Show AUTHORS chrt CHAT mark twain says the krabs arabs will take anything but a joke dr conan doyle has bought a plot of ground and begun the erection of a house near Ilind hindhead head in surrey where tyndall lived and near where tennyson spent his last days william T adams better known to iery ery many as oliver optic has started from boston to make a trip around the world and will not be back for four months th dr samuel F smith was an accomplished linguist being familiar with 15 languages he had just taken up the study of the russian tongue at the time of his death zola who cori cordially bally despises englishmen men will vill pay another visit to england next spring he thinks of writing another book dealing with industrial life as it exists in birmingham and manchester mr du da maurier declines to be trotted around this country to satisfy the curiosity of the public he will not lecture here as it goes against the grain since he is one of the most retiring men of his profession rudyard Ilu dyard kipling was asked recently it if literary fame was amas as aa joyous a posses PO s acs tion cion az as many people consider it there is only one great pleasure for an author he is said to have answered and that lies in work A writer finds his happiness in creating not in critics |