Show ABOUT AUTHORS There is an odd glimpse glimpse of Macaulay In Inan Inan Inan an anecdote related by Gladstone to Lord Ronald Gower The fhe historian and the young oung statesman chanced to meet in Rome and Macaulay introduced himself to the other sightseer On Macaulay's s stelling telling him that he took a daily dally walk in St St. Peters Peter's Mr Gladstone asked him what most attracted him In that place I The temperature was the answer Here Is a 0 good stor story about the author cf of Lives of the Hunted clipped from froman an Iowa newspaper In one of his re recent recent recent re- re cent lectures the leading citizen of the town introduced Ernest Thompson Seton-Thompson In these words word Jt took a Roman to tell the Ge Greeks that they had a a. Homer it took a German m to tell rl England that she hl had hall a Shakespeare and now it takes an Englishman to tell us that we have wild animals animals' I London literary gossip again has It that Thomas Hardy Is to toIve give Ive up the writing of ot verse eise for the time being and is to re return re- re turn to the novel The New York Times sa s The news nes recently published that Booth ton author of Monsieur lr Beaucaire McClure Phillips Co is the most prominent candidate for the Congressional al nomination in one of the Indiana districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis recalls the hero of his first novel The Gentleman from Indiana Indiana- John Harkless it will be remembered had bad been beena a 0 lion at college before he ht went to Indiana Indiana Indi Indi- ana to take charge of a little country newspaper Booth was also the subject of much hero worship at his university before he went back to Indianapolis Indianapolis In In- to start on his literary career It lt seems as if as tar as that part of it went nent Mr had unconsciously written an autobiography But John Harkless of fiction was nominated for COD Congress gress and saw the fact published in book form long before Booth of fact had any idea that he too might be a Gentleman from Indiana It seems almost a case of living out one ones one's s autobiography S S SA A friend of De Do Vere says of him that he was the most genial of companions and had no trace of the selfish isolation so common in men men of of genius Coventry Pat- Pat more said that no one could be dull or miserable where De Vere w was s. s |