LITERARY GOSSIP.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12027, 31 October 1904, Page 5

LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr Marriott Watson is engaged on a novel of modem life. It will be a comedy somewhat in the vein, of "The Skirts of Happy Chance." Mrs Kate Douglas Wiggin's new book, "The Affair at Ilbc Inn," which she ha« written in conjunction with three, of her friend*, tells the story of an automobile couvtfhip during an American girl's summer in England. Miss 'Mary Corelli may well say that the literary life is the bert* of all lives. Her latent book, "God'e Good' Man," !has equalled "Temporal Power" as a pecuniary success. The first edition was exhausted in.a day, and the orders which poured in Io tho publishers could not be fulfilled. No less than forty-three tons of paper were used in the production of the first edition. Miss Corelli has- once again established her right to be regarded us the best selling novelist, of, the present day.