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THE SUN, SATUHDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912.
LITERARY NEWS, VIEWS AND CRITICISM
Itciu-.v Kilclir-II Webster Says
For Tills Reason He Cnii'l
WrKo a Novel.
SO HE TRIES ROMANCE
Author of "Juno Madness"
Serins Qualified to Rccoine
a IMnywrlcrlit.
Henry Kltclioll Webster, who was In
Nc.vv Yurie In assist George Voider rintt
In the rehearsing of his piny "Juno
Madness," which Wlnthrop Ames, cx
director of the New Theatre, Is produc
Ins at the Fulton Theatre, Is one of the
best known contemporary writers of
American Action. Mr. Webster dis
claims the title of novelist and calls
himself n writer of romance, for to him
the novel In n delineation of character,
while the romance, which he writes, Is
the depiction of Incidents according to
a pattern, usually culled n pint.
In fait .Mr. Webster said to the Inter
viewer, when seen nt Mr. Ames's office
In the Little Theatre: "I rannnt write
n novel. I have always wished to do so,
but my sense of plot ban alwnys stood In
the way.
"riven If 1 sec n elmracter vividly In
my mind, when I come to transfer that
character to paper I am tyrannized over
by n sense of direction which Compels
me to lot-e night of the character de
pleted and rush Into action.
"A novel in of cent tally discursive, with
many .1 side trip Into philosophy It Is
a discussion of man iers, the detailing of
many Incidents or thoughts which de
velop character When I attempt the
novel I airf like a portrait painter with
an obsession for outlines; I force the
portrait to an 'edge' Instead of develop
ing It with the hundred little touches
which make up a faithful reproduction
of the original."
It Is n trllle shocking to hear n well
known writer confess that be cannot
write n novel, for the usual literary
American In so confident that be can
write every kind of literary product
nnd In every style that one does not ex
pect him to admit a restriction In any
line. 11 was so unusual that the Inter-
lewer asked Mr. Webster to develoo
that theme and to trace for him the
causes for his obsession by plot.
Mr. Webster said that bis sen3e for
form, for a fixed pattern or plot, prob
ably came from bin fondness for music,
which has always been a delight to him
since his childhood days. He Illustrated
this by a musical reference.
"All music Is made up of sound pat
terns. A honata has a plot that Is Just
ns clar as the plot to any novel, only
It Is more precise. In the first move
ment of every sonata the order of th
theme, the episodes, the development
of the themes In different keys Is flsed.
"Now the plot for a romance Is quite
similar to this. A single thread of the
plot concerns one man, which thread
Is complicated by the Introduction of
other characters who cross the thread
of I be first one under certain circum
stances. A plot movement Is often nug
Rested to me by a string quartet.
"I'erbapH un early fondness f.r math
ematics bad something to do with my
snso of form or plot. I never carried
the subject very far, but was always
fond of mathematics, and there Is not
so nun h difference as one might Imag
ine between n problem In Kuclld and
the plot of n novel. There Is a sense of
parallelism which, as It develops, equal
Ires Itself Into a pattern. Everybody
has this pattern sens'? to a certain de
gree, but In the born writer of romances
and the writer of plays It seems to me
that It Is developed to an unusual de
gree. Music Is In a sense highly mathe
matical because of Its Infinite variety of
relation!! of form."
"Do you find a plot In every piece of
music- then which Is equivalent In Its
differing medium to the plot of a ro
mantic novel?"
" if course it In posrlble to carry the
analogy too fr. fitlll It Is true, espe
cially of clasolc music, that the very
substance of It Is a highly Intricate pat
tern or plot, the development of which
holds and lends on the Interest of the
auditor much ns the plot of a romance
nr a play lends on the Interest of the
reader or auditor. Kven the most vio
lent Iv modern music, which seems to be
nothing but color and emotion, has Its
pattern, though It Is harder to trace."
"Do you tlrst get your plot for a
story then nr a rhythmic suggestion of
movements which carry the story on to
lis cl max?"
"In i way, yes, although I picture to
mv e'r the plot tnoro as a series of lines
on which the movement Is marked In,
not ii the notes of music, but by cross
lines marking the beginning of the plot
and complications developing ns one
tine"! c'mispi another."
"Ila e i. mr novels all been of present
dn.v conditions In America, or have you
follov il in the beaten path trodden by
i os. foinuutl" writers, and gono back
to bigonc events of history?"
"! irkd once to write a story of tho
cl-. II v. ir. but with Indifferent auccess.
Slnfe then I have kept to modern
Ihlngr. and alvv.iya American, for there
l plenu In our life at the present
Milrh Is romantic, which Is easily sus
f opt ihii. of being treated after a pat-te-n
bv which I mean a plot arrange
nicnt. more or less mathematical In
itn i.liig out."
"II m no ou get your original Idea
for ii ,i'i.i ? Do you sit down and work
1 ' 'ike a problem in algebra In
wl-lib .ti have A, H and C given fac-
1 r' "I which to discover X, Y and
''.. or i hi- unknown?"
"! "utiinen work out a plot that
em. Mlil.-h i merely an exercise In
" ' '"' ability, but the stories In
"li b I invself am Interested, which
.i !. .Id over my Imagination and
-vo-- .Hi',-, ooino to mn In a flash,
T'n n- n iKt I,,, something to start from,
k ;; "" "' (rank the engine, a spark
" i ii MMsolcnc, to take a motor-
f li "'ration.
"i." of Hie curious things to me
'-.- t i 'iii'n to surprise myself into
fiul'iis pp.. spark which causes the Ig-n"-i
That spark never comes when
-. c mil nd say, 'Now 1 will work
i in i1 pint r.-- .1 story.' The only thing
i CD-I i -i'm', of then Ih that I want
o H ln'-, .'id mn unalil to do so. It U
"I'm nv mind In free from surface
fii 'i m.fii it Is phylug freely, that
s,"'- 'Itimilnii, tonic event, hoiih. com.
mod or warring human nature catches
my Interest or sympathy anil almost
-without my knowing It my Imagination
bodies forth the series of Incidents
which form the plot,"
"How do you proceed to work out
thls"ptot by writing; a scenario and
then writing It out In detail by hand or
machine?"
"I never write myself, I find It a
disturbing factor which does not let my
mind work freely or clearly. I work
over the plot In my own mind, getting
the stress here, the emphasis there,
the relief In another place, all working
up to the climax, nnd then I call In
my stenographer and dlotate to her.
When I have got this far along In a
romance I progress, as a rule, at the
rate of 3,000 words a day, sometimes
double that, and at other times I am
able to do nothing at all."
"American fiction has been, with few
exceptions, of a romnntlc character.
What seems to you to be tho cnuse of
this? Why has this country developed
no great rcallsl like Balzac, Flaubert
or Thackeray?"
"t don't know Just what the matter Is
with our American Action," said Mr.
Webster, "but all the critics seem to
agree that there Is something radically
the matter with It. Perhaps It Is the
cleverness of Americans, which Is sat
isfied with scintillation by making a
big show. Let me give you an Illustra
tion of what I mean by American
cleverness. Many of the young Ametl-
cans studying art In Parts are the de
spair of their teachers because of their
cleverness. They will give a study plenty
of chic, superflcl.il attractiveness, make
a fetching picture of It, Instead of learn
ing to draw, to put down on canvas the
actual thing they saw.
"Of course there Is this to be said for
Americans: This cleverness Is an In
herited quality, for when this country
was first settled nnd developed we had
a perfectly colossal Job on our hands
the Job of conquering an empty coun
try, of developing It. and this develop
ment and consequent production of
wealth and the opportunity for achieve
ment came with such a rush thnt the
more superficial qualities of mind were
developed and the reflective qualities of
Imagination were necessarily smothered.
"It was the man who could do things
and who could do them quickly nnd
with force who could nt first keep his
family alive and later win fortune and
perhaps fame for himself. Wo were
busy then developing heroes. They
were doing the things that were at
hand to be done. The really great
figures of the first three centuries of
our national life were heroes of action.
They were seldom or never heroes of
thought or Imagination or sympathy.
"Then there Is another thing that
must not be forgotten, and that Is that
we as a nation have been In such a
stir that we have never developed types.
People here don t run to types as they
do In the older nations, In England, in
France, where a man inherits his pro
fession and where it would be almost
social ostracism for his son to go Into
any other business.
"In America we haven't th typical
cabman or housemaid that London nnd
Paris have. We haven't the typical
soldier or the typical barrister or any
of the other types which in the Old
World have become associated with dif
ferent professions. Here people bax-e a
dislike - t!"" typical, whereas nn
English clerk Is content to tie a clerk.
His family has become established In
the clerkship and never thinks of leav
ing It.
"In this country there has been no
opportunity to develop the type In our
life or In our fiction, although there
have been at various times and In -a-rlous
sections of the country oppor
tunity for genre writing. Not having
the types we have not fleveloped the
fixed qualities that go with them; no
two policemen here nre quite the same,
and to paint the portrait of one In a dif
ferent task from painting the portrait of
another. Hence In our fiction we see'k
for the romantic detail which fixes one
character and not for a solid delinea
tion of type. We haven't had time to
develop these various types, and as lit
erature Is always reflective of national
life our Action has been always entirely
romantic."
No two collaborators, ever worked In
the same way. Mr. Webster nnd Samuel
Merwln, who collaborated with him In
many of his novels, have a method of
their own. They get an Idea for a
story and talk It over and develop It
until at tha, end neither can tell whose
tho original Idea was and whose the
certain changes that have been made In
It. They can never tell who suggested
this change or who suggested that one,
A thought contributed by the one Is
modified by the other and then perhaps
eliminated or changed by the tlrst one.
When the story has been developed
they sit down on opposite sides of the
same table. One will Bay, "I will carry
tho story to this point," nnd tho other
wilt say, "I will begin where you leave
off and carry it to thin point," nnd then
they start to write, sitting opposite each
other.
"If Mr. Merwln Is wrltlnc thm r-lirtntar
preceding mine," says Mr. Welwter, "and
he makes some changes In our plot, he
Interrupts mc to tell me of thnt fart, so
uiai i can Keep siraignt in tun chapter
whteh .follows, while If T ftftl-lnfn tmm
our prearranged plan I stop Mr. Mer-
win ann nave turn 'plant In his chap
ter tne theme which I am developing In
mine. Our styles are different, hut
when the book Is finished no one can
tell which chapters each of us has
written."
T.lkA nil mithorn XTr TX'ahatuf. ha,
favorite book, the one which appeals
most strongly to him nnd which he
thinks Is better done thnn the others.
In.thli case It Is the dMecthe story,
"Tho Whispering Man," In which, as
Mr. Webster says, he has played fair
with his readers, given them every bit
of information nil the clues to the
Identity of 'the person who committed
the crime that he himself has, but
managing to lead their nttentlon nwnv
from the renl culprit until the desired
moment ror climax and revelation has
arrived.
In this kind of storv when the Mc-
smash comes the reader should be able
to go tiack In tho story, and having re
rend all that goes up to the climax
bo able to unravel each clue which leads
to the climax,
Although Mr. Webster had never
written a play before "June Madness."
his writing of romances by a plot for
mula, or a pattern, had prepared him
to enter the Held of tho drama, for
the drama lias been and still Is, with
tho Isolated exception of a fow so
called "Intellectuals" of the present day
a matter of plot -of the building up of
suspense, or converging of threads Into
the climax and tlu-n the solving of the
lnot. This Is the procedure thnt, ac
cording to the view of Mr. Webster and
most of the wrltev of romantic fic
tion, Is followed in romance writing-.
AUTHORS AND THEIR WORK.
(leorge Washington Oifden, whose new
novel, "Home Place," has Just been pub
lished, was born In Kansas In I "7.1 and Is
well known among newspnpor men from
Chicago to Man Francisco. He has now
given up Journalism for fiction. Ills ox
lierlenees of different phases of life have
leen unusual, for, to quote his own words,
lie has "felt of the rough edites of the world"
and has been sheep 'herder, hrnkemnn,
farm hand, section boss, actor, reporter,
editor and author.
Baroness Orczy, whose quaint story of the
nineteenth century, "Meadowsweet," has
Just been published by the Dorans, has
had various outlooks upon life, having
been born In Hungary, educated In Brussels
and France and finally married and settled
In Yorkshire, It Is this fact perhaps
that hss given rise to her unusual versatil
ity In theme and treatment of her books.
Kgerton tt. Williams, author of "Plain
town of Italy" nnd "Mill Towns of Italy,"
Is at present abroad, lie Is standing some
time In Florence.
The Thomas Bailey A Id rich Memorial
Association has recently hnd printed a
number of artistically colored post cards
showing Interesting views of the author's
home at Portsmouth, X. II. In the photo
graph of the garden may be seen many
of the flowers commemmorated In "Hhd
owsof the Flowers," a collection of verse
selected personally by Mrs. Aldrich and
to bo published In Xovembor by Houghton
Mifflin Company.
William nilmore Bej-mer, author of tho
Just published "On Hazardous Service,"
Is a native of Pennsylvania, now living In
New Vork. lie Is both an artist and a
writer and hns spent tinii b of his time In
the South and l'ar West, where he attended
Ieland Stanford, .lr,, I'nlverslty The ma
terial for this book on the scouts nnd spies
of tho civil war was gathered tlrst hand
by Mr. lleymer.
II. A. Cody, whose latest story, "The
T.ong Patrol," denls with the Northwest
mounted police, has lived the life he writes
about, l'orm.iny years h-j was a missionary
In Alaska, working In constant danger
among the wild Indian tribes and the rough
mining camps.
"Robin Hood, "a bo.Vi foryonnger readers
by Ioills tthesd, has Just b?n published by
the Harpers. Mr. Ithe.ul was born In the
same country as tlobln Hood and sient his
boyhood roaming through the greenwood
where the merry outlaw. Jovial l'rlar Tuck,
Maid Marian and others of tho band defied
the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the preface
the author tells how he derived the char
acter of his Itobln Hood from "the testi
mony of the old halladists nnd strollln?
minstrels, who pictured him as tho most
humane nnd princely of outlaws," The
book Is profusely illustrated with full page
and smnller pictures, and a map of the
district connected wtli Itobln Hood, all
drawn on the spot by Mr. Ilhead, who ninde
a trip to England especially for that purpose.
Dr. Theodate I.. Smith of Clark I'nlverslty
is of the opinion that the failure of tho
Montessorl system to teach children to read
ns quickly In Knclish as in Italian Is due
solely to the differences In the languages.
"When our Italian child bis once mastered
the forms and sounds of the alphabet," lie
remarks, "he can spell any word that he
knows or hears." On the other hand he
points out that the vocabulary of the Ameri
can child Is limited to the words hc bus
learned to spell In spite of this ilinail
vantage Dr. Sinltli has shown Ui his recently
published book, "The Xlontessori System,"
how thoroughly it Is possible to u.ituralle
Mme. Montessori's methods In American
schools and what has already been accom
plished in that line,
Meredith Nicholson, the well known
Hoosler novelist, whose volume of
essays. "The Provincial American and
Cither Papers." has In-en announced by the
Houghton Mifflin Company, lias icturiied
to his home In Indianapolis from .Mack
inac Island.
Hugh Chllders. the well known Kngllsh
author, whose Important work, "The IIo
mantlc Trials of Three Centuiles." Is on
the fall list, dl-d recently In London.
Ho was' at work upon tho final coriectlon
of the proofs when death oveitook him.
Miss Jane Addams. who, In addition
to her several other lines of activity. Is
author of many authoritative hooka on
sociological subject!. Is at present in
New York attending a conference of the
Progressive campaign committee. When
asked how she Is enjoying her political
experience, she replied : "Politics seem
much like, everything elc In some ways.
one follows one's came n hither It leads."
Kdward C. Booth, the author of "flf-lln."
Just published by the Appletons. lives
on th Hngllah hills, three miles from
tho North Sea. In foggy weather he
can hear the storm signals and on clear
nights from the high mail on the hill
side he can see' the tlnsh of Spralth Bea
con. Th author Is n professional mu
sician. Ills early aspiration was to Im.
a violoncellist, but that was thwaitcil
by an overstrain to his bowing thumb
at Budapest, and for several years he
had to brt contented with studying musi
cal composition and composing.
Mark Lee Luther, the author of "The
Woman of It," which has Just been pub
lished by the Harpers, was Imhii at
Knowlesvllle, N. V III 1 87", and studied
at Harvard and Columbia. Since 1SD7
Mr. Luther has" been engaged In literary
work, being at present the editor of the
Smart f-'o.
Agnes McClelland Daulton, author of
"The tientle Interference or !lat," Just
Issued by the Appletons, nas lieen en
gaged to deliver a series of lectures
before the school chlldrrn In and around
New Vork.
"Albeit Kdwards," as the author of
"A .Man's World" culls hlnifclf, wiih
educated at a New Jersey preparatory
school and nt Hamilton College, whero
tils career was "short and Inglorious" to
use his own phrase, though ho does not
specify reasons. After tho years of
philanthropic nnd social work In New
Vork, In ISOfi, he went abroad and visited
almost every known country, writing ar
ticles for Hnrprr'it and Coltrr's anil other
periodicals. Ho spent two years In Itus
slu and Intends returning thete this fall,
lie was also sent to Panama to Investi
gate the conditions theie and to write
articles and a lnok on the subject for
the Outlook ami for Mucrnlllans.
Frederick Kerdliiand Moore, whose
novel of mkttwrrr. 4m-- a ,.
liilral," Is to be brought out In the spring
oy nouoienay, rnge it m Is the son of
a well known San Pranrlsco man. He
li:lM httri lilt. MI...I..W 4? lila I.....I. I
- " "'... ,11 III,'
Orient, with which he Is very familiar.
Bell and Wing
By FREDERICK FANNING AYER
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Power and originality. Cork Lxamwcr.
A great work. Boston Herald.
Marks of genius constantly. Troy Record.
A wealth of ideas, Boston Transerift.
Genuine aspiration and power. Occult Review, Ei:o!ai:J.
Near the stars. Portland Orepor.ian.
Astmtndini: fertility. Brooklyn Times.
A striking book of verse Boston Post,
Q. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers, N. Y. PrJco $2.50
WOULD TELL IT JUST SO
Therefore. Says Robert Alex
ander Wason, Away With
Your Rules.
ART OF EXAGGERATION
Squeamish May Not Like It, lint
It Has Its Field.
He Hays.
Hubert AleNnndcr Wnson, who gives
forth Happy Hnwltlns's philosophy nnd
experiences to the world In his new
"Happy Hawkins" story, "Friar Tuck,"
goes to the trouble to write a preface to
explain the method by which such tales
ns those Happy figures In must be told.
"Whosoever Is squeamishly sensitive
as to the formal technique of literary
construction will save himself posltivo
Irritation by avoiding this book. It Is a
told, rather thnn a written story; nnd
this Is n compromise which defies art
nnd frankly turns to the more elastic
methods of nature.
"It la supposed to be told hy nn out
door lunn In those delightful moments
of rci.iNUliou "When the restraint of self
consciousncss Is dropped and the spirit
flows forth with a freedom dllllcult to
find outiilde tho egoism of ihtldhool.
This gcncrnl suggestion Is easily tossed
out; but tho render mut supply the
details the night evimps with the pipes
sending up Incense about the tiny fires,
the winter evenings when the still cold
lurks nt the threshold or tho blizzard
howls around tho log corners; or those
still more elusive moments when Hu
rdling man shifts bis weight to :i single
thigh nnd teUs the Inner story whlcn
has been rising from his open heart to
his closed Hps for mnny n long mile,
"Nor will these details sntllcc to com
plete the ntmosphere In which lilt by bit
the story Is told. The greatest charm
In the told story comes direct from the
teller; nnd, toll ns we will over printed
pages, they obstinately refuse to repro
duce the twinkle of bright, deep set
eyes, the wlilmslr.il twist which gives,
character to a commonplace word, the
subtle modulations' of n mellow voice,
the discriminating accent which maken
a sentence fire when spoken nnd only
ashes when written; nr, hardest of nil,
those eloquent pauses and Illuminating
gestures which convey a climax neither
tongue nor pen dare attempt.
"Hnppy Hawkins Is complex, hut th
basic foundation of his character 's
simplicity. His audience Is usually a
mixed one. men of the range nnd nil
Knstcrner or two fortunate enough u
find the way Into bis contldence. Occa
sionally he amuses himself by talking
to one group over the heads of tho
other; but even then his own simplicity
is but thinly veiled. The phases of lf
which he holds lightly are exploited
with riotous recklessness; hut whoever
would visit his private shrines must
trend with reverent step.
"His exnggerntlons Hre not to deceive,
but to magnify nn adjunct to expres
sion Invariably found ajnong primitive
people. A brass monkey Is really nut
t-onsltlvp to variations of temperature;
and yet, even among the civilised, a
peculiarly vivid Imprrsson la conveyed
b;. stating that a particular cold snap
has had n disintegrating effect upon th
Integrlty of n brass monkey. There Is
nphllosophy of exaggeration which Is
mxkln to falsehood.
t "Hnppy has an e.iger. hungry, active
mind, n mind worthy of careful culti
vation, but forced by circumstances to
gather Its nourishment along lines
similar to tliose ndoptcd by the meek an. I
lowly sponge. A sponge Is earnest,
patient and Industrious; but. flxcil to a
submerged stone ns It Is, it Is hampered
by limitations which no amount of per
sonal nmbltlon la (pilte able to over
come, "As Happy himself was fond of say
ing. 'The thing 'at sets most strancers
agnln' each other is the fact thnt each
lnsl4t.i on Judgln' everything from his
own standpoint. A cowpuncher gets the
Idee that became an Haslerner can't
sit comfortable on a bronco when It's
u-Hiintlshln or tvvlst'n' ends be Jos'
nachely ain't fit to clutter up the sur
face o' the earth; while the easterner
Is Inclined to estimate the puncher nn'
his pony as beln' on the same Intel
lectual level.
"'If they'd Just open up au' examine
eicls other Imparl lal thevM mlslitv
soon see iit tho tlUTe! once In Vm came
from what they did Instnail o the
choice o' their lines o business de-
pendln on their niiturnl makeup. 1
once hail n no account pinto which
refused to piiu.it back on the mpe
and I rejoiced exceeding when I got
so verity fl v I- bucks for- him. but the
feller I look iiilvantagi! of dipped bis
liiaru-, docked bis lull, Introduced him
Into swsll widely, and git three hun
dred for him us n polo pony; which
all goes to show - " (The finish of this
Is nn exjianslve wave of the hand, n
tilt of tho head to tho right anil nn
Indescribably droll expression.)
"Tim above W a fair sample of the
leisurely wny In which Happy Haw
kins tells a story. This Is not the
proper way to tell a story. A story
should travel an nit- line and not stop
nt the smaller ntatlons. whllo Happy
prefers to take his bed along on u
spare horse nnd camp out wherever
the mood strikes him. The render who
(Might In a story which speeds nlong
like n limited will probably bo disap
pointed In this book; while, on the
lotljer lllllllt. the 1-enQ-pr wlui ijpjoy tj
iniiiuaie association which Is lighted
with the evening camp tiro runs a risk
of finding some relaxation In taking
another little trip with Happy Haw-kins."
THE WAY OF A POET TOLD.
Ilntiert V. t.'arr Hnys That, I.I He the
Transgressor's, It Is Hard.
Hubert V, Carr, whose "Cowboy
Lyrics" is announced by Small, Maynard
& Co., did not write his verses of the
Western cattle ranges looking from tho
window of a Pullman, lie was recently
telling of his first flings of the poetical
Uirlat.
"You must not think," lie said, "that
the way of tho writer of Western verse
la strewn with posies. I belters I was
ahout .fourteen yenrs old when, In ad
dition to an overpowering ambition to
be a cowboy, I began to cherish fond
hopes of becoming a writer,
"Possessing n couplo of Indian ponies
I drifted from ranch to ranch, from cow
otttllt to cow outfit, nnd when I wan not
annoying the cooks I was scribbling
poetry. Some of those verses' I sent to
a country editor. He returned them
with a note to the effect thnt they were
not worth sivace.
"Tears later that editor transgressed
tie law nnd was sent to Jail. That
served ns an awful warning to me, and
later when I became a country news
paper editor I always published the
poetry sent In.
".Still, In the camp and on the trail In
that trampled country north of the
Hlack Hills of South Dakota I wrote
of the things saw. Sometimes they
were printed, but more frequently re
jected. "I left the Western country for a bit
ter experience In the army In the
Philippines and returned to the Hlack
Hills ii physical wreck, but still writing.
I then nought the cities, but mnn.-iglng
editors huil little space for Western
poetry and 1 drifted on. In that time I
came In contact with the 'down nnd
outs.' the hKigry men. the broken men.
1 need nn books to tell mo of despair.
In many a dark hole In the city 1 longed
for the clean pnlrle nnd a sniff of sage.
Hut still I scrRMcd. And In lime I re
turned West.
"Vcurs later, when my old cowboy
friends hnd colled their ropes forever, a
magnzlnc editor wrote me, asking for
some rowlxjy lyrics. I was the most
surprised mortal In the Hulled Stales
The rdlto got bis lyrics and I received
n check. I bated to cash that check.
Naturally on" dors not desire to part
with something that has cost him fif
teen years of lighting.
"Vcs, the way of the poet, like that
of the transgressor, Is hard; but yet.
when I get a friendly letter from one of
the boys In the West or romp chap
whose nutborshlp Is confined to chnllc
marks on water Innks I do not regret
the efforts. I am thankful that I was
made to suffer, for It Is only by suffer
ing that we learn anything worth
while."
I
I "PETER GRIMM" NOVELIZED.
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1 MT 1. 11 of nuilk.
i Dislil, MivkI i Co, announce the puli
' lic-tion of ii long arid interesting Ii-t of
i hooks October ID. ."vniorip; them is "Tho
I Hctiirn of I'd it Hrimtit," novelized from
the play by David Hdasco.
"I ho ( losiiu; Not." by Henry C. IIow-
lir-.d. Sua novel ofatlvpnturpund romance,
tho eceni-H being laid in and about, Paris.
Uy a curious coincidence some of the
events antl Mime of the characters which
Mr. HowUml brings into his story are
not unlike tlm career of Ronnot nnd the
motor bandits who stirred up Paris Inst
spring 'I he coincidence is curious inas
much as Mr Rowland's book waa written
last winter.
Still another novel will 1 "Miss Plii
lur.i's Wedding (Sown," bv l-'lorence Morso
Kingsley. i: siuel to "Tho Transfigura
tion of .Miss Phlhir.i"; "Tho Old Loves." ,i
i-toiy or Now York in tho I.-ivh when
Jennv I itid tlrst sang hero, bv Weymer
-ly Mills, ami "Adrian Scroop,'" liv It. A.
Wood-Soys, tho talc of a millionaire father
wlio went t cjtrnordinary wlns to secure.
ii good titled son-in-law. completes tho list
of lit t ion. The holiday gift books to l
published at this time are "Maidens
Pair." with reproductions in tolor of
Harrison l'ihcr's latest illustrations; a
very handsomely illustrated edition of
Maeterlinck's "Life of tho 1!h," at.il
"Dawhcii. 'II. Fortune Hunter," in which
John T MiVutclioon, tho famous car
looniM of tho Chicago Trihiirir, tells with
pen ami pencil tho story of a country
Imiv'h search for famo in u groat city
Other hooks to apptvir nt this time an
"A (initio to Florida," hy Harrison llhcdcs
and Maty Wolfe Dumont; "Tho ltnmn.ru o
of Sandro llotticelli," bv A, J Anderson;
"'I h I-lower Fields of Alpine Switzer
land." by (I Memwell: "Wonders of Hip
World, Ancient mill Modern," dcscribisl
bv gnvil writers, by ltlier Singleton .mil
"l-iro Provi'iiUon, a voluino in which
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of prov outing fires
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"j "v - in in i wiiimiit. ii-.ii 01 iii-iniio I
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sho says, "I havo a cabin that wo call
"Tho Nest,' where. I spend my summers
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Kiuitnritim in tho wonderful Cumberland
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