Show BOKS LITERARY LEAVES stanley Is to write further about his african work LIKES TO WRITE BETTER THAN LECTURE mrs burton now new story iho successful author of the Anglo maniacs bobe robert t louis stor ven bensons sons Bloth molher pir her unique scrapbook sir edwin arnolds Arnol dB daughter sing her praises in ia nil me A Noru norwegian eglan novelist No pen portrait of it II it I 1 dorceen what Is going oa la in tho the literary world 1931 by b ahn rk nok syndicate pros profs w yorka NEW YORK feb 16 1801 1891 one would naturally imagine that henry M stanley hall hail written bilm himself if out on tho the subject of 0 darkest afric africa I 1 learned loar noi however a few ow ever evenings logs ago that the explorer has contracted condrac led to prepare a series of more d distinctly fat ricely popular articles on his experience than any lie haryet has yet writ written teal these papers m hlll ill deal more with w th tho the personal side of bis big lifo life la in abo jungle rather than add to tho the history of 0 explorations I 1 asked mr stanley recently in now york va v bother ho be enjoyed literary work yes 1 do ile ho replied 1 I fool moro more at ease with tho the pen peak in III land hinl than I 1 do on oil up lecture platform for example lecturing tires me ino writing refreshes inc ilie that Is vallion I 1 can have my any own time but to orllo rite as I 1 did in III DIr darkest kest africa Is a severo severe task I 1 was compelled corn to rite against time almo and space aud and auy any one who has lag over ever attempted anything of that sort can realize the strain of such work to write was my cirit vocation vou allon art abid I 1 long lor for tha iho time when I 1 shall bo be ablo able to permanently ledurn to it offers any an anini on int t of thoin them embracing from a history of attica to a book of adventure for boys and I 1 should like nothing bettor better than bo be ablo able to write them all MRS alts SEW NEW STORY atre eurton burton harrison has contracted I 1 understand to write anew a new mortal story lur fur tile tho cent tiry something ng in it the iho lint linn of the lacs said and yet in III no respect similar airs harrisons success altonsa a striking instance of tho the eagerness with which editors and aro are looking for a fresh pon pen moro literary offers come to her bor thau than silo aho can possibly fill even it if she shonah avas milling to nork nights as well ell us as every day but beside the abo novel for the century at and 1 al art an article which promises to attract tho the attention on oil boc social lal lifo life in vow new york she ho bag baa promised nothing to those mho clamor tor for her work ROBERT LOUIS MO THIll robort robert louta louis stevenson cubon bag lia a mother who almost idolizes him mrs stevenson I 1 ja a little scotch woman who la almost revered by her neighbors in tile iho town of where at piat arit ho lives robert Is 13 her only gaily son and years ago go with her mccu scotch insight tor for character sho she depleted depicted thai lyonl nl at sho she calls calla hlin him would mould be 1 1 wait she he would say to her scotch neighbors wait lor for lou louiss iss turn lie ho n hilll ill be a great man 3 ot land and I 1 shall I 1 live ive to see aeo him film famous the th mothers treat great enjoyment Is a scrapbook of im menso rise size SILO la in A lich she religiously keeps everything that is written ot of her literary son no ile sends all the newspapers scraps which he sees about himself to her as also does his bis wife on the title page of the scrapbook she haa bad inscribed tho the follo following whig lines speak eel ol 01 0 ray my love speak til ill wary 0 my lovo love but B ut ae be speaking peaking pea kinf 0 him she Is a great baliver in keeping her sous pons name before the people in the public prints and no lie author ever had a better advertising agent than has robert louis stevenson la in ills his mother early in march she will mill sail for samoa and perma permanently neatly live with her lubo bonolo nalo boy louis EDWIN W ARNOLDS P A london friend sends me bulte quite a pretty story anent the daughter 0 of S sir r edwin edin arnold she Is her fathers secretary and his big companion in most of his round the world while during her recent stay in japan her Maje china squadron ships and tho the american fleet were in tho the harbor harbo of Yok at abo same time sir edwin and his daughter entertained tho the admirals of both heels fleets at luncheon and in return were naturally on board tho the ships tho the american fleet first visited and upon leaving tho the gallant american admiral presented bliss arnold with a beautiful bouquet tied with ribbons of the ship a a token of tile tho respect resie ct of himself anil and his officers thi american courtesy came caine to the cars of tho the english commander and not to bo be outdone by his american brother he presented miss arnold with a larger bouquet and doubled the number of ribbons then the AmA american rican admiral sent arnold a few verses of his own composition was going it a little farther than the english officer was capable of but ho he had somo some verses written to miss bliss arnold and dispatched them to her three days afterward abo daughter aughter then told her bor father and she immediately found a third con contestant contrestan L that same afternoon brought her another beautiful bouquet and attached was a card hearing tho the following lines TO nr mir dauga dairen rin oh imrey meld bore t two 0 met flags bad conspire to lionor rila nob polli IN hen admirals rh ahmo all the ibo muse muio tier her I 1 ahre to bi bind nd I 1 in a pride their DI may sy 11 e aad d their TOWS a EDWIM D w baab A if WON ELIT the bridle paths of central park have I 1 riba bt a more ardent devotee than a a pleasant faced man of about 40 who upon almost any bright sunday afternoon can bo be seen Farl striding ding a horse a as if lio lie were born in ili the iho sall saddle dle ills short thick act form smart coat brown heard beard and curly lair glio give lim the air of f a commercial min man rather than of a college college probes protestor or and novelist as Is 11 boyeson the norwegian storyteller story teller toller and poet prof boyesen las has but just reached the prime of life ile iio was wa born borl at fred orick norway in 1819 was waa educated at christiana and leppic bod and graduated front the iho university of norway in ID 1808 1868 lie ila camo came immediately I 1 ely to this lajla county whore where la in 1869 2869 ha be ll 11 ln camo came editor 0 a scandinavian paper in in chicago lu in 1874 lie ho WAS called to the professorship of german at cornell unk iata ity anil and in 1880 be acce accepted the olter offer ot of a similar position in columbia and came caino to now york city ahel 0 ile ho lag has TOul dined ever since prof Is one of the rare examples of an author who has acquired wide reputation as it a literary worker in a language other than I 1 N I 1 h might well envy the graceful and elegant english of this norwegian novelist ills many stories and poems have hava achieved considerable success while latterly he has developed a new and profitable line of literary work in the form of juvenile stories prof boyesen la Is an enthusiastic writer thoroughly in love with his work 1 I eel am a robust person he said at one time and write rite because my energies for some reason happen to tako take that particular form it if I 1 did not write m rite I 1 should probably drink or bet on races A man needs a redeeming vice and this Is mine the story of his first book gunnar Is curious and interesting it was written merely to express the authors homesick longing for his bis native dative land land reproducing memories in word In gering fondly fetidly over them and adding fresh touches from time to time tima during the first two cars of his life in ameika one day in 1871 prof boyesen happened to be in harvard college library where lie he was introduced to prof child N who he needed the assistance ass liance of a in the work of translating some norwegian ballads for a work he had to in preparation after obtaining the necessary assistance prof child who had been much impressed by the intelligence of prof boyesen Loy esen exclaimed you yon have a lot of 0 valuable material in your pos possession es qa to n why dont you use it prof boyesen an sAcred that chobad he had written something but with no idea of publication A request for the manuscript followed and tills resulted in its examination by prof child and several of his literary friends and eventually in lis its publication the unexpected but genuine success of this ibis noiel determined prof Boye sens bent ben toward literature LITERARY borsos GOSSIP of various efforts to induce mrs its garneld to undertake literary work none have leavo been successful I 1 sawa saw a letter a 01 fow few days ago in response to a publisher publIsh erd offer and she wrote 1 I am v very C ry busy in my family and that Is the end of my ambition in no way sea am I 1 personally fa famous tho the namo name I 1 bea IA 1 honorable and honored but my 0 oo 00 a life has boon only that of an ordinary woman devoted to husband and children I 1 hao halto no ile desire to m arito rite and always prefer that nothing bo be v written ritten concerning ino inc bill nye ayo tells ells us that he Is writing a comedy in collaboration with stuart robson which tho the latter x hlll ill put on the stage it will be an oddity in some items ways nays 7 said the humorist and will get a good anyway if not success fill ill therefore it will bo be the fault of 0 robson amelia K L barr Is to be paid for tile the entire rights to bonnew her new novel by a now yet yolk k publisher after that sho begins her exclusive cont contract rapt vv alth ith tho the bonners for or live years sarah K X bollons Bol tons successful books of biography tor for the young will hereafter bo be issued simultaneously jn in england and in this country john novel all ho know knew Is receiving tho the unusual COMO comell mont for a piece of honion of pulpit recommendations col thomas wentworth Ilig ginson at 67 Is doing perhaps as much lunch literary m bork ork as n a wall man at 30 aud and everything which comes from ills alfi pen Is dono done well he la A probably ono of tile the eldot authors at the desk edito flat connections and accepting outside frank it stockton Is going to defy the literary critics once more by writing a lengthy story the novel na as yot yet Is simply planned pl anneI in the outline and will probably not colbo be published until ir ista tt poev of the fear air |