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R Crockett whose new novel The Dark o 0 the Moon has just been published published pub pub- has pass passed d the winter In his favorite favorite fa fa- retreat the Spanish where he is busy with literary work Mr 11 Crockett is a very conscientious work work- man He studies thoroughly the environment environment environ environ- ment of a story before ho he begins the work and he prefers to two or three years fc among g fo foe the e scenes f s he intends t fl io to dc f t taking long walks s sa a and mingling with the people whose types he wishes to Introduce in introduce In- In into his novel In Hamlin Garlands Garland's capital new novel The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop there is a particularly attractive American American Ameri Ameri- can girl Elsie Brisbane the heroine who has been studying In Paris and has come cometo cometo to the West to paint Indians Indian She regards regards re re- gards the Indians simply as so much material for sketches while whIlo Capt Curtis Cur Cur- the young army officer who Is the hero hero he he- ro of the story has the most e earnest sympathy sym sym- pathy with the Jives and hopes of the red men The contrast between the artistic studio atmosphere which surrounds ElId Elsie El El- sie and the and primitive it life she and Id her mn friends are leading and m the dif differences ferencE's In the pOints of view of the hero an and heroine are picturesquely worked out in the novel A Kenneth Brown author co-author of East Cast Court House House- has recently won the championship of the University of Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Golf club playing the fi final round with l Mr Senje I f. f a Japanese 3 s stu student t l dent at the university Mr is Ii isone one of the best wrestlers in Japan where this accomplishment Is held Jn ln such high esteem that it is obligatory in the schools There boys arc aro graded A B C C. C etc in accordance with their proficiency as wrestlers but there are only five ve or six young men In all Japan who are In class B with Mr I over whom m Mr v h fr Brown ro W won th the golf championship a to Gilbert Parker M rr P P. author of The Right of Way Vay was the guest of the New Vagabond club in London on March March- at a a. dinner given In his honor Mr Alec wa was toastmaster of the evening und and Mr Poultney Bigelow whom the theLon Lon on Literary World describes as one one of the finest dinner after after speakers in London London Lon Lon- don proposed the toast Authors and Politics Apropos of Mr 1 Parker It appears appears ap ap- pears that he has been recently discovered discovered ered by an appreciative e American re reviewer reviewer re- re viewer who has but now had the pleasure of ot reading The Right of Vay Way and who T T T T T T T T graciously was conceived OU says in the Its 6 brain l of oix excellent Gilbert fl r t Par Parker plot ker a young writer of marked literary attainments at at- Miss Elizabeth Ellzabeth Shippen Green Is one of our young illustrators whose work in Harpers Harper's Magazine is attracting attracting- the most complimentary attention Miss Green studied for three years at the Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania Academy of f Fine Arts where the foundations of her excellent workmanship were laid a and aa a after f further supplement supplementary e ary r es study she e went t abroad i Upon her return to Amer America ca Miss Gr Green cn settled down In her own own home at Philadelphia Her studio which she shares with Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith Is one of the most attractive In the country y a lofty apart apartment ci rU t yoto oto ment furnished i e after the colonial fashion and beautiful with old china and quaint objects of art Miss 1 Green Is still a very young joung woman whose career has opened most promisingly Her work is essentially essential essential- ly poetic and decorative In character full of the charm of a a. youthful l land and original point of ot view tI H If C C. Taylor Chatfield-Taylor like other successful suc authors had several quarrels with his proofreaders His ISac knowledge deet of French and German an Is accurate u y yet t the proofreaders of The Crimson Wing were not satisfied with some of his foreign expressions and took the liberty of correcting cor cor- things which i should o not t have been cie fh j bf corrected In the mind I of the public the theauthor author Is always held accountable for tor such mistakes and Mr Taylor Is therefore holding himself In an attitude of defence for errors he never committed He would be a courageous S critic however who ow should le attack him f as he has kept t himself in good training and his boxing boxing- master gives him the best tion Miss l Beulah Marie l Dix Db and Miss Carrie A Harper who collaborated In writing The Beaus Beau's Comedy are both college ge girls Miss lIss Dix took the degree B B. IA A at Radcliffe in 1897 and that of M M. A in 1898 Miss Harper r took her B B. B A A. at Radcliffe in and M 1 A A. A in 1898 When these two joung oung women decided to write a book to together to- to gether they e spent a winter In research S f and after that h retired t lr to ei a farm r where e many of the scenes of their story were to be laid With the exception of walking trips to various arious places described in the book they remained closely at their desks for six weeks at the end of which period they h had completed te the manuscript Miss Dl I already has several e ar other ir novels to g her |
