Show WILLIAM ELAC'S BLACKS BLACK'S ART WLL 1 I One of the cardinal gardinal principles of the th literary lit lit- l- l art of the late Mr William Black well be commended d to O the tle vast a army may of aKo novel l writers t who g have v t taken e the ea field even since his first triumphs were won his biographer biographer It was life as he saw it says I pher Sir lre Wemyss Reid which ho he tried tred to depict not that imaginary life of melodramatic melodramatic melo melo- dramatic adventure po o 0 dear to so many of his literary followers People are not always committing forgery or bigamy or orI running running- being I falsely away f with accused us he off J murder s wives xe Mr or Black used sed to say sa of r S I 1 would 1 like nd women rit rather er write about men those whom I have actually actu Ih known than about imaginary monsters I have never neverseen If for nothing else William Black Blackis seen is to be I remembered for the green fields felds us Inthe Inthe In and clear waters by bv which ho hc led us the tho pathways cear of his fiction And now his the beacon e which forms Corms Duart fitting memorial stands on most Point In the Sound of Mull Mul and In Sir Reids Reid's simple but Impressive casts its rays over oer the waters words Is most powerful story the where In Blacks Black's down yacht acht of Macleod of Dare went I Literary World orld |