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Show ' A ; SOUTH AFRICAN AUTHORESS. OH' tiiv of (lie Career of a Ilrlght Vouog Woitiun. ( )livt Schreiner is 1 ho A tost light in tro piral literature, and "tropical-' is the t" t, v'ot-il that describes Iter style, her .me and her early life. Sho lias the gtv at advantage over Robert Louis Ste-vet Ste-vet isnn nip! other inlv nturersin the new fiel ,1 that, she was born and reared in 01 ith Africa, and every local scene por-tra por-tra yed in her lxsik, "An African Farm," i--1 1 roiu her daily and hourly experience ' fhat ago when the perceptive faculty facul-ty k are most active and the memory i"' -t retentive. ' r is a jiectiliar, one might say a ter-ril'ly, ter-ril'ly, boolt. Like some of Charlotte Dr .life 'h works, it rends as if the writer bn I rtipiK'd her pen in her own blood tears to show how very tragic an af-i af-i '' f:iir a young girl's life might bo. Show I ninth of a family of twelve children, father a (ierman missionary, tho i iher a daughter of an Kuglish Presley- -ian minister, the family in a remote jie, in straitened cii'ruinstances, sur- , i jiiided by black heathen and struggling V Lli the problems of Culvinistio theol- ! ft WM-AU i I MISS OI-IVE SCHRHINER. 1 c'v. Olive was born at the missionary station, and was four years old before she saw even it village or any white people peo-ple except those at the station. As soon as she learned that there was laud where all the people are white she commenced saving her pennies to go there; but she was in her twenties before be-fore her ambition was realized. For the bust eight years she has contributed to newspapers and magazines, and some five years ago published tier book, which deals largely with the struggles of her own faith and conscience. Tho book was quite neglected till recently, then had a great run and soon mado the author famous. |