A_ passing to be noted is that of Mr. W. B. Maxwell, the novel Ist, The son of wealthy parents, his father being a successful publisher and his mother—to be named presently, his life was laid in pleasant places, He was between 30 and 40 when, ho ing tried various other pursuits in a rather dilettante way, he turned to novels. Having met numbers of peo ple and observed shrewdly, he was successful from the first, and published book every year until comparative. ly recently. His best known are perhaps The Guarded Flame" and "The Devil's Garden," the latter attaining the distinction of being banned by the circulating libraries, Maxwell admitted that he had dealt with life not with fairyland, but protested that he was always on the side fof the angels, Nowadays, anyone in search of books that libraries had banned would think "The Devil's Garden" very: tepid.
Maxwell inherited many of hig tastes and certainly his talent from his mother, who was no other than Miss M. E. Braddon, author of "Lady Audley's Secret," the title of which must still be as well known as "East Lynne," though probably not one person in 10,000 now has read it, Miss Braddon went on writing novels for 50 years, always successfully, the ever with quite the same siecess in "Lady Audley." "She and her were certainly gifted with pro life imaginations, and still had time to enjoy society and entertain lavishly, Hemans' Muse Apropos of women writers, one of the largest houses in North Wales was burnt down this week, Bronwylfa, where Felicia Hemans living from 1809 to 1827 was. inspired, amani, other works, to write her' famous Amidst thole tat 'O'er all the pleasant One feels that anybody could compose that sort of stu ad Ub, But ike another jingler of the 19th century. Thomas Bayly, who wrote bea bulterily, living a rover" te, there was some tick which Mrs, Hemans hod and others haven't and she was quite a Hones. wrote numbers of hymns, but the oily other poem of hers T remember began call my brother back to me, The Sunimer" comes with Mower and Wher' Is my brother
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