atlantic, and the dramatiation of "Little Lord FauntJeroy," is nn assured success. That of others is in jroress, and the triumph of the autbor is the conspicuous literary event of tbe dtiy.