Show LUCKS LUCK'S P PAMPERED DARLING OF FIELD FAME IN CITY I W. W Irving Way ay a warm friend of Eugene liel FIeld l and well known in Chicago Chica Chica- go as a collector of old and rare books is at t the Knutsford e on his way to Butte Are Ard you not e the Mr Way of whom Eugene Field writes rites in his preface to American Authors Authors' r as asked ed t the e report report- er Mr Ir Ways Way's al answer anwer er ervas vas was to hand and out outa a which h was Inscribed as follows in inGene inGene I Gene Fields Field's I l s 's s small and beautifully neat I handwriting Dear Dea Mr Butler I I have pleasure in introducing to you my friend r. Mr W. W y I. I Way a Way a man who knows anc an and loves books There Is is much in common between you ou two and you OU should know each fach other Very sincerely yours EUGENE FIELD Chicago o April 5 6 1893 1853 Mr Butler was at that time chairman chairman chair- chair man nan of the ways and means committee commit commit- tee ee of of the Worlds World's Fair Fall at Chicago said Mr lIr Way yay He was a a. very busy man so I did not seek his acquaintance at that time and consequently still have Mr Ur Fields Field's card of introduction I afterward af- af erward g got t to know Mr 1 Butler through other means I showed him Fields Field's card after the after the latter's death and said that it b belonged longed to him He would not take It from rom me however saying that as I had hadnot hot not used it as an introduction it still belonged t to me In Aft Ah a preface to the first edition of American Authors Eugene Eugene Eu Eu- gene Field says that while he was writIng writing writ- writ Ing ng it in burst on me my charming hc friend W. W r Irving Way with the information that he had Just picked up a first edition o of ot Andrew Andiew Langs Lang's Balades Balade in Blue China for 80 SO cents cents J. a treasure recently listed by Scribners at 20 at 20 at McClurg i Cos book mart rt He had picked it up from froma a shelf and looking over it It had noticed that the price was vas not marked on on it He had handed i it fearfully ly to a maid askIng asking asking ask ask- ing the price pric She toran toan old man manin manin manin in the re rear rear r of fth the store sCare R Returning she informed my t I friend that the regular price was 1 with ith 20 per cent off to the trade Mr Wa Way alleges that the time in getting his 80 cents into the hands of McClurg Co was was' was neither more moie nor less than is required by a ray of light to trav travel miles linear mea mea- Further on Field ss says says' Ml Mt Ways Way's experience with Langs Ballades' Ballades was was' a genuine o oasis sis in fact the desert of Mr 1 Ways Way's career seems to tome me and me-and and I say it in no no spirit of bitterness hitter bitter ness the ness the desert of pf his career career seems to tome tome tome me to be strewn with oases Less than a year ago this same gentleman ge picked up for 25 23 cents a first edition of Lowells Lowell's Fables for Critics In another part of the preface talking of his friend Field Fjeld says I The pampered darling of Luck that Luck that same Mr W W. Irving Way of whom I have already alread spoken spoken bow how utterly lost lostIs lostis lostis is he in his idolatry of Lang Ad was ws reprinted In The Book Lover about abou t two VO years ago The edition was eagerly bought up on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of the r reprint |