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Mr Robert W. Service, the Canadian author, recently saved the life of a man, who was drowning in the sea at Nice. Mr Service's best-known book is his “Songs of a Sourdough.”

Mr Charles B. Cochran is to start a magazine which will deal with all the interesting features of the theatrical world. The acting-editor will be Mr Joseph Thorp, the dramatic critic of Punch.

Among the friends of the late Mr Edward W. Bok, the American journalist, were Oliver Wendall Holmes and Longfellow. Mr Bok once paid Mrs W. E. Gladstone £3OOO for a series of articles, a price which amazed her so much that she had the cheque framed.

Viscount Esher, whose death occurred recently at the age of seventy-seven, perhaps best known for his Army and War Office reforms, was the author of several books, notably “The Letters of Queen Victoria,” and “The Girlhood of Queen Victoria,” and “The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener.”

Fanny Burney's famous novel, “Evelina, or a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World,” to give it is full title, which established her, greatly to her father’s surprise as a celebrity, is now to be republished in a sumptuous volume, edited by Sir Frank Mackinnon, by the Oxford University Press. This was the work of which Dr. Johnson declared that in it “there were passages which might do honour to Richardson.”