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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XX, 14 May 1898, Page 609

Donna Quixote.—Mr Justin McCarthy, M.P., tells a curious story regarding the heroine in his novel ‘Donna Quixote.' The character, a rich .voting widow, full of impracticable philanthropic schemes, was entirely his own creation; but a short time after the book was published he received a letter complimenting him on the elever portrait of Mrs , who. the writer was glad to know, was a common friend. A year or so later the novelist made the acquaintance of Mrs , and found that she was really a living picture of his heroine. Isaac Disraeli.—There are probably few authors from whom so much is taken with so little acknowledgment as Isaac Disraeli. His books are a mine of curious information, and an incredible amount of this information is being constantly retailed to the public in the pages of the daily and weekly press. It is the fate of most miseellaivies to be read only by the few and afterwards to lie given in fragments to the many.